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The 14th annual festival will run from November 8 to 16 in person and then online in the US. This page is currently a work in progress as we input titles, so please check back.
View Films by Strand:
- American Stories
- Come As You Are
- Fight The Power
- Galas
- Game Face Cinema
- International Competition
- Investigations
- Kaleidoscope Competition
- Metropolis Competition
- Portraits
- Short List: Features
- Sonic Cinema
- Special Presentation
- US Competition
- Winner's Circle
View previous years coverage of the DOC NYC festival:
DOC NYC Latest Reviews

A Burkinabè documentarist returns to her homeland to grapple with the consequences of her influential uncle's passing.

A look into the booming shadow economy catering to pregnant Chinese tourists who travel to America to give birth in order to obtain US citizenship for their babies.

Portrait of the Shaolin Monastery, where Buddhist peace and enlightenment are pursued through the practice of martial arts.

Mediha is a member of the Yazidi ethnic and religious minority. She’s also the survivor of an ISIS-orchestrated genocide in 2014. Through video diaries, Mediha provides an intimate account of her grief and trauma.

While navigating daily discrimination, a filmmaker who inhabits and loves her unusual body searches the world for another person like her, and explores what it takes to love oneself fiercely despite the pervasiveness of ableism.

A Ukrainian filmmaker ventures into his war-torn country hoping to find his dog.

An in-depth look at the underrated career of an idiosyncratic New York singer-songwriter.

Shere Hite’s 1976 bestselling book, The Hite Report, liberated the female orgasm by revealing the most private experiences of thousands of anonymous survey respondents. Her findings rocked the American establishment and presaged current conversations about gender, sexuality, and bodily autonomy. So how did Shere Hite disappear?

Anthology documentary dissects viral media and its offline aftermath.

James Hamilton's compelling photographic journey through five decades of New York's cultural evolution.
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