A documentary
THE NOBLE GRIEF
A film by Michael Rossato-Bennett
Premiere Winter 2026-27
The film
The Film
THE NOBLE GRIEF is a new documentary from filmmaker Michael Rossato-Bennett, director of Alive Inside, which received the Sundance Audience Award for Best Documentary and was acquired by Netflix.
This film is an attempt to help Kamal Bherwani save the thousands of opioid naive kids like his son, who die unnecessarily every year of opioid poisoning.
The film investigates grief as a doorway to rewiring the self, the soul, and perhaps even the culture.
Director
Michael Rossato-Bennett
Writer / Director of “Street Dance,” “Victory House,” “Being Here,” “The Noble Grief,” and “Alive Inside,” which received the Sundance Audience Award for Best Documentary and was acquired by Netflix.
Rossato-Bennett studied film at Temple University and cinematography with family friend Vilmos Zsigmond. His films include Street Dance, a one-hour 16mm documentary on the emerging Break-Dance and Tick-tism scene in Cincinnati, Ohio. He co-wrote and directed Victory House, an award-winning feature that follows three young men returning to small-town Ohio after WWII.
In the 1990s he had a photo studio in Cincinnati shooting for National Geographic, Smithsonian, Islands Magazine, Travel and Leisure, and British Heritage, among others. He published two books and began producing films.
In 2014 his feature documentary Alive Inside premiered at Sundance, where it won the Audience Award for Documentary. The film won Milan, Provincetown, Berkshire, Sonoma, and awards at SIFF, Boulder, and others. The film has changed elder care worldwide.
He directed and produced the documentary Being Here and The Noble Grief. He is the founder of AliveInside.Org and runs Alive Inside Productions.
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