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Earth Made of Glass
Archived Festival Film
Earth Made of Glass
A president and a citizen—bound together by a profound love of country and an unquenchable desire to see the truth revealed—fight to uncover the mystery behind a murder and France's hidden role in the horrific 1994 Rwandan genocide. Th... read more
Doctor Zhivago
Archived Festival Film
Doctor Zhivago
David Lean's romantic Russian Revolution epic, adapted from Boris Pasternak's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, captured five Academy Awards® (including best adapted screenplay) and five additional nominations after its 1965 release. In honor of its 4... read more
Brother's Shadow
Archived Festival Film
Brother's Shadow
A family's black sheep (Scott Cohen), once imprisoned and now on parole, returns home to Brooklyn after 15 years. But his return home packs more surprises than he bargained for. His brother has died, his father (Judd Hirsch) and sister-in-law don'... read more
My Empire
Archived Festival Film
My Empire
Shot using time-lapse photography on 16mm film over a period of six years, Ted Ciesielski's My Empire keeps a solitary watch over the Empire State Building, conjuring up impressions of both the human ingenuity that built it and the human excess th... read more
My Dad Is 100 Years Old
Archived Festival Film
My Dad Is 100 Years Old
In this unique tribute to the great filmmaker Roberto Rossellini, his daughter Isabella collaborates with cinephile par excellence Guy Maddin to create a loving and very personal portrait. A Zeitgeist release. Followed by the screening of a new a... read more
Civic Duty
Archived Festival Film
Civic Duty
A seemingly well-adjusted American accountant loses his job and becomes obsessed with terrorist plots and cable news propaganda. When an Islamic student moves in next door, the accountant's suspicions lead to shocking conclusions in this post-Sept... read more
Tuck That Shirt In
Archived Festival Film
Tuck That Shirt In
I.S. 109 in Queens, New York, was considered an "at-risk" school until Principal Shango Blake began using a mixture of hip-hop and innovative teaching methods to turn the school into a model of success. His efforts reached their culmination with T... read more
Keeping Up With the Steins
Archived Festival Film
Keeping Up With the Steins
Weeks away from his bar mitzvah, Ben (Daryl Sabara) is panic-stricken about his pending adulthood and the stadium-sized party that his father (Jeremy Piven) has planned. Ben's only hope is to invite his estranged, eccentric grandfather to sabotage... read more
Prix de Beauté
Archived Festival Film
Prix de Beauté
As her final starring role, the legendary Louise Brooks plays a typist who wins a beauty contest in this French-shot feature. We are screening the rare silent version, which is somewhat different from the sound version that is usually shown. Prece... read more
Once Upon a Time in Marrakech
Archived Festival Film
Once Upon a Time in Marrakech
In the autumn of 2005, 16 film students from NYC and Morocco converged on Marrakech as guests of the Tribeca Film Institute, Tribeca Film Festival, and the Marrakech International Film Festival Foundation to study under Abbas Kiarostami (joined at... read more
Lure
Archived Festival Film
Lure
A precocious high school girl flirts with a 13 year-old boy with riveting consequences. He is thrown for a loop when she wants him to come to her house for a good time. He's nervous because something just doesn't seem right… read more
Akeelah and the Bee
Archived Festival Film
Akeelah and the Bee
Akeelah is a precocious 11-year-old from south Los Angeles with a gift for words. Despite her mother's objections, she enters several spelling contests, and with the support of a special tutor and the entire neighborhood, she earns a spot at the S... read more
Milton Rogovin: The Forgotten Ones
Archived Festival Film
Milton Rogovin: The Forgotten Ones
The Forgotten Ones celebrates the life's work of 93-year-old photographer Milton Rogovin, an optometrist who was blacklisted by the House Un-American Activities Committee in the 1950s and subsequently dedicated his life to photographing the reside... read more
Dog Pound
Tribeca Film
Dog Pound
In North America more than 100,000 children are held in detention centers. Sixty percent are destined to become repeat offenders. Director Kim Chapiron (Sheitan, TFF '06) takes a searing look at three incarcerated teenagers fighting for the... read more
Brasilia 18%
Archived Festival Film
Brasilia 18%
A star medical examiner is called to Brasilia, the administrative capital of Brazil, to confirm the identity of a beautiful, young congressional aide's dead body. But his scientific rigor soon leads him to details of a multi-layered political scan... read more
I Am You Are
Archived Festival Film
I Am You Are
In conjunction with the Jerusalem Cinematheque, the Tribeca Film Festival and the Tribeca Film Institute are proud to present a series of shorts about identity that were created by Palestinian and Israeli youth working together. Documents of hope,... read more
loudQUIETloud
Archived Festival Film
loudQUIETloud
The Pixies reunite 12 years after their inauspicious split and set out to re-conquer the world, and their own demons. This dazzling concert doc eschews rock-god clichés and goes straight to the heart of four people who need music-and one another-m... read more
Perfect Day
Archived Festival Film
Perfect Day
In this portrait of a character and a society, Malek and his mother struggle with an insidious inertia 15 years after the Lebanese civil war in which thousands disappeared, including Malek's father. The title and situation recall the poignant opti... read more
Beauty and the Bastard
Archived Festival Film
Beauty and the Bastard
Aspiring singer Nelli needs someone to produce her demo, while shy hip-hop DJ Sune is just looking for a pretty girlfriend. Karukoski's feature debut throws them together in a romantic comedy about contemporary Finnish youth trying to find their w... read more
Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple
Featuring never-before-seen footage, Nelson delivers a startling new look at the Peoples Temple, headed by preacher Jim Jones who, in 1978, led more than 900 members to Guyana, where he orchestrated a mass suicide via tainted punch. You may think ... read more
Beyond the Call
Archived Festival Film
Beyond the Call
In 1995, three average Americans began delivering humanitarian aid to global hotspots like Afghanistan, Albania, Chechnya, Cambodia, Rwanda, and the southern Philippines. Part Mother Teresa and part Indiana Jones, these silver-haired "Knights of M... read more
Jack Smith & the Destruction Of Atlantis
Jordan creates a mesmerizing collage of images and audio from the life and work of Jack Smith, the underground filmmaker, photographer, performance artist, and anti-capitalist, who worked in New York from the '60s until his death in 1989. Highligh... read more
Freedom's Fury
Archived Festival Film
Freedom's Fury
In the midst of political upheaval, both Hungary and the Soviet Union send their water polo teams to the 1956 Olympics in Melbourne, and the world watches as two teams with radically different ideologies meet in what many call the bloodiest water ... read more
Flow
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
Waterbuster
Archived Festival Film
Waterbuster
Old wounds are reopened when Peinado revisits the upper Missouri River basin in North Dakota, where his ancestors once lived. There he investigates how the massive post-war Garrison Dam project laid waste to an idyllic, self-sufficient Native Amer... read more