NYC PREMIERE Once torn apart by the US border, a father and son in Guatemala struggle to rebuild their lives and reclaim their dreams. – Karen McMullen The first screening will be followed by a Q&A with director Jeremy S. Levine. All in-person screening venues provide sound amplification headphones upon request with venue management. IFC […]
WORLD PREMIERE Filmmaker Rosella Tursi humorously investigates the family legend of when her grandmother was held hostage by bank robbers. – DeWitt Davis The first screening will be followed by a Q&A with director Rosella Tursi. All in-person screening venues provide sound amplification headphones upon request with venue management. IFC Center can also provide a […]
WORLD PREMIERE Warren King transforms cardboard into sculptural reflections of his Chinese-American family’s immigration and his path from engineer to artist. Preparing for a Wisconsin homecoming show, King explores belonging through art. The first screening will be followed by a Q&A with director/co-writer/producer Curtis Chin. All in-person screening venues provide sound amplification headphones upon request […]
NYC PREMIERE A beautifully observed portrait of childhood and family from a visual storyteller confident in the quiet power of image, gesture, and atmosphere. – Murtada Elfadl The first screening will be followed by a Q&A with director Dea Tcholokava. All in-person screening venues provide sound amplification headphones upon request with venue management. IFC Center […]
US PREMIERE In a unique melding of memory, language, and technology, a young Greek woman seeks to fill in the gaps in her family history using an innovative AI program. – Karen McMullen The first screening will be followed by a Q&A with director/producer/writer Evi Stamou. All in-person screening venues provide sound amplification headphones upon […]
As war survivors relive trauma onscreen, their home movies quietly reclaim a lost South Vietnam—challenging a mythology that made them extras in their own history. The first screening will be followed by a Q&A with director Christopher Radcliff. All in-person screening venues provide sound amplification headphones upon request with venue management. IFC Center can also […]
NY PREMIERE Liz Carpenter was a trailblazing Texas journalist, White House advisor, activist, and feminist who knocked down gender barriers in American politics. Five-time DOC NYC alumna Abby Ginzberg teamed up with Christy Carpenter for this thoroughly delightful remembrance of Christy’s mother. Liz’s humor, candor and legendary persuasive abilities are brought back to vivid immediacy […]
NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE When Polish couple Asia and Marek decide to move to a remote cabin in Bialowieza Forest and home-school their children Marysia, Ignacy, and Franek, they imagine an innocent paradise far from the modern world’s problems. The woods are a mysterious, magical place to explore and learn, and the children delight in images […]
WORLD PREMIERE Co-director and protagonist Abraham Jiménez, one of the most important voices of Cuban independent journalism, is expecting a baby with his wife, producer/co-director Claudia Calviño. As they become more and more exhausted and depressed from the constant harassment of the Cuban government, the young family embarks on a journey off the island and […]
WORLD PREMIERE Astronaut Eileen Collins is the first woman to pilot and command the space shuttle. From her small town beginnings, she went on to smash many glass ceilings at NASA in her career, culminating in four dramatic and dangerous space shuttle missions. Through sensational archival materials and intimate interviews, Hannah Berryman’s nail-biting film considers […]