DOC NYC 2025: Life, Love, & Obsessions

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Parent Category: Film Festivals

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Published on Tuesday, 11 November 2025 19:23

Written by Brad Balfour

New York’s prestigious documentary film festival, DOC NYC, is here again to tell stories too strange to be made up. Running November 12 to the 30th at venues across NYC as well as streaming online, DOC NYC features documentaries from around the world with unique voices and visions.

The festival includes the North American premiere of Museum of the Night, in which Argentine photographer Leandro Katz chronicles the 1970s New York art collective Theater of the Ridiculous. An examination of stigma, resilience, and the search for self-worth, the documentary Paul chronicles a “simp” navigating mental health struggles through domestic service for dominant mistresses, finding purpose in cleaning as ritual and discipline (screening will be followed by a Q&A with producer Karine Bélanger and film protagonist Paul). Siren: The Voices of Shelley Beattie is a portrait of Deaf bodybuilder Shelley “Siren” Beattie whose stunning physique was protective armor against trauma and alienation. 

Other documentaries address the fallout of China’s One-Child policy (The Dating Game), photographers telling the stories of Black lives (Black Is Beautiful: The Kwame Brathwaite Story), when TV entertainment masquerades as law enforcement (Predators), and much more.

To learn more, go to: https://www.docnyc.net/

DOC NYC
November 12 - 30, 2025

Various Venues in NYC and Streaming