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 […]
One of the most radical and visionary authors of the 20th Century, George Orwell’s 1940s novels, such as 1984 and Animal Farm, foretold a chilling, all-too-believable authoritarian future. Acclaimed director Raoul Peck (I Am Not Your Negro), working with the Orwell Estate, seamlessly interweaves historical clips, Orwell’s diary entries, cinematic references, and dynamic modern footage to […]
NYC PREMIERE With any and all things crypto being pushed by celebrities, influencers, and politicians alike, actor-turned-author and director Ben McKenzie decides to investigate. Leveraging his celebrity status to gain access to eager prospectors, McKenzie finds himself unraveling the loosely regulated world of cryptocurrency. This skeptical but evenhanded take on the present and future of […]
US PREMIERE Director Sami Van Ingen revisits the making of his great-grandfather Robert Flaherty’s famed films, showcasing the overlooked creative force of Frances Flaherty, whose vision and labor underpinned her husband’s works. Through letters, documents, and dual narration, the film reveals the family’s complex emotional dynamics and the hidden histories behind the romanticized colonial fantasies […]
WORLD PREMIERE NYC experimental documentary filmmaker Benita Raphan died by suicide during the loneliness of the COVID-19 shutdowns. DOC NYC 2024 Lifetime Achievement filmmaker Alan Berliner, who was her friend and creative advisor, creates a kind of posthumous collaboration with Benita on her final project, using as many of her images, sounds, and words as […]
NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE In an imagined future where humans no longer exist, an AI system reflects on dance as the essence of consciousness, spontaneity, and identity. Philosophers, historians, artists, and Nobel laureates trace dance across ritual, flamenco, butoh, rave culture, and historical dance epidemics. Eclectic archives, experimental interludes, and candid testimonies weave a vibrant essay […]
NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE For archivists, the world of avant-garde theater and cinema in early 1970s NYC is a rich cauldron of no-safety-net experimentation and creativity—the time of legends such as Jack Smith, Jonas Mekas, and David Johansen—and Theater of the Ridiculous. The latter was particularly well-documented by the Argentine photographer Leandro Katz. Now very late […]
NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE Beautifully composed and subtly unsettling, Unanimal interrogates the entangled, often contradictory relationship between humans and animals. Narrated with calm detachment by Isabella Rossellini, the essay film offers a critical yet poetic historical lens on the evolution of our cohabitation with nonhuman life. It creates space for viewers to question the ways we […]
WORLD PREMIERE Detroit has often been framed in a negative light, saddled with proclamations of crime and urban decay, but that isn’t the city that filmmaker Jeremy Xido calls home. After his family moved to the city during his youth, an African American family “adopted” Xido and his parents as part of their clan. In […]
NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE Fragmented images of love, activism, and ancestral resilience intertwine with poignant voice messages between the filmmaker and his lover in Brazil, forming a lyrical reflection on memory and survival. – Murtada Elfadl The first screening will be followed by a Q&A with director Xavier Marrades. All in-person screening venues provide sound amplification […]