Archived Festival Film

Abadan

Separated from but still emotionally attached to her husband, a woman searches desperately for her runaway father who is obsessed with going to Abadan, the oil-rich city destroyed in the war with Iraq. Aided by a remarkable cast, Haghighi's direct... read more

Archived Festival Film

Pornographer (a love story)

Indie stalwart (and Hal Hartley fixture) Martin Donovan shines in this cat-and-mouse tale of a tightly wound director who forges an obsessive relationship with an actress (Irene Jacob, winner of the 1991 Best Actress award at Cannes for her perfor... read more

Archived Festival Film

Crystal

A young woman is afflicted by a strange and rare disease that leads to painful crystals being produced in her eyelids and uterus. In her directorial debut, Akbari (lead actress in Abbas Kiarostami's Ten) transcends the sensational aspects of this ... read more

Archived Festival Film

War Is Over!

The prizewinning director of A Time for Drunken Horses and Marooned in Iraq went to Iraq immediately after Saddam's fall in an attempt to bring cinema back to a country where it had ceased to exist. This impromptu sketchbook of what he saw reveals... read more

Archived Festival Film

Torte Bluma

Director Benjamin Ross (The Young Poisoner's Handbook) manages to cram both history and style into this visually stunning and emotionally sobering short. Torte Bluma is inspired by a real-life episode that involved Franz Stangl, the German command... read more

Archived Festival Film

Yo Soy Boricua, Pa' Que Tu Lo Sepas! (I'm Boricua, Just So You Know!)

In her debut doc, the always sparkling Rosie Perez takes viewers down the route of New York City's Puerto Rican Day Parade and through an exploration of her heritage. Weaving snippets of family moments and the often bumpy history of the island, Pe... read more

Archived Festival Film

Debt

Two illegal Georgian immigrants from the former Soviet Union fight for their survival on the unforgiving streets of Brooklyn, New York. Shot entirely with a digital still photo camera, The Debt gives viewers an honest look into a private and often... read more

Archived Festival Film

She She She She's A Bombshell

During a long ride home from a punk show, a young boy fails to realize that sometimes incessant chatter about a girl can annoy even your closest friends. In this animated short, director Ben Levin quite literally draws from his childhood, which wa... read more

Archived Festival Film

Marion

Director Ry Russo-Young presents a film-as-art projection that puts a personalized and distinctly modern spin on the Hitchcock classic Psycho. Three separate women play Marion Crane--now immortalized by Janet Leigh and a certain shower scene--in t... read more

Archived Festival Film

Topor and Me

If you were a fan of the soft-core Emmanuelle films of the '70s, '80s, and '90s, then Dutch actress Sylvia Kristel was likely your own personal sex goddess. However, Kristel also happens to be an avid painter, and in her directorial debut she waxe... read more

Tribeca Film

Struck By Lightning

Even being killed by a bolt of lightning won't keep Carson Phillips quiet. A hyper-ambitious and outspoken high school senior in a small-minded town, Carson (Glee's Chris Colfer) narrates his own funeral and the last few weeks of his life t... read more

Archived Festival Film

Wah-Wah

Based on first-time director Grant's childhood in British-controlled Swaziland, Wah-Wah paints a picture of colonialism on the wane and frames it with the story of a boy's awakening to the wider world. Starring Gabriel Byrne, Miranda Richardson, a... read more

Tribeca Film

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 waiter and his family. More than 40 years later, Frank's son Raymond (director of City Island) returns to the sit... read more

Archived Festival Film

Women Workers Leaving the Factory

In Women Workers Leaving the Factory, director José Luis Torres does for factory girls, what Zola or Bruegel did for the common worker. Torres first shows us the dirty factory, where only women work at the production units. During their short brea... read more

Archived Festival Film

Illicit Networks: Portrayal Through Film

Tribeca Enterprises and Google Ideas team up for this unique free panel addressing Hollywood's portrayal of illicit networks that traffic everything from narcotics and weapons to body parts and human beings. Experts, law enforcement participants, ... read more

Archived Festival Film

Knuckleball!

This classic sports story recounts the trials and triumphs of two of the best known knuckleball pitchers in the MLB: Tim Wakefield, a Red Sox veteran who recently announced his retirement after 19 years, and R.A. Dickey, an up-and-comer with the M... read more

Archived Festival Film

Knife Fight

Rob Lowe is Paul Turner, a maverick political strategist struggling to keep his wayward clients—including a philandering Kentucky governor and a California senator being blackmailed—in office and out of the scandal sheets. This tightly... read more

Archived Festival Film

Girl

From the director of La Ciudad comes this moving drama about a single mother (Abbie Cornish) caught in emotional quicksand after losing her job and custody of her son. Desperate to earn cash for her custody battle, she makes the daring choi... read more

Archived Festival Film

World Before Her

Weaving together the seemingly opposing stories of the Miss India beauty pageant and a fundamentalist Hindu camp for girls, director Nisha Pahuja illuminates the situation of women across contemporary India, drawing surprising parallels in the way... read more

Archived Festival Film

FOCUS FORWARD - Short Films, Big Ideas

A man lives without a heartbeat. A facility harvests garbage for energy. A paraplegic sails the English Channel alone. Nine three-minute films from directors Jessica Yu, Nelson George, Michèle Ohayon, and more tell the amazing stories of innovator... read more

Archived Festival Film

Five-Year Engagement

The director and writer/star of Forgetting Sarah Marshall reteam for the irreverent comedy The Five-Year Engagement. Beginning where most romantic comedies end, the new film from director Nicholas Stoller and producers Judd Apatow (<... read more

Archived Festival Film

Flat

At age 98, director Arnon Goldfinger's grandmother passed away, leaving him the task of clearing out the Tel Aviv flat that she and her husband shared since immigrating to Palestine from Nazi Germany in the 1930s. In this emotionally riveting docu... read more

Archived Festival Film

Chicken with Plums

Nasser Ali Khan (Mathieu Amalric) is the most celebrated violin player in 1950s Tehran, but his heart is broken. His true love is long lost, his marriage is passionless, and now his most precious instrument has met its demise. Convinced life witho... read more

Archived Festival Film

100 Years of Universal

In celebration of 100 years of Universal Studios, join us for a conversation with iconic actor Robert De Niro and director Judd Apatow as they share their favorite moments and memories from Universal's extraordinary history. Moderate... read more

Archived Festival Film

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 farm hand Mehmet snatch a goat to butcher for a family holiday, unwittingly sparking a dire blood feud. Debuting Turkish... read more