Desperation: Last Train Home
By Kristin McCracken
As Lixin Fan's understated doc depicts the chaos surrounding the annual migration of 130 million workers in China, it also tells the devastating story of one family’s choices and their hope for the future.
New York Story: Prince of Broadway
By Kristin McCracken
Prince Adu will warm your heart as Lucky, the star of Sean Baker’s gritty—and funny!—tale of love, survival, and knockoffs in the wholesale district.
Super Shorts: Sparrow Songs
By Elisabeth Donnelly
With shorts ranging from Porn Star Karaoke to The Donut Shop, the team behind Sparrow Songs—TFF alum Alex Jablonski and Michael Totten—prove they're filmmakers to watch.
Public Enemy #1: Vincent Cassel as Jacques Mesrine
French gangster Jacques Mesrine was notorious for robbing banks, breaking out of prison, and hiding behind ingenious disguises. Meet this real-life Man of a Thousand Faces in Jean-Francois Richet's diptych biopic.
The Tillman Story: Amir Bar-Lev
By Kristin McCracken
When NFL star Pat Tillman was killed in the war in Afghanistan, a controversial cover-up followed. Amir Bar-Lev’s doc shines a light on his family’s fight to expose the truth.
Soul Kitchen: Fatih Akin
By Kristin McCracken
Director Fatih Akin follows up Head-On and The Edge of Heaven with a comedy about food, family, and gentrification in Hamburg. It’s a delightful dish!
Lovely Rita: The Sicilian Girl
By Kristin McCracken
Meet Rita Atria, an unlikely heroine of Sicily, in Marco Amenta's biopic. We guess you could call her the anti-Godfather.
Salt of This Sea: Annemarie Jacir
Annemarie Jacir's award-winning directorial debut (TFF 2009) represents a fresh, viscerally affecting, and definitive statement from second-generation Palestinian Americans.
Crime Down Under: Animal Kingdom
By Nathaniel Rogers
You may not know who Ben Mendelsohn is just yet, but you will soon, as David Michôd's Australian crime drama is about to explode onto American screens.
