NOW EXTENDED THROUGH NOVEMBER 29th
*Use our discount code “DOCNYC-MARTHA” when purchasing! You’ll save $2 per film and the MV Film Center will receive part of the proceeds*
DOC NYC just announced a ten-day DOC NYC Encore, running through Sunday, November 29. Our audience can continue to use the code DOCNYC-MARTHA at check out for $2 off the regular ticket price ($12). The Encore features more than 70 features from DOC NYC’s 2020 edition, including select award winners, and The Martha’s Vineyard Film Center will receive a portion of ticket proceeds.
The Encore will also feature new DOC NYC Live filmmaker conversations, presented on Facebook Live, daily November 20-24.
The largest documentary fest in the US is streaming nationwide for the first time. The Martha’s Vineyard Film Society is bringing the festival to you – our community/email subscribers get $2 off tickets!
FILM LINEUP
The 11 members of the Enache family have long lived off the grid in a sprawling tract of wilderness adjacent to the city of Bucharest. When the authorities decide to reclaim this land, the family is evicted from their paradise and forced to resettle in the unfamiliar city. First-time filmmaker Radu Ciorniciuc follows their culture shock as they attempt to adapt to a new reality, in the process revealing the human cost of development.
In February 2017, Kim Jong-nam, the eldest son of the late North Korean ruler Kim Jong-il, and half-brother to the current Supreme Leader Kim Jong-un, died after being exposed to a lethal nerve agent in a Malaysian airport. His assassins were caught on security cameras: two young women, one from Indonesia, the other from Vietnam, who both claim they were unwitting pawns. Filmmaker Ryan White (The Keepers) explores this puzzling murder case.
Brothers and gifted musicians, pianist Aldo and violinist Ilmar were separated during childhood after Ilmar left their native Cuba to study abroad, beginning a lifetime of being physically apart, yet alway connected by music. Brief windows of open US/Cuban relations allow the brothers’ joyous reunions where they revel in each others’ company and create beautiful classical, jazz, and Latin music together. Filmmakers Ken Schneider and Marcia Jarmel take the viewer on a delightful musical tour through Cuba and the US.
An unconventional dance documentary featuring the brazen and entirely nude choreography of Thierry Smits’s new dance, Anima Ardens. Aleksandr M. Vinogradov’s film follows 11 men who audition, rehearse, and perform this challenging piece exploring masculinity, power, and voyeurism. With charged performances, and so much skin on display, the proceedings could easily veer into eroticism; instead, this masterfully constructed film grapples with the complexity of artistic collaboration while deconstructing rote concepts of sexuality.
For decades, Las Vegas fertility specialist Dr. Quincy Fortier was celebrated for helping thousands of couples have babies. His secret? Impregnating women with his own sperm, unbeknownst to them. Using a consumer DNA test, a woman discovers that Dr. Fortier is her biological father, setting in motion a quest to find her many half-siblings. Filmmaker Hannah Olson chronicles their struggle to understand the truth about themselves and the unusual man who fathered them all
WORLD PREMIERE | Overprotected and overdirected, American children are wilting under the weight of well-meaning parents. In the pursuit of keeping them safe and creating an impressive resumé of extracurricular activities to wow admissions boards, over-parenting smothers children across socioeconomic classes. This thoughtful film follows education professionals and reformed helicopter parents who seek and offer solutions for developing more confident, independent young people while restoring some joy and freedom to childhood.
Each year, hundreds of thousands of children’s letters to Santa arrive at post offices around the country. The USPS attempts to make their Christmas wishes come true through a massive community organizing project known as Operation Santa. Through this initiative, volunteers are mobilized to adopt letters and bring holiday cheer (and gifts) to children nationwide, as revealed in this charming film.
US PREMIERE | After 45 years together, 69-year-old Jola finally is able to separate from her abusive, alcoholic husband. Leaving him behind in Italy, she returns to her native Poland, reunites with old friends, and begins to live life for herself—going to the beach, taking singing lessons, and attending a Latin dance class. There, she meets Wotjek, a man nothing like her husband, with whom she might be able to experience love for the first time… if she only gives him a chance.
*Use our discount code “DOCNYC-MARTHA” when purchasing! You’ll save $2 per film and the MV Film Center will receive part of the proceeds*
