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DOC NYC · 2018

DOC NYC 2018

In The System

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9 films · 2 reviews

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Alicia

Alicia has been in the care of the Netherlands Child Welfare Bureau since she was one year old. Rejected, constantly moved and desperate for her mother’s affection, the child grows up in front of the viewer’s eyes in this raw and powerful portrait of institutionalised childhood.

(Country: Netherlands; Year: 2017; Director: Maasja Ooms)

False Confessions

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The strongest scene in this film involves video of the interrogation of a 14-year-old with an expert explaining how psychological traps are being set as they appear.

Jennie Kermode · 3.5 out of 5
A documentary looking at why and how people confess to crimes they didn't commit.

(Country: Denmark, US; Year: 2018; Director: Katrine Philp; Stars: Jane Fisher-Byrialsen)

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The Heat: A Kitchen (R)evolution

The female chefs who are breaking the kitchen glass ceiling - and the rules.

(Country: Canada; Year: 2018; Director: Maya Gallus; Writer: Maya Gallus; Stars: Suzanne Barr, Victoria Blarney, Amanda Cohen, Angela Hartnett, Ivy Knight, Charlotte Langley, Anita Lo, Anne-Sophie Pic, Suzanne Barr, Victoria Blarney, Amanda Cohen, Angela Hartnett, Ivy Knight, Charlotte Langley, Anita Lo)

Inside Lehman Brothers

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The person-centred approach pays off, making the film a lot more accessible than it might have been, and Deschamps still finds room to explain the financial concepts necessary to understanding how the crisis developed.

Jennie Kermode · 4 out of 5
An autopsy of what led to the largest bankruptcy filing in US history.

(Country: Canada; Year: 2018; Director: Jennifer Deschamps)

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Operation Infektion

By way of animation and riveting interviews with Soviet disinformation agents, this documentary reverse-engineers the KGB playbook that concocted viral lies in a pre-Internet era.

(Year: 2018; Director: Adam B Ellick and Adam Westbrook)

Owned: A Tale Of Two Americas

A look at how greed, flawed economic policy and systemic racism after World War II distorted America's housing market, leading to today's social and economic crises.

(Country: US; Year: 2018; Director: Giorgio Angelini)

The School In The Cloud

An experiment in virtual education, the School in the Cloud learning lab is a high-tech, self-directed education centre built in an Indian village accessible only by boat and rickshaw.

(Country: UK, US; Year: 2018; Director: Jerry Rothwell)

See You Tomorrow, God Willing

A documentary about a community of 17 octogenarian Franciscan nuns.

(Country: Spain, Norway; Year: 2018; Director: Ainara Vera)

Somewhere To Be

Artists, immigrants, the homeless and all kinds of retirees share stories and activities in New York City’s Greenwich House Senior Center.

(Country: US; Year: 2018; Director: Peter Odabashian)