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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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Afghanistan
Zolykha's Secret
[ZOLYK]
Feature Narrative, 2007, 128 min
Interests: Drama, History, Islam, Politics, Religion, Violence, War
A deeply moving account of a rural Afghan family struggling to eke out an existence during the brutal final years of Taliban rule - and the beginning of the new war that still rages. This is the first Afghan-produced feature to make it to the West since Osama won the 2004 Golden Globe for Best Foreign Film. Read More
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[ZOLYK]
Feature Narrative, 2007, 128 min
Interests: Drama, History, Islam, Politics, Religion, Violence, War
A deeply moving account of a rural Afghan family struggling to eke out an existence during the brutal final years of Taliban rule - and the beginning of the new war that still rages. This is the first Afghan-produced feature to make it to the West since Osama won the 2004 Golden Globe for Best Foreign Film. Read More
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Algeria
Algeria, Unspoken Stories
[ALGER] Showcase
Feature Documentary, 2007, 160 min
Directed by: Jean-Pierre Lledo
Interests: Documentary, History, Islam, Politics, Violence, War
Moods: Crusading, Existential, Investigative, Spiritual
Unearthing buried memories of Algeria’s war of independence, this bold revision of official history feels like the embrace of a lost kin. Its challenge to nationalism built on ethnicity and religion has resulted in its continued failure to receive the license that would allow Algerians to see it. Read More
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[ALGER] Showcase
Feature Documentary, 2007, 160 min
Directed by: Jean-Pierre Lledo
Interests: Documentary, History, Islam, Politics, Violence, War
Moods: Crusading, Existential, Investigative, Spiritual
Unearthing buried memories of Algeria’s war of independence, this bold revision of official history feels like the embrace of a lost kin. Its challenge to nationalism built on ethnicity and religion has resulted in its continued failure to receive the license that would allow Algerians to see it. Read More
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Masquerades
[MASQU] Showcase
Feature Narrative, 2008, 90 min
Directed by: Lyes Salem
Interests: About Family, Comedy, Drama, Family Issues, Romance, Social Issues
Mounir desperately puts on some big-shot swagger for his small Algerian village by spinning a fantastical fib that involves his narcoleptic sister Rym's engagement to a European business mogul. As things unravel into a tangled mess of jealousy and irrepressible desire, surprising alliances form that fundamentally shift the way of life for his entire community. Read More
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[MASQU] Showcase
Feature Narrative, 2008, 90 min
Directed by: Lyes Salem
Interests: About Family, Comedy, Drama, Family Issues, Romance, Social Issues
Mounir desperately puts on some big-shot swagger for his small Algerian village by spinning a fantastical fib that involves his narcoleptic sister Rym's engagement to a European business mogul. As things unravel into a tangled mess of jealousy and irrepressible desire, surprising alliances form that fundamentally shift the way of life for his entire community. Read More
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Argentina
Blessed by Fire
[BLESS]
Feature Narrative, 2005, 103 min
Directed by: Tristán Bauer
Interests: Documentary
A former infantry mate's overdose sparks wartime memories for Esteban, who tries to reconcile his life today with the part of him that died along with his ideals and comrades in the Falklands/Malvinas War. The harrowing account from Argentine director Bauer, based on a memoir, reminds us that survivors keep fighting long after leaving the battlefield. Read More
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[BLESS]
Feature Narrative, 2005, 103 min
Directed by: Tristán Bauer
Interests: Documentary
A former infantry mate's overdose sparks wartime memories for Esteban, who tries to reconcile his life today with the part of him that died along with his ideals and comrades in the Falklands/Malvinas War. The harrowing account from Argentine director Bauer, based on a memoir, reminds us that survivors keep fighting long after leaving the battlefield. Read More
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Born and Bred
[BORNA]
Feature Narrative, 2006, 100 min
Directed by: Pablo Trapero
Interests: Drama, Latin American
When his life is shattered by a terrifying accident, a successful interior designer winds up in the desolate extremes of Patagonia, trying to find himself among other lost, disaffected men. Pablo Trapero's haunting film demonstrates why he is at the cutting edge of Argentina's most exciting cinema. Read More
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[BORNA]
Feature Narrative, 2006, 100 min
Directed by: Pablo Trapero
Interests: Drama, Latin American
When his life is shattered by a terrifying accident, a successful interior designer winds up in the desolate extremes of Patagonia, trying to find himself among other lost, disaffected men. Pablo Trapero's haunting film demonstrates why he is at the cutting edge of Argentina's most exciting cinema. Read More
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The Dignity of the Nobodies
[DIGNI]
Feature Documentary, 2005, 120 min
Interests: Documentary, Latin American, Politics
Following his analysis in A Social Genocide (TFF 2004) of globalization's role in Argentina's economic disaster, this master of the social documentary takes a more optimistic stance here. By celebrating the small, daily victories of thousands of "nobodies," he shows that individual and collective acts might be able to change the world after all. Read More
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[DIGNI]
Feature Documentary, 2005, 120 min
Interests: Documentary, Latin American, Politics
Following his analysis in A Social Genocide (TFF 2004) of globalization's role in Argentina's economic disaster, this master of the social documentary takes a more optimistic stance here. By celebrating the small, daily victories of thousands of "nobodies," he shows that individual and collective acts might be able to change the world after all. Read More
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The Fish Child
[FISHC] World Narrative Feature Competition
Feature Narrative, 2009, 96 min
Directed by: Lucía Puenzo
Interests: Adaptation, Drama, Family Issues, Female Director(s), LGBT, Latin American, Romance, Sex
Likened to a bold Argentine Thelma and Louise, Lucía Puenzo's follow-up to her Cannes winner XXY wraps a passionate love story in the arms of a pulsating thriller. When an upper-class Argentine falls for her family's sultry Paraguayan maid, the two make plans to run away together, but their hope for escape is derailed when shocking secrets become unveiled. Read More
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[FISHC] World Narrative Feature Competition
Feature Narrative, 2009, 96 min
Directed by: Lucía Puenzo
Interests: Adaptation, Drama, Family Issues, Female Director(s), LGBT, Latin American, Romance, Sex
Likened to a bold Argentine Thelma and Louise, Lucía Puenzo's follow-up to her Cannes winner XXY wraps a passionate love story in the arms of a pulsating thriller. When an upper-class Argentine falls for her family's sultry Paraguayan maid, the two make plans to run away together, but their hope for escape is derailed when shocking secrets become unveiled. Read More
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