America’s Largest Documentary Festival – Nov. 8-26

How does one approach a film festival too big in its 14th annual edition (100+ features and 100+ shorts) to ever watch in its entirety? This year your viewer selects one sliver of DOC NYC—personalities—and watches for the ones that shine the strongest lights. This critic’s feature choices are a fine artist, an actor/director/biographer, and a rocker.

Liv Ullmann—A Road Less Traveled focuses on how Ullmann transcended being the “painfully connected” muse, lover, and leading lady of a world class movie director.

Cinephiles can catch up on her volunteer activities as Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations’ UNICEF, and co-founder and honorary chair of the Women’s Refugee Commission.