DOC NYC Selects is an in-person, ongoing screening series that serves as an extension of DOC NYC’s annual fall festival. The Spring 2026 edition of the series will feature four exceptional film events at New York’s IFC Center, with filmmakers in person for all shows.
The new season of DOC NYC Selects debuts on Wednesday, April 8th and concludes on Tuesday, May 5th, offering audiences a variety of new documentary feature premieres that are high on the want-to-see list of New York documentary cinephiles.
Ticket Information
DOC NYC Selects: Spring 2026 events are on sale now. Single screening tickets are $18 ($15 for seniors and $12 for IFC Center members) each. For questions about accessibility at the screening, please email accessibility@docnyc.net.
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DOC NYC Selects: Spring 2026 – Program Details and Schedule
DOC NYC SELECTS LINEUP
WHO MOVES AMERICA
Date: Wednesday, April 8
Time: 7:00pm ET
Director: Yael Bridge
Producers: Yael Bridge, Jeremy Flood, Yoni Golijov, Mars Verrone
NEW! Due to high demand, tickets are now available for a second screening immediately following the first screening on April 8.
NYC PREMIERE. Labor justice in the United States has long required fight after fight, and the individuals who have struggled for fair working conditions and compensation do so not only for themselves, but for generations of workers who will come after them. In DOC NYC alumna Yael Bridge’s new film Who Moves America, she examines the tense 2023 contract negotiations between UPS and its 340,000 unionized workers as they press the company for critical improvements to keep pace with changes in a fraught ecosystem.
Both screenings will be followed by an on-stage conversation with director/producer Yael Bridge, protagonists from the film, Sean O’Brien, General President of the International Teamsters Union, and additional members of the film team.
Travis (1997): Retrospective Screening co-hosted by Jean Tsien
Date: Tuesday, April 14
Time: 7:00pm ET
Director: Richard Kotuk
Producers: Richard Kotuk
DOC NYC 2020 Lifetime Achievement Award winner Jean Tsien co-presents a rare theatrical retrospective screening of Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Richard Kotuk’s Travis, which won a posthumous Peabody Award for Kotuk in 1998. Travis is one of Jean Tsien’s first-ever career editing credits.
In the mid-1990s, six-year-old South Bronx resident Travis Jefferies, born HIV+, displays a strong spirit, generous smile, and outgoing personality. In the care of his doting grandmother Geneva, Travis navigates physical discomfort and social isolation as his disease progresses – yet his joyful spark does not diminish.
Richard Kotuk met Travis in the very early days of experimental drug therapies and captured the remarkable transformation of Travis’s health, and with it, a pivotal tide-turning moment in the historical fight against AIDS. As Travis’s remarkable force-of-personality leads the way into a future that was once never thought to be possible, Travis allows us to remember that glorious moment of new hope and a path away from the worst of the AIDS nightmare.
The screening will be followed by an on-stage conversation with editor Jean Tsien and a very, very special guest.
Mary Oliver: Saved by the Beauty of the World
Date: Tuesday, April 28
Time: 7:00pm ET
Director: Sasha Waters
Producer: Sasha Waters
Executive Producers: Michael Kantor, John Keith
NYC PREMIERE. If poetry had a pop icon, Mary Oliver would be it. Best-selling poet and Pulitzer Prize-winner, lover of dogs and long walks in the woods, queer and out but intensely private – Oliver’s poems inspire liberals and conservatives, atheists and believers, naturalists and urbanites. She was America’s unlikely, contemporary mystic, stalking the ponds and forests of Cape Cod for nearly fifty years in order to open herself – and us, her readers – to the known and unknowable world. Sasha Waters’ beguiling portrait features poems read by Helena Bonham Carter, Steve Buscemi, Stephen Colbert, Lucy Dacus, Jesse Welles, and Oprah Winfrey.
The screening will be followed by an on-stage conversation with filmmaker Sasha Waters.
THEYDREAM
Date: Tuesday, May 5
Time: 7:00pm ET
Director: William D. Caballero
Producers: William D. Caballero, Brad Jones, Erin Ploss-Campoamor, Elaine Del Valle
NYC PREMIERE. Winner of the NEXT Special Jury Award for Creative Expression at the 2026 Sundance Film Festival, William D. Caballero’s TheyDream is a deeply personal documentary that examines the transformative nature of grief for a close-knit Puerto Rican family. Filmmaker William D. Caballero interweaves animation with live action footage to create a type of intimate confession about the courage it takes to transform pain into art alongside the people we love most.
The screening will be followed by an on-stage conversation with director/producer William D. Caballero and producers Brad Jones, Erin Ploss-Campoamor and Elaine Del Valle.