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America’s largest documentary festival has announced the full line-up for its ninth edition, running from November 8-15. The line-up includes 42 world premieres.
John Chester’s The Biggest Little Farm will open the festival and it will close with Breslin and Hamill: Deadline Artists, directed by Jonathan Alter.
In addition to the feature films below, there is a shorts programme and a number of industry events.
View Films by Strand:
- American Perspectives
- Behind The Scenes
- Centerstage
- Docs - Redux
- Fight the Power
- In The System
- International Perspectives
- Jock Docs
- Metropolis
- Modern Family
- Photography On Film
- Portraits
- Science Non-Fiction
- Short List
- Sonic Cinema
- Special Events
- True Love
- Viewfinders
- Wild Life
View previous years coverage of the DOC NYC festival:
DOC NYC Latest Reviews
A portrait of a woman whose love of birds puts her in a legal custody battle.
Tracing fans of instant polaroids who are working to keep the medium alive.
A profile of the people responsible for supplying performance-enhancing drugs to the Yankees’ Alex Rodriguez and other players.
Study of one of Scotland's last salmon fishing families as they find themselves accused of welfare violations.
Three young men bond together to escape volatile families in their Rust Belt hometown. As they face adult responsibilities, unexpected revelations threaten their decade-long friendship.
An exploration of coming-of-age in the Black Belt of the American South.
Following rock climber Alex Honnold as he seeks to be the first climber to ascend free solo – without safety ropes – the 3,000-foot cliff of El Capitan in California’s Yosemite Park.
A young comedian takes on the might of a healthcare megacorp after his mother's hip replacement surgery goes wrong, causing a coma.
A Yazidi genocide and ISIS sexual slavery survivor, 23-year-old Nadia Murad is determined to tell the world her story. As her journey leads down paths of advocacy and fame, she becomes the voice of her people and their best hope to spur the world to action.
Volunteer rescuers who help feral and abandoned cats in Brooklyn.
DOC NYC Features
DOC NYC News
Filming sensations Mathieu Amalric on Pierre Léon, Jeanne Balibar and the sounds and colours of Barbara
Character arc Seth A Smith on filming with a two-year-old and bringing marbling to life in The Crescent
Keeping up appearances Marcello Martinessi on cultural conservatism and filmmaking honesty in The Heiresses
A different space Kelly Macdonald on working with Marc Turtletaub on Puzzle
Out of the past Susanna Nicchiarelli on Trine Dyrholm and the costume design in Nico, 1988
The iconic man Jonathan Baker on Becoming Iconic and Inconceivable
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