# Oscar Contender ‘Bucks Harbor’ Set To Begin Awards-Qualifying Run; Watch Clip From Pete Muller’s Impressive Directorial Debut

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/oscar-contender-bucks-harbor-set-to-begin-awards-qualifying-run-watch-clip-from-pete-mullers-impressive-directorial-debut/
- Published: 2026-11-10T17:00:00+00:00
- Updated: 2026-11-10T17:55:01+00:00
- Original publisher: Deadline
- Original article: https://deadline.com/2026/11/bucks-harbor-theatrical-release-plus-exclusive-clip-1237218341/
- Topics: Entertainment, Film

## Key points

- *Bucks Harbor* begins its Oscar-qualifying run in Manhattan on 4 December.
- The documentary follows a northern Maine lobster fishing community.
- It has won multiple festival awards since its Berlin premiere.

## Summary

Pete Muller’s documentary *Bucks Harbor* will begin its Oscar-qualifying theatrical run on 4 December at Firehouse: DCTV’s Cinema for Documentary Film in Manhattan. Set in a remote fishing village in northern Maine, it follows a community shaped by hazardous lobster fishing and explores working-class life, family ties and ideas about masculinity.

The film premiered at the Berlin Film Festival in February, where it won the Ecumenical Jury Prize and the Panorama Audience Award. It has since received several other festival prizes, including awards in Zurich, Tacoma, New York and Maine, and is due to screen at DOC NYC after being selected for its 2026 Winners Circle. The film is Muller’s directorial debut; he spent five years talking with participants after returning to New England in 2021.

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