Film-Forward

Documentary

Midnight Family

The intricacies, contradictions, and nightly dilemmas behind a private ambulance enterprise are the focus of this absorbing and gripping documentary.

63 Up

What stays the same in the latest installment is the sense of every life’s singularity and preciousness.

Ximei

Human rights activist and protector of friends and neighbors, Liu Ximei leaves an indelible mark.

Shooting the Mafia

The work of Letizia Battaglia exposes the crimes of the Mafia during a crucial time for Italy, the 1970s through the ‘90s.

The Hottest August

A musing mosaic of everyday New Yorkers that attempts to paint the city in all its diversity, honing in on the lives of its inhabitants and their sentiments toward the future.

The Kingmaker

Imelda Marcos is charming, ever defiant, and not the least of all, boastful, or perhaps delusional. Her responses are pithy, quotable, and wholly narcissistic.

Scandalous: The True Story of the National Enquirer

Scandalous attempts to connect the history of one newspaper to our current epoch of “fake news” and Trumpism.

Watson

A profile of a gregarious, self-possessed, hugely entertaining environmentalist warrior.

House of Cardin & 4 More Films | DOC NYC 2019

The festival features a fashion visionary, artistic innovators, immigrants struggling for a foothold in the West, and a musician who definitely did things his way.