DOC NYC Selects Special Screening Date: Tuesday, September, 16, 2025 Time: 7:00pm ETVenue: IFC Center, 323 Sixth Ave, NYCTRT: 81 minutes On May 8, 1970, “the Hard Hat Riot” erupted in lower Manhattan. At midday, construction workers, including those building the World Trade Center, violently clashed with students demonstrating against the Vietnam War. It was soon clear […]
DOC NYC SUMMER SELECTS Date: Wednesday, July 9, 2025 Time: 7:30pm ETVenue: IFC Center, 323 Sixth Ave, NYCTRT: 110 minutes As Petra Costa explored in her 2019 Academy-Award® nominated THE EDGE OF DEMOCRACY, the concept of democracy in Brazil has been plagued by institutional corruption and populist mistrust almost since its restoration in the mid-1980s. In […]
DOC NYC SPRING SELECTS 2025 Date: Tuesday, May 13, 2025Time: 7:00pm ETVenue: IFC Center, 323 Sixth Ave, NYCTRT: 100 minutes When you’ve had enough, you’ve had enough. That breaking point became clear for the students of Gallaudet University, the world’s only higher education institute exclusively for deaf and HOH students, in 1988, when the school’s […]
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 Summer Selects 2024 Opening Night NYC PREMIERE Screening exactly a year to the day that a landmark US Supreme Court ruling dismantled key aspects of affirmative action in higher education, filmmakers Hao Wu and Miao Wang examine the factors that led to the high-stakes lawsuit filed by Asian American plaintiffs against Harvard University, and […]
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 […]
Following up on her Oscar-nominated The Edge of Democracy, about the institutional corruption and populist mistrust plaguing Brazil’s democracy almost since its 1980s restoration, Costa explores the Christian fundamentalism seizing the nation’s political discourse. With stunning access to President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, ex-president Jair Bolsonaro, and others, Costa distills the recent chaos of […]
Winner of the 2025 Sundance World Cinema Documentary Grand Jury Prize, Cutting Through Rocks is a stirring portrait of courage and conviction. In a remote Iranian village, Sara Shahverdi becomes the first elected councilwoman—with bold dreams of teaching teenage girls to ride motorcycles and halting child marriages. But when accusations question her motives, Sara finds […]
In 2024, ACLU lawyer Chase Strangio becomes the first transgender man to argue a case before the Supreme Court. Engaging with complexity, filmmaker Sam Feder does not shy away from criticizing traditional liberal-center publications like The New York Times and The Atlantic, whose continuously interrogative coverage of trans experiences has helped embolden 23 right-leaning state […]