The film bowed to raves, including from IndieWire, at the 2025 Venice Film Festival. It is one of the docs to watch going into Oscar season and will be released by National Geographic theatrically next month. “The Tale of Silyan” (watch the trailer below) is hands-down the year’s most beautiful documentary, an incredibly thoughtful non-fiction depiction of the relationship between an elderly man in North Macedonia and a stork he befriends from a junk heap. Nikola is trying desperately to hold