KITTY AND ELLEN
Best friends and Holocaust survivors Kitty and Ellen reflect on the striking resemblance between the contemporary political climate and their past.
Politics
KNIFE SKILLS
Cleveland’s Edwins restaurant offers world-class French cuisine to patrons and the opportunity to learn Knife Skills for a staff comprised almost entirely of formerly incarcerated men and women seeking a second chance — much like the restaurant’s founder. Anthony Bourdain calls this film “compelling, funny, heartbreaking and thoroughly human.”
LOS LECHEROS
The fates of undocumented immigrant workers and Wisconsin’s $43 billion dairy industry are closely intertwined – and both are grappling with their options for survival as fear of ICE raids and deportations under the Trump administration grows.
OUR NEW PRESIDENT
Our New President explores the cult of Trump through fake news, showing Russia’s fawning appreciation.
PURPLELAND
The viewpoints of two voters on opposing sides are interwoven to make Purpleland.
RAUL
Raul achieved the American Dream while still in his twenties. But then, years later, it unexpectedly fell from his grasp. As his daughter points the camera in his direction, she asks him to reflect on the pursuit of dreams, and seeks his advice about her own.
ROBERT
A young man who is incarcerated at the Shelby County Division of Corrections shares his story. He was transferred to criminal court at the age of 15, and he has spent the past four years in adult detention centers as a youthful offender.
THE SANDMAN
A Georgia doctor helps execute inmates by lethal injection despite the medical profession’s ban of physician involvement in executions. Personally against capital punishment, he sees his work as providing end of life care to the condemned.
TRAFFIC STOP
2017 SHORT DOCUMENTARY WINNER Traffic Stop tells the story of Breaion King, a 26 year-old African-American school teacher from Austin, Texas who is stopped for a routine traffic violation that escalates into a dramatic arrest. Caught on police dashcams, Breaion is pulled from her car by the arresting officer, repeatedly thrown to the ground, and handcuffed. En route […]
CUBA AND THE CAMERAMAN
NYC PREMIERE With a career spanning several decades, Jon Alpert is a past recipient of DOC NYC’s Lifetime Achievement Award. Now he delivers a film that draws upon footage he shot in Cuba for over 40 years. Starting in the 1970s, Alpert’s pioneering work as an independent video journalist won the attention of Fidel Castro, […]