DOC NYC Selects Winter 2025 Date: Tuesday, March 18Time: 7:00pm ETVenue: IFC Center, 323 Sixth Ave, NYCTRT: 89 minutes Fifty years after the strange case of Sara Jane Moore and U.S. President Gerald Ford, suburban fury in America is boiling over again, and Robinson Devor’s new documentary Suburban Fury is timely AF. In the early […]
DOC NYC Selects Winter 2025 Season Sneak Preview Screening Date: Tuesday, March 11Time: 7:00pm ETVenue: IFC Center, 323 Sixth Ave, NYCTRT: 100 minutes Who speaks – or sings – for America? In 1972, John Lennon and Yoko Ono had adopted New York City as their new hometown and were busy absorbing the wildly contradictory mores of […]
DOC NYC SELECTS WINTER 2025 NYC Premiere Date: Tuesday, March 25thTime: 7:00pm ETVenue: IFC Center, 323 Sixth Ave, NYCTRT: 81 minutes We’ve all got one life to live, and we can all learn from each other. We can especially learn from 70-year-old Helen, who is intent on honoring her own instincts, while still navigating responsibilities […]
DOC NYC Selects Winter 2025 Season Date: Tuesday, March 4, 2025Time: 7:00pm ETVenue: IFC Center, 323 Sixth Ave, NYCTRT: 89 minutes As the world looks on, the early months of 2025 continue to stress-test the American democratic ideal. Laura Nix’s zeitgeist-shaking new film, DEMOCRACY UNDER SIEGE, digs deep into the details beneath our assumptions of […]
NYC PREMIERE During the waning years of British rule, Chris Hesse is tasked with becoming Ghanaian leader Kwame Nkrumah’s personal cinematographer. Once a young filmmaker entrusted with recording the tumultuous march to sovereignty, the 93-year-old looks to pass his legacy, and a hidden, precious archive, to a new generation. Executive produced by Barack and Michelle […]
WORLD PREMIERE Following advocates pushing for FDA approval of a pill demonstrated to boost female desire, this engaging documentary explores stark inequalities regarding women’s sexual health. The film exposes how medical education and healthcare institutions systematically ignore women’s sexual needs while normalizing dozens of drugs for male erectile dysfunction. Witty, urgent, and illuminating, The Pink […]
NYC PREMIERE The Toni Cade Bambara School of Organizing celebrates the life of the dynamic author, editor, and activist. From her Harlem roots to her role as a self-described “culture worker,” Toni’s wit and fierce commitment to change come alive through rare footage and the voices of those who knew her best, including Toni Morrison […]
WORLD PREMIERE In a political landscape marked by racialized power structures, an Algerian-American filmmaker raised in Canada decides to turn the lens on his family. His ancestors, he discovered, did great things—and owned slaves. What We Inherit unpacks this complicated legacy and directly engages with descendants of the people held captive by the filmmaker’s ancestors. […]
Having lost their studio loft spaces to corporate developers of the Providence Place Mall, a group of Rhode Island artists plots revenge by inhabiting a secret, unused space inside the mall’s design. Over the next four years, the artists created a combined living space, studio, art installation, and communal center—and recorded their work on video. […]
WORLD PREMIERE For the five families that control NYC’s Christmas tree trade, the most wonderful time of the year starts months before the first fir tree displays hit busy sidewalks in the five boroughs. There is the competition for sources and locations—not to mention strategizing to stretch the proceeds of five scant weeks into a […]