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Drummies: Capturing the Power of Girlhood | The New Yorker Documentary
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- Drummies: Capturing the Power of Girlhood | The New Yorker Documentary
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- 2 years ago
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- In a New Yorker Documentary, Jessie Zinns shows life in post-apartheid South Africa, where three young women muse on their hopes and dreams as aspiring drum majorettes.
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- Do Not Feed the Pigeons: A Moment of Magic, Courtesy of Pigeons | The New Yorker Screening Room
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- 2 years ago
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- In Antonin Niclass’s short film “Do Not Feed the Pigeons,” a flock becomes a source of unexpected wonder for a group of weary travellers.
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- Seven Actors on Playing a Sephardic Immigrant | The Victorias | The New Yorker Documentary
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- 2 years ago
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- In Ethan Fuirst’s “The Victorias,” seven Tenement Museum actors reflect on the impact of their roles as a fourteen-year-old Sephardic immigrant in 1916.
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- Black Power in Hair | Babybangz | The New Yorker Documentary
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- 2 years ago
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- In a documentary by Juliana Kasumu, a group of Black women gathers at Babybangz salon to discuss natural hair, the impact of gentrification in New Orleans, and their personal journeys toward self-love.
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- Paint & Pitchfork: Illustrating Blackness | The New Yorker Documentary
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- 2 years ago
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- In a documentary by Christine Turner, the painters behind the official portraits of Barack and Michelle Obama share their thoughts on the portrayal of Black bodies on canvas.
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- Dear Max: Contemplating Circumcision | The New Yorker Documentary
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- 2 years ago
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- In the animated short documentary “Dear Max,” Alex Kahn weighs the Jewish tradition of a bris ceremony against his concerns as a parent.
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- A Ten-Year-Old Reckons with Death | Herd | The New Yorker Documentary
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- 2 years ago
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- Filmmaker Omer Daida’s documentary explores the dynamic between a father who raises livestock for slaughter and his ten-year-old daughter working alongside him.
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- Birds: The Life of Teen-Agers | The New Yorker Screening Room
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- 2 years ago
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- In the hybrid short film “Birds,” the director Katherine Propper intercuts reflective vignettes of teen-agers in Austin, Texas, performed by first-time actors playing themselves.
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- The Eightysomethings Launching Standup-Comedy Careers | The New Yorker Documentary
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- 2 years ago
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- In Elizabeth Zephyrine McDonough’s documentary “Still Standing,” late-in-life comedians discover the healing power of laughter.
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- Can the Oil Industry Adapt to a Changing World? | Black Gold | The New Yorker Documentary
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- 2 years ago
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- In a documentary by Sydney Bowie Linden, a small-town oilman wonders how changing politics—around fossil fuels and beyond—will affect the community and business he knows.
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- Escaping The Fragile Planet: Boy Meets Boy at the End of the World | The New Yorker Screening Room
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- 2 years ago
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- In Thanasis Tsimpinis’s “Escaping The Fragile Planet,” two men have an unexpected encounter while a strange pink fog is spreading throughout the city, a few hours before the world ends.
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- A Mother’s Embrace of Her Child’s Gender Identity | Into Light | The New Yorker Documentary
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- 2 years ago
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- As a mother allows space for her transgender daughter to grow, she must set aside her expectations. A documentary by Sheona McDonald captures their journey.
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- Unspoken: A Funeral Through Dance | The New Yorker Documentary
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- 2 years ago
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- In a documentary by William Armstrong, a son expresses his grief through dance after the death of his father.
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- A Son and His Blind Father’s Shared Shoe Obsession | Bacon ‘N’ Laces | The New Yorker Documentary
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- 2 years ago
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- Stephen Michael Simon’s documentary “Bacon ‘N’ Laces” follows a blind single father who runs a diner with the help of his three kids—with whom he shares a collection of more than seven hundred shoes.
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- The Act of Coming Out | The New Yorker Documentary
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- 2 years ago
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- In a documentary by Alexandra Stergiou, an audition reveals the range of emotions that accompany the acceptance of one's sexuality.
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- Georgia: Choosing Action After Their Daughter’s Death | The New Yorker Screening Room
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- 2 years ago
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- In Jayil Pak’s short film “Georgia,” two computer-illiterate parents decide to design a protest banner when the police refuse to investigate their daughter’s alleged suicide.
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- The Second Puberty of Trans Men | The New Yorker Documentary
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- 2 years ago
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- Connor O’Keefe’s “Imagine a Body” shares the testimonies of trans men about the process of entering the body they were meant to have.
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- The Perils of Virtual Boyfriends | Sandstorm | The New Yorker Screening Room
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- 2 years ago
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- In Seemab Gul’s short film “Sandstorm,” a schoolgirl in Karachi sends a dance video to her virtual boyfriend, but her innocent flirtation turns dark when he attempts to blackmail her.
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- Anchored Out: Evicted at Sea | The New Yorker Documentary
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- The documentary, directed by Katie Bernstein and Clara Mokri, follows San Francisco's vibrant liveaboards as their boats are targeted by a wealthy community who want them gone—revealing the dark underbelly of class conflict in California.
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- Chain-Smoking the Pain Away | Beity | The New Yorker Screening Room
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- 2 years ago
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- In Isabelle Mecattaf’s “Beity,” a mother awaits the return of her daughter, and spends the day smoking and tormenting her household staff so as not to face her pain.
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- How These Synchronized Swimmers are Redefining the Perception of Disability | The New Yorker
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- 2 years ago
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- In “Rocío and Me,” directed by Louise Monlaü, twenty-nine-year-old Rocío finds solace with an artistic-swimming team whose members also have Down syndrome.
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- “I Hold Your Love” Pays Tribute to Black Mothers | The New Yorker Documentary
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- The painter and filmmaker Titus Kaphar explores the joys and injustices of Black motherhood, collaging imagery from his work alongside an intimate conversation with Serena Williams.
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- A Mother’s Plea to Keep Her Farm Running | The New Yorker Documentary
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- In Gabriella Canal and Michael Fearon’s documentary “Seasons,” a mother and daughter find themselves at a crossroads as they consider the future of their family farm.
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- “American Scar”: The Environmental Tragedy of the Border Wall | The New Yorker Documentary
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- 2 years ago
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- In Daniel Lombroso’s documentary, activists expose an ecocide at the U.S.-Mexico border that could alter the evolutionary future of North America.
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- The Bus Ride from Hell | The New Yorker Screening Room
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- In Joe Hsieh’s “Night Bus,” a bus waylaid in the middle of the night becomes the backdrop for a violent outburst of hatred, love, and vengeance.
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- Grasshopper-Catching, a Ugandan Hustle | The New Yorker Documentary
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- 2 years ago
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- Michelle Coomber’s “Nsenene” stunningly captures the practice of grasshopper-catching in Uganda, and shows how the seemingly ethereal creatures form a part of the country’s diet and economy.
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- A Boyhood Lost to Chinese Reëducation | The New Yorker Documentary
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- 2 years ago
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- In “The Reëducation of Ji Zhihao,” the filmmaker Tian Macleod Ji follows his uncle to China’s countryside, on a journey to explore both the tender bonds and the painful memories of the nation’s Maoist past.
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- Poaching Wildlife In New York City | The New Yorker Documentary
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- 2 years ago
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- In Daniel Lombroso’s “Greywater,” a Queens resident discovers an alleged wildlife- poaching ring in his backyard. An investigation reveals a deeper crisis of environmental injustice.
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- The Devious Mind Behind Wordle | The New Yorker Daily Shouts
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- In this comedic short, the new Wordle producer derives immeasurable joy from watching people fail.
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- A Father and Daughter Experience the Magic of Memory | The New Yorker Documentary
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- In the animated short “Souvenir,” directed by Cristina Vilches and Paloma Canonica, a daughter and father relive times when they sailed across oceans, skies, and outer space, with the help of a few small mementos.
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- Sticks! What Can’t They Do? | The New Yorker
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- Elizabeth Zephyrine McDonough welcomes you to Stickworld in this comedic short film.
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- The Search for an Eccentric Millionaire’s Hidden Treasure Chest | The New Yorker Documentary
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- In 2010, Forrest Fenn published a set of clues about a secret trove, estimated to be worth at least a million dollars, that he’d hidden in the Rocky Mountains. Sara Joe Wolansky’s documentary “Finding Fenn’s Gold” follows some of the treasure seekers, who were captivated by the mystery as much as the promise of riches.
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- Sha’Carri Richardson on the Meaning of Time in Running and in Life | The New Yorker Documentary
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- “Sub Eleven Seconds,” executive-produced by the late Virgil Abloh, profiles Richardson as she pursues her dream of qualifying for the Tokyo Olympics.
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- The Psychology of an Isolated Russia | The New Yorker
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- David Remnick and the historian Steve Kotkin discuss Vladimir Putin and how authoritarian regimes are pushed into misguided foreign wars.
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The Psychology of an Isolated Russia | The New Yorker
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- A Soldier Goes Missing in Ukraine—Can His Father Find Him? | The New Yorker Documentary
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- 2 years ago
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- In Jason Blevins’s “I Never Had Dreams of My Son,” a Ukrainian father looks for his son, who went missing during the Battle of Ilovaisk, in 2014. One day, he thinks that he sees him in a video.
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- The Allure of QAnon for a U.S. Immigrant | The New Yorker Documentary
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- 2 years ago
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- Roughly 50 million Americans are thought to believe in ideas associated with the conspiracy theory QAnon. In the documentary “We Call Him Super,” the director Michael Patten tells the story of his next-door neighbor.
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- How to Be Magically Productive at Your Retail Job | The New Yorker Screening Room
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- In Sonny Calvento’s short film “Excuse Me Miss, Miss, Miss,” an overworked employee learns her boss’s secret to productivity.
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- How Oysters Can Help Fight Climate Change | The New Yorker Documentary
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- In “What Remains,” the director Paavo Hanninen shows the importance of recycling oyster shells in keeping Louisiana’s coastal towns above water.
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- 2022 Oscar-Nominated Short "On My Mind" | The New Yorker Screening Room
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- 2 years ago
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- In Martin Strange-Hansen’s Oscar-nominated short film “On My Mind,” a man’s plea to sing a song on the bar’s karaoke machine is denied until the reason for his request is revealed.
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- When the Government Tried—and Failed—to Silence Catwoman | The New Yorker Documentary
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- In the documentary “Catwoman vs. the White House,” the director Scott Calonico brings to life a time when the actress Eartha Kitt was retaliated against by President Lyndon B. Johnson—but persisted in spite of it.
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When the Government Tried—and Failed—to Silence Catwoman | The New Yorker Documentary
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- A Lonely New Yorker Summons Love Through the Supernatural | The New Yorker Screening Room
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- In “The Love Spell,” by Jane Stiles and Meryl Jones Williams, a lovelorn babysitter performs a love spell that leads to a surprising and heartfelt connection.
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- The Year of Dedication That Goes Into Becoming a Mardi Gras Indian | The New Yorker Documentary
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- Filmed in a gentrifying New Orleans, Michal Pietrzyk’s “All on a Mardi Gras Day” is an intimate portrait of Demond, who performs as a Mardi Gras Indian, as he spends the entire year painstakingly handcrafting his suit for the big parade.
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The Year of Dedication That Goes Into Becoming a Mardi Gras Indian | The New Yorker Documentary
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- A Beloved Scottish Tradition Returns After Quarantine | The New Yorker
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- After a year of not performing because of the coronavirus pandemic, schoolchildren in Scotland come together for a Highland dance competition in Robbie Lawrence's "Blue Bonnets."
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- The Unjust Relationship Between Capitalism and Blackness | The New Yorker Documentary
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- Game God(s), directed by Adrian Burrell, tells the multigenerational story of a society that deprives Black Americans of success.
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The Unjust Relationship Between Capitalism and Blackness | The New Yorker Documentary
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- Inventing a Musical Instrument with Stones | The New Yorker Screening Room
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- In Nicolaj Kopernikus’ short film “Stenofonen,” Jørn’s father callously takes away his violin, but Jørn’s love of music finds an ingenious outlet.
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- When the Giant Cruise Ships Came to Town | The New Yorker Documentary
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- In Odveig Klyve’s “View,” a quiet Norwegian coastal city is invaded by some oppressively large visitors.
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When the Giant Cruise Ships Came to Town | The New Yorker Documentary
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- He Lost His Sight—but Not His Passion for Skateboarding | The New Yorker Documentary
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- “One Day You’ll Go Blind,” directed by Leo Pfeifer, tells the story of Justin Bishop, a lifelong skateboarder who went blind at the age of twenty-five but refused to abandon the sport he loved.
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He Lost His Sight—but Not His Passion for Skateboarding | The New Yorker Documentary
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- Healing from Addiction Through Dreaming | The New Yorker Screening Room
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- In the short film “Tallahassee,” directed by Darine Hotait, a young woman checks out of a psychiatric facility after an accidental overdose and feels pressure to lie to her family about her mental illness.
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Healing from Addiction Through Dreaming | The New Yorker Screening Room
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- How Two Irish Boys Stowed Themselves on a Transatlantic Flight | The New Yorker Documentary
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- Garret Daly’s “Nothing to Declare” follows the story of two young boys from Dublin who snuck a successful ride on a plane to New York City.
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How Two Irish Boys Stowed Themselves on a Transatlantic Flight | The New Yorker Documentary
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- How a Legendary Cartoonist Cast Light in Dark Times | The New Yorker Documentary
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- 2 years ago
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- In “Drawing Life,” directed by Nathan Fitch, the New Yorker’s George Booth looks back on fifty years of work — including the only cartoon to be published in the issue following 9/11.
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