The New Yorker Documentary

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Both the director and the subject of this animated short discover their identities and a love of their nation.

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In Alec Sutherland’s short film, upstate New York’s demolition derbies are a loud, brutal, deeply physical antidote to the isolation of digital life.

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Noah Schamus and Brit Fryer’s short film offers a vision of how physicians and trans patients can meet one another on equal footing.

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Lindsay Opoku-Acheampong’s film “Textures” follows three women through the private and meaningful rituals of caring for their hair.

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In Charles Frank’s short film, a young man offers a candid look at life with O.C.D. and his experiences with exposure therapy.

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Nicola Fegg’s short documentary follows a young Ukrainian woman who becomes a social-media star and a refugee at the same time.

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Justin Fairweather’s short film “Roger J. Carter: Rebel Revolutionary” shows how the artist arrived at his innovative way of making portraits of Black figures.

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Scott Krahn and Robb Fischer’s short film follows a trio of friends who take part in a bowling league for people who are visually impaired.

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John Hoffman and Christine Turner’s short film follows Arlo Washington as he helps members of his community escape the hazards of banking while Black.