DOC NYC Film Festival 2023

DOC NYC, America’s largest documentary festival — running in-person November 8th-16th at IFC Center, SVA Theatre, and Village East by Angelika and continuing online through November 26th.

The 2023 festival presents more than 105 feature-length documentaries among over 200 films and dozens of events, with filmmakers expected in person at most screenings.

Opening the festival on November 8th at SVA Theater will be Clair Titley’s jaw-dropping, The Contestant. The truly stranger-than-fiction story of the earliest days of “reality TV” in the 1990s features an aspiring Japanese comedian trapped alone and naked in an apartment for 15 months, unaware that his participation in a twisted reality show is being broadcast weekly to millions of viewers and has transformed him into a TV superstar.

Closing the festival on November 16th, also at SVA Theater, will be Sam Pollard and Llewellyn Smith’s South to Black Power, about New York Times columnist Charles M. Blow and his provocative writings