DOC NYC Selects is an in-person, ongoing screening series that serves as an extension of DOC NYC’s annual fall festival. The Spring 2026 edition of the series will feature four exceptional film events at New York’s IFC Center, with filmmakers in person for all shows.
The new season of DOC NYC Selects debuts on Wednesday, April 8th and concludes on Tuesday, May 5th, offering audiences a variety of new documentary feature premieres that are high on the want-to-see list of New York documentary cinephiles.
Ticket Information
DOC NYC Selects: Spring 2026 events are on sale now. Single screening tickets are $18 ($15 for seniors and $12 for IFC Center members) each. For questions about accessibility at the screening, please email accessibility@docnyc.net.
DOC NYC Selects: Spring 2026 – Program Details and Schedule
DOC NYC SELECTS LINEUP
WHO MOVES AMERICA
Date: Wednesday, April 8
Time: 7:00pm ET
Director: Yael Bridge
Producers: Yael Bridge, Jeremy Flood, Yoni Golijov, Mars Verrone
NYC PREMIERE. Labor justice in the United States has long required fight after fight, and the individuals who have struggled for fair working conditions and compensation do so not only for themselves, but for generations of workers who will come after them. In DOC NYC alumna Yael Bridge’s new film Who Moves America, she examines the tense 2023 contract negotiations between UPS and its 340,000 unionized workers as they press the company for critical improvements to keep pace with changes in a fraught ecosystem.
The screening will be followed by an on-stage conversation with director/producer Yael Bridge, protagonists from the film, and additional members of the film team.
Travis (1997): Retrospective Screening co-hosted by Jean Tsien
Date: Tuesday, April 14
Time: 7:00pm ET
Director: Richard Kotuk
Producers: Richard Kotuk
DOC NYC and Jean Tsien present a retrospective screening of the late Academy Award-nominated documentarian Richard Kotuk’s final film Travis, which won a posthumous Peabody Award for Kotuk in 1998. Travis follows Travis Jefferies, age six and living with full-blown AIDS, whose strong spirit, generous smile, and outgoing personality are belied by the pain and isolation forced upon him by his condition. Poignant and painfully honest, Travis documents the complex life of a vital child born with a terminal disease who, with the help of experimental drug therapy and his grandmother’s love and support, struggles to survive and pursue a happy life.
The screening will be followed by an on-stage conversation with editor Jean Tsien and additional guests.
Mary Oliver: Saved by the Beauty of the World
Date: Tuesday, April 28
Time: 7:00pm ET
Director: Sasha Waters
Producer: Sasha Waters
Executive Producers: Michael Kantor, John Keith
NYC PREMIERE. If poetry had a pop icon, Mary Oliver would be it. Best-selling poet and Pulitzer Prize-winner, lover of dogs and long walks in the woods, queer and out but intensely private – Oliver’s poems inspire liberals and conservatives, atheists and believers, naturalists and urbanites. She was America’s unlikely, contemporary mystic, stalking the ponds and forests of Cape Cod for nearly fifty years in order to open herself – and us, her readers – to the known and unknowable world. Sasha Waters’ beguiling portrait features poems read by Helena Bonham Carter, Steve Buscemi, Stephen Colbert, Lucy Dacus, Jesse Welles, and Oprah Winfrey.
The screening will be followed by an on-stage conversation with filmmaker Sasha Waters.
THEYDREAM
Date: Tuesday, May 5
Time: 7:00pm ET
Director: William D. Caballero
Producers: William D. Caballero, Brad Jones, Erin Ploss-Campoamor, Elaine Del Valle
NYC PREMIERE. Winner of the NEXT Special Jury Award for Creative Expression at the 2026 Sundance Film Festival, William D. Caballero’s TheyDream is a deeply personal documentary that examines the transformative nature of grief for a close-knit Puerto Rican family. Filmmaker William D. Caballero interweaves animation with live action footage to create a type of intimate confession about the courage it takes to transform pain into art alongside the people we love most.
The screening will be followed by an on-stage conversation with director/producer William D. Caballero and producers Brad Jones, Erin Ploss-Campoamor and Elaine Del Valle.