A decade-long documentary following a French farm boy from age 8 to 18 is screening at DOC NYC November 14.

GABIN, directed by Maxence Voiseux, tracks Gabin Jourdel as he grows up in northern France, torn between taking over his father’s butcher shop and his own dreams of training contest cows, breeding dogs, and saving his mother’s farm. Voiseux filmed over ten years to capture the journey.

The film premiered at Cannes in the Quinzaine des Cineastes section, where Variety’s Guy Lodge called it “a remarkably fleet, fluent feat of observation and editing.” Screen Daily’s Lee Marshall compared it to Boyhood, noting “Gabin is remarkable for its immediacy and its feel for story.”

DOC NYC Senior Programmer Murtada Elfadl says Voiseux’s “patient lens is attuned to the joys and vexes of everyday existence as well as the larger questions of maturing and moving on.”

Since Cannes, the documentary has played Locarno, IDFA, Busan, Vancouver, and Melbourne, among others. It’s Voiseux’s first feature. He was born in the Ardennes in 1988 and studied science before switching to documentary filmmaking at Paris VII University.

The U.S. premiere screens November 14 at 3:35 PM at IFC Center, followed by a Q&A with producer Cécile Lestrade. The film will also be available to stream virtually November 15 through 29.

A cop on the run crosses into Uruguay and accidentally finds a new life. That’s the premise of A Loose End, Daniel Hendler’s Venice-selected thriller-comedy that just landed Uruguay’s official submission slot for Best International Feature at the 99th Academy Awards.

The film follows Santiago, an Argentine cop fleeing his own department. He slips across the border and starts piecing together an unexpected existence, relying on strangers and his own instincts. Along the way, he meets Rocío, a woman who might just be worth staying for. What begins as pure survival twists into something stranger and softer.

Hendler blends road movie, western, and crime film into a story about reinvention and fragile belonging. Sergio Prina anchors it with a magnetic lead performance, joined by Pilar Gamboa. The film premiered in Venice Spotlight and won the WIP LATAM Industry Award at San Sebastián.

Hendler is known for acting (he won a Silver Bear at Berlin) and directing sharp, human stories like The Candidate and Norberto’s Deadline. A Loose End continues that streak, offering indie filmmakers a model for genre-bending character work on a border where identity is negotiable and second chances come with no guarantees.

The boutique fitness craze looked like enlightenment from the outside. Inside, it was ambition, betrayal, and a whole lot of sweat.

Philip Byron’s documentary “Spin Wars” traces the cutthroat origins of the indoor cycling boom that turned SoulCycle, Flywheel, and Peloton into household names and billion-dollar companies. The film premiered at Tribeca Festival and releases this December.

Byron, who also wrote the film with James Thayer, pulls back the curtain on the “mind, body, soul” culture that promised transformation but delivered something darker. The doc features interviews with Katie Couric, comedians Heather McMahan and Mary Beth Barone, writer Jill Kargman, and performers Anna Roisman and Brandon Kyle Goodman.

Jillian A. Goldstein produced alongside Byron.

For indie filmmakers tackling stories about massive corporate empires, “Spin Wars” shows how personal testimonies and cultural commentary can expose the contradictions behind wellness brands. The film arrives as audiences continue questioning what companies sell versus what they actually deliver, especially when billion-dollar valuations are on the line.