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Nora Lee Mandel
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Film & TV Critic - NY Film Critics Online http://MavensNest.net/movies.html
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@docnycfest.bsky.social Visit CREEDE U.S.A. w/director Kahane Corn Cooperman: 300 people, up 8,852 ft in CO Rockies, from 1892 silver boom to 57 yrs of summer theater (co-founded w/Patinkins) shakes up daily lives and perceptions 11/17 w/Q&As, 11/19, Streams 11/18- 30
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CREEDE U.S.A. - DOC NYC
NYC PREMIERE A colorful historic mining town of 300 people tucked away in the mountains of Colorado may seem remote, but Creede is in no way immune to the
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November 11, 2025 at 1:26 AM
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@DOCNYCfest 1st indep Midwife Ctr I had 2 babies closed, now they ARREST THE MIDWIFE! Director Elaine Epstein follows upstate NY Plain People community organize for licensing bill @POVdocs 11/18 Q&A w/dir & arrested midwives; 11/20 Q&A w/dir & attny Streams 11/19-30
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ARREST THE MIDWIFE - DOC NYC
NYC PREMIERE Amid a looming maternal health crisis and vanishing reproductive freedom, the government interferes in the traditional practice of midwifery
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November 10, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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@DOCNYCfest ARTISTS IN RESIDENCE Director/Neighbor Katie Jacobs intimately profiles artist/moms Lois Dodd, Eleanor Magid, Louise Kruger & families in their Bowery house-share from 1950’s on. 11/14 Q&A w/filmers & artists 11/20 Q&A w/filmers Streams 11/15-11/30
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ARTISTS IN RESIDENCE - DOC NYC
WORLD PREMIERE Purchasing a house together in 1950s NYC, three female artists defied societal norms and prioritized their art over traditional roles as
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November 10, 2025 at 1:52 AM
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@DOCNYCfest ZELENSKY French documentarian Yves Jeuland, journalist Ariane Chemin & historian Lisa Vapné bring us “Volodia - This is your Life!” with his own commentary on extensive clips, photos, & interviews 11/15 & 11/17 w/Q & A's Streams 11/16-11/30
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ZELENSKY - DOC NYC
US PREMIERE Take a trip beyond headlines and meet the hyperactive boy who would go on to be a TV mogul and actor, all before becoming the president of
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November 9, 2025 at 3:42 AM
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@DOCNYCfest TRACES OF HOME Debut director Colette Ghunim takes her Mexican mom & Palestinian dad on emotional searches for their roots and her inherited trauma @watermelon_pics @CinemaTropical @kartemquinfilms.bsky.social
11/14 & 11/15 w/Q&As Streams 11/15-11/30
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TRACES OF HOME - DOC NYC
WORLD PREMIERE Delving into the past and not shying away from the dug-up pain, a young filmmaker speaks to her Mexican mother and Palestinian father about
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November 8, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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LITTLE AMÉLIE OR THE CHARACTER OF RAIN Debut French animation dirs/writers Maïlys Vallade & Liane-Cho Han magically get inside head & emotions of bi-cultural toddler from Amélie Nothomb’s narrated novel of her childhood in Japan @GKIDSfilms Now in theaters French & Eng dub
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LITTLE AMÉLIE OR THE CHARACTER OF RAIN - GKIDS Films
The world is a perplexing, peaceful mystery to Amélie until a miraculous encounter with chocolate ignites her wild sense of curiosity.
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November 8, 2025 at 1:31 AM
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PUT YOUR SOUL..Fr-Iran dir Sepideh Farsi interviews & features witness views of Gaza photog Fatma Hassona 2024 - 2025
Now @IFCCenter w/Q&As 11/13 @docnycfest.bsky.social Short List w/Q&A @kinolorber.com
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IFC Center - Put Your Soul On Your Hand and Walk
Wednesday, November 5 at 6:45: Q&A with director Sepideh Farsi, moderated by Nic Rapold Thursday, November 6 at 6:45: Q&A with director Sepideh Farsi, co-presented by The Future of Film is Female An i...
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November 6, 2025 at 12:46 AM
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YANUNI Closer @Tribeca @cinemavillage 11/7+ w/Q&As Dir/DP Richard Ladkani deep in Brazil for intimate courageous polit romantic story Chief Juma Xipaia fights for indigenous rights w/husb Hugo Fed Agent vs illegal Amazon biz
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Yanuni - Cinema Village
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November 5, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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Debut director Tommy Dorfman takes on personal passion project adapting Mason Deaver novel I WISH YOU ALL THE BEST suburban high schooler (sensitively embodied by Corey Fogelmanis) coming out to extended family, friends, teacher -and self 11/7 theaters @lionsgate.com
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I Wish You All The Best (2025) Official Trailer - Corey Fogelmanis, Alexandra Daddario, Cole Sprouse
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November 5, 2025 at 1:14 AM
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STONE COLD FOX Debut dir Sophie Tabet co-wr Julia Roth Female-driven drug-fueled action satires? ‘80s violent flicks w/diverse stars Krysten Ritter -Drug Controller, Kiernan Shipka -Mad Runaway, Jamie Chung as Idealistic Cop, Mishel Prada as Lebanese vet 11/7 VOD+ Vert Ent
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Stone Cold Fox | Official Trailer (HD) | Vertical
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November 4, 2025 at 10:19 PM
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@DOCNYCfest LOST FOR WORDS debut dir Hannah Papacek Harper takes DP Tess Barthes, musicians, scientists to Scottish landscapes, nature hist archives to immerse audience w/wr Robert Macfarlane, artist Jackie Morris' LOST WORDS: SPELL BOOK 11/19 w/Q&A Streams 11/20-30
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LOST FOR WORDS - DOC NYC
US PREMIERE With words like “acorn” and “otter” vanishing from a dictionary, Lost for Words begins a lyrical meditation on language, care, and the
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November 3, 2025 at 9:55 PM
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Debut feature I, POPPY Director Vivek Chaudhary embeds 5 yrs w/poppy-growers NW India: 1 family embodies complex $, political, social pressures from risky product rife w/corruption vs idealist trying to change system 11/16 & 18 w/Q&As Streams 11/17-30
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I, POPPY - DOC NYC
US PREMIERE A complex power structure of casteism, oppression, and corruption governs the lives of Dalit poppy farmers. Vardibhai, older and traumatized
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November 3, 2025 at 1:44 AM
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@DOCNYCfest OUR LAND DP Jamie Wolfeld reveals English countryside beauty of woods, gardens, farms as dir Orban Wallace questions Right to Roam advocates and estate owners pro/con 300 yrs Brit Enclosure land history Impronta Films 11/15 & 16 Q&As Streams 11/16-30
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OUR LAND - DOC NYC
INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE An invigorating examination of the growing movement for the right to roam in the UK and beyond. Perspectives of activists,
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November 2, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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ICEFALL Austrian dir Stefan Ruzowitzky takes Danny Huston’s violent thieves to frozen lake on 1st Citizen Reserve w/loner Joel Kinnaman, fine Native Am actors Cara Jade Myers, Martin Sensmeier, RIP Graham Greene’s last role VOD 11/4 via Aura Entertainment
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ICEFALL | Official Trailer
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November 1, 2025 at 11:42 PM
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French dir Pascal Bonitzer’s AUCTION reveals rarely publicly seen world of colorfully well-played ensemble around discovered Nazi-stolen art
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Now @FilmForumNYC 11/21 more cities via @MenemshaFilms
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November 1, 2025 at 1:45 AM
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World Prem @DOCNYCfest 11/14 & 11/16 WHAT WE INHERIT Canadian-Algerian-American Director Kacim Steets Azouz makes his family genealogy & history come alive, travels 360 degree compass points of contemporary perspectives on the past to now Via Bunbury Films
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WHAT WE INHERIT - DOC NYC
WORLD PREMIERE In a political landscape marked by racialized power structures, an Algerian-American filmmaker raised in Canada decides to turn the lens on
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October 31, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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Polish dir Jan Komasa: ANNIVERSARY is “social apocalypse”, Writer Lori Rosene-Gambino: it’s “political zeitgeist” Diane Lane is matriarch, Kyle Chandler patriarch in Twilight Zone/It Can Happen soon – Dylan O’Brien is scary convert @Lionsgate In U.S. theaters
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October 29, 2025 at 11:10 PM
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COEXISTENCE, MY ASS Canadian director Amber Fares shadowed comedienne Noam Shuster Eliassi over 5 tumultuous years as she develops comedy peace activism in Israel for entertaining and emotionally insightful documentary. My review: mavensnest.net/Lilithflicks... Now @ifccenter.bsky.social Nov +cities
October 29, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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QUEENS OF THE DEAD Debut director Tina Romero draws on her father’s legacy with drag queens, comedy and contemporary flair @Shudder @ifcfilms Now @ifccenter.bsky.social with Q &As
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October 25, 2025 at 12:07 AM
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Inspired by words & environmental activism of Marjory Stoneman Douglas, Debut Director native Floridian Sasha Wortzel’s RIVER OF GRASS explores history of threats, Indigenous living, working, saving Everglades 10/24 @DCTVny Firehouse Cinema with Q&As Nov OH & FL
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RIVER OF GRASS
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October 23, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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MISTRESS DISPELLER Director HK/US Elizabeth Lo’s intense cinema verité look at adultery triangle with solver of Chinese society in PTSD from 1-child policy and housing $ crisis increasing loneliness Via OscilloscopeLabs Now @IFCCenter 10/24 @laemmle then US+
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MISTRESS DISPELLER
A film by Elizabeth Lo
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October 23, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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@NewFest LESBIAN SPACE PRINCESS Debut Aussie feature filmmakers/partners Emma Hough Hobbs (animation) & Leela Varghese (musical comedy) create LOL syfy wokeness (hints: look for BABADOOK reference & listen for Richard Roxburgh) Streams thru 10/21 Theaters 10/31 VOD 11/18
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LESBIAN SPACE PRINCESS - NewFest
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October 21, 2025 at 2:43 AM
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Closer @NewFest was knock out! Dir David Michôud’s CHRISTY co-writer Mirrah Foulkes bring true story to vivid life w/riveting ensemble Sydney Sweeney, Ben Foster, Merritt Wever+ makes us see how domestic abuser controls boxer champ Theaters 11/7 Black Bear Pics
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October 20, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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@NewFest A NIGHT LIKE THIS Alexander Lincoln & Jack Brett Anderson are very worth watching in debut director Liam Calvert's London that goes on & on. Also look for David Bradley’s non-Dickensian cameo
Streaming thru 10/21
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A NIGHT LIKE THIS (Virtual Exclusive) - NewFest
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October 20, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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TRUTH & TREASON Writer/Director Matt Whitaker expands his documentary on Mormon teen defier of Nazi rule Helmuth Hübener in 1941 with truths from BBC & banned books and buddies’ help. Rupert Evans plays his Gestapo nemesis in Hamburg. Now theaters @angel
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October 18, 2025 at 9:11 PM