October 19, 2021

Deafying Gravity

INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE Professional aerial artist Katia Schwartz reworks her craft to embrace her weakening hearing abilities. – Samah Ali This screening is part of the SHORTS PROGRAM: THE ARTISTS This screening will be followed by a Q&A with Director Sam Martin and Producer Bek Ward. This film contains the following accessibility options for viewers:Closed Captioning for […]

October 19, 2021

Same/Different/Both/Neither

NYC PREMIERE Video diaries between two close friends capture the tensions and troubles of 2020 in São Paulo, Brazil, and Los Angeles, USA. – Samah Ali This screening is part of the SHORTS PROGRAM: UNSANCTIONED SURVIVAL All guests & staff will be required to comply with our Health & Safety protocols while attending DOC NYC events. […]

October 19, 2021

Madame Pipi

NYC PREMIERE Madame Pipi follows the personal journeys of female Haitian bathroom attendants in Miami’s hottest nightclubs and their support to Haiti through their tips.– Samah Ali This screening is part of the SHORTS PROGRAM: UNSANCTIONED SURVIVAL This film contains the following accessibility options for viewers:Closed Captioning for in-person screenings at IFC Center and Cinepolis ChelseaDescriptive […]

October 19, 2021

Elena

NYC PREMIERE Following up on her film Stateless, Director Michèle Stephenson chronicles one woman’s journey fighting the Dominican Republic’s anti-Black laws revoking citizenship for people with Haitian ancestry. – Samah Ali This screening will be followed by a Q&A with Director Michèle Stephenson. This screening is part of the SHORTS PROGRAM: UNSANCTIONED SURVIVAL All guests & staff […]

October 19, 2021

Tell Me More

US PREMIERE As a daughter tends to her incapacitated mother, their bond grows stronger through non-verbal communication. – Samah Ali This screening is part of the SHORTS PROGRAM: CARETAKERS All guests & staff will be required to comply with our Health & Safety protocols while attending DOC NYC events. For the latest information, please review our […]

October 19, 2021

No Man’s Land

NYC PREMIERE While exploring a lesbian community in Alabama this film reveals the importance of found family and intentional community living. – Elyse Wang This screening will be followed by a Q&A with Directors Anna Andersen and Gabriella Canal. This screening is being played as part of the SHORTS PROGRAM:  SHE STORIES This screening is co-presented […]

October 19, 2021

The Gallery That Destroys All Shame

NYC PREMIERE An intimate invitation to a night that shatters shame and confusion around the female genitalia.  – Samah Ali This screening will be followed by a Q&A with Director Aurora Brachman. This screening is being played as part of the SHORTS PROGRAM:  SHE STORIES This film contains the following accessibility options for viewers:Closed Captioning for […]

October 19, 2021

3:07

WORLD PREMIERE A personal expression of transformation, as a mother turns her grief and silence around a stillborn into an expression of remembrance. – Elyse Wang This film is playing as part of the Shorts Program:  Lamenting Loss This screening will be followed by a Q&A with Director Megan Miller. All guests & staff will […]

October 19, 2021

OMARA

WORLD PREMIERE An uplifting, entertaining profile of the grande dame of Cuban music, Omara Portuondo, the internationally beloved chanteuse best known in the States as a member of the famed Buena Vista Social Club. The filmmakers follow octogenarian Omara—feisty, charming, with a naughty sense of humor, and still in possession of her fantastic voice—on her […]

October 19, 2021

LIFE OF IVANNA

US PREMIERE Ivanna, a chain-smoking, no-nonsense indigenous Nenets woman, is raising her five children in a house on skis in the Russian arctic. Following Ivanna over four years, Guatemalan-born director Renato Borrayo Serrano gives us a fly-on-the-wall view into Ivanna’s daily life, delivering an unflinching and intimate portrait of this hearty, unflappable woman and a […]