DOC NYC Selects is an in-person, ongoing screening series that serves as an extension of DOC NYC’s annual fall festival. The Winter 2025 edition of the series will feature four films over four consecutive weeks, March 4 – 25, 2025, at New York’s IFC Center, with filmmakers in person for all shows.
The new season of DOC NYC Selects will offer audiences a variety of new documentary features, the majority screening in New York City for the first time.
Ticket Information
Single screening tickets are $18- ($15 for seniors and $12 for IFC Center members) each.
DOC NYC Selects: Winter 2025 – Program Details and Schedule
March 4th, 2025, 7pm, IFC Center
Series/Edition Opening Night
Director: Laura Nix
Producer: Hanne Phlypo
As the world looks on, the early months of 2025 continue to stress-test the American democratic ideal. Laura Nix’s zeitgeist-shaking new film, DEMOCRACY UNDER SIEGE, digs deep into the details beneath our assumptions of a bedrock foundation to uncover some unsettling facts. Among those profiled are Ann Telnaes, former long-time editorial cartoonist for The Washington Post, who resigned this past January when an editorial submission she submitted, commenting on The Post’s owner Jeff Bezos’s submissive attitude to president-elect Trump, was censored. Nix (who directed DOC NYC 2014’s closing night film, THE YES MEN ARE REVOLTING) has made a bombshell film that is the equivalent of smelling salts under the noses of an engaged global citizenry.
The screening will be followed by a Q&A with director Laura Nix.
March 11th, 7pm, IFC Center
Director: Kevin Macdonald
Producers: Peter Worsley, Kevin Macdonald, Alice Webb
Who speaks – or sings – for America? In 1972, John Lennon and Yoko Ono had adopted New York City as their new hometown and were busy absorbing the wildly contradictory mores of a fracturing American society, when Lennon gave the only full-length show he would ever play after the breakup of The Beatles – the One to One benefit concert at Madison Square Gardens.
What becomes clear while watching the footage of that electrifying performance, and the careful way that Oscar-winning filmmaker Kevin Macdonald has constructed a feel for the day-to-day life of John and Yoko in that moment of their lives, is how crucial it is to provide alternative images to the reactionary forces threatening to stifle the beauty of the diverse American cultural kaleidoscope. One to One: John & Yoko, which debuted at last year’s Venice Film Festival, is absolutely a seminal film for 2025. Then, as now, voices must rise and be clear – for we all shine on, like the superstars we are.
The screening will be followed by a Q&A with editor/co-director Sam Rice-Edwards.
March 18th, 7pm, IFC Center
Director: Robinson Devor
Producers: Robinson Devor, Jason Reid, Zachariah Sebastian
Fifty years after the strange case of Sara Jane Moore and U.S. President Gerald Ford, suburban fury in America is boiling over again, and Robinson Devor’s new documentary Suburban Fury is timely AF.
In the early 1970s, Moore was a conservative mother from the San Francisco suburbs who was recruited by the FBI to infiltrate leftist organizations and report back to the government – but her Judas status becomes complicated when her political beliefs became deeply radicalized. Moore agreed to participate in Devor’s film on the condition that she remains its sole interviewee, and as she takes us back through her recollections and perspectives leading up to the moment where she attempted to assassinate President Ford, an eerie sense of déjà vu begins to take hold. In this thrilling documentary, the tightrope of tension – between the ideals of America and the realities we are living though – tightens to a stranglehold.
The screening will be followed by a Q&A with director Robinson Devor, producer Jason Reid, and co-writer, lead archivist and EP Bob Fink.
March 25th, 7pm, IFC Center
Director: Alix Blair
Producers: Alix Blair, Rebekah Fergusson, Lauren Kushner, Jenny Slattery
We’ve all got one life to live, and we can all learn from each other. We can especially learn from 70-year-old Helen, who is intent on honoring her own instincts, while still navigating responsibilities and expectations of her marriage to Pete, a once-prominent Republican politician who is two generations older than she. With very little time left, Helen wrestles with her life story and the lovely complexity of what she shares with Pete. A love story for the ages.
The screening will be followed by a Q&A with filmmaker Alix Blair and executive producer Kirsten Johnson.