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2024
Awards Selection About

The 2024 edition of DOC NYC features over 200 films and events, showcasing the breadth of contemporary documentary filmmaking. Its competitive sections include the U.S. Competition, International Competition, Kaleidoscope, and Metropolis, highlighting diverse storytelling across themes and formats. Top awards went to "Stone Mountain," which received the Grand Jury Prize in the U.S. Competition, and "Yalla Parkour," honored with the International Competition Grand Jury Prize. Notable presentations include "Blue Road – The Edna O’Brien Story" as the Opening Night film, "All God’s Children" as the Centerpiece, and "Drop Dead City – New York on the Brink in 1975" as the Closing Night feature.

American Perspectives

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Ashley Tyner, William Tyner
The People's Way After the Black Lives Matter movement sees an international tipping point in the summer of…

American Stories

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Deirdre Fishel
Facing the Wind the story of two women, whose lives are irrevocably changed by their husbands’ diagnosis…
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Josh Forbes
Gallagher With his witty wordplay and wacky props, Leo Gallagher became one of the biggest comedy…
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Michael Premo
Homegrown Three Trump supporters from different backgrounds unite to campaign across America in…
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Ricki Stern, Jesse Sweet
Nature of the Crime After decades in prison, three men navigate the complex bureaucracy of the parole system…
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Katie Mathews
Roleplay Faced with rampant sexual violence on their college campus, a group of Tulane University…
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Jeremy Workman
Secret Mall Apartment In 2003, eight Rhode Islanders created a secret apartment inside a busy mall and lived…
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Taylor Taglianetti
What's Next? At 100 years old, Dr. Howard Tucker has been recognized by Guinness World Records as the…
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Bonni Cohen and 2 more
The White House Effect As we face the climate crisis, the filmmakers look back to a hopeful period when leading…

Centerpiece

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Ondi Timoner
All God's Children In an unprecedented attempt to heal centuries of racism and antisemitism, and combat the…

Closing Night

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Peter Yost, Michael Rohatyn
Drop Dead City: New York on the Brink in 1975 1970s NYC documentary chronicling the city's decline from working-class hub to financial…

Come As You Are

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Jota Mun
Between Goodbyes When a queer Korean adoptee visits her original mother in Seoul, long-held regrets and…
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Alfredo Pourailly De La Plaza
The Fabulous Gold Harvesting Machine A 60-year-old Chilean miner's health declines from decades of strenuous gold-digging. His…
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Miriam Guttmann
Front Row Bertolt Brecht asked whether there would be singing in the dark times. In the throes of…
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Michael Dweck, Gregory Kershaw
Gaucho Gaucho A celebration of a community of Argentine cowboys and cowgirls, known as Gauchos, living…
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Elizabeth Lo
Mistress Dispeller Desperate to save her marriage, a woman in China hires a professional to go undercover and…
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Laurie Townshend
A Mother Apart In this poignant documentary, poet Stacyann Chin confronts the lingering scars of being…
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Joel 'Kachi Benson
Mothers of Chibok A community of mothers in a Nigerian village struggle to persevere while grieving for…
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Taira Malaney
Turtle Walker Follows the life of Satish Bhaskar, an Indian conservationist who dedicated himself to…

Fight the Power

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Marta García, Sol Infante Zamudio
Bad Reputation A Uruguayan sex worker's fight for labor rights and societal acceptance of her profession.…
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Daphne Matziaraki, Peter Murimi
The Battle for Laikipia Unresolved historical injustices and climate change raise the stakes in a generations-old…
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Abraham Jiménez Enoa
Isla Familia A heartfelt, intimate look at daily life in Cuba and the measures taken by one family to…
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Jalena Keane-Lee
Standing Above the Clouds Hawaiians, including Pua Case and her daughters, protest the construction of telescopes on…
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Farahnaz Sharifi
My Stolen Planet My Stolen Planet is a diary-style narrative by Farah, an Iranian filmmaker. Born during…
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Emily Mkrtichian
There Was, There Was Not A richly textured tapestry telling the story of Artsakh through the daily lives of four…

Game Face Cinema

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Joe Wein
76 Days Adrift Steven Callahan gives a gripping first-hand account of his NYT bestselling novel "Adrift:…
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Michael Wech
Moses - 13 Steps For nine years, nine months and nine days, track superstar Edwin Moses went unbeaten in…
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Mike Farrell
Southpaw: The Life and Legacy of Jim Abbott Yankee Stadium has seen a plethora of legends over the franchise’s storied history, but…
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Marah Strauch, Bryce Leavitt
Space Cowboy Joe Jennings, a pioneer of skydiving cinematography, looks back on a lifetime of creating…

International Competition

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Sarah McCarthy
After the Rain: Putin’s Stolen Children Come Home Deep in a forest by the Baltic Sea, a group of Ukrainian families come together to start…
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Sissel Morell Dargis
Balomania Deep in the Brazilian favelas, a secret community of men are planning their next illegal…
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Roman Blazhan
The Basement The village of Yahidne in northern Ukraine is coming back to life. Dogs are running…
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Nishtha Jain, Akash Basumatari
Farming the Revolution Farming the Revolution takes us to the heart of the massive year-long protests against the…
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Lidia Duda
Forest A family that chooses to move from the city with their children to a forest on the border…
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Hind Meddeb
Sudan, remember us In spring 2019, filmmaker Hind Meddeb captures a jubilant moment of defiance among young…
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Areeb Zuaiter
Yalla Parkour When filmmaker Areeb Zuaiter lost her Palestinian mother, she lost her connection to Gaza.…

Investigations

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Hans Block, Moritz Riesewieck
Eternal You Startups are using AI to create avatars that allow relatives to talk with their loved ones…
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Tatyana Tenenbaum
Everything You Have Is Yours NYC-based choreographer Hadar Ahuvia interrogates the roots of the Israeli folk dances she…
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Daniel Straub, Rosanna Xia
Out of Plain Sight What if you lived in a coastal city never knowing that the ocean hid a deadly poison?…
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Hugo Macgregor
Plunderer Filmed for more than five years in seven countries, Plunderer is the untold story of…
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Matthew O'Neill, Perri Peltz
Surveilled Uncover the insidious ways in which our daily lives are being surveilled by the state. In…
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Dawn Porter
The Sing Sing Chronicles Just north of New York City, Sing Sing Correctional Facility is one of the country’s…
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John Hunter Nolan and 2 more
Unearth “Unearth” tells the story of two sets of siblings — the Salmon sisters and the…

Kaleidoscope Competition

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Birgitte Stærmose
Afterwar The children transform into adults before our eyes. Yet they remain in limbo, haunted by…
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Eryk Rocha, Gabriela Carneiro da Cunha
The Falling Sky Documentary about Indigenous peoples’ profound connection to nature and their struggle…
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Loran Batti
G – 21 scenes from Gottsunda The Swedish gang conflict seen from the inside over five years by a filmmaker who is at…
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Daniel Mann
Under a Blue Sun Negev Desert, Israel, 1987. Bashir Abu Rabi’a works as a pyrotechnics and special…
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Andrés Jurado
Welcome Interplanetary and Sidereal Space Conquerors In the theatre of the Cold War, astronauts lost in the Darien are besieged by their…

Metropolis Competition

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Wendy Lobel
Anxiety Club Funny, deep and hopeful, ANXIETY CLUB captures the experience of anxiety through the eyes…
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Molly Bernstein, Philip Dolin
Art Spiegelman: Disaster is My Muse! Art Spiegelman: Disaster is My Muse! explores the life and career of cartoonist Art…
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Debra Granik
Conbody VS Everybody Taking place over eight years, Coss Marte builds CONBODY, a gym inspired by workouts he…
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Anna Toomey
Left Behind The inspiring story of a group of determined moms who band together to create the first…
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Chih Hsuan Liang
Man From Pretentia This documentary paints a portrait of Paul Bridgewater, a quirky, charming, gay NYC art…
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Rachel Elizabeth Seed
A Photographic Memory Sheila Turner Seed was an award-winning New York City-based, journalist in the 1970s who…
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Steph Ching, Ellen Martinez
Slumlord Millionaire In New York City's most quickly gentrifying neighborhoods, a group of fearless residents,…
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Jacob Perlmutter, Manon Ouimet
Two Strangers Trying Not to Kill Each Other Life, death and making meaning are the heart of a beautiful and often very funny film…

Opening Night

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Sinéad O'Shea
Blue Road - The Edna O'Brien Story In 1960 a young Irish woman named Edna O'Brien wrote a sexually frank debut novel, The…

Portraits

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Jill Campbell
Beyond the Gaze: Jule Campbell's Swimsuit Issue Jule Campbell's 32-year reign as editor of Sports Illustrated's Swimsuit Issue,…
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Niloufar Taghizadeh
Googoosh - Made of Fire To generations of Iranians, she is a legend – culturally on par with icons such as…
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Nathalie Masduraud, Valérie Urréa
Looking for Simone In 1949, philosopher and novelist Simone de Beauvoir wrote the groundbreaking The Second…
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Dori Berinstein
A Man with Sole: The Impact of Kenneth Cole Explores the life, career, and activism of Kenneth Cole.
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Doris Metz
Petra Kelly - Act Now! Activist Petra Kelly was convinced that a single person could change the world and, as…
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Abby Ginzberg, Christy Carpenter
Shaking It Up: The Life and Times of Liz Carpenter A journalist reports on JFK assassination, helps enact Great Society reforms in White…
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Hannah Berryman
Spacewoman An average student in average small-town America, inspired by the astronauts she saw on…
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Josephine Links
We All Bleed Red The intimate relationship that a photographer develops with the people whose photos he’s…

Resilience

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Arash Rakhsha
All the Mountains Give A powerful account of the Kolbari covert goods trade between the Kurdish cities and towns…
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Léonard Cohen
Flavors of Iraq The Fatiha is the first sura of the Koran. In Muslim tradition, it is also the name used…
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Bonni Cohen, Jon Shenk
In Waves and War Highly decorated Navy SEAL Marcus Capone struggles with PTSD after returning from…
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Pierre Michel Jean
Twice into Oblivion In 1937 more than 20,000 Haitian people living in the Dominican Republic were…

Short List: Features

15films

Short List: Shorts

15films

Shorts Programs

95films

Sonic Cinema

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Special Presentation

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Asif Kapadia
2073 It will tackle challenges the world faces and is inspired by Chris Marker's iconic 1962…
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Victor Kossakovsky
Architecton From filmmaker Victor Kossakovsky comes an epic, intimate and poetic meditation on…
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Samuel Habib, Dan Habib
The Ride Ahead A heartwarming, enlightening journey about Gen Z life with a disability. Samuel Habib,…
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Reiner Holzemer
Thom Browne: The Man Who Tailors Dreams A definitive portrait of pioneering American fashion designer Thom Browne, whose visionary…

U.S. Competition

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Alina Simone
Black Snow A Siberian mother-of-three finds herself under the aggressive scrutiny of the Russian…
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Justin Schein
Death & Taxes An exploration of a wealthy man's obsessive refusal to pay taxes, serving as a case study…
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Landon Van Soest
Light Darkness Light After living in darkness for nearly 40 years, Ian Nichols, a blind Anglican priest,…
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Sareen Hairabedian
My Sweet Land For 11-year-old Vrej, life in his homeland Artsakh is like a paradise, but when war starts…
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Daniel Newell Kaufman
Stone Mountain A stirring portrait of residents in a small southern US town facing the contentious legacy…
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Eddie Huang
Vice Is Broke Eddie Huang of Huang’s World undertakes a first-person investigation into how Vice went…

Winner's Circle

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Ibrahim Nash'at
Hollywoodgate Immediately after the US withdraws from Afghanistan, the Taliban occupied the “Hollywood…
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Sue Kim
The Last of The Sea Women A spirited portrait of an endangered tradition and a galvanizing plea for better…
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Silje Evensmo Jacobsen
A New Kind of Wilderness In a forest in Norway, a family lives an isolated lifestyle in an attempt to be wild and…
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Anirban Dutta, Anupama Srinivasan
Nocturnes In the dark of night, two curious observers shine a light on this secret universe.…
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Ted Passon
Patrice: The Movie Patrice: The Movie shines a light on a remarkable crusader for disability rights,…