How to Sue the Klan

The scouts

Everyone expects righteous anger from a film about a KKK shooting, so of course Beder finds something weirder in the legal absurdity of five Black women actually suing—turning a hate crime into a bureaucratic dark comedy that makes you uncomfortable for laughing.

A 25-minute documentary that refuses the cathartic arc, instead interrogating how the law becomes a strange tool for survival; the formal restraint—letting the women's own words and silences do the work—places this in conversation with the best of contemporary documentary practice.

The film's entire thrust pivots on a single choice: letting the lawsuit itself become the narrative spine rather than the shooting, which suddenly reframes who has agency and how—a structural decision that transforms what could've been trauma testimony into something more complex and alive.