America's largest documentary festival returns with a physical event in New York City for its 13th edition. It will open on November 9 with Maya And The Wave ad run until November 17. It's closing film is The Conspiracy and its online edition will run until November 27. This page is a work in progress, please come back as we add in the titles screening.

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Queen Of The Deuce
Queen Of The Deuce
Profile of Chelly Wilson, a Christmas-celebrating Jewish grandma, a lesbian who married men, and a proud owner of porn cinemas in 1970s NYC.
While We Watched
While We Watched
A turbulent newsroom drama which intimately chronicles the working days of broadcast journalist Ravish Kumar as he navigates a spiralling world of truth and disinformation.
Villeneuve Pironi
Villeneuve Pironi
Consideration of the infamous 1982 F1 season when rival teammates Gilles Villeneuve and Didier Pironi were part of the sport's most controversial moments.
All The Beauty And The Bloodshed
All The Beauty And The Bloodshed
The story of artist Nan Goldin and the downfall of the Sackler family, the pharmaceutical dynasty often blamed for the US opioid epidemic.
Moonage Daydream
Moonage Daydream
Documentary featuring a wealth of David Bowie archive.
1946: The Mistranslation That Shifted Culture
1946: The Mistranslation That Shifted Culture
The mystery of how theology, history, culture, and politics led to a Biblical mistranslation, the man who tried to stop it, and the impassioned academic crusade of the LGBTQIA+ Christian community driven to discover the truth.
A House Made Of Splinters
A House Made Of Splinters
In eastern Ukraine, follow the daily life of children and staff in a special kind of home: an institution for children who have been removed from their homes while awaiting court custody decisions. Staff do their best to make the time children have there safe and supportive.
I'm People, I Am Nobody
I'm People, I Am Nobody
Documentary about Stevan, a 60-year-old, former porn performer from Serbia, who is awaiting the outcome of a Kafkaesque trial process in a Maltese prison.
Casa Susanna
Casa Susanna
In the Fifties and Sixties, deep in the American countryside at the foot of the Catskills, a small wooden house with a barn behind it was home to the first clandestine network of cross-dressers.
I Didn’t See You There
I Didn’t See You There
Spurred by the spectacle of a circus tent that goes up outside his Oakland apartment, a disabled filmmaker launches into a meditative journey exploring the history of freakdom, vision, and (in)visibility.
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DOC NYC Features

Behind the facades
Sierra Pettengill on the politics of policing revealed by Riotsville, USA
Empowering athletes for social change
Danny Lee on Donald Dell, LeBron James, Maverick Carter and Who Is Stan Smith?
The Searcher
Marina Zenovich on Arnold Schwarzenegger, Peter Coyote, and Jerry Brown: The Disrupter
Excellence is about the process
Rebecca Halpern on Love, Charlie: The Rise And Fall Of Chef Charlie Trotter
Teamwork and mutual respect
Denny Tedesco on the Kloster brothers, teamwork, mutual respect and Immediate Family
Walk through fear
Nan Goldin, Laura Poitras, Harry Cullen and Megan Kapler on All The Beauty And The Bloodshed

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