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I’ll lean toward four docs that the Directors Guild nominated — “Daughters,” “Porcelain War,” “Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat” and “Sugarcane” — and then add my favorite, the heart-rending “No Other Land,” a look at the devastating costs of displacement in the southern West Bank.

"We have some heart-rending stories from families of people with disabilities, who feel that when they don't have cash accepted, it is robbing them of their self-esteem," he said.

Since the early 1990s, Gilmour’s frequent lyrical collaborator has been wife Polly Sampson, whose sensitivity and topicality often reveals a heart-rending reality that’s never heavy-handed.

For anyone who needs a gut-punch primer in what the lack of reproductive freedom looks like now, the propulsive documentary “Zurawski v Texas” from co-directors Maisie Crow and Abbie Perrault is here to put your voting decisions into sharply delineated, heart-rending focus.

And “Normal Thing,” a grower from Abrams’ latest album, was transformed with a heart-rending drum build.