Film-Forward

Documentary

Citizen Jane: Battle for the City

Thank the mother of all urban activists for the lively cities of today: Jane Jacobs, who spent her career advocating and campaigning for better city planning.

What Lies Upstream

A deeply informative documentary, which doubles as a fast-paced investigative thriller.

In the Land of Pomegranates

Israeli and Palestinian youth explore the possibility of finding common ground among the chaos.

The Force

How an urban police department responds to pressures to change from an active, diverse community and the U.S. Department of Justice.

Naples ’44

Director Francesco Patierno adapts Norman Lewis’s 1978 poignant and picturesque memoir into an impressionistic documentary.

Icarus

The award-winning film begins as a personal exploration of doping in sports but ends as a meditation on political corruption, with spy thriller overtones.

The New Radical

This brazen documentary follows an infamous “crypto-anarchist”and a more intellectually versatile hacker.

Meth Storm, Mole Man, & Rodents of Unusual Size | DOC NYC 2017

Subjects deal with drastic changes in their environment, whether that’s from the rise of a cheaper chemical high, the death of a loved one, or highly destructive swamp rats.

No Stone Unturned

How individual justice becomes lost during a war of terrorism, sacrificed for the greater good of reconciliation rather than for truth.