Stranger Than Fiction

The hit documentary series celebrates its 22nd season at IFC Center, boasting a lineup of sneak previews, tributes and rediscovered classics, with filmmakers in person for post-screening discussions. Organized by Thom Powers and Raphaela Neihausen. Filmmakers in person at all shows. See below for film details or visit STFdocs.com.

Season passes now on sale: 9 films for $100 + free popcorn at STF shows, a dvd courtesy of Docurama, & freedom to share your pass with a friend if you can’t attend. $80 IFC Center members, $100 general admission — click here to purchase

Harvard Beats Yale 29-29

Tuesday, December 18, 2012
Director Kevin Rafferty in person for a Q&A! Unfortunately, due to a last-minute schedule change, David O. Russell will not be able to attend as previously announced. An... more...

Rehearsal for a Sicilian Tragedy

Tuesday, January 8, 2013
Q&A with actor John Turturro and director Roman Paska In REHEARSAL FOR A SICILIAN TRAGEDY, actor John Turturro takes audiences on a haunting, intimate journey to his maternal homeland... more...

First Cousin, Once Removed

Tuesday, January 15, 2013
Q&A with director Alan Berliner Documentarian Alan Berliner is frequently the star of his movies, but his focus extends beyond his neuroses. Rather than the star of the show, he’s... more...

Trumbo

Tuesday, January 22, 2013
Q&A with director Peter Askin TRUMBO tells the eventful story of the best-known name in the Hollywood Ten, screenwriter Dalton Trumbo, with an unsurprising emphasis on the leftist’s... more...

Koch

Tuesday, January 29, 2013
Sneak preview! Q&A with director Neil Barsky Former Mayor Ed Koch is the quintessential New Yorker. Still ferocious, charismatic, and hilariously blunt, the now 88-year-old Koch... more...

Zipper: Coney Island’s Last Wild Ride

Tuesday, February 5, 2013
Q&A with director Amy Nicholson "Peer under the tent flap of our splendid new civic order, and you’re guaranteed to see a disturbing sight: all the same failed policies of the... more...

Rafea: Solar Mama

Tuesday, February 12, 2013
Q&A with directors Mona Eldaief and Jehane Noujaim "The friendly, outspoken Rafea makes an immensely sympathetic protagonist with whom the Arabic-speaking helmers obviously established... more...

A Man Vanishes

Tuesday, February 19, 2013
"If A MAN VANISHES— a movie about a disappearance and the transformation of reality into an ever more mercurial mystery, a vertiginous drama and the very stuff of cinema — played at the Cannes Film... more...

An Oversimplification of her Beauty

Tuesday, February 26, 2013
Q&A with director Terence Nance Terence Nance dazzled audiences at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival with this bold debut that’s hard to define as fact or fiction. As both director... more...