DOC NYC’s 2024 edition will take place in person in NYC from November 13 -21 and continue online through December 1, 2024. Click here for a full list of 2024 films! Don’t worry if you couldn’t get an advance ticket – a few last-minute seats are released for almost all festival screenings. Rush lines start […]
Save with an In-Person Pass, good for BOTH In-Person PRO events scheduled for April 10 & 26, 2024! DOC NYC PRO announces its Spring 2024 Season of in-person events for filmmakers at all stages of their careers, taking place at IFC Center in NYC. Your ticket guarantees admission for (1) to the day-long events as […]
Save with a Season Pass, good for all 4 virtual PRO events scheduled for April 17- May 8, 2024! DOC NYC PRO returns for Spring Season 2024 with a new line-up geared towards filmmakers and anyone interested in learning about the documentary industry. Embark on a multifaceted exploration spanning the spectrum of documentary filmmaking. New Offer: […]
Nik and Maria, a British bohemian and a Norwegian photographer, fall in love and decide to raise their children in a non-traditional environment, learning from nature instead of textbooks and school desks. Tragically, Maria passes away young, upending the family’s bucolic existence. As the remaining parent, Nik works to hold true to the vision he […]
A journalist upends Japan’s entrenched codes of silence when she brings sexual assault charges against a well-connected member of the Japanese media elite. Against the wishes of many of those closest to her, Shiro Ito presses on with her case, bravely confronting an entire system. Her case becomes a landmark in Japan, and her choices […]
Twenty-six priceless Beninois artifacts, looted by the French, are repatriated to Benin by the French government. Filmmaker Mati Diop examines the impact of the restitution, imagining the personification of an artifact and documenting the power the treasures have on current generations of Beninois. The occasion is both monumental and penurious: Just 26 objects, out of […]
Angela Patton found a way for young girls whose fathers were incarcerated to connect: A prison-hosted dad/daughter dance. The event was about more than just the day. For the fathers, seeing the impact of their absence from their daughter’s lives provides an unrivaled emotional redemption opportunity. Working with co-director Natalia Rae to showcase the now […]
NYC PREMIERE Oscar-nominated filmmaker Raoul Peck has done it again. In this rousing, elegant documentary, Peck opens the life and works of a seminal artist of the 20th century, South African photographer Ernest Cole. Denouncing apartheid with the publication of his 1967 photo book House of Bondage, Cole then lived in exile in the US, […]
Emmy-nominated editor and first-time feature director Carla Gutiérrez takes the unusual lstep of using the iconic twentieth-century Mexican artist Frida Khalo’s own words, gleaned from diaries, letters, interviews, and other sources. Mixing lyrical animation of Kahlo’s influential works with expressive voice-over by several artists, Frida is a definitive film. “If you only see one filmic […]
After foreign troops withdraw from Afghanistan in 2021, the filmmaker is given permission to follow and film two Taliban military men for a year as they take hold of the weapons and aircraft left behind by American troops. Through careful observation of the Taliban’s efforts to build their new military regime, an understanding slowly develops […]