NYC PREMIERE Filmmaker Gabriela Cowperthwaite (Blackfish) returns with another explosive exposé. On a global scale, governments and uber-wealthy private investors move to secure control of the natural resources that will provide food and water to the world’s population for the next century and beyond, working either in the shadows or waging smokescreen wars to ruthlessly […]
WORLD PREMIERE After the death of her mother 18-year-old Sahar is left in charge of her poor, mentally disabled father in an isolated village in Iran. Sahar dreams of attending university and becoming a doctor, but extended family insist she play the role of caretaker unless her father remarries. This warm and intimate observational portrait […]
US PREMIERE After leaving home as a teenager, Mohamed made three promises to his mother. The moment he arrived he broke one — and here began his tumultuous coming of age abroad. – Samah Ali This screening will be followed by a Q&A with Director/Producer Mohamed Shalaby. This film contains the following accessibility options for […]
NYC PREMIERE In Bay Ridge, a group of Palestinian-Americans use Dabka, a traditional folk dance, to connect with their roots and bring their culture to Brooklyn. – Robert John Torres This film contains the following accessibility options for viewers:Closed Captioning for online screenings All in-person screening venues provide hearing impaired listening devices upon request with […]
NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE With every outbreak in the epidemic of gun violence we are left to wonder: what would we do if a mass shooting breaks out where we are? Filmmaker Tal Inbar helps us imagine the unthinkable by skillfully weaving together raw footage from closed-circuit cameras at the infamous 2016 terrorist attack in Tel […]
Eerily documenting various police killings in Columbus, Ohio, this documentary captures some of the countless stories of police brutality that will not be classified as murders. This screening will be followed by a Q&A with Directors Melissa Gira Grant and Ingrid Raphaël. This short is part of the program SHORTLIST BLOCK #1: UNJUST SYSTEMS Courtesy […]
Unjustly stuck behind bars for more than 20 years, Moath al Alwi builds elaborately detailed ships out of scrap materials from Guantanamo Bay. The November 11th screening will be followed by a Q&A with Director Dara Kell and the November 18th screening with Director Vena Rao. This short is part of the program SHORTLIST BLOCK […]
Artist Mohamad Hafez rebuilds monuments, neighbourhoods, and cities of his beloved Syria, working through his longing for home. This screening will be followed by a Q&A with Director Jimmy Goldblum. This short is part of the program SHORTLIST BLOCK #1: UNJUST SYSTEMS Courtesy of POV Shorts/The New Yorker This film contains the following accessibility options […]
Short-form documentaries have been booming in recent years thanks to major players such as Netflix, TIME Studios, Field of Vision, POV, MTV, The New Yorker, and The New York Times. DOC NYC’s Short List for Shorts, organized by Shorts Programmer Samah Ali, highlights 12 doc shorts that impress us as the year’s leading awards contenders. […]
US PREMIERE Iranian hip hop artists collect sounds from different neighborhoods to create rhythm, music, and lyrics, all while hiding from the authorities that want to shut them down. – DeWitt Davis This screening will be followed by a Q&A with Director Knutte Wester. This screening is being played as part of the SHORTS PROGRAM: […]