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The festival will run from November 12 to 20. It will open with Whistle and close with Ask E. Jean.
View Films by Strand:
- Come As You Are
- DOC NYC Selects Encore
- Fight The Power
- International Competition
- Investigations
- Short List: Features
- Unnamed Strand
- Winner's Circle
View previous years coverage of the DOC NYC festival:
DOC NYC Latest Reviews
Delves deep into Orwell’s final months and visionary works to explore the roots of the vital and troubling concepts he revealed to the world in his dystopian masterpiece… Doublethink, Thoughtcrime, Newspeak, the omnipresent spectre of Big Brother… disturbing socio-political truths which resonate ever-more powerfully today.
The story behind the mass gathering of Santas which began in San Francisco in 1994 and went on to expand across the world.
This film traces the saga of Julian Assange, a contemporary icon of the right to information, whose recent release from prison has reignited the global debate on press freedom.
Documentary following a boy living in a motel with parents who struggle with alcohol abuse.
Documenting Vesuvius, featuring traces of history, the excavation of time, the remains of everyday life.
On October 7th, during a raid by Hamas on her kibbutz, Israeli-American Liat Atzili was kidnapped, prompting an urgent and heart-wrenching fight for her release by her family. Through a deeply intimate lens, parents Yehuda and Chaya cope with fear and uncertainty as they are thrust into a global conflict unfolding in real time.
A farmer's bond with a white stork intertwines with North Macedonian folklore.
As the first elected councilwoman of her Iranian village, Sara Shahverdi aims to break long-held patriarchal traditions by training teenage girls to ride motorcycles and stopping child marriages. When accusations arise questioning Sara’s intentions to empower the girls, her identity is put in turmoil.
Amid the failing counteroffensive, a journalist follows a Ukrainian platoon on their mission to traverse one mile of heavily fortified forest and liberate a strategic village from Russian occupation. But the farther they advance through their destroyed homeland, the more they realise that this war may never end.
Comedian Noam Shuster-Eliassi creates a personal and political one-woman show about the struggle for equality in Israel/Palestine. When the elusive coexistence she’s spent her life working toward starts sounding like a bad joke, she challenges her audiences with hard truths that are no laughing matter.
DOC NYC Features
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