{"title": "Field Niggas", "start": "2026-11-12T19:30:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "UnionDocs Center for Documentary Art", "address": "Onderdonk Avenue 352, 11385 Ridgewood", "price": "$12", "price_from": "12.00", "price_to": "12.00", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/documentary"], "description": "A screening of the feature film Field Niggas, presented by UnionDocs Center for Documentary Art ahead of Khalik Allah's workshop Camera Ministry: Lens-based Encounters. The 2015 film by filmmaker and photographer Khalik Allah was shot entirely at night on the corner of 125th Street and Lexington Avenue in Harlem, drawing intimate portraits and conversations of the people there. Through fragments of dreams, regrets, arguments and affection, the film unfolds as an immersive encounter with a place and its residents. Allah's camera moves with uncommon intimacy, dissolving the distance between filmmaker and subject.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/field-niggas-106898/", "official_url": "https://uniondocs.org/event/field-niggas-2026-11-12/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/d1ba24e147c982658df2f2354806bfd4ad6745914b98d63bbc830c48ada6a843-600.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-12T19:30:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "UnionDocs Center for Documentary Art", "address": "Onderdonk Avenue 352, 11385 Ridgewood", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "Camera Ministry: Lens-Based Encounters", "start": "2026-11-13T11:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-15T16:30:00-05:00", "place": "UnionDocs Center for Documentary Art", "address": "Onderdonk Avenue 352, 11385 Ridgewood", "price": "$295.00 – $350.00", "price_from": "295.00", "price_to": "350.00", "category": "workshops-courses", "tags": ["art/photography/documentary-photography", "film/documentary"], "description": "Camera Ministry: Lens-based Encounters is an intensive weekend workshop on lens-based storytelling, held at the UnionDocs Center for Documentary Art in Ridgewood. 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Guest artists include filmmaker and cinematographer Shevaun Mizrahi, discussing her move from cinematography to directing, and hip-hop photographer and cultural archivist Jamil GS, reflecting on photography as cultural memory.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/camera-ministry-lens-based-encounters-57169/", "official_url": "https://uniondocs.org/event/camera-ministry-lens-based-encounters-2026-11-13/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/2b18874d78accc9d184e71a19964981f9dfe1c9a552483f86af85f7091752fb1-600.webp"}, {"title": "NEW YORK DOCUMENTARY FILM FESTIVAL 2026", "start": "2026-11-04T00:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "Cinema Village", "address": "East 12th Street 22, 10003", "price": "", "price_from": "17.00", "price_to": "17.00", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/documentary"], "description": "The New York Documentary Film Festival 2026 brings documentary films to the big screen at Cinema Village, a movie theater on East 12th Street in downtown Manhattan. 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The discussion features co-writer/editor Andrew Leeper, Charles Maggio of Gern Blandsten Records, pro skater Jim Murphy, and Tim Kerr of the Big Boys, moderated by author Tony Rettman. The event takes place at Nitehawk Cinema – Prospect Park in Brooklyn, which is generally an 18+ theater.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/the-story-of-the-big-boys-71632/", "official_url": "https://nitehawkcinema.com/prospectpark/movies/you-can-color-outside-the-lines/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/d226793928427e7c337132a38626b85b3be9ed43f426a1eca3f1d1b1721702bb-2000.webp"}, {"title": "KoKo NYC Documentary Screening and Open Play Day at the Lot", "start": "2026-11-07T15:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-07T18:00:00-05:00", "place": "The KoKo Lot", "address": "440 19th St, Brooklyn, NY 11215", "price": "Free, donations encouraged", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "film", "tags": ["art/sculpture", "film/documentary", "diy"], "description": "An afternoon at the KoKo Lot combining an Open Play Day with a screening of the short documentary 'KoKo NYC – Sculptures on Wheels' by Cody Powers, followed by the Derby Dispatch by Afton Okwu and a panel discussion with Cody Powers and KoKo kids. Roger Ferney-Cortés leads a Collective Roll up Workshop earlier in the day. All ages are welcome, though waivers are required for anyone under 18 and kids 12 and younger must be with an adult. The activities are free with donations encouraged to support KoKo NYC teen programming.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/koko-nyc-documentary-screening-and-open-play-day-at-the-lot-54604/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/7539f3ecf2ac4b61796f2867aa345ff698debadea954b2d7b91578d1697316c5-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Changing Lanes & Anti-car films", "start": "2026-11-08T18:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "Interference Archive", "address": "7th Street 314, 11215 Brooklyn", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "film", "tags": ["film/documentary", "society/activism"], "description": "A screening of four documentaries about social movements that challenged the policing and commodification of urban mobility and embraced freedom of movement beyond the automobile. The films include Still We Ride, The Wreck of the New York Subway, Marathon de Triporteurs, and Changing Lanes, followed by a Q&A with the filmmakers of Changing Lanes. It takes place at Interference Archive, 314 7th St, Brooklyn, NY 11215, USA.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/changing-lanes-anti-car-films-53178/", "official_url": "https://interferencearchive.org/event/changing-lanes-anti-car-films/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/4cd2fc69af89f4cca2af1ce1992fe8a690d61f3e1db633875c89563e4f1d7eb6-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Asilah Oui", "start": "2026-11-05T19:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "The Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop (RBPMW)", "address": "West 39th Street 323, New York", "price": "free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/documentary", "art"], "description": "A screening evening of two films that explore the links between Morocco and New York and examine two pioneers of Moroccan art in the twentieth century. It is presented by The Bronx Museum and EFA Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop, with a post-screening discussion joined by the Museum's Director of Education & Public Engagement, Patrick Rowe. The first film, Melehi (1984) by Shalom Gorewitz, documents the work and life of Moroccan painter and Asilah Cultural Moussem founder Mohamed Melehi, commissioned for his 1984 solo exhibition at The Bronx Museum. The second, A Thousand And One Berber Nights (2023) by Hisham Aïdi, follows the transatlantic career of dancer, actor, and choreographer Hassan Ouakrim, a protégé of La Mama Theatre founder Ellen Stewart who spread Berber dance and music in North America.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/asilah-oui-51511/", "official_url": "https://bronxmuseum.org/event/robert-blackburn-screening/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/c3d5d61c7022f577eaa0d5a28be77931aebeea92ca2571ddf69af86860d59a27-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Naza", "start": "2026-11-04T14:05:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "IFC Center", "address": "6th Avenue 323, 10014", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "film", "tags": ["film/documentary", "society/war", "history"], "description": "Naza is a documentary screening at a Manhattan movie theater. It was made by the Israeli filmmakers and journalists Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor. Through secret nighttime conversations on Tel Aviv rooftops with the people who designed and ran them, it reveals the systems behind Israel's calculated mass killing of Palestinian civilians in Gaza. The film grew out of investigative reporting published by The Guardian with +972 Magazine and Local Call.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/naza-53163/", "official_url": "https://www.ifccenter.com/films/naza/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/2353edfbcaae389f8181e65c82015ad3c6e59dbef4e939ffb0262ba57283f4b1-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Marching with the Kasama", "start": "2026-11-11T19:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "Swiss Institute", "address": "Saint Marks Place 38, 10003", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "film", "tags": ["film/documentary", "society/activism"], "description": "SI presents a screening of the documentary Marching with the Kasama, which offers a glimpse into the Philippine revolutionary struggle. Through voices of peasants, workers and guerrilla fighters, the film portrays a movement fighting for land, liberation and people's power. The footage is shown not as a finished film but as an outline, part of an ongoing process in which the filmmakers apply the method of the mass line to filmmaking. It is part of a weekly series held during Rafał Skoczek's offsite exhibition Kino Drift, inspired by Fernando Solanas and Octavio Getino's 1969 manifesto \"Towards a Third Cinema.\"", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/marching-with-the-kasama-56278/", "official_url": "https://swissinstitute.net/programs/film-series-marching-with-the-kasama", "image": "https://noky.io/images/a05a0051a124932fc3a64a354a0395d9e010b68d5cfec38f66628e5ea7383e84-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Book Event – Gerald Cyrus: Uptown Odyssey", "start": "2026-11-04T18:30:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "International Center of Photography", "address": "Ludlow Street 84, 10002 New York", "price": "$5", "price_from": "5.00", "price_to": "5.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art/photography/documentary-photography"], "description": "A book event at the International Center of Photography celebrating the release of Gerald Cyrus's monograph Uptown Odyssey, offered both in person and online. It features a conversation between photographer Gerald Cyrus and artist and writer Gioncarlo Valentine. Uptown Odyssey gathers Cyrus's black-and-white photographs of Harlem made across the 1990s, moving from the streets and subway to the neighborhood's nightclubs and music scene. In-person tickets cost $5 and do not include access to ICP's galleries.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/book-event-gerald-cyrus-uptown-odyssey-53182/", "official_url": "https://www.icp.org/events/book-event-gerald-cyrus-uptown-odyssey", "image": "https://noky.io/images/4abb96bf1824de0d0e5253b8c2b710f53925cc94908b04b490436e2b0daf5fe3-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Loving Karma", "start": "2026-11-13T18:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "Tibet House US", "address": "West 15th Street 22", "price": "$10", "price_from": "10.00", "price_to": "10.00", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/documentary"], "description": "Movie Night: Loving Karma is a screening of the award-winning documentary Loving Karma, followed by a discussion with co-director Andrew Hinton. The film follows a journey at Jhamtse Gatsal Children's Community in the Himalayan foothills of Arunachal Pradesh, India. It asks how love, belonging, and compassion can help transform the karma of the past into something new. Hinton is an Emmy-winning documentary filmmaker whose work is rooted in human resilience, hope and social change.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/loving-karma-57020/", "official_url": "https://shop.thus.org/products/movie-night-loving-karma", "image": "https://noky.io/images/905a116402d988acea59d0ccb6d49b229f81cc7d153c96e656f7d91098b5aa67-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Filipiñana", "start": "2026-11-07T11:15:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-07T13:05:00-05:00", "place": "Nitehawk Cinema", "address": "Metropolitan Avenue 136, 11249 Brooklyn", "price": "USD 9–15", "price_from": "9.00", "price_to": "15.00", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/drama"], "description": "A cinema screening of the film \"Filipiñana\" at Nitehawk Cinema in Williamsburg. The showing is followed by a Q&A with the film's director, Rafael Manuel.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/filipinana-66952/", "official_url": "https://nitehawkcinema.com/williamsburg/movies/filipinana/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/368c4ff0646506ce435f1242807070dcdb404d3a6909396b5325064c4a992565-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Playback: The Brooklyn Watch Party", "start": "2026-11-06T00:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-07T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "BAM.org | BAM | Visit", "address": "", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "festivals-street", "tags": ["film"], "description": "Playback: The Brooklyn Watch Party is a two-day festival celebrating the artists, storytellers, and communities that have made Brooklyn one of the most culturally influential places in the world. It is presented by BAM together with filmmaker Spike Lee and Clara Wu Tsai, owner of the New York Liberty and the Brooklyn Nets, and created by filmmaker and producer Nicholas Ma with special guest curators. The inaugural festival includes screenings of repertory films, pop-up activations, a free street fair, and more.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/playback-the-brooklyn-watch-party-51156/", "official_url": "https://www.bam.org/film/2026/playback", "image": "https://noky.io/images/658b4fd5ef2bcc0fe539b7dab910188bb8677c1c8d9c1b35b4ef646fa16d9c1a-2000.webp"}]}