NEW YORK PREMIERE An exploration of the life of Joseph Murakami and his traumatic experiences as a young person in an internment camp in Australia. – Anita Raswant The first screening will be followed by a Q&A with filmmakers and special guests. This film contains the following accessibility options for viewers:Closed Captioning for in-person screenings […]
NEW YORK PREMIERE One woman’s powerful daily journal of atrocities during the war on Ukraine. – Anita Raswant The first screening will be followed by a Q&A with filmmakers and special guests. All in-person screening venues provide sound amplification headphones upon request with venue management. IFC Center can also provide a T-Coil loop for compatible […]
NYC PREMIERE DEFIANT is a defining survey of the Ukrainian experience during the first 18 months of the 2022 Russian full-scale invasion. With Ukraine’s Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba as a central figure, DEFIANT tracks the Ukrainian fighting spirit in both diplomatic circles and on the front lines as ordinary civilian life is turned upside down by […]
NEW YORK PREMIERE A daughter animates her parent’s experience fleeing Vietnam after years of their silence desperately trying to forget the war. – Samah Ali The first screening will be followed by a Q&A with filmmakers and special guests. All in-person screening venues provide sound amplification headphones upon request with venue management. IFC Center can […]
WORLD PREMIERE A visually immersive diary of a young girl who dreams of life outside of the Zaatari refugee camp. – Samah Ali The first screening will be followed by a Q&A with filmmakers and special guests. This film contains the following accessibility options for viewers:Closed Captioning for in-person screenings at IFC Center and Village […]
This film follows Fatima, Hamed, and Yasser as they leave Afghanistan, resettle in the U.S., and try to create a new home, whilst fearing for the safety of their family and friends back home. – Anita Raswant The first screening will be followed by a Q&A with filmmakers and special guests. All in-person screening venues […]
Writer Hanna Asefaw uses a model of the council housing flat her Eritrean family lived in in Oslo to memorialize its diverse community, which was ultimately destroyed by the building’s privatization. – DeWitt Davis The first screening will be followed by a Q&A with filmmakers and special guests. All in-person screening venues provide sound amplification headphones […]
NYC PREMIERE In 2005 at Guantanamo Bay, US Air Force JAG Attorney Yvonne Bradley volunteered to defend Binyam Mohamed who was facing a death penalty. She soon finds her world flipped upside down, as she uncovers the harrowing truth about the US legal system and questions whether some detainees are truly terrorists. Bradley’s captivating story […]
Filmmaker Sierra Pettengill begins with footage filmed by the US military in the 1960s of dress rehearsals for show-of-force responses to the domestic unrest that was unnerving America at the time. The material’s horrifying implications quickly settle in, however, as Pentengill digs deep into other archival material to answer the question of how these large-scale […]
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. […]