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DOC NYC · 2021

DOC NYC 2021

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7 films · 4 reviews

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All Light, Everywhere

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All Light, Everywhere examines the microscopic and vertiginous in equal, beguiling measure.

Matthew Anderson · 4 out of 5
An exploration of the shared histories of cameras, weapons, policing and justice. As surveillance technologies become a fixture in everyday life, the film interrogates the complexity of an objective point of view, probing the biases inherent in both human perception and the lens.

(Country: US; Year: 2021; Director: Theo Anthony; Stars: Keaver Brenai, Keaver Brenai)

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Children Of The Enemy

Patricio Galvez' daughter married one of Sweden's most notorious ISIS terrorists. When both were killed, their seven young children survive and are interned in the infamous al-Hol prison camp as "Children of the Enemy". When the Swedish authorities show little interest in freeing them, Patricio starts a one man campaign to save their lives and bring them home.

(Country: Sweden, Denmark, Qatar; Year: 2021; Director: Gorki Glaser-Müller; Writer: Gorki Glaser-Müller; Stars: Patricio Galvez, Clive Stafford Smith, Isabel Coles, Rena Effendi, Cecilia Uddén, Terese Cristiansson, Gorki Glaser-Müller, Simon Sewell, Beatrice Eriksson)

A Cop Movie (Una Película de Policías)

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For all its intricacy and cleverness, this is a film that never loses its central focus.

Amber Wilkinson · 4.5 out of 5
A docufiction dive into the Mexican police force.

(Country: Mexico; Year: 2021; Director: Alonso Ruizpalacios; Writer: Alonso Ruizpalacios; Stars: Raúl Briones, Mónica Del Carmen, María Teresa Hernández Cañas, José de Jesús Rodríguez Hernández)

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Mr Bachmann and His Class (Herr Bachmann und seine Klasse)

Documentary about a teacher and his pupils.

(Country: Germany; Year: 2021; Director: Maria Speth)

A Night Of Knowing Nothing

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An oneiric, sensory and imaginative journey documenting being young in contemporary India.

Mateusz Tarwacki · 4 out of 5
A poetic record of the experience of being a young Indian in a land of violence.

(Country: India, France; Year: 2021; Director: Payal Kapadia)

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Option Zero (La Opción Cero)

In the hopes of making it to the US, a group of Cuban migrants enters Colombia by way of the treacherous Darién Gap jungle to reach Panama, where they wait in the limbo of a makeshift camp, uncertain of deportation.

(Country: Cuba, Brazil, Colombia; Year: 2020; Director: Marcel Beltrán)

Writing With Fire

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Writing with Fire deftly infuses hope and inspiration into what could rightfully have been a wholly dire depiction of India’s most trodden-upon population.

Jeremy Mathews · 3.5 out of 5
In a cluttered news landscape dominated by men, emerges India's only newspaper run by Dalit women. Armed with smartphones, Chief Reporter Meera and her journalists break traditions on the frontlines of India's biggest issues and within the confines of their own homes, redefining what it means to be powerful.

(Country: India; Year: 2021; Director: Sushmit Ghosh, Rintu Thomas)

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