Chagall

Director Petter Ringbom, Producers Ruchi Mital and Bryn Silverman

In the first feature documentary film in over 50 years about one of the most important artists of the 20th century, Chagall tells the story of a Jewish artist who responded to extreme poverty, persecution, displacement, and heartbreak with a relentless imagination and beauty.

Petter Ringbom

Director

Petter Ringbom is a Swedish-American filmmaker based in New York. His latest nonfiction feature, This World is Not My Own, used character animation and scripted scenes to reimagine the life of the artist Nellie Mae Rowe. The film featured Uzo Aduba as the animated version of the subject and premiered at SXSW. It won awards at the Atlanta, Palm Springs, Nashville and Mendocino Film Festivals. His films have also screened at Tribeca, IDFA, Gothenburg Film Festival, Hot Docs, LACMA, the Smithsonian and Miami Art Basel. Petter has been a Film Independent Fellow, a Gotland Film Lab Resident at the Ingmar Bergman Estate, and a Berlinale Talent.

Ruchi Mital

Producer

In 2014, Ruchi produced the Emmy winning feature documentary, We Could Be King. Her next two features, Sky Ladder: The Art Of Cai Guo-Qiang (2016) and This is Personal (2019) both premiered at Sundance. She produced the series, The Case Against Adnan Syed for HBO (2019), The Me You Can’t See for Apple TV+ (2021), and Encounters for Netflix (2023). She produced and co-wrote This World is Not My Own (2023) together with Petter Ringbom, and she is the founder of Solani Media.

Bryn Silverman

Producer

Bryn is a documentary filmmaker based in Louisville, KY. She was a 2025 Film Independent Documentary Producing Fellow and was named one of Filmmaker Magazine’s 25 New Faces of Independent Film in 2024. She produced the feature documentary Pinball, which premiered at True/False and was supported by ITVS, Sundance, the Ford Foundation among others. She also produced The People Could Fly (Criterion, POV) and is producing Vestibule, for which she won the Points North Pitch at Camden Film Festival and the New Visions Pitch at the Jihlava Documentary Film Festival. Her directorial debut, Expression of Illness, won Best Director at Flatland Film Festival, was nominated for Best Director at the Melbourne Documentary Film Festival and won Special Jury Recognition at the Middlebury New Filmmakers Festival. She was a Southern Producer’s Lab fellow with the New Orleans Film Society and she is a board member of the Documentary Producers Alliance.