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 AHNY Cinema Week 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
Home Alone
Eight-year-old Kevin McAllister is accidentally left behind in suburban Chicago while his family travels on vacation to France during the holiday season. Once he realizes they’ve left him home alone, Kevin learns to fend for himself and protect his house against bumbling burglars, Harry and Marv, who are planning to rob every house in the neighborhood.
Screening as part of AHNY Cinema Week 2026, in our series Best in Show: The Films of Catherine O’Hara
A Mighty Wind
Director Christopher Guest reunited the team from Best in Show and WAITING FOR GUFFMAN to tell the story (co-written by Eugene Levy) of ’60s-era folk musicians who, inspired by the death of their former manager, get back on the stage for one concert in New York City’s Town Hall.
Screening as part of AHNY Cinema Week 2026, in our series Best in Show: The Films of Catherine O’Hara
Who Moves America
NYC PREMIERE
Wednesday, April 8 at 7:00: The screening will be followed by an on-stage conversation with director/producer Yael Bridge, protagonists from the film, and additional members of the film team
Labor justice in the United States has long required fight after fight, and the individuals who have struggled for fair working conditions and compensation do so not only for themselves, but for generations of workers who will come after them. In DOC NYC alumna Yael Bridge’s new film Who Moves America, she examines the tense 2023 contract negotiations between UPS and its 340,000 unionized workers as they press the company for critical improvements to keep pace with changes in a fraught ecosystem.
Screening as part of DOC NYC Selects Spring 2026
Cria Cuervos
Screening on 35mm!
“I watched it for the 1st time when I was 8, the same age as the protagonist in the film. It completely overturned the way I was watching films up to then. It was no longer about the story or the world that was building up under my eyes. It was all about the character and how I deeply related to her. It felt that she understood me as if she were real. It’s the first time I was actually able to project myself into a character’s emotions and that I felt seen.
Strange feeling when, a few years later, I realized that, as a child, I was actually relating to an older man’s (Saura’s) inner world. Art has no boundaries, and I definitely share Saura’s honest, dark and poetic experience of childhood.” -Julia Ducournau
Carlos Saura’s exquisite CRIA CUERVOS. . . heralded a turning point in Spain: shot while General Franco was on his deathbed, the film melds the personal and the political in a portrait of the legacy of fascism and its effects on a middle-class family (the title derives from the Spanish proverb: “Raise ravens and they’ll peck out your eyes”). Ana Torrent (the dark-eyed beauty from The Spirit of the Beehive) portrays the disturbed eight-year-old Ana, living in Madrid with her two sisters and mourning the death of her mother, whom she conjures as a ghost (an ethereal Geraldine Chaplin). Seamlessly shifting between fantasy and reality, the film subtly evokes both the complex feelings of childhood and the struggles of a nation emerging from the shadows.
Screening as part of Julia Ducournau: Carte Blanche, Ducornau’s latest, ALPHA, opens Friday, March 27.
The NeverEnding Story
“A film that so precisely, hauntingly translates the truth of depression into images, that I can only wonder : Why did my younger self, and a whole generation, keep coming back to it?” – Julia Ducournau
A lonely young boy with a love of books becomes drawn into a timeless world of fabulous creatures–a world that only he can save from certain destruction–as he discovers that he is the hero of THE NEVERENDING STORY.
Screening as part of Julia Ducournau: Carte Blanche, Ducornau’s latest, ALPHA, opens Friday, March 27.