Shorts Block: New York Times Op-Docs

Op-Docs is the New York Times’ award-winning series of short-form documentaries by independent filmmakers. Always a Doc Stories highlight, this year’s selection explores the history behind the French Laundry, Mardi Gras traditions, a unique neurological condition that prevents the brain from processing faces, the complexity of entrepreneurial endeavors in contemporary China, along with ruminations on life and loss that expose a universal hope for a beautiful future.