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\"\"Preview by Brad Balfour, Arts Editor<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What: DOC NYC
When: November 12 – 30, 2025
Where: Various Venues in NYC and Streaming<\/p>\n\n\n\n

New York\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

An examination of stigma, resilience, and the search for self-worth, the documentary “Paul” chronicles a \u201csimp\u201d 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 B\u00e9langer and film protagonist Paul). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Siren: The Voices of Shelley Beattie” is a portrait of Deaf bodybuilder Shelley \u201cSiren\u201d Beattie whose stunning physique was protective armor against trauma and alienation. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Other documentaries address the fallout of China\u2019s 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\/
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