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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
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.
Three men in Mosul try to rebuild the city, left devastated by the rule and ousting of Islamic State.
Profile of the Afghan ambassador in Vienna, Manizha Bakhtari, as she defies the incoming Taliban government and fights for women's rights.
Subject to depression and social anxiety, Paul has found refuge in serving women who invite him to clean their homes. By sharing his gently eccentric routines on social media, he combats loneliness and takes it one day at a time.
DOC NYC Features
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