The Overnighters

Patient, non-judgemental docu-making yields psychologically rich results in Jesse Moss’s potent send off from recession-hit America. His focus is Jay Reinke, a North Dakota pastor whose “overnighters” programme provides support to troubled men seeking oil industry work – despite local opposition.

Moss nurtures universal resonances (struggle, redemption) from grassroots materials: timely specifics, conflicted those. And few are more conflicted than Reinke, whose secrets provide the daringly irresolute height to a daringly provocative tale of flawed humanity and hardship.