US PREMIERE Beginning in the early 1990s, trailblazing designers and daring industry titans usher in a three-decade golden era of fashion transcendence. While designers John Galliano, Marc Jacobs, Alexander McQueen and Tom Ford elevate the craft to new heights, stalwarts Bernard Arnault, Françios Pianult and Anna Wintour bring the world of couture to the masses. […]
Filmmaker Reid Davenport, a past honoree of DOC NYC’s 40 Under 40 showcase, creates a diaristic portrait of his life, at times from his wheelchair. Candid and unsentimental, Davenport captures quotidian moments of human connection and frustration on the streets of Oakland. When a circus tent goes up outside of his apartment, his reflections turn to […]
NYC PREMIERE Grieving the suicide of a close friend, a filmmaker travels to Las Vegas, America’s suicide capital. There she learns of the shocking death of Levi Presley, a local teenager who leaped from the roof of the city’s tallest casino. THIS MUCH WE KNOW takes an essayistic, metaphor-laden approach to the subject of self-annihilation, […]
WORLD PREMIERE Chelly Wilson was a Christmas-celebrating Jewish grandma, a lesbian who married men, and a proud owner of porn theaters in 1970s NYC. Through audio recordings, Chelly recounts her pre-war escape from Greece up through her unlikely motherhood and rise to wealth as a shrewd businesswoman on “The Deuce,” aka New York’s infamous 42nd […]
Winner of the Best Documentary Feature Award at the Tribeca Film Festival, Ascension is an impressionistic portrait of China’s industrial supply chain that depicts a thriving capitalism in a communist state. The film unfolds in three parts, its focus shifting from factory workers, to an aspirational middle class, and finally to the hedonistic elites at […]
NYC PREMIERE Uber, DoorDash, Citi Bikes and the like are part of the global explosion of convenience for consumers, and they provide desperately needed income opportunities for otherwise marginalized workers—but often with high hidden costs. Following several workers from around the world, director Shannon Walsh explores the economic and physical vulnerability of these enterprising wage […]
US PREMIERE Acknowledging his position of privilege, director Rahul Jain adeptly captures the effects of climate change in Delhi and the environmental cost of India’s fast-growing economy, while meditating on the aesthetics of human disconnection with the natural world. Told through striking images and eye-opening accounts from everyday citizens, the film delivers an immersive, poignant, […]
WORLD PREMIERE Director Emmett Adler explores the role of the MTA in New York City and the impact that the Covid-19 pandemic had on the vital service it provides: transporting New York’s essential workers. The film acknowledges the decline of the subway infrastructure as a political issue and captures a tumultuous time that impacted every […]
NYC PREMIERE Mobile homes have long been an affordable option for people who struggle with the cost of other housing in the United States. But now the economy of mobile home parks is under threat as private equity firms are buying up properties and looking to squeeze more money out of mobile home owners. Filmmaker […]
Opening Night Gala screenings at 7:00 & 7:30, filmmakers in person Screening Only added at 9:45 PM ($20) US PREMIERE Jane Jacobs, author of The Death and Life of Great American Cities, helped change the way we look at urban living. As we celebrate the centenary of her birth, Citizen Jane focuses on Jacobs’s most […]