“Our ancestors left this here for us,” a member of the North Carolina-based Reels family says in the documentary Silver Dollar Road, referring to the 65-acre waterfront property that had long been their financial and spiritual haven.

For me, writing is about a question and then an answer. You’re answering something that you’ve set up. I have to know what that answer is.

Stars Emma Stone, Mark Ruffalo, Willem Dafoe, Ramy Youssef, Margaret Qualley and Kathryn Hunter joined Lanthimos and screenwriter Tony McNamara for the New York City premiere of the film.