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Showing 210 Films from the festival year 2012
Apple Store Panel: Your Sister's Sister
Apple Store Panel: Your Sister's Sister
Join director Lynn Shelton (Humpday) for a discussion of her new film, Your Sister's Sister. The story begins when Iris (Emily ...
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Asad
Asad
A 12-year-old boy in a war-torn fishing village in Somalia must decide between falling into the pirate life or rising above to ...
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As Luck Would Have It
As Luck Would Have It
The economy has kept Roberto (José Mota) out of work for a long time. When a freak accident puts him at the center of a media f...
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Avant-Garde Masters: A Decade of Film Preservation
Avant-Garde Masters: A Decade of Film Preservation
The Avant-Garde Masters grants were created in 2003 by the National Film Preservation Foundation and The Film Foundation to pre...
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B61
B61
Each morning Vincent, a down-on-his-luck New Yorker, waits at the B61 bus stop, but when mysterious Sal joins him, an unlikely ...
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Babygirl
Babygirl
For as long as she can remember, Bronx teenager Lena has watched her mom Lucy squander her life on a series of deadbeat men. Wh...
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Bad Gones
Bad Gones
When a man brings his eight-year-old son to a soccer game and the ticket price is higher than he expected, he is desperate not ...
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Ballroom Dancer
Ballroom Dancer
In 2000, Slavik Kryklyvyy became the World Latin American Dance Champion. Enduring success seemed assured, but instead Slavik's...
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BAM150
BAM150
Go behind the scenes like never before at BAM, the nation's oldest performing arts center. Featuring footage of recent BAM perf...
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Barcelona
Barcelona
A musical journey in the architecture of Barcelona. Screening as part of the Shorts: Journeys Across Cultural Landscapes prog...
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Baseball in the Time of Cholera
Baseball in the Time of Cholera
As the cholera epidemic rages in Haiti and the UN denies responsibility for introducing the disease despite mounting evidence, ...
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Beauty Culture
Beauty Culture
Beauty Culture investigates our obsession with beauty and the influence of photographic representations on female body image an...
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Benji
Benji
In 1984, 17-year-old Ben Wilson was a symbol of everything promising about Chicago: a sweet-natured youngster from the city's f...
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Best Cinematography - Narrative Award
Best Cinematography - Narrative Award
Fed up with catering to the privileged tourist class, Cuban teens Raul and Elio are tantalized by the promise of a new life in ...
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Best Editing - Documentary Award
Best Editing - Documentary Award
At age 98, director Arnon Goldfinger's grandmother passed away, leaving him the task of clearing out the Tel Aviv flat that she...
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Best New Documentary Director Award
Best New Documentary Director Award
Mysticism and color reign in this stunning documentary steeped in the fishermen lore of Kenya. Revisiting a childhood fairy tal...
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Best New Narrative Director Award
Best New Narrative Director Award
Fed up with catering to the privileged tourist class, Cuban teens Raul and Elio are tantalized by the promise of a new life in ...
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Best Online Feature Award Winner
Best Online Feature Award Winner
Achieving greatness in high school wrestling requires a level of devotion unmatched perhaps by any other sport. That greatness ...
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Best Screenplay - Narrative Award
Best Screenplay - Narrative Award
Professional poker player Uriel has been on a real hot streak—with the ladies—since his marriage fizzled out. But in between gr...
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Beyond the Hill
Beyond the Hill
Faik, a proud old forester, is having trouble with nomads grazing their livestock on his land. For revenge, he and his hulking ...
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BFF
BFF
Jack and Jill have been "best friends forever," and when Jill suspects that her boyfriend is cheating on her, Jack offers to he...
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Booker's Place: A Mississippi Story
Booker's Place: A Mississippi Story
While filming a documentary on racism in Mississippi in 1965, Frank De Felitta forever changed the life of an African-American ...
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Broke
Broke
More money, more problems. Sucked into bad investments, stalked by freeloaders, saddled with medical problems, and naturally pr...
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BURN
BURN
Detroit is burning. Meet the men and women charged with saving the once-roaring American city that many have written off as dea...
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Café Regular, Cairo
Café Regular, Cairo
A couple's relationship goes through its first big test in a crowded spot in Café Regular Cairo. Screening as part of the Sho...
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