Time for a quick PSA: the annual AFIDOCS documentary film festival kicked off yesterday! AFIDOCS is a terrific, half-week-long, city-spanning event that showcases new documentary features and shorts from around the world.
Visit the AFIDOCS website for a list of where and when everything will be playing. Many of these documentaries will screen at the AFI’s flagship theater in Silver Spring, but other theaters throughout the city are participating if you don’t feel like making the trek on the Red Line.
If we have to play favorites with this year’s assemblage, we would pick The Look of Silence (Joshua Oppenheimer’s follow-up to The Act of Killing) and Code: Debugging the Gender Gap, which examines the history of women in computer programming.
Buy your tickets in advance if you can. These screenings will sell out!