13th DOC NYC
November 9—27, 2022
Latin American Films co-presented by Cinema Tropical
The 13th annual DOC NYC, America’s largest documentary festival—running in-person Nov. 9-17 at IFC Center, SVA Theatre and Cinépolis Chelsea and continuing online until Nov. 27—includes more than 110 feature-length documentaries among over 200 films and events. Included are 29 World Premieres and 27 US premieres with most festival films available digitally to US viewers.
For tickets and more information visit: www.docnyc.net
CHILDREN OF LAS BRISAS
(Los niños de Las Brisas. Marianela Maldonado, Venezuela/USA/France/UK, 84 min. In Spanish with English subtitles)
North American Premiere — International Competition
*Q&A with filmmakers
Three children from the impoverished Venezuelan district of Las Brisas channel their pain and joy into music as part of a unique, government-sponsored orchestral music program, El Sistema. For ten years, as her native Venezuela gradually collapsed in the background, director Marianela Maldonado followed the students, developing an intimacy that gives their story so much heart. Uplifting, poignant, and filled with gorgeous classical music, this film is a testament to the power of music to change and enrich lives.
Saturday, November 12, 2:15pm* at Cinépolis Chelsea; Tuesday, November 15, 10:45am at Cinépolis Chelsea
Also available to US viewers on virtual platform
DARK LIGHT VOYAGE
(Tin Dirdamal, Eva Cadena, Mexico, 66 min. In Spanish and Vietnamese with English subtitles)
US Premiere - Kaleidoscope Competition
After a shocking discovery about the fate of an old friend, director Tin Dirdamal embarks on an entrancing train through Vietnam to visit him with his young daughter. Along the way father and daughter ponder unanswered questions, with the sights they encounter on their journey resonating with the depths of their philosophical insights. A film created under the rules of the Hanoi Dogma that will never be shown again after two years.
Saturday, November 12, 9:30pm at Cinépolis Chelsea
Also available to US viewers on virtual platform
FOR YOUR PEACE OF MIND, MAKE YOUR OWN MUSEUM
(Pilar Moreno and Ana Endara Mislov, Panama, 71 min. In Spanish with English subtitles)
US Premiere - Kaleidoscope Competition
*Q&A with filmmakers
Senobia was a self-made artist and a surrealist collector who transformed her home into the “Museum of Antiquities of All Species.” In her small Panamanian village, the extraordinary world she built with her artistic creations and her writings impacted the lives of other women struggling with the patriarchal system around them. In this luminous portrait, her friends conjure her indomitable spirit while wearing her clothes in her kitchen.
Thursday, November 10, 9:55pm* at Cinépolis Chelsea; Thursday, November 17, 1:15pm at Cinépolis Chelsea
Also available to US viewers on virtual platform
IT RUNS IN THE FAMILY
(Lo que se hereda, Victoria Linares, USA/Dominican Republic, 84 min. In Spanish with English subtitles)
NYC PREMIERE — Kaleidoscope Competition)
*Q&A with filmmaker
After discovering the work of Oscar Torres, her once world-famous queer filmmaker cousin, Victoria Linares journeys down a path of kindred self-discovery. Through reconstructions of Torres’ intimate memories living under the authoritarian regime of Trujillo in 1950s Dominican Republic, Linares creates a world between fiction and fact, casting her family in these reenactments of her cousins’ unproduced screenplays.
Monday, November 14, 7pm* at Cinépolis Chelsea; Thursday, November 17, 11:15am at Cinépolis Chelsea
Also available to US viewers on virtual platform
KOBRA SELF-PORTRAIT
(Kobra Auto-Retrato, Lina Chamie, Brazi, 2022, In Portuguese with English subtitles)
International Premiere — Artistic Expressions
*Q&A with the director
Filmmaker Lina Chamie finds a free-flowing, immersive style to create a symbiotic cinematic experience with the famed Brazilian street artist Kobra. Kobra, who has created more than 50 kaleidoscopic, peace-themed murals in New York, and credits the city’s artists as the major influence on his work, reveals his inner world in stages. As the film progresses our appreciation of Kobra’s gifts deepen. (Brazil, 85 min.)
Sunday, November 13, 4:45pm* at the IFC Center; Monday, November 14, 2:15pm at the IFC Center
Also available to US viewers on virtual platform
LAZARO AND THE SHARK
(William Sabourin O’Reilly, USA/Cuba, 2022, 76 min. In Spanish with English subtitles)
World Premiere —International Competition
*Q&A with the director
In Santiago de Cuba, rival conga bands scour the sparse marketplace for materials to create show-stopping numbers for the annual Carnival competition. O’Reilly’s film follows young, innovative Lázaro, who is determined to beat “the Shark,” his older and more establishment-favored competitor. Tensions build and tempers flare as the government restrictions and scarcity of present-day Cuba come to bear on one of the world’s poorest Carnivals.
Saturday, November 12, 5:15pm* at Cinépolis Chelsea; Monday, November 14, 2:15pm at Cinépolis Chelsea
Also available to US viewers on virtual platform
OUR MOVIE
(Nuestra película, Diana Bustamante, Colombia, 2022, 74 min. In Spanish with English subtitles)
International Premiere — Kaleidoscope Competition
*Q&A with the director
An extraordinary and necessary essay film constructed entirely out of a vast archive of news footage from the ‘80s and ‘90s, Our Movie (Nuestra película) is a response to the violent history that imprinted itself on the director in her formative years in Colombia. Images of blood spatters, bullet holes, coffins, and Colombians marching in the streets become an abstract net of quotidian sorrow. (Colombia/France, 74 min.)
Friday, November 11, 6:45pm at Cinépolis Chelsea
Also available to US viewers on virtual platform
SOUTH BEACH SHARK CLUB
(Robert Requejo Ramos, USA, 104 min. In English)
New York Premiere — Game Face Cinema
Q&A with the filmmakers
Before Miami’s South Beach became a glamorous party hub, a group of local outcasts in the one-upped each other in an ongoing quest for the next big catch. Starting as reckless teens, Rene de Dios, JD “Jimbo” Hammer, and Shannon “Seaweed Jr.” Bustamante paddle into the deep ocean, with bloody bait in tow, to lure the ultimate prey: shark. With a lifetime of exploring Florida’s shores behind them, these colorful rogues guide a new generation into the world of sustainable sportfishing.
Sunday, November 13, 1:30pm* at Cinépolis Chelsea
Also available to US viewers on virtual platform
WHITE NIGHT
(Tania Ximena and Yollotl Gómez Alvarado, Mexico, 82 min.)
US Premiere — Kaleidoscope Competition
*Q&A with filmmakers
A sensorial film about the members of a Zoque community in Chiapas, whose village was buried in a volcano eruption in 1982. Thirty-eight years later, a poet named Trinidad, prophetically born on the day of the eruption, leads the community to excavate their former town and unearth the relics of their church. Their moving encounter with grief, with their ancestors and with the spirit of the volcano is conjured in this cinematic delight.
Saturday, November 12, 4:35pm* at Cinépolis Chelsea; Thursday, November 17, 3pm at Cinépolis Chelsea
Also available to US viewers on virtual platform
THE WIND BLOWS THE BORDER
(Vento na Fronteira, Marina Weis and Laura Faerman, Brazil, 77 min. In Portuguese and Guarani with English subtitles)
US Premiere — Fight the Power section
On the violent border between Brazil and Paraguay, a battle between agribusiness and indigenous sovereignty wages. Filmmakers Laura Faerman and Marina Weis outline the clash between lawyer Luana Ruiz, heiress to the contested land and staunch Jair Bolsonaro supporter, and Alenir Ximendes, Guarani-Kaiowá leader, teacher and activist. A powerful cinematic chronicle of Ximendes’s courageous fight against Ruiz and agribusiness to protect her community, culture and indigenous lands.
Wednesday, November 9, 9:45pm at Cinépolis Chelsea
Also available to US viewers on virtual platform
