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Carandiru

The acclaimed director of Pixote and Kiss of the Spider Woman dramatizes the 1992 prisoner revolt and massacre at Sao Paulo's infamous Carandiru penitentiary. A tender, forceful, and personal film for Babenco and ultimately an insightful metaphor ... read more

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Interpreter - A Conversation with Sydney Pollack

Join us for a conversation with Academy Award®-winning director Sydney Pollack, who seamlessly translates the craft of filmmaking both in front of and behind the camera. Pollack will discuss his new film, the first ever to be shot inside the Unite... read more

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Letter to True

Photographer-turned-director Weber composes a heartfelt visual diary incorporating his various interests and obsessions: old movies, war photography, the aftermath of September 11, and his five purebred dogs. An eclectic collage of footage, includ... read more

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Bush's Brain

Is Karl Rove the first co-president of the United States? This explosive documentary, based on the book of the same title by Wayne Slater and James C. Moore, casts a critical eye on the relationship between the White House political director and P... read more

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House of D

A man tries to resolve the turmoil of his present relationships by looking for keys to the past. He flashes back to his often hilarious and deeply touching teen escapades with his best friend (Robin Williams), a slow-witted janitor at his high sch... read more

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Mother

A recently widowed woman (Anne Reid) becomes involved with a much younger man, who had been dating her daughter, in this superbly acted drama from the director of Notting Hill. Alwin Kuchler's exquisite photography ably abets a screenplay by Hanif... read more

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Last Goodbye

A hot summer day in Atlanta is the setting for this exploration of the intersecting lives of a TV actress, a rock band, a lonely nobody, a young girl, and her father. As the day unfolds, a delusional bible salesman (David Carradine) and a pretenti... read more

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Sound Barrier

Jesse, an 11-year old deaf-mute boy, sets out to find an audio cassette his mother recorded shortly before her death, which may be locked in a storage room. The director of The Runner and Marathon portrays the boy's determined search as a heroic q... read more

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Irwin Winkler & the Political Thriller

Producer and director Irwin Winkler discusses crafting the political thriller with US News & World Report editor-in-chief Mort Zuckerman. He'll screen scenes from films such as Guilty by Suspicion, Music Box, and many more. read more

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Jailbait

In his directorial debut, LAByrinth Theater Company scribe Leonard offers an existential nightmare that rivals Neil LaBute's lyrical brutality. This claustrophobic prison drama reveals an unsettling emotional vulnerability at the core of a struggl... read more

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Tribeca Talks Industry: What You See Is What You Get

Sponsored by KodakBringing a story to the screen is no easy feat. First, there is the script, then finding the actors, the money, the crew (what exactly is a grip?)… It really does take a villa... read more

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Idiots and Angels

Oscar®-nominated animator Bill Plympton sketches a David Lynchian dark comedy about a morally bankrupt man scrabbling to hide the good in himself-which manifests itself in a pair of angel wings that just won't go away. read more

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Tribeca Talks Industry: Shane Meadows

Hosted by Skillset With more than 30 short films to his name, self-taught director, writer, and sometime actor Shane Meadows is one of the shining stars of British cinema. A 2008 BAFTA winner for This Is England... read more

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Confessionsofa Ex-Doofus-ItchyFooted Mutha

Melvin Van Peebles, still our most playfully inventive filmmaker after nearly 50 years, returns with a boisterous adventure that ranges from Harlem to the high seas, following the exploits of a man (MVP, natch) who's always on the move--but always... read more

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Tribeca Talks: Mike Figgis

Mike Figgis is still considered an “indie” film maverick. He was ahead of the digital filmmaking trend with 2000's Timecode, is a founding patron of the online community Shooting People, and created a stabilizer for digit... read more

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Telling a Bronx Tale

Almost 20 years ago, Chazz Palminteri wrote and starred in an Off-Broadway play based on his experiences growing up in the ’60s on the gritty streets of the Bronx. One man knew how best to bring Chazz’s remarkable story to the screen: ... read more

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Objective

The director of The Blair Witch Project brings his singular brand of suspense to an exhilarating integration of war and mystery, revolving around a precarious CIA mission in Afghanistan. Following the April 30th screening, American Exp... read more

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Days in Sintra

Deftly interspersing home movies with contemporary images, director Paula Gaitán creates a compelling voyage of discovery in her return to Sintra, Portugal on a search for memories of her late husband (the Brazilian filmmaker Glauber Rocha). read more

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Great Genius and Profound Stupidity

Director Benita Raphan "explores the twin concepts of genius and stupidity," focusing primarily on deaf and blind Helen Keller and itinerant mathematician Paul Erdős. read more

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Cottage

A kidnapping plot goes horribly awry when two brothers and their potty-mouthed hostage stumble into the wrong farmhouse in this gory horror-comedy from the director of London to Brighton. read more

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Head Wind

The government of the Islamic Republic of Iran does its best to restrict its citizens' access to information and media from the rest of the world. The award-winning director of Iron Island shows how Iranians demonstrate what we'd call "Yankee reso... read more

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Gotta Dance

Festival vet Berinstein (ShowBusiness, TFF '05) tells the inspirational story of the New Jersey NETSationals, the NBA's first senior citizen hiphop dance team. Against all odds, these energetic and dedicated seniors prove that even in their golden... read more

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Making Of

Bahta, 25, heads up a group of break dancers in Tunisia but after the eruption of hostilities in Iraq in 2003, he falls in with a group of fundamentalists, whose brainwashing is intended to make him a suicide bomber. In the framing story, the acto... read more

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Forging A Nation

Accompanied by his mother, cousins, aunts and uncles, the director retraces the steps of his Jewish ancestors, who fled Europe in the 1920's hoping to find in Argentina the land of their dreams. This poignant film journey uses the documentary as ... read more

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Invisibles

Giving voice to those silenced by international indifference, Academy Award®-nominated actor Javier Bardem teams with Doctors Without Borders to produce this powerful collection of short films. Five acclaimed directors shed light on heroic, yet un... read more