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DOC NYC · 2024

DOC NYC 2024

Fight The Power

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4 films · 3 reviews

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Bad Reputation (Mala reputación)

A sex worker campaigns for recognition by labour unions.

(Country: Argentina, Uruguay; Year: 2024; Director: Marta García, Sol Infante)

The Battle For Laikipia

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The documentarians invested several years in the project and it pays off in this impressively balanced assessment of a conflict over land that has been exacerbated by climate change and drought.

Amber Wilkinson · 4.5 out of 5
Unresolved historical injustices and climate change raise the stakes in a generations-old conflict between Indigenous pastoralists and white landowners in Laikipia, Kenya, a wildlife conservation haven.

(Country: Kenya, US; Year: 2024; Director: Daphne Matziaraki, Peter Murimi)

Full review See: Peter Murimi and Daphne Matziaraki on striking in a balance in The Battle For Laikipia

My Stolen Planet (Sayyareye dozdide shodeye man)

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Through a collage of footage shot by numerous brave protesters, she pieces together a statement about film as identity, in a country where the individual slowly fades away.

Sergiu Inizian · 4 out of 5
Farah, an Iranian woman, is forced to migrate to her private planet to be free. She buys other people’s memories in the form of Super 8 films and records and archives her own to create an alternative history of Iran.

(Country: Germany; Year: 2024; Director: Farahnaz Sharifi; Writer: Farahnaz Sharifi)

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There Was, There Was Not

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While the physical violence of the war stays in the background with the constant noise of war sirens and bombs, the psychological one is impossible to hide.

Pavla Banjac · 3.5 out of 5
Four women try to rebuild their lives in Artsakh decades after the war, as another one breaks out.

(Country: Armenia, US; Year: 2024; Director: Emily Mkrtichian; Writer: Emily Mkrtichian)

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