Vampires of the Velvet Lounge

A coven of vampires is hunting on dating apps where they meet vampire hunters and schedule dates. The nights that unfold are action-packed modern horror madness.

Alpha (Open Captioning)

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Alpha, a troubled 13-year-old lives with her single mom. Their world collapses the day she returns from school with a tattoo on her arm.

“Feels destined to become a cult classic…Ducournau has completed quite the trifecta when it comes to portraying the horrors of being a woman.” – Vogue

And don’t miss Julia Ducournau: Carte Blanche, a program of four personal favorites curated by the ALPHA filmmaker herself.

The Christophers (Open Captioning)

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Julian Sklar (Ian McKellen) was once a star of London’s 1960’s and 70’s pop art explosion, but hehasn’t painted in decades and has been broke for years. His two estranged children (James Corden, Jessica Gunning), desperate for an inheritance, hire Lori, an art restorer and formerforger (Michaela Coel), to pose as a prospective assistant in order to access 8 unfinishedcanvases Julian has buried deep in storage. Her plan is to complete them, then return them tostorage, where they are to be “discovered” upon Julian’s death.

The Christophers

Please note that there are additional showtimes of THE CHRISTOPHERS that screen with open captions (on-screen display of dialogue and sounds). For those showtimes, click here.

Julian Sklar (Ian McKellen) was once a star of London’s 1960’s and 70’s pop art explosion, but hehasn’t painted in decades and has been broke for years. His two estranged children (James Corden, Jessica Gunning), desperate for an inheritance, hire Lori, an art restorer and formerforger (Michaela Coel), to pose as a prospective assistant in order to access 8 unfinishedcanvases Julian has buried deep in storage. Her plan is to complete them, then return them tostorage, where they are to be “discovered” upon Julian’s death.

Everyone Is Lying to You for Money

Monday, April 13 and Wednesday, April 15 at 7:00: Sneak previews followed by Q&As with director Ben McKenzie

Actor and author Ben McKenzie investigates the lies, hype and harm behind cryptocurrency’s rise—and who’s really paying the price.

DJ Ahmet

Ahmet, a 15-year-old boy from a remote Yuruk village in North Macedonia, finds refuge in music while navigating his father’s expectations, a conservative community, and his first experience with love — a girl already promised to someone else.

Winner of the 2025 Sundance Film Festival Audience Award, World Dramatic section, and a Special Jury Prize for Creative Vision.

Waiting for Guffman

Blaine, Missouri, may be small, but Corky St. Clair always dreams big. Determined to get back to the lights of Broadway, he’s created Red, White and Blaine, a musical celebration of the burg’s 150th anniversary.



This Is Spinal Tap and Best in Show co-creator Christopher Guest plays Corky in this acclaimed comedy. Eugene Levy, Catherine O’Hara, Parker Posey, Fred Willard and Bob Balaban costar as stagestruck townfolk who pin their hopes of being discovered on Corky’s hilariously hapless theater production…and on reports that big-time talent scout Mort Guffman will be in the audience.

“WAITING FOR GUFFMAN does for regional theater what This is Spinal Tap did for rock ‘n’ roll.” –New York Daily News

Screening as part of Art House Cinema Week New York 2026, in our series Best in Show: The Films of Catherine O’Hara

Travis

Tuesday, April 14 at 7:00: The screening will be followed by an on-stage conversation with editor Jean Tsien and additional guests.

DOC NYC and Jean Tsien present a retrospective screening of the late Academy Award-nominated documentarian Richard Kotuk’s final film TRAVIS, which won a posthumous Peabody Award for Kotuk in 1998. TRAVIS follows Travis Jefferies, age six and living with full-blown AIDS, whose strong spirit, generous smile, and outgoing personality are belied by the pain and isolation forced upon him by his condition. Poignant and painfully honest, Travis documents the complex life of a vital child born with a terminal disease who, with the help of experimental drug therapy and his grandmother’s love and support, struggles to survive and pursue a happy life.

Screening as part of DOC NYC Selects Spring 2026

TheyDream

NYC PREMIERE

Tuesday, May 5 at 7:00: The screening will be followed by an on-stage conversation with director/producer William D. Caballero and producers Brad Jones, Erin Ploss-Campoamor and Elaine Del Valle.

Winner of the NEXT Special Jury Award for Creative Expression at the 2026 Sundance Film Festival, William D. Caballero’s TheyDream is a deeply personal documentary that examines the transformative nature of grief for a close-knit Puerto Rican family. Filmmaker William D. Caballero interweaves animation with live action footage to create a type of intimate confession about the courage it takes to transform pain into art alongside the people we love most.

Screening as part of DOC NYC Selects Spring 2026

Mary Oliver: Saved by the Beauty of the World

NYC PREMIERE

Tuesday, April 28 at 7:00: The screening will be followed by an on-stage conversation with filmmaker Sasha Waters

If poetry had a pop icon, Mary Oliver would be it. Best-selling poet and Pulitzer Prize-winner, lover of dogs and long walks in the woods, queer and out but intensely private – Oliver’s poems inspire liberals and conservatives, atheists and believers, naturalists and urbanites. She was America’s unlikely, contemporary mystic, stalking the ponds and forests of Cape Cod for nearly fifty years in order to open herself – and us, her readers – to the known and unknowable world. Sasha Waters’ beguiling portrait features poems read by Helena Bonham Carter, Steve Buscemi, Stephen Colbert, Lucy Dacus, Jesse Welles, and Oprah Winfrey.

Screening as part of DOC NYC Selects Spring 2026