Hamptons Doc Fest Is 15 and Returns This Year With 25 Films Over Six Days at Two Theaters

Jacqui Lofaro at the Hamptons Doc Fest offices in Bridgehampton. DANA SHAW

Sam Pollard will receive the Hamptons Doc Fest Pennebaker Career Achievement Award on December 3. COURTESY HAMPTONS DOC FEST

“Still Working 9 to 5" opens Hamptons Doc Fest on December 1. From left, Jane Fonda, Lily Tomlin, Dolly Parton in the 1980 film "9 to 5". © 1980 STEVE SHAPIRO

“Turn Every Page: The Adventures of Robert Caro and Robert Gottlieb” will screen on December 4 and features a Q&A with Caro and the film's director, Gottlieb’s daughter Lizzie Gottlieb. SONY PICTURES CLASSICS

On December 5, Hamptons Doc Fest presents the 2022 Art & Inspiration Award to Soren Sorensen, director of “Omar Sosa’s 88 Well-Tuned Drums.” Pictured is Omar Sosa. © MICHAEL WEINTROB

On December 3, Hamptons Doc Fests hosts a 40th anniversary screening of “Say Amen, Somebody," preceded by a performance of Nulife gospel choir. A Q&A with the film's director and cinematographer follow. Pictured is Thomas A. Dorsey, considered the father of gospel music. COURTESY HAMPTONS DOC FEST

"Woman-Ochre," 1954–1955, Willem de Kooning. Oil on canvas, 40" × 30." Collection of the University of Arizona Museum of Art, Tucson. Gift of Edward J. Gallagher, Jr. The painting was the subject of puzzling 1985 art theft detailed in Allison Otto's documentary "The Thief Collector.”

The follow-up story of Mukunda Angulo, who was featured in the 2015 documentary "The Wolfpack," is told in Jennifer Tiexiera and Camilla Hall's new film "Subject." ZACHARY SHIELDS

An image from Gabriela Cowperthwaite's documentary “The Grab.” COURTESY HAMPTONS DOC FEST

A scene from Ondi Timoner's “Last Flight Home.” COURTESY HAMPTONS DOC FEST

A scene from Julia Mintz's "Four Winters,” about the Jewish resistance in World War II. The film will receive Hamptons Doc Fest’s Human Rights Award this year. FOUR WINTERS

A scene from "The Smell of Money” directed by Shawn Bannon. COURTESY HAMPTONS DOC FEST

Jacqui Lofaro at the Hamptons Doc Fest offices in Bridgehampton. DANA SHAW