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A journalist upends Japan’s entrenched codes of silence when she brings sexual assault charges against a well-connected member of the Japanese media elite. Against the wishes of many of those closest to her, Shiro Ito presses on with her case, bravely confronting an entire system. Her case becomes a landmark in Japan, and her choices a riveting reminder of the insidiousness of sexism and patriarchal oppression anywhere.

The first screening will be followed by a Q&A with director Shiori Ito.

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.

Twenty-six priceless Beninois artifacts, looted by the French, are repatriated to Benin by the French government. Filmmaker Mati Diop examines the impact of the restitution, imagining the personification of an artifact and documenting the power the treasures have on current generations of Beninois. The occasion is both monumental and penurious: Just 26 objects, out of thousands looted.

The screening will be followed by a Q&A with director Mati Diop.

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, 3:15PM 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. Please reach out to info@docnyc.net with any questions.

Angela Patton found a way for young girls whose fathers were incarcerated to connect: A prison-hosted dad/daughter dance. The event was about more than just the day. For the fathers, seeing the impact of their absence from their daughter’s lives provides an unrivaled emotional redemption opportunity. Working with co-director Natalia Rae to showcase the now annual program, Patton provides us with protagonists who face their deepest vulnerabilities with equal reserves of courage.

The first screening will be followed by a Q&A with directors Natalie Rae and Angela Patton, editor Troy Lewis, and composer Kelsey Lu.

This film contains the following accessibility options for viewers:
Closed Captioning for online screenings

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 Oscar-nominated filmmaker Raoul Peck has done it again. In this rousing, elegant documentary, Peck opens the life and works of a seminal artist of the 20th century, South African photographer Ernest Cole. Denouncing apartheid with the publication of his 1967 photo book House of Bondage, Cole then lived in exile in the US, where he documented New York City and the American South, observing the echoes of the homeland he left behind. Cole’s words are voiced with spooky vivacity by another Oscar nominee, actor LaKeith Stanfield. 

The first screening will be followed by a Q&A with director Raoul Peck.


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.

Lhakpa Sherpa is the first Nepali woman to summit and descend Mount Everest – but how she navigates her life as a single mother and immigrant is an even more heroic tale. Oscar-nominated filmmaker Lucy Walker illuminates the inspiring world of a remarkable woman who continues to venture forth from her new life in Connecticut (where she works as a dishwasher at Whole Foods) to scale the Earth’s greatest peaks.

The screening will be followed by a Q&A with director Lucy Walker and film subject Lhakpa Sherpa.

This film contains the following accessibility options for viewers:
Closed Captioning for online screenings

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 16, 1:30PM 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. Please reach out to info@docnyc.net with any questions.

Directed by a collective of Palestinian and Israeli activists, No Other Land chronicles the resistance of the Palestinian community of Musafer Yatta in the southern West Bank to continuing violence from Israeli settlers and soldiers. Filmed over several years, the film chronicles a bond of friendship between Basel Adra and Yuval Abraham as they unite to tell the story of Musafer Yatta’s residents. Their relationship stands as an inspiration for forging alliances under extreme duress.

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.

What is worth fighting for, if not culture? Three Ukrainian artists take up arms when Russia invades their country, but refuse to put down their drive to create. After enlisting to defend their beloved homeland, Slava, Anya and Andrey channel their art into their new roles on the front lines, and demonstrate their pride in the vibrancy, passion, and rich heritage of Ukraine.

The first screening will be followed by a Q&A with co-director Brendan Bellomo, co-director and film subject Slava Leontyev, film subject Anya Stasenko, producer Aniela Sidorska p.g.a., and producer Paula DuPre' Pesmen, p.g.a..

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.

Jenna grew up in the desolate Siberian town of Magadan, and did what innumerable queer young people around the world do— depart for a major urban center that promises a more inclusive environment. Except in Putin’s Russia, the criminalization of LGBTQIA+ people renders even a Moscow art school hostile to Jenna’s elaborately original, creative art and activism. Nevertheless, her sense of loss from her severed roots in Magadan is possibly her greatest challenge. 

The first screening will be followed by a Q&A with director and producer Agniia Galdanova, executive producer David France, producer Igor Myakotin, and film subject Jenna Marvin.

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 15, 9:15PM 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.

In this magnificent essay film, Johan Grimonprez explores the riveting historical rollercoaster of the Congo after its independence from colonial control. Richly illustrated with eyewitness accounts, official government memos, testimonies from mercenaries and CIA operatives, and a veritable pantheon of jazz icons, Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat interrogates Cold War history to tell an urgent and timely story that resonates more than ever in today’s geopolitical climate.

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 20, 1:00PM 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. Please reach out to info@docnyc.net with any questions.

Unmarked graves, found at a British Columbia boarding school that Indigenous children were forced to attend, expose the school’s horrific abuses. The filmmakers investigate the 1959 trial of a student accused of abandoning her newborn, and the generational trauma the incident caused for members of the nearby Sugarcane Reserve. A landmark for its sensitive insistence on addressing the residential school system’s secrets, Julian Brave NoiseCat and Emily Kassie's Sugarcane is a riveting and immeasurably important film.

The first screening will be followed by a Q&A with director Julian Brave NoiseCat, and director Emily Kassie.

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, 3:45PM 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. Please reach out to info@docnyc.net with any questions.

WORLD PREMIERE The Bibi Files is an urgent journalistic exposé, based on never-before-seen leaked footage and new interviews with key Israeli figures. The film details the corruption cases that resulted in Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu being indicted for charges of breach of trust, bribery, and fraud in 2019. Many Israelis believe that Netanyahu’s attempts to delay his own trial are key to understanding recent events. Netanyahu went to court trying to block this film from being seen - unsuccessfully.

The first screening will be followed by a Q&A with director Alexis Bloom, and producer Alex Gibney.

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.

Confined to a wheelchair and suffering from a degenerative muscular disease, a young Norwegian man was believed to be living in relative isolation in a physically limited  world. Yet as Ibelin, his alter ego inside the World of Warcraft online game, Mats Steen created a full universe for himself, where he lived, loved, strove and hoped to the greatest extent his soul could muster. It’s an axiom that we can never really know what another person is going through, and Benjamin Ree’s film is a fresh reminder of that truth.

The first screening will be followed by a Q&A with director Benjamin Ree.

This film contains the following accessibility options for viewers:
Closed Captioning for online screenings

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.

Against incredible odds and immense opposition, a group of current and former Amazon workers form a labor union and petition the formidable corporate behemoth for more dignified and humane treatment at the company’s Staten Island warehouse. Steve Maing and Brett Story provide stunning moments of observation of the union group as they stumble through early steps and internal stresses to find their footing, while resisting the tech giant’s efforts to break them.

The first screening will be followed by a Q&A with co-director Steve Maing and producers Mars Verrone and Samantha Curley.

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.

Will & Harper follows comedian Will Ferrell and his friend Harper Steele taking a road trip across America. Harper, a former Saturday Night Live writer, recently came out as a woman and wonders how her transition might affect her friendships. On their journey, Harper experiences moments of acceptance in unexpected places, but also acts of fear and hatred. Will and Harper deploy their gifts with humor to help dispel fear and ignorance.

This film contains the following accessibility options for viewers:
Closed Captioning for online screenings

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.