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There is little doubt that modern life can feel like an assault sometimes. One minute you’re playing with your kid in the garden and chasing a butterfly, the next your phone is offering you a window to a world of political problems and conflict. One seemingly as far removed as possible from the other. José Cardoso captures that sense of slippage in Flowers, which won the Grand Jury Short Film prize at Sheffield DocFest this year.

His film segues between ideas of peace and war, with his family interactions over frogs and other elements of nature cropping up like a chorus. Making the case for peace is Buddhist Thích Nhất Hạnh who suggests we should find compassion for our enemies. On the war side of the equation, meanwhile, we see the likes of Brazil’s former president Jair Bolsonaro advocating the destruction of the Amazon due to the invasion of Ukraine.

It’s the first Tuesday of the month and, as has been his standing date since October, Dierks Bentley is onstage at Nashville’s cinderblock picking parlor the Station Inn, playing bluegrass staples with his road band under the anonymous name of Long Jon. After rambunctious versions of Tony Rice’s “Cold on the Shoulder” and Ralph Stanley’s “Katy Daley,” Bentley takes off his Martin acoustic and feigns swapping instruments with fiddle player Dan Hochhalter. It’s a gag, a bit. Bentley doesn’t play fiddle. He’s a guitar strummer,...