Skip to main content

DOC NYC · 2024

DOC NYC 2024

US Competition

Programme

4 films · 1 review

Jump to a film

Black Snow

A Siberian mother's discovery of a coal scandal thrusts her into conflict with Russian authorities.

(Country: Denmark, UK; Year: 2024; Director: Alina Simone)

Light Darkness Light

Portrait of a blind Anglican priest who becomes one of the first recipients of a bionic eye.

(Country: US, UK, Canada; Year: 2024; Director: Landon Van Soest)

My Sweet Land

Review preview for My Sweet Land

Hairabedian patiently captures all this with an intimacy that stems from trust, with Vrej viewing her and the camera increasingly as a confidante as time passes.

Amber Wilkinson · 4 out of 5
For 11-year-old Vrej, life in his homeland Artsakh is like a paradise, but when war starts again, can he carry a nation’s hopes on his young shoulders?

(Country: Ireland, France, Jordan, US; Year: 2024; Director: Sareen Hairabedian; Writer: Sareen Hairabedian)

Full review See: Sareen Hairabedian on shooting her coming-of-age documentary My Sweet Land in the shadow of conflict

Stone Mountain

Portrait of residents in a small southern US town facing the contentious legacy of the world's largest Confederate monument, which looms over their home.

(Country: US; Year: 2024; Director: Daniel Newell Kaufman)