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#DocFortnight is almost here! @MoMAFilm welcomes 27 filmmakers from around the world to our theaters Feb 5-19. All info you need is right here: mo.ma
First, a few #MoMADocFest highlights [thread]
We kick off on Wednesday with the NY premiere of @sundancefest fave "Crip Camp," about a camp for teens with disabilities that thrived in the late 1960s and early '70s. Many campers went on to revolutionize the disability rights movement. mo.ma
On Feb 11, director Seung-jun Yi introduces "Shadow Flowers." The tale of political absurdity follows a North Korean woman who unwittingly ends up in South Korea and, for many agonizing years, tries to return to her home and family. Also on Feb 17 mo.ma
Over a period of 35 years, director @LynneSachs1 shot 8mm and 16mm film, videotape, and digital images with her father, a bohemian businessman from Park City, Utah. See "Film About a Father Who" on Feb 11 + 14 mo.ma
On Valentine's Day, join documentarian @Kazsoda for the world premiere of "Zero," a profoundly compassionate portrait of a doctor facing his own mortality. Screens again Feb 18. mo.ma
Doc Fortnight concludes on Feb 19 with "Some Kind of Heaven," Lance Oppenheim’s bittersweet, absurdist look at the world’s largest retirement community. This “Disneyland for Retirees” may not be the stuff that American Dreams are made of... mo.ma

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