The 2025 version of DOC NYC Selects is almost here, and IndieWire tin denote nan programme for nan summertime hold of nan yearly autumn documentary festival. This year, DOC NYC Selects will return spot betwixt July 9 to 29, astatine New York’s IFC Center, pinch each of nan filmmakers attending successful person.

The show will statesman pinch Academy Award-nominated Brazilian filmmaker Petra Costa’s “Apocalypse successful nan Tropics,” which was acquired by Netflix aft debuting astatine nan 2024 Venice Film Festival. “Apocalypse successful nan Tropics” is Costa’s follow-up to “The Edge of Democracy,” which Netflix besides distributed. Costa returns to Brazil to archive nan governmental effect of Christian evangelical leaders successful nan federation for “Apocalypse successful nan Tropics.”

DOC NYC Selects will adjacent pinch “Monk successful Pieces,” an ode to composer and performer Meredith Monk; nan movie is directed by Billy Shebar and David Roberts and debuted astatine Berlinale. Additional DOC NYC Selects programme highlights see “It’s Never Over, Jeff Buckley” from Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Amy Berg, David Osit’s “Predators,” and Sundance victor “Coexistence My Ass!,” pinch prima Noam Shuster Eliassi making a typical quality astatine nan festival.

“We look guardant to giving audiences early entree to what are judge to beryllium immoderate of nan most-talked astir films of nan year, from now done awards season,” DOC NYC Artistic Director Jaie Laplante said.

Check retired nan afloat DOC NYC Selects Summer 2025 programme below, pinch connection provided by nan festival.

“Apocalypse successful nan Tropics”
Summer Edition Opening Night
Wednesday, July 9, 7:30pm
Director: Petra Costa
Producers: Alessandra Orofino, Petra Costa
With stunning entree to Lula, Bolsonaro and others, Costa distills nan tumultuous caller chaos of Brazil’s authorities into a clear-eyed and profoundly troublesome imagination of some brazen and unseen forces astatine activity connected a susceptible population. Numerous world parallels are not difficult to make. The screening will beryllium followed by an on-stage speech pinch filmmaker Petra Costa.

“Coexistence My Ass!”
Monday, July 14, 7pm
NYC PREMIERE
Director: Amber Fares
Producer: Rachel Leah Jones
Disillusioned pinch politics, charismatic and engaging Noam Shuster Eliassi pivots to nan world of stand-up drama arsenic a intends of communicating her “radical” connection that Palestinian and Israelis merit nan aforesaid adjacent quality rights. The screening will beryllium followed by an on-stage speech pinch filmmaker Amber Fares and protagonist Noam Shuster Eliassi.

“Monk successful Pieces”
NYC PREMIERE
Tuesday, July 15, 7pm
Directors: Billy Shebar, David Roberts
Producer: Susan Margolin
The transcendentally original, NYC-based musical/interdisciplinary creator Meredith Monk has been creating and performing for much than six decades. Featuring interviews pinch Björk, David Byrne and galore others, Monk successful Pieces is nan beautiful, definitive study of her activity and life that she richly deserves. The screening will beryllium followed by an on-stage speech pinch head Billy Shebar, shaper Susan Margolin and movie subordinate Katie Geissinger.

“Predators”
NYC PREMIERE
Wednesday, July 23, 7pm
Director: David Osit
Producers: Jamie Gonçalves, Kellen Quinn, David Osit
Filmmaker David Osit contemplates nan deeper meanings of nan early days of Exploitation TV-dressed-up-as-moral-public-service represented by nan NBC deed show “To Catch a Predator” (2004-07), arsenic he examines nan reverberating copycat effects of nan original, and constructs an affectional puzzle that takes nan entirety of this unexpectedly analyzable “Trojan Horse” movie to afloat decipher. The screening will beryllium followed by an on-stage speech pinch filmmaker David Osit.

“It’s Never Over, Jeff Buckley”
NYC PREMIERE
Tuesday, July 29, 7pm
Director: Amy Berg
Producers: Amy Berg, Ryan Heller, Christine Connor, Maddy Chang, Jennie Bedusa, Matthew Roozen
Jeff Buckley’s sound and songs, pinch their dreamy and ethereal qualities, person endured and riveted caller audiences and emerging philharmonic artists alike complete nan past 30 years. Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Amy Berg brings her questing curiosity to Buckley’s individual archives, overmuch of it ne'er seen by nan public, and to conversations pinch Buckley’s family, erstwhile bandmates and romanticist relationships, illuminating nan bosom and mind of a tender young imaginative psyche uncovering his measurement successful nan world – and mislaid excessively soon. The screening will beryllium followed by an on-stage speech pinch filmmaker Amy Berg.