The New York Times Op-Docs

Tuesday, November 6, 2018

Op-Docs on the Big Screen and Filmmakers Panel

Join us to view five short films with outsize impact. Afterward hear from several of the filmmakers. New York Times Op-Docs have been nominated for two Academy Awards™ and won three Emmy Awards — this is your opportunity to go behind the scenes of this series’s remarkable films.

The program will include: Charlie Tyrell’s “My Dead Dad’s Porno Tapes,” a 2018 Sundance Film Festival premiere; “I Am Bisha: The Rebel Puppeteers of Sudan” by Roopa Gogineni, on a satirical puppet show mocking an authoritarian ruler; “We Became Fragments,” by Luisa Conlon, Hanna Miller and Lacy Jane Roberts about a Syrian refugee coming of age in Winnipeg; “Dulce,” by Guille Isa and Angello Faccini, a perspective on climate change through the story of a young girl in a Colombian coastal village; a preview of Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee’s “Earthrise,” on the first image of Earth taken from space, in 1968, as recalled by the Apollo 8 astronauts; and “The Forger,” which uses shadow puppetry to tell the story of the secret past of Adolfo Kaminsky, a man who forged documents to help thousands of children flee the Nazis. Filmmakers will join us for the post-screening conversation.

• Running Time 60 minutes
• Director Charlie Tyrell, Roopa Gogineni, Luisa Conlon, Hanna Miller, Lacy Jane Roberts, Guille Isa, Angello Faccini, Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee

IFC Center does not generally provide advisories about subject matter or potentially triggering content in films, as sensitivities vary from person to person. In addition to the synopses, trailers and other links on our website, further information about content and age-appropriateness for specific films can be found on Common Sense Media, IMDb and DoesTheDogDie.com as well as through general internet searches.