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Showing 246 Films from the festival year 2006
Surviving 7th Grade
Surviving 7th Grade
Seventh-graders Kim and Dara are best friends. One day, while hanging out at a local playground, their classmate Marc shows up ...
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Swan's Island
Swan's Island
A dance between camera operator and subject, Swan's Island profiles artist Katy Martin, who covers herself with blue paint and ...
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Taking Father Home
Taking Father Home
Filled with bitterness and a thirst for revenge, a 17-year-old boy leaves his rural Chinese village to seek out the father who ...
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Tell Me Do You Miss Me
Tell Me Do You Miss Me
For over a decade, New York darlings Luna played lullabies for the indie set, but in 2004 they hung up their guitars for good. ...
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TFF Juror Lunch and Portraits
TFF Juror Lunch and Portraits
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TFI Youth Programs Panel
TFI Youth Programs Panel
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The 100% Perfect Girl
The 100% Perfect Girl
A melancholic fairy tale exploring the possibility/impossibility of perfect love. An anonymous boy believes that he's met "the ...
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The Architect
The Architect
Based on Scottish playwright David Greig's The Architect, Tauber's debut feature pits an architect (Anthony LaPaglia) against a...
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The Backbrace
The Backbrace
Puberty is embarrassing, particularly if you're a teenage boy with scoliosis and your parents force you to wear a backbrace. Th...
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The Big Bad Swim
The Big Bad Swim
An eclectic assortment of non-swimmers gather at the local rec center swimming class in this ensemble piece about conquering fe...
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The Big Combo
The Big Combo
The UCLA Film & Television Archive's new restoration of this memorably nasty film noir is especially good news since it was...
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The Biology of King Kong
The Biology of King Kong
Peter Jackson's special-effects extravaganza presents one of the most realistic movie monsters in cinematic history, but could ...
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The Blood of My Brother
The Blood of My Brother
Thoughts of revenge are tempered by more practical concerns in The Blood of My Brother, which shows the war in Iraq from the pe...
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The Bracelet
The Bracelet
A slacker's life is saved from a robot revolution when he purchases a Live Strong-inspired rubber bracelet in support of the ro...
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The Bridge
The Bridge
In this bold and thought-provoking documentary about suicide and its complex aftermath, Steel spends from dusk until dawn filmi...
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The Canary Effect
The Canary Effect
This visually powerful documentary explores the horrific abuses enacted on Native Americans throughout history, abuses which me...
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The Case of the Grinning Cat
The Case of the Grinning Cat
Only cinema's greatest essayist would dare combine a personal glance at French (and world) politics of the first few years of t...
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The Cats of Mirikitani
The Cats of Mirikitani
Jimmy Mirikitani is a fiercely independent, homeless 80-year-old Japanese-American artist who lost family and friends to both W...
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The Cell Phone
The Cell Phone
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The Dignity of the Nobodies
The Dignity of the Nobodies
Following his analysis in A Social Genocide (TFF 2004) of globalization's role in Argentina's economic disaster, this master of...
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The Elephant King
The Elephant King
This pensive, artfully crafted drama by 2004 TFF Best Short Winner Grossman explores the twisted symbiosis between two American...
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The Fall of Troy
The Fall of Troy
This early historical fresco prefigures Pastrone's 1914 masterwork Cabiria.
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The Flowers of St. Francis
The Flowers of St. Francis
Roberto Rossellini's delicate mediation of the life of St. Francis of Assisi, whom we follow from his immersion in religion to ...
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The Free Will
The Free Will
This sometimes shockingly graphic German film delves into the dark and complex world of Theo, a convicted rapist released from ...
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The Green Hat
The Green Hat
The 2005 Grand Jury Prizewinner is a startling break with the historical and political concerns of recent Chinese cinema, notew...
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