DOC NYC SUMMER SELECTS Date: Wednesday, July 23, 2025 Time: 7:00pm ETVenue: IFC Center, 323 Sixth Ave, NYCTRT: 96 minutes Director: David Osit NYC PREMIERE! The early days of Exploitation TV-dressed-up-as-moral-public-service were well represented by the NBC hit show “To Catch a Predator” (2004-07), which lured child predators to a TV set, where they would then be exposed […]
DOC NYC Selects Special Screening Date: Tuesday, September, 16, 2025 Time: 7:00pm ETVenue: IFC Center, 323 Sixth Ave, NYCTRT: 81 minutes On May 8, 1970, “the Hard Hat Riot” erupted in lower Manhattan. At midday, construction workers, including those building the World Trade Center, violently clashed with students demonstrating against the Vietnam War. It was soon clear […]
DOC NYC SELECTS – Summer 2025 Date: Tuesday, July 15, 2025 Time: 7:00pm ETVenue: IFC Center, 323 Sixth Ave, NYCTRT: 95 minutes NYC PREMIERE! The transcendentally original musical/interdisciplinary NYC-based artist Meredith Monk has been creating and performing over six decades. Pioneering new vocabularies of sound and imagery as she broke through in the 1960s and ‘70s downtown […]
DOC NYC SUMMER SELECTS Date: Tuesday, July 29, 2025 Time: 7:00pm ETVenue: IFC Center, 323 Sixth Ave, NYCTRT: 106 minutes NYC PREMIERE! Like many fans of Jeff Buckley’s 1994 album “Grace”, Oscar-nominated filmmaker Amy Berg has long been fascinated by the enigmatic California singer, who died so tragically in Memphis at the age of 30. […]
DOC NYC SUMMER SELECTS Date: Monday, July 14, 2025 Time: 7:00pm ETVenue: IFC Center, 323 Sixth Ave, NYCTRT: 95 minutes NYC PREMIERE! Disillusioned with politics, charismatic and engaging Noam Shuster Eliassi pivots to the world of stand-up comedy as a means of communicating her “radical” message that Palestinian and Israelis deserve the same equal human rights. Amber […]
DOC NYC SUMMER SELECTS Date: Wednesday, July 9, 2025 Time: 7:30pm ETVenue: IFC Center, 323 Sixth Ave, NYCTRT: 110 minutes As Petra Costa explored in her 2019 Academy-Award® nominated THE EDGE OF DEMOCRACY, the concept of democracy in Brazil has been plagued by institutional corruption and populist mistrust almost since its restoration in the mid-1980s. In […]
DOC NYC SPRING SELECTS 2025 Date: Tuesday, May 6, 2025 Time: 7:00pm ETVenue: IFC Center, 323 Sixth Ave, NYCTRT: 94 minutes Directors: Steph Ching, Ellen Martinez Producers: Ellen Martinez, Steph Ching, Nicole Tsien REPRISE SCREENING – DOC NYC 2024 AUDIENCE AWARD WINNER! Slumlord Millionaire exposes housing injustice in NYC, following the David-and-Goliath battles between ordinary renters and powerful […]
DOC NYC SPRING SELECTS 2025 NYC Premiere Date: Tuesday, April 22Time: 7:00pm ETVenue: IFC Center, 323 Sixth Ave, NYCTRT: 94 minutes The role of the artist in times of great upheaval is once again on our minds. When we think of Jean Cocteau, we think of his lasting masterpieces in cinema, theater, art, poetry and […]
Date: Tuesday, April 29, 2025Time: 7:00pm ETVenue: IFC Center, 323 Sixth Ave, NYCTRT: 120 minutes Emmy Award-winning filmmaker Alan Berliner received a Lifetime Achievement Award at DOC NYC’s 2024 Visionaries Tribute, where he was described as “a virtuoso of essayistic documentary”. To continue the celebration of Berliner’s work, DOC NYC is proud to present new […]
DOC NYC SPRING SELECTS 2025 Date: Tuesday, May 13, 2025Time: 7:00pm ETVenue: IFC Center, 323 Sixth Ave, NYCTRT: 100 minutes When you’ve had enough, you’ve had enough. That breaking point became clear for the students of Gallaudet University, the world’s only higher education institute exclusively for deaf and HOH students, in 1988, when the school’s […]