A languid, loving portrait of Black farmers in the South, “Seeds” is a mixture of celebration and lament. Family farming has been endangered, but for African American farmers, the land — holding onto it, cultivating it — is even more precarious and precious. Considering recent, breakneck attempts to gut civil rights, director Brittany Shyne’s debut feature — which won the U.S. documentary prize at the Sundance Film Festival — feels elegiac.
A requiem is not the filmmaker’s intention, however. With the patience of a sower, Shyne lets the lives of her subjects unfold gently over two hours. She filmed for nine years, following farm families as they went about
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