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DOC NYC · 2022

DOC NYC 2022

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Dark Light Voyage

After a shocking discovery about the fate of an old friend, director Tin Dirdamal embarks on an entrancing train through Vietnam to visit him with his young daughter.

(Country: Vietnam, Mexico; Year: 2021; Director: Eva Cadena, Tin Dirdamal; Writer: Tin Dirdamal)

For Your Peace Of Mind, Make Your Own Museum

Senobia was a self-made artist and a surrealist collector who transformed her home into the Museum of Antiquities of All Species, in Panama

(Country: Panama; Year: 2021; Director: Pilar Moreno, Ana Endara)

I'm People, I Am Nobody

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Dragomirovic’s minimalistic setting captures the separation and struggle of Stevan and his loved ones.

Stephanie Brown · 4 out of 5
Documentary about Stevan, a 60-year-old, former porn performer from Serbia, who is awaiting the outcome of a Kafkaesque trial process in a Maltese prison.

(Country: Serbia, Germany; Year: 2022; Director: Svetislav Dragomirovic)

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It Runs In The Family (Lo Que Se Hereda)

A queer filmmaker discovers that she’s related to a long-forgotten pioneer of Caribbean cinema.

(Country: Dominican Republic, US; Year: 2022; Director: Victoria Linares; Writer: Guillermo Zouain, Wendy Muñiz, Victoria Linares; Stars: Victoria Linares)

Mother Lode

Magic realist drama that follows a moto-taxi driver as he attempts to seek his fortune as a miner.

(Country: France, Italy, Switzerland; Year: 2021; Director: Matteo Tortone; Writer: Mathieu Granier, Matteo Tortone; Stars: José Luis Nazario Campos, Damian Segundo Vospey, Maximiliana Campos Guzman)

Our Movie (Nuestra Pelicula)

Constructed entirely out of a vast archive of news footage from the Eighties and Nineties, this doc is a response to the violent history that imprinted itself on the director in her formative years in Colombia.

(Country: Colombia, France; Year: 2022; Director: Diana Bustamente)

White Night

Documentary about an excavation at a Zoque community in Chiapas, whose village was buried in a volcano eruption in 1982.

(Country: Mexico; Year: 2021; Director: Tania Ximena, Yollotl Gómez Alvarado)