DOC NYC documentary film festival returns. Check out this year's lineup.

DOC NYC, America's largest festival for documentary films, returns to New York City and streaming for the 17th year, with screenings successful Manhattan opening Wednesday done Nov. 19, and continuing online done Nov. 29.

The festival includes much than 115 feature-length documentaries — galore making their world, U.S. oregon New York City premieres — arsenic good arsenic abbreviated movie programs, portion the DOC NYC Pro Conference offers sheet discussions and workshops successful a assortment of areas of nonfiction filmmaking and distribution.

The festival's opening-night diagnostic is the American premiere of "The Hummingbird Paints Fragrant Songs," about an Indigenous creator successful the Peruvian Amazon who uses her creation to advocator for her radical and their land. The movie won champion planetary documentary astatine the São Paulo International Film Festival.

Barbara Kopple's "Union Town," the festival's centerpiece, tells 3 stories of workers warring for amended conditions successful the U.S. Kopple won 2 Academy Awards for her films "Harlan County, U.S.A." and "American Dream."

The closing-night diagnostic explores our fascination with star eclipses. In "Totality," 21 movie crews crossed the U.S. captured however the nationalist embraced the 2024 full eclipse of the Sun.

See beneath for much highlights of immoderate of the films screening astatine DOC NYC. There are besides screenings of immoderate of 2026's astir notable nonfiction releases, including "You Can See Everything," "Once Upon a Time successful Harlem," "NAZA," "Musk," "American Doctor," "Everybody to Kenmure Street," "Nuisance Bear," and "One In a Million."

Check retired the festival's website for more programme details, schedules, ticket and time walk information, and online screening availability.

Profiles

Among the personalities who are profiled successful documentaries astatine the festival are:

• Singer Darlene Love ("Darlene Love: I Know Where I've Been")
• Film manager David Cronenberg ("The Flesh And The Soul")
• Rock prima Chrissie Hynde ("Pretenders")
• Women's shot prima Megan Rapinoe ("Rapinoe") 
• Veteran euphony professional Robert Christgau ("The Last Critic")
• Cconcert pianist Emanuel Ax ("All the Music In the World")
• The Chicano stone radical Los Lobos ("Los Lobos Native Sons")
• Oscar-winning cinematographer Robert Richardson ("Robert Richardson: The White Devil")
• The creator of Mad Magazine ("The Mad World of Harvey Kurtzman")

Environment

Using archival footage and interviews, "Whiddy" recounts however the assemblage connected a tiny Irish land was affected by the operation of a Gulf Oil terminal for supertankers successful the 1960s, starring to galore lipid spills and an lipid tanker detonation successful 1979 that killed 50 people.

Aided by archival footage and photos, Icelandic writer Andri Snær Magnason creates a clip capsule of Iceland's melting glaciers and their value to his household successful "Time and Water."

In England, 2 neighboring farmers are each determined to usage their onshore otherwise – portion 1 farms with accepted methods, the different turns to rewilding – successful "Derek vs. Derek." "Neighbours of the Beast" examines the interaction of the inhabitants of the Indian metropolis of Panna connected the tiger colonisation of adjacent forests. 

"Understory" uses macro imagery, animation and time-lapse photography to survey the bonzer quality of plants. In "Materia Prima," Bolivia's immense lithium reserves gully the involvement of extracurricular developers, augering yet different signifier of colonialism successful South America.

Art and music

Jazz trumpeter Marcus Belgrave (1936-2015) was a unit successful euphony for much than six decades, supporting stars and mentoring talented young endowment on the way. Multitudes of musician-fans connection their praise successful "...And Damn, He Could Play: The Marcus Belgrave Story."

Photographer Ethan Russell ever seemed to beryllium successful the close spot astatine the close time, which allowed a young American successful England to get unsocial entree to The Beatles, The Rolling Stones and The Who, arsenic good arsenic myriad different stone stars. He tries to explicate his large luck successful "Let It Be, Let It Bleed: The Unlikely Rock n' Roll Journey of Ethan Russell."

In 2021 singer-songwriter Beldina Odenyo died tragically astatine property 31. "Bel" explores the traumas that affected Odenyo, her family's grief, and the determination of her sister, Leah, to implicit the unfinished medium that Odenyo near behind. 

"Make Work" delves into the originative process of dance, pursuing choreographers astatine the New York City Ballet's Choreographic Institute. Experimental filmmakers Nathaniel Dorsky and Jerome Hiler explicate their hands-on attack to capturing the ephemeral quality of beingness connected celluloid successful "Illuminations."

"Frida: The Girl Just Doesn't Go Away" asks, however did creator Frida Kahlo go a planetary brand? Cuban artists defy censorship and authorities repression successful "#SOSCUBA."

Addiction helped derail a promising opera vocation for vocalist Tim Blevins. "Figaro Up, Figaro Down" follows Blevins arsenic helium uses his endowment to past connected the streets.

Social activism

Puerto Ricans successful tiny sportfishing boats equine absorption against the U.S. Navy's concern of Vieques successful "Zenón and the Rebel Boats." In 1970s and '80s Los Angeles, feminist artists challenged the creation world. How they fared is covered successful "Acting Like Women."    

"A Better Way: James Lawson, Architect of Nonviolence" tells the communicative of The Rev. James Lawson, a workfellow of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., who preached religion and nonviolence successful warring racism, constabulary unit and Apartheid. Crusading lawyer Lee Merritt dedicates his beingness to advocating for the families of Black Americans killed by the constabulary successful "Enough."

Following the 1968 assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., Iowa schoolteacher Jane Elliott devised the "Blue Eyes/Brown Eyes" workout to assistance her students spot the cruelty of racism. That acquisition earned Elliott overmuch blowback, and stiffened her resoluteness to combat racism, arsenic shown successful "Jane Elliott Against The World."

In the 1960s, a radical of filmmakers and journalists came unneurotic to papers the counterculture question arsenic a counterpoint to mainstream media. Their enactment is chronicled successful "The Newsreel: Characterization of Subversive Organization."

Health and Medicine

Emma Fogarty, who lives with a uncommon and achy familial upset called epidermolysis bullosa, teams up with a friend, histrion Colin Farrell (who is battling idiosyncratic demons of his own), to tally the Dublin Marathon together, successful "The Slightest Touch." An advocator fights for women's healthcare successful Venezuela successful "The Cord."

In "The Sickling," a antheral undertakes an experimental stem compartment attraction for his pain-inducing sickle compartment disease. In "Under Fire," an Idaho occurrence skipper treats the PTSD of the intelligence strain from his harrowing occupation with experimental ketamine therapy. 

Technology

"MySpace" makes a nostalgic travel backmost to 2003, erstwhile MySpace was the prototypical societal media level earlier Facebook, Youtube, Instagram and TikTok, and astatine 1 constituent drew much net postulation than Google's location page. How acold has societal media travel since? Where did MySpace go? And is it coming back?

"The Sandbox" examines however ubiquitous surveillance systems and subject exertion are utilized to power the planetary exile crisis, with life-or-death consequences.

Exposés

Historical and archival investigations of challenging stories see "Primetime Preacher$," about however Jim Bakker, Jerry Falwell and Jimmy Swaggart turned their evangelical ministries into media giants and founts of governmental power.

"The New Extinction" digs into the dinosaur fossil industry, wherever paleontology confronts commercialized bony hunters and affluent buyers.

How bash flat-earthers and alien truthers travel to their versions of reality? "Gimme Truth" introduces america to immoderate colorful conspiracy theorists.

Justice

DOC NYC volition debut the archetypal 2 episodes of the Amazon Prime miniseries "The Boy Who Stole Billions?," about cryptocurrency fraudster Sam Bankman-Fried.

"An Eye For an Eye" examines the ineligible strategy successful Iran, wherever a pistillate convicted of sidesplitting her abusive hubby indispensable marque a humor wealth outgo to her husband's household to debar execution. But volition they accept?

In 2020 successful Hungary, nether unit from Viktor Orbán's far-right government, 80 journalists from the autarkic newsroom Index.hu resigned successful protestation — and past picked up their cameras. "80 Angry Journalists" is the result.

The weaponization of non-disclosure agreements is examined done the stories of 3 radical who look retaliation aft breaking their NDAs meant to soundlessness them astir accusations of rape, radical favoritism and firm crimes, successful "My NDA."

Following his decease successful 1994, singer, songwriter and beatified teacher Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach was posthumously accused of intersexual abuse, shaking the Jewish assemblage successful New York City. "The Darkest Light" follows the way of survivors seeking healing.

Lawyer and first-time filmmaker Suja A. Thomas takes a humorous look astatine failures successful the nation's justness system, and popular culture's caricature of it, successful "The Best Justice System In the World."

Food

Go wrong the room of the Budapest Michelin-starred Onyx, wherever the personalities of proprietor and unit clash during a reinvention of the restaurant, successful "The Taste of Democracy."

Traditional household winegrowers successful Italy's Piedmont portion look unit from deep-pocketed overseas buyers to merchantability disconnected their land, arsenic clime alteration creates adjacent greater stressors connected their yearly harvest, successful "Low Lies the Land."

War and Conflict

Ukrainian women carnivore witnesser aft surviving intersexual battle by Russian soldiers successful "Traces" (Ukraine's submission successful the champion planetary diagnostic movie class for this year's Oscars). In "Black Sunflowers," 10 young Ukrainians grapple with the effects of the Russian invasion.

In "For Life," a Palestinian pistillate wants a kid with her husband, who has been setenced to beingness successful an Israeli prison. "From Gaza With Love" tells the communicative of a friendhip betwixt a French writer and a Palestinian photographer.  

Following the 1980 U.S. election, thousands of women assembled astatine the Pentagon to protestation policies of war, successful "With Love and Rage." 

Sports and Endurance

In "The Ascent," Mandy Horvath climbs Mount Kilimanjaro aft having mislaid some her legs. Young sumo wrestlers bid astatine Tokyo's Sakaigawa Stable in "Sumo: Spirit Weighs Nothing." 

"Kick" follows American trans nonbinary runner Nikki Hiltz connected their roadworthy to the Olympics. In agrarian Turkey, women enslaved portion defying accepted boundaries done their grooming for a shooting contention successful "32 Meters." The athletics of car spinning successful Cape Town is captured successful "From Dust We Spin."

Americana

"Ashland" is simply a meditative look astatine the radical and landscapes of Montana. In a tiny Maine town, artisans conception a 56-foot sailboat connected committee successful "Boatbuilders."  Maine lobstermen are the subjects of the cinema vérité "Bucks Harbor." 

"Love Apptually" explores however dating apps person changed the mode we find love. In "Baby/Girls," 3 teenagers from the Bible Belt look unexpected pregnancies and motherhood. 

An Albanian migrant buys a failing buying promenade successful Johnstown, Pennsylvania, and tries to crook it astir successful "Mall Country."

Fifty years ago, Native Hawaiian Nainoa Thompson sailed from Hawaii to Tahiti without the assistance of modern instruments, the archetypal to bash truthful successful 600 years. Now helium mentors young navigators to repetition the perilous 2,400-mile travel successful "The Navigator."  

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In-person screenings volition beryllium held astatine the IFC Center, SVA Theatre, and Village East by Angelika. For accusation astir much entries successful their year's festival, arsenic good arsenic breakdowns of their abbreviated movie programs, sojourn the website of DOC NYC.

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