Benedict Cumberbatch lends his voice to a documentary that traces an extraordinary personal quest.

“There’s A Hole in My Bucket” follows Royd Tolkien, great-grandson of J.R.R. Tolkien, as he embarks on a journey to honor his late brother. The film captures Royd completing a bucket list his brother created before he died, a series of challenges meant to push him beyond his comfort zone and celebrate life in the process.

Cumberbatch’s narration guides viewers through the emotional weight of grief, brotherhood, and the kind of adventure that runs in the Tolkien family DNA. It’s a story rooted in loss but driven by love and the determination to keep a promise.

The documentary arrives as a rare intersection of literary legacy and raw human emotion. For indie filmmakers working with personal stories, it’s a reminder that the most universal themes often come from the most intimate places.

Screeners are available now for press and industry.

Remember “Pat,” that divisive SNL character from the ’90s? A new documentary is cracking it back open.

“We Are Pat,” directed by Rowan Haber, starts its theatrical run May 29 in New York before expanding nationwide this summer. Tribeca Films will release it digitally June 23.

The film revisits Julia Sweeney’s androgynous character, which became an SNL phenomenon before facing backlash as conversations around trans and non-binary identity evolved. But instead of just rehashing the controversy, Haber assembles an all-trans writers room to create a brand new 2025 Pat sketch.

“I was interested in what happens when you don’t try to resolve a cultural artifact, but instead reopen it and see what’s still alive inside it,” Haber says.

The doc features interviews with Sweeney herself, Kevin Nealon, and a roster of trans comics including Molly Kearney, Murray Hill, Sabrina Wu, and River Gallo. Even Sweeney admits she didn’t know if the film would be “sympathetic or problematic,” adding it’s “so much deeper and richer and more provocative than I ever imagined.”

The producing team includes Emmy winner Caryn Capotosto (“Won’t You Be My Neighbor?”) with executive producers Alan Cumming and Lilly Wachowski.

For indie filmmakers tackling cultural reckonings, this is how you do it: with nuance, humor, and the people most affected leading the conversation.

What happens when you film your family’s mundane routines for eight years? Cinematographer Ashley Connor and director Joe Stankus found out.

Their debut feature “It Goes That Quick” started as a playful experiment. Connor and Stankus cast their own family members in short films, capturing grocery runs, work commutes, tree plantings. The kind of stuff that makes up a life but rarely makes it into movies.

Then they kept filming. For eight years.

The 70-minute hybrid doc premieres April 25 at MoMI’s First Look Festival, with both filmmakers in attendance. Set across highways and suburbs of the Northeast, the film follows two families as fiction and reality start to blur together.

Connor’s no stranger to intimate work. The DP earned an Independent Spirit Award nomination for “Madeline’s Madeline” and recently shot HBO’s “The Chair Company” and “Remarkably Bright Creatures” with Sally Field. But pointing the camera at her own family is a different beast entirely.

For Stankus, it’s his first feature after years of acclaimed shorts that played New York Film Festival and Rotterdam.

The result sounds less like a traditional doc and more like a meditation on why we document anything at all. Those trivial moments, it turns out, are the ones that stick.