NYTimes Op/Docs

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    15 Things Wrong With Your Short Film

    Here are the most common mistakes filmmakers make with their short films that stick out like a sore thumb to programmers and curators. Find out how to avoid them.

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    Documentary David Darg & Bryn Mooser

    Baseball in the Time of Cholera

    As the cholera epidemic rages in Haiti, the UN denies responsibility for introducing the disease despite mounting evidence. This is the story of Joseph, a young baseball player, and a Haitian lawyer fighting for compensation for the victims.

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    Documentary Yung Chang & Annie Katsura Rollins

    Pandemic19

    Three doctors in the United States, fighting COVID-19 from pre-to-post surge, tell their story while the chaos of the pandemic permeates outside the frame of their video confessions. [US Viewers: Please use the link at the top of the article]

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    Documentary Ömer Sami

    Into the Blue

    12-year-old Tatheer embarks on a week-long Police boot camp for girls from a social housing estate in Copenhagen. Far from home, deep in the woods, she navigates gruelling rituals, elusive social dynamics, and personal setbacks to find her place.

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    Documentary Guillaume Fournier & 2 Others

    Acadiana

    May 2017. The city of Breaux Bridge, Louisiana, is the theatre of the mythic Crawfish Festival. It’s just another day, in America.

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    Drama Thea Gajic

    Run

    Within a humorous yet delicate take on male indecision, soft tones and articulate glances quietly assert the indomitable strength of feminine vulnerability.

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    Documentary HANNAH GREGG & SEAN KUSANAGI

    Rosa - These Storms

    Rosa, a young Mayan woman, overcomes her past to follow the dreams she once thought impossible as a female living in rural Guatemala.

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    Documentary Manuel Abramovich

    The Queen

    Memi prepares to become queen of the carnival. Lost in a world of grown-ups and trapped in her routine, she is torn between the glamour of pageant and the social pressure to become a winner.

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    Documentary Yali Sharon

    Above All Else

    In 1992, skydiver Dan Brodsky-Chenfeld boarded a plane for a training jump. Six weeks later, he awoke from a coma to discover that a terrible accident had shattered his dream of becoming a World Champion. This is his story.

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