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Heineken Audience Award Winner
[HAUDI] Awards Screenings
Unknown, 2010, 100 min
At this screening of the Heineken Audience Award First Place Winner, you'll get to see the film voted the best of the best by your fellow filmgoers. It may make you laugh, it may make you cry, but—with more than 60,000 votes cast—you'd better believe it's going to be good. Read More
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[HAUDI] Awards Screenings
Unknown, 2010, 100 min
At this screening of the Heineken Audience Award First Place Winner, you'll get to see the film voted the best of the best by your fellow filmgoers. It may make you laugh, it may make you cry, but—with more than 60,000 votes cast—you'd better believe it's going to be good. Read More
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Shorts: Between the Lines
[SBETW]
Program, 2010, 101 min
Things aren’t always as they appear in these short narrative films.
In Roots in Water three estranged siblings reunite following the death of the mother to settle unfinished emotional business. Khani is faced with an overwhelming task by the wealthy family he serves in The Pool Party. Two slackers seek a solution to their financial problems with the help of a guru in The Third Rule. Father and daughter connect and converse in Brucie. A young girl’s low self-esteem is redeemed in Father Christmas Doesn’t Come Here. A couple in crisis find their way to a desert motel in Bastard. Discover why the chicken did cross the road in Athena. Read More
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[SBETW]
Program, 2010, 101 min
Things aren’t always as they appear in these short narrative films.
In Roots in Water three estranged siblings reunite following the death of the mother to settle unfinished emotional business. Khani is faced with an overwhelming task by the wealthy family he serves in The Pool Party. Two slackers seek a solution to their financial problems with the help of a guru in The Third Rule. Father and daughter connect and converse in Brucie. A young girl’s low self-esteem is redeemed in Father Christmas Doesn’t Come Here. A couple in crisis find their way to a desert motel in Bastard. Discover why the chicken did cross the road in Athena. Read More
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Shorts: Experimental Collisions
[SEXPE]
Program, 93 min
Interests: Experimental
Dynamic editing rhythms infuse these found footage, animation, and live-action experimental movies.
The filmmakers portray the human figure and the physical environment with a riveting array of avant-garde techniques. These range from mirror images to extended tracking shots that lead directly into the mind’s eye. In experimental cinema, everything culminates in abstract patterns ingrained in the landscape of the film frame. Films include: Grandmother’s Eye, Release, Walkway, Lachen Verlernt, This disk is the same as the other one, Collision of Parts, Berlin, The Delicate Art of the Bludgeon, BLACK WHITE BLACK WHITE, and The Visible and Invisible of a Body Under Tension. Read More
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[SEXPE]
Program, 93 min
Interests: Experimental
Dynamic editing rhythms infuse these found footage, animation, and live-action experimental movies.
The filmmakers portray the human figure and the physical environment with a riveting array of avant-garde techniques. These range from mirror images to extended tracking shots that lead directly into the mind’s eye. In experimental cinema, everything culminates in abstract patterns ingrained in the landscape of the film frame. Films include: Grandmother’s Eye, Release, Walkway, Lachen Verlernt, This disk is the same as the other one, Collision of Parts, Berlin, The Delicate Art of the Bludgeon, BLACK WHITE BLACK WHITE, and The Visible and Invisible of a Body Under Tension. Read More
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Shorts: Hard Core
[SHARD]
Program, 88 min
Interests: New York
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[SHARD]
Program, 88 min
Interests: New York
Our New York, New York program returns with strong characters set in the city that can make you or break you.
Sometimes it takes an antihero to clean up the streets in Something in the Air. A young man finds a safe space between the present and the afterlife In Space. The 1940s jazz milieu sets the stage for a composer and his consequences in Billy and Aaron. The situation: three boys from Queens, a missing wallet and a prostitute named Cookie. In Bedford Park Boulevard, 15-year-old Byron struggles to outwit a school system that seems against him. Discover where the location is in F--K. Being a good neighbor brings about some bizarre consequences to a couple of The New Tenants.
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Shorts: Identity Theft
[SIDEN]
Program, 2010, 95 min
Questions about who you are and what you want abound in these short films.
The breakup happens but the break does not in some boys don’t leave. When Ardal challenges Miss Purdy’s boyfriend to a dual for her affection, 2nd grade will never be the same in The Crush. After their crappy high school team loses the big game (again), a football player and a band geek confront each other on the way home in Poi Dogs. A vinyl Record evokes memories of the past. An amusement park summer leads to life lessons in Loop Planes. A soldier father and his young son share a shave and say goodbye before a military mission in Kiss. A tattooed gang member’s outlook on life is changed forever when he takes a Day Trip. While under house arrest, Mauro is taunted by three local boys through his window in Arena. Read More
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[SIDEN]
Program, 2010, 95 min
Questions about who you are and what you want abound in these short films.
The breakup happens but the break does not in some boys don’t leave. When Ardal challenges Miss Purdy’s boyfriend to a dual for her affection, 2nd grade will never be the same in The Crush. After their crappy high school team loses the big game (again), a football player and a band geek confront each other on the way home in Poi Dogs. A vinyl Record evokes memories of the past. An amusement park summer leads to life lessons in Loop Planes. A soldier father and his young son share a shave and say goodbye before a military mission in Kiss. A tattooed gang member’s outlook on life is changed forever when he takes a Day Trip. While under house arrest, Mauro is taunted by three local boys through his window in Arena. Read More
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Shorts: Wishful Thinking
[SWISH]
Program, 2010, 102 min
Characters are confronted by decisions and indecision in this narrative program.
In A Border Story, a Mexican immigrant and a young American boy try to survive the remote desert. A young woman attempts to regain both her mother’s trust and her daughter’s love in Delilah, Before. Hold your breath when three teenage boys break into their school in The Pool. Recent retiree Edgar feels unneeded by society until he hatches a plan to change his life. A timid soundman teams up with a goth girl to get back what is rightfully his in Epic Fail. After a faked suicide attempt Jay accepts visits from her well-meaning friends in Cried Suicide. At The Wake of his best friend’s father, a loser and a little boy form an unlikely friendship. More than champagne is uncorked on New Year’s Eve for Zelda at The Dinner Party. Read More
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[SWISH]
Program, 2010, 102 min
Characters are confronted by decisions and indecision in this narrative program.
In A Border Story, a Mexican immigrant and a young American boy try to survive the remote desert. A young woman attempts to regain both her mother’s trust and her daughter’s love in Delilah, Before. Hold your breath when three teenage boys break into their school in The Pool. Recent retiree Edgar feels unneeded by society until he hatches a plan to change his life. A timid soundman teams up with a goth girl to get back what is rightfully his in Epic Fail. After a faked suicide attempt Jay accepts visits from her well-meaning friends in Cried Suicide. At The Wake of his best friend’s father, a loser and a little boy form an unlikely friendship. More than champagne is uncorked on New Year’s Eve for Zelda at The Dinner Party. Read More
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Third Babelgum Online Film Festival Selects
[BABEL] Special Events
Program, 2010,
This eclectic shorts program showcases winners of the Stoli Emerging Filmmaker Award and the 3rd Babelgum Online Film Festival, created to celebrate and reward the very best in international independent short filmmaking. Chaired by film-world luminaries Richard Linklater, Sally Potter, Jean-Pierre Bekoto, Annie Sundberg, Eric Watson, Jason Wishnow, and Carlos Battilana, the screening is scheduled to include winners and runners-up in four categories: Narrative Shorts (story-based, fictional, live-action films in any genre); Animation (stop-motion, anime, hand-drawn, CGI, paper-cut, etc); Documentary (observational, narrated, real-life storytelling); and Nonnarrative Shorts (live-action artists' film and video); plus the Best Viral Short and BOFF 3 grand prize winner. -Brought to you by Stoli Read More
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[BABEL] Special Events
Program, 2010,
This eclectic shorts program showcases winners of the Stoli Emerging Filmmaker Award and the 3rd Babelgum Online Film Festival, created to celebrate and reward the very best in international independent short filmmaking. Chaired by film-world luminaries Richard Linklater, Sally Potter, Jean-Pierre Bekoto, Annie Sundberg, Eric Watson, Jason Wishnow, and Carlos Battilana, the screening is scheduled to include winners and runners-up in four categories: Narrative Shorts (story-based, fictional, live-action films in any genre); Animation (stop-motion, anime, hand-drawn, CGI, paper-cut, etc); Documentary (observational, narrated, real-life storytelling); and Nonnarrative Shorts (live-action artists' film and video); plus the Best Viral Short and BOFF 3 grand prize winner. -Brought to you by Stoli Read More
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Tribeca Talks: A Conversation with Julian Schnabel
[JSCHN] Tribeca Talks
Panel, 2010, 75 min
Julian Schnabel, renowned artist and director of Basquiat, Before Night Falls, The Diving Bell and The Butterfly, and Lou Reed's Berlin (TFF '07) will discuss his previous work and show a clip from his new film, Miral, due out this fall. In conversation with Geoff Gilmore, Chief Creative Officer of Tribeca Enterprises. Read More
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[JSCHN] Tribeca Talks
Panel, 2010, 75 min
Julian Schnabel, renowned artist and director of Basquiat, Before Night Falls, The Diving Bell and The Butterfly, and Lou Reed's Berlin (TFF '07) will discuss his previous work and show a clip from his new film, Miral, due out this fall. In conversation with Geoff Gilmore, Chief Creative Officer of Tribeca Enterprises. Read More
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Australia
The Wake
[SWISH] Shorts in Competition: Narrative
Short Narrative, 2009, 7 min
Directed by: Gemma Lee
Plays In: Shorts: Wishful Thinking
Interests: Comedy, Drama, TFF Virtual
At The Wake of his best friend's father, a loser and a little boy form an unlikely friendship. Read More
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[SWISH] Shorts in Competition: Narrative
Short Narrative, 2009, 7 min
Directed by: Gemma Lee
Plays In: Shorts: Wishful Thinking
Interests: Comedy, Drama, TFF Virtual
At The Wake of his best friend's father, a loser and a little boy form an unlikely friendship. Read More
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Belgium
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My Queen Karo
[MYQUE] Showcase
Feature Narrative, 2009, 101 min
Directed by: Dorothée van den Berghe
Interests: Coming of Age, Drama, Female Director(s)
In Dorothée van den Berghe's (Girl) beautiful and touching coming-of-age story, 10-year-old Karo moves with her parents Raven and Dalia to a vibrant and carefree squatter's commune in 1970s Amsterdam. But when Raven's relationship with a new woman fractures their family and threatens the commune's utopia, both Raven's lofty ideals and Karo's childish innocence will be challenged by the messy realities of human emotion. Read More
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[MYQUE] Showcase
Feature Narrative, 2009, 101 min
Directed by: Dorothée van den Berghe
Interests: Coming of Age, Drama, Female Director(s)
In Dorothée van den Berghe's (Girl) beautiful and touching coming-of-age story, 10-year-old Karo moves with her parents Raven and Dalia to a vibrant and carefree squatter's commune in 1970s Amsterdam. But when Raven's relationship with a new woman fractures their family and threatens the commune's utopia, both Raven's lofty ideals and Karo's childish innocence will be challenged by the messy realities of human emotion. Read More
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Bosnia and Herzegovina
Buried Land
[BURIE] World Narrative Feature Competition
Feature Narrative, 2009, 86 min
Directed by: Geoffrey Alan Rhodes and Steven Eastwood
Interests: Drama, Eastern European, Identity, Mystery, TFF Virtual
The small town of Visoko heralds to the world a remarkable discovery: A valley of ancient pyramids predating Egypt exists under the hills of central Bosnia. Tourists flood the war-scarred region, and locals are caught between the real and the imagined (mirroring the film's vacillation between documentary and fiction). With the help of a young man returning to his homeland, an American film crew determines the role of faith in capturing what can not yet be proven. Read More
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[BURIE] World Narrative Feature Competition
Feature Narrative, 2009, 86 min
Directed by: Geoffrey Alan Rhodes and Steven Eastwood
Interests: Drama, Eastern European, Identity, Mystery, TFF Virtual
The small town of Visoko heralds to the world a remarkable discovery: A valley of ancient pyramids predating Egypt exists under the hills of central Bosnia. Tourists flood the war-scarred region, and locals are caught between the real and the imagined (mirroring the film's vacillation between documentary and fiction). With the help of a young man returning to his homeland, an American film crew determines the role of faith in capturing what can not yet be proven. Read More
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Brazil
Elvis & Madona
[ELVIS] Discovery
Feature Narrative, 2010, 105 min
Directed by: Marcelo Laffitte
Interests: Comedy, LGBT, Latin American, Romance
The lives of a beautiful biker babe and a tall blonde drag performer intertwine in this vibrant Rio-set romantic comedy. Elvis is an aspiring young photographer delivering pizzas to make ends meet. Madona's plans for a spectacular drag show have just been dashed when her rotten sometime lover steals all her money. When they meet by chance, Elvis and Madona's unlikely love will help them chase their dreams and deal with the obstacles that arise along the way. Read More
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[ELVIS] Discovery
Feature Narrative, 2010, 105 min
Directed by: Marcelo Laffitte
Interests: Comedy, LGBT, Latin American, Romance
The lives of a beautiful biker babe and a tall blonde drag performer intertwine in this vibrant Rio-set romantic comedy. Elvis is an aspiring young photographer delivering pizzas to make ends meet. Madona's plans for a spectacular drag show have just been dashed when her rotten sometime lover steals all her money. When they meet by chance, Elvis and Madona's unlikely love will help them chase their dreams and deal with the obstacles that arise along the way. Read More
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Canada
Berlin
[SEXPE] Shorts in Competition: Narrative
Short Narrative, 2010, 8 min
Directed by: Martin Laporte
Interests: Experimental, Returning Filmmaker
A journey in Berlin. Read More
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[SEXPE] Shorts in Competition: Narrative
Short Narrative, 2010, 8 min
Directed by: Martin Laporte
Interests: Experimental, Returning Filmmaker
A journey in Berlin. Read More
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Best New Narrative Filmmaker Award Winner
[NARFM] Awards Screenings
Feature Narrative, 2010, 100 min
One of the goals of the Tribeca Film Festival has always been to seek out and encourage new talent and bold visions from every corner of the globe. Get your tickets now to see the first or second narrative feature from an emerging filmmaker chosen as the best of the Fest by a jury of internationally acclaimed filmmakers. Read More
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[NARFM] Awards Screenings
Feature Narrative, 2010, 100 min
One of the goals of the Tribeca Film Festival has always been to seek out and encourage new talent and bold visions from every corner of the globe. Get your tickets now to see the first or second narrative feature from an emerging filmmaker chosen as the best of the Fest by a jury of internationally acclaimed filmmakers. Read More
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Cairo Time
[CAIRO] Spotlight
Feature Narrative, 2009, 88 min
Directed by: Ruba Nadda
Interests: Adventure, Drama, Female Director(s), Middle Eastern, Romance
In this graceful cross-cultural love story, a happily married woman (Patricia Clarkson) is separated from her husband in the overwhelming city of Cairo. While waiting for his return, she experiences the unique beauty of Egypt with his friend (Alexander Siddig). As their tender friendship blossoms, a series of small yet profound moments changes both of their worlds forever. Read More
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[CAIRO] Spotlight
Feature Narrative, 2009, 88 min
Directed by: Ruba Nadda
Interests: Adventure, Drama, Female Director(s), Middle Eastern, Romance
In this graceful cross-cultural love story, a happily married woman (Patricia Clarkson) is separated from her husband in the overwhelming city of Cairo. While waiting for his return, she experiences the unique beauty of Egypt with his friend (Alexander Siddig). As their tender friendship blossoms, a series of small yet profound moments changes both of their worlds forever. Read More
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