Archived Festival Film

Flow

Made with painted 16mm and 35mm filmstrips as well as digitally manipulated and live video footage, Flow is a meditation on the seasonal flow of the streams and rivers of central Texas. Director Scott Nyerges seamlessly combines his knowledge of e... read more

Archived Festival Film

Choking Man

The social anxiety of a morbidly shy Ecuadorian dishwasher working in a Queens diner provides the psychological engine that powers this intense blend of drama and magical realism from the famed music video director. Newcomer Octavio Gómez Berríos ... read more

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Journey to the End of the Night

São Paulo, Brazil, is considered one of the most dangerous cities in the world. But it is there, in the city's underworld of sex, drugs, money, and corruption that a father and son plan to finally shrug off the drudgery of their everyday lives. Br... read more

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Secrets of the Code

This spiritual road-trip follows the real-life path of Dan Brown's book The Da Vinci Code. Interweaving the themes and ideas of the novel, Secrets of the Code explores the past and the present-and holds out hope for the future. The festival will ... read more

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Fat Girls

In this wry comedy from a 20-year-old director and leading man, teenager Rodney copes with his unfulfilled desires for a boyfriend and Broadway stardom while stuck in his dusty Texas town. Trusty sidekick Sabrina has a weight problem, but accordin... read more

Tribeca Film

Road, Movie

Loath to take over the family hair-oil business, young Vishnu jumps at the chance to drive his uncle's beat-up Chevy truck across India to its new owner. The young runaway, wandering old entertainer, and beautiful woman he picks up along the way m... read more

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Tribeca Talks Industry - Talking With Pictures

There are a million and one ways to tell a story, and twice as many stories to tell. Whether it's a comedy, romance, noir, horror, or sci-fi, the look of a film has a major role in determining and defining the tone. But does the visual style defin... read more

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Tribeca Talks: Pen to Paper hosted by Barnes & Noble Union Square -- Illustrating History

It's one thing to write a film based on a book or play, but when your subject is a real person, the attention to detail from script to screen is supreme. Movie magic can bring history to life, but some filmmakers change the way we look at the trad... read more

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Tribeca Talks: Pen to Paper hosted by Barnes & Noble Union Square -- New York Stories

Shaped by the sights, sounds, and characters abuzz in its boroughs, New York is the antithesis of a cookie-cutter city. How do filmmakers approach this ever-changing landscape to render our hometown and its ultra-contrasting neighborhoods? Panelis... read more

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Tribeca Talks: A Conversation with Julian Schnabel

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 conver... read more

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Tribeca Talks Industry - Docs Doing It Right

Documentary filmmaking is no walk in the park. The demanding conditions, inexhaustible research, mobile subjects, and sometimes impossible access is enough to make any documentarian's head spin. Even the most weathered of the bunch will run into o... read more

Archived Festival Film

Lottery

The Lottery interlaces four families' stories in the months leading up to the high-stakes, low-odds lottery for one of the most successful schools in New York. Set against the backdrop of the highly politicized battle over the future of Ame... read more

Archived Festival Film

Beyond the Playing Field: ESPN and the Future of Sports Filmmaking

In two short years, ESPN Films has become an industry heavyweight in the genre of sports filmmaking. Beginning in 2008 with the Peabody-winning documentary Black Magic and continuing with the ambitious launch of 30 for 30, the unprec... read more

Archived Festival Film

2 Days in Paris

Actress Julie Delpy (Before Sunrise) writes, directs, edits, produces, stars in and even composes music for her crowd-pleasing directorial debut. With a snappy comic edge, the story revolves around Marion bringing her American boyfriend Jack (Adam... read more

Archived Festival Film

Planet B-Boy

A powerful documentary about the vibrant global resurgence of break-dancing, Planet B-Boy goes inside the underground hip- hop dance scenes around the world, as the best crews prepare for the "The Battle of the Year" -- an annual "World Cup" of b-... read more

Archived Festival Film

Chops

Each year, Jazz at Lincoln Center and its artistic director, Wynton Marsalis, host the prestigious Essentially Ellington Festival, a competition of high school jazz bands from across the country. This toe-tapping and empowering documentary focuses... read more

Archived Festival Film

Playing the Victim

In this black-humored Russian Hamlet by one of Moscow's top theater directors, a young slacker receives nocturnal visits from his father's ghost and literally "plays the victim" in crime reconstruction videos. Observing a farcical justice system w... read more

Archived Festival Film

Bubble

Three roommates treat their hip Tel Aviv neighborhood like their own chic paradise, relatively sheltered from Israeli-Palestinian conflicts. But when an Israeli boy meets an Palestinian boy at a border checkpoint, this artificial bubble bursts. Di... read more

Archived Festival Film

My Best Friend

After business associates chide him for his indifference to other people, high-powered art dealer François (Daniel Auteuil) is challenged to produce an actual friend in only ten days, or lose a valued vase. His search sets off a witty and thoughtf... read more

Archived Festival Film

Business of Being Born

In this candid and eye-opening documentary, director Epstein and producer Ricki Lake explore and question the way American women have babies. Shocking facts (to men and women alike) regarding the historical and current practices of the child birth... read more

Archived Festival Film

Man of Two Havanas

Growing up in Miami, the director witnessed drive-by shootings and death threats directed toward her father, a former friend of Fidel Castro and opponent of the embargo. Using never-before-heard CIA audiotapes and fascinating interviews with her ... read more

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Warm, Comforting Home

Using 1960s-era home movies of the filmmaker as well as quotes and events from her life, director Annette Apitz examines her complicated relationship with her mother. read more

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Normal Adolescent Behavior

A darkly comic look at precocious teens grappling with sex, excess and alienation. Avoiding the high school party scene and random hookups, Wendy (Amber Tamblyn) and her friends form a clique that claims a more fluid sexuality. Schacter's director... read more

Archived Festival Film

Still Life

This poignant human drama is set against a surreal, metaphorically loaded backdrop--a Yangtze town that will soon be submerged by the Three Gorges Dam. Like the director's other films (Platform, Unknown Pleasures, The World), it's an empathetic po... read more

Archived Festival Film

Last Train

Lost in the snows of Russia during the final bitter winter of World War II, a German Army surgeon trudges from one surreal encounter to another. Oleg Lukichev's stark black-and-white cinematography captures all the misery and brutality of Eastern ... read more