PLUNDERER

WORLD PREMIERE Just north of New York City, Sing Sing Correctional Facility is one of the country’s most notorious prisons. Veteran crime reporter Dan Slepian forges a bond with Jon-Adrian Velazquez, a man serving a 25-to-life sentence in the facility, that leads him on a two-decade-long journey for justice. Directed by Dawn Porter, this multi-part exposé featuring original investigative reporting and thorough research into over 1,000 hours of archival footage, chronicles the two men’s steadfast perseverance against a tragic failure of the American carceral system. - Brandon Harrison Episodes 2 and 4 of the 4-part series will be screened.

The first screening will be followed by a Q&A with director Dawn Porter, executive producer and showrunner Kimberley Ferdinando, journalist and executive producer Dan Slepian, and film subject Jon-Adrian Velazquez. The Q&A will be moderated by NBC Nightly News & Dateline anchor Lester Holt.

This film contains the following accessibility options for viewers:
Closed Captioning for in-person screenings at IFC Center and Village East by Angelika
Descriptive Audio for in-person screenings at IFC Center and Village East by Angelika

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 devices.

WORLD PREMIERE What if you lived in a coastal city never knowing that the ocean hid a deadly poison? That’s exactly what LA residents did for decades, until a scientist alerted LA Times journalist Rosanna Xia to a problem ignored by officials for years. They discover that as many as half a million barrels of DDT waste had been dumped into the ocean, and are finally able to connect the dots between sick sea lions, a poisoned ecosystem, and the legacy of health issues in all who’ve been exposed. - Bedatri D. Choudhury

The first and second screening will be followed by a Q&A with director and producer Rosanna Xia, director and producer Daniel Straub, cinematographer, and editor and producer Austin Straub.

This film contains the following accessibility options for viewers:
Closed Captioning for in-person screenings at IFC Center and Village East by Angelika
Closed Captioning for online screenings

Accessibility alert for NOV 18, 9:00PM screening:

Due to a recent equipment failure at Village East Cinemas, the room where this film screens is currently not accessible to patrons using wheelchairs. We apologize for the inconvenience. However the film is available to view at home as part of DOC NYC’s online festival. Please reach out to info@docnyc.net with any questions.

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 devices.

WORLD PREMIERE Produced by Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist Ronan Farrow, the film uncovers the insidious ways in which our daily lives are being surveilled by the state. In a gripping chase, Farrow travels across the world following breadcrumbs and finally exposing a dark world of spywares, hacking, and peddling of private information, where activists and journalists are persecuted, and no one is protected from the watchful and vicious eyes of authoritarianism. - Bedatri D. Choudhury

The first and second screening will be followed by a Q&A with producer and film subject Ronan Farrow, director and producer Matthew O'Neil, director and producer Perri Peltz, producer for Ronan Production Group Unjin Lee, and producer Beth Morrissey.


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 devices.

NYC PREMIERE When the AI tool Project December opened to the public, writer Joshua Barbeau pursued a bold and morally questionable goal: using the application to “speak” with his fiancee who had died 8 years before. The success of this morbid experiment attracted a rush of other users who hoped to imbue their deceased loved ones with a sort of immortality in the digital realm. As the proliferation of AI models and sophisticated avatar programs forges onward, tech leaders, programmers, psychologists and everyday consumers confront the ethical concerns of this revolutionary technology.  - Brandon Harrison

This film contains the following accessibility options for viewers:
Closed Captioning for in-person screenings at IFC Center and Village East by Angelika

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 devices.

Accessibility alert for NOV 14, 9:15PM and NOV 15, 12:00PM screening:
Due to a recent equipment failure at Village East Cinemas, the room where this film screens is currently not accessible to patrons using wheelchairs. We apologize for the inconvenience. However the film is available to view at home as part of DOC NYC’s online festival. Please reach out to info@docnyc.net with any questions.

US PREMIERE Choreographer and dancer Hadar Ahuvia interrogates the Zionist mythologies she learned as a child using Israeli folk dance-inspired contemporary dance as a point of entry. Seeking to understand the meaning behind traditional dance, which can be weaponized to oppress and marginalize, Hadar explores the complexities of the Palestinian and Israeli relationship with the guiding belief that everyone wants and deserves peace. This lyrical and thought-provoking film is sure to engender reflection and deep conversation. - Karen McMullen

The first screening will be followed by a Q&A with director Tatyana Tenenbaum, producer Brighid Greene, film subject Hadar Ahuvia, film subject Amer Abdelrasoul, film subject Ze'eva Cohen, and film subject Lily Bo Shapiro.

This film contains the following accessibility options for viewers:
Closed Captioning for in-person screenings at IFC Center and Village East by Angelika

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 devices.

WORLD PREMIERE In the pristine Bristol Bay area of Alaska, two sets of siblings are alarmed when they learn of plans for the proposed Pebble Mine in the vicinity of their homes. The Salmon sisters, Native Alaskans, work on the regulatory front – pushing the federal EPA to block the project, and remaining hyper-vigilant to political pressures that could shift at any moment. The Strickland brothers, independent fishermen who know they could be just one mine accident away from losing their livelihood, probe closed-door meetings to expose the truth behind what the developer tells the public. Together, the Salmons and the Stricklands remind us never to quit until Goliath has fallen. – Jaie Laplante

The first screening will be followed by a Q&A with co-directors and film subjects Auberin Strickland and Dune Strickland, director, producer, and cinematographer John Hunter Nolan, producer and impact producer Gina Papabeis, and film subjects AlexAnna Salmon and Christina Salmon. The second screening will be followed by a Q&A with John Hunter Nolan, Gina Papabeis, and producer Eyal Levy.


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 devices.

Accessibility alert for NOV 19, 3:35PM screening:

Due to a recent equipment failure at Village East Cinemas, the room where this film screens is currently not accessible to patrons using wheelchairs. We apologize for the inconvenience. However the film is available to view at home as part of DOC NYC’s online festival. Please reach out to info@docnyc.net with any questions.