DOC NYC · 2026

Game Face Cinema

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Mandy Horvath, a bilateral amputee, faces the inconceivable challenge of climbing Mount Kilimanjaro using only her hands.

(Year: 2026; Director: Edward Drake, Scott Veltri, Francis Cronin)

Many accounts of Cape Town’s Cape Flats fixate on its gangs, poverty, and systemic inequities that have scarred the neighborhood for decades.

(Year: 2026; Director: Julia Jansch) , Trailer

American runner Nikki Hiltz is on the brink of triumph, steps away from achieving the ultimate goal of representing the US in the Olympic Games.

(Year: 2026; Director: Julia Schwalb)

Profile of Megan Rapinoe, whose elite performance over nearly two decades in American women’s soccer has made her a global star.

(Year: 2026; Director: Rebeca Huntt)

Documentary going behind the curtain of the notoriously private world of sumo wrtestling.

(Country: Japan; Year: 2026; Director: Erik Shirai)

59th New York Film Festival early bird highlights Futura, Jane By Charlotte, James Baldwin: From Another Place and The Velvet Underground

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