Archived Festival Film

1971

Forty years before WikiLeaks and the NSA scandal, there was Media, Pennsylvania. In 1971, eight activists plotted an intricate break-in to the local FBI offices to leak stolen documents and expose the illegal surveillance of ordinary Americans in ... read more

Archived Festival Film

Nesma's Birds

Awkward 11-year-old, Nesma, is at odds with the world around her since she began caring for her father’s pigeons after his death. Already facing pressure from her mother to get rid of the birds and continuing a bitter rivalry with the boy across t... read more

Archived Festival Film

All About Ann: Governor Richards of the Lone Star State

An unmissable documentary for any political junkie, All About Ann celebrates the achievements of larger-than-life Ann Richards, the first elected female governor of Texas. Her passion for social inclusivity made her one of the most powerful and pr... read more

Archived Festival Film

Acetate Diary

After receiving a difficult medical diagnosis, experimental filmmaker Russell Sheaffer decided to use a roll of 16mm film as a written diary. Projected, Acetate Diary is an expression of handmade sound and color. Examined as an object, the acetate... read more

Archived Festival Film

Venus in Fur

Thomas (Matthieu Almaric) is staging an adaptation of an obscure 19th century Austrian novel. Frustrated by the actresses he has auditioned, Thomas nearly gives up, when mysterious Vanda (Emmanuelle Seigner) arrives in his theater knowing eve... read more

Archived Festival Film

Human Voice

Set against the backdrop of Naples, Italy, in 1950, Human Voice, based on the iconic Jean Cocteau play of the same name, tells the story of Angela (Sophia Loren), a woman in her twilight years, who rides the emotional roller coaster of her last te... read more

Archived Festival Film

Super Duper Alice Cooper

Emerging from the Detroit music scene of the 1970s in a flurry of long hair and sequins, Alice Cooper restored showmanship to hard rock while simultaneously striking fear into the heart of Middle America with chicken-slaughtering, deadbaby-eating ... read more

Archived Festival Film

Showfolk

For seven Hollywood golden-era veterans with a combined age of 662, the show goes on. From a Vaudeville comedian still working at 100 to the stunning siren who dated Ronald Reagan when he was a Democrat, these showfolk, all living at the motion pi... read more

Archived Festival Film

Güeros

A water balloon dropping from the sky, exploding on a mother’s head, in the frantic first moments of this striking debut feature, announces its director, Alonso Ruizpalacios, as a bold new voice of Mexican cinema. Set amidst the 1999 student strik... read more

Archived Festival Film

Nae Pasaran

In a small Scottish town in 1974, factory workers refuse to carry out repairs on warplane engines in an act of solidarity against the violent military coup in Chile. Four years pass before the engines, left to rust in factory yard, mysteriously di... read more

Archived Festival Film

Silenced

Only 11 Americans have ever been charged under the Espionage Act of 1917; eight since President Obama took office. Oscar®-nominee James Spione returns to TFF with the incredible personal journeys of two of them, Thomas Drake and John Kiriakou... read more

Archived Festival Film

Carnada

The film follows a 13-year-old boy (Manny) from Tijuana as he embarks on his first drug smuggle across the 'Devil’s Highway,' a notoriously fatal stretch of desert on the Arizona/Mexico border. Screening in Shorts Program: read more

Tribeca Film

Maladies

A daring new film from internationally acclaimed multimedia artist Carter, MALADIES charts the struggles of an unstable former soap opera star (James Franco) in 1960’s New York as he tries to restart his floundering creative career. Hoping to find... read more

Tribeca Film

Sal

James Franco's Sal chronicles the final day in the life of actor Sal Mineo (Val Lauren), 1950s teen idol and an Academy Award® nominee for his roles in Rebel Without a Cause and Exodus. Almost two decades later, Mineo is no longer the marquee sens... read more

Archived Festival Film

Beetlejuice

Two just-arrived ghosts discover that scaring away the new residents of their old house is not as easy as saying a name three times. This beloved comedy from 1988 was the perfect vehicle for Tim Burton’s unique style and vivid imagination. Michael... read more

Archived Festival Film

Best Editing - Documentary Award

The Best Editing - Documentary Award goes to Let The Fire Burn. Jason Osder makes an impressive feature film debut through his unbiased and thorough account of the incidents leading up to and during the 1985 standoff between the extre... read more

Archived Festival Film

Pat XO & Let Them Wear Towels

Pat XO In April 18, 2012, Pat Summitt, the NCAA’s winningest basketball coach, stunned the sports world by resigning from Tennessee. As news... read more

Archived Festival Film

Shorts: History Lessons

Four experts on arms trafficking recount first-hand experiences with the black market and how the illegal flow of weapons facilitates loss of life and devastation in read more

Archived Festival Film

Big Shot

In 1996, John Spano, a previously unknown Dallas business mogul, bought the New York Islanders for a franchise-saving $165 million. The future looked bright for the once-legendary team. Then Spano took his seat in the front office. Entourage’s Kev... read more

Archived Festival Film

Shorts: Worst Day Ever

Three friends go to a housewarming in a Paris apartment, but when some uninvited guests try to crash, the tension mounts in The Hounds. Set in ... read more

Archived Festival Film

Shorts: Deadbolt

In The Girl With the Mechanical Maiden, an inventor takes an unorthodox approach to childrearing after the death of his wife. A... read more

Archived Festival Film

Pat XO

In April 18, 2012, Pat Summitt, the NCAA’s winningest basketball coach, stunned the sports world by resigning from Tennessee. As news of her early-onset Alzheimer’s spread, the coach and her son, Tyler, set out to beat this challenge as they had e... read more

Archived Festival Film

Let Them Wear Towels

During the 1977 World Series, Sports Illustrated reporter Melissa Ludtke was denied access to the players’ locker room. After a very public fight, the door was opened, but the debate about female journalists in the male sanctum of the clubhouse re... read more

Archived Festival Film

What's Left, What's Lost.

Set in the late 1950s at California’s iconic Madonna Inn, a despondent father struggles with the decision to end his own life and the life of his young son. read more

Archived Festival Film

Royal American

A discarded Royal Typewriter from the 1930s is picked up from a trash heap and taken to a repair shop in the Flatiron Building. The subsequent letters written and the responses received, including one from President Clinton, makes this a magical t... read more