Archived Festival Film

Partly Private

To cut or not to cut? Pregnant with a baby boy, director Danae Elon and her husband face "a big choice about his little penis." From New York to London, Istanbul to Israel, Elon travels the world in an effort to understand the controversial ritual... read more

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Yodok Stories

Exposing subject matter notoriously shrouded in secrecy, this uplifting and sobering doc chronicles a group of North Korean concentration camp escapees and their contributions to a powerful musical based on their experiences. Blending interviews a... read more

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Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench

First-time director Damien Chazelle infuses his black-and-white, 16mm vérité-style relationship drama with all that jazzy romance of an old-Hollywood musical. Backed by a grand, alternately rollicking and melancholy score, Guy and Madeline ... read more

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Still Walking

Years of tension kept barely below the surface threaten to run over when two middle-aged children visit their elderly parents on the 15th anniversary of their older brother's accidental death. Patient, real-time pacing and a delightfully muted wit... read more

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Playground

Executive produced by George Clooney, Grant Heslov, and Steven Soderbergh, this astonishing doc travels to the dark heart of one of the world's most sinister industries—the child sex trade. Beginning her journey infiltrating brothels in Sout... read more

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P-Star Rising

In the early '80s, Jesse Diaz was a rising star in the hip-hop world. Now a broke single father in Harlem with two children to support, Jesse finds a shot at redemption in his nine-year-old daughter Priscilla Star, a precocious and immensely talen... read more

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Garapa

Director José Padilha (Bus 174) follows up his Golden Bear-winning Elite Squad with this austere, unflinching examination of the realities of chronic hunger for three Brazilian families. At once intimate and universal, Padilha's haun... read more

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Standard Operating Procedure

Can a photograph change the world? Can an exposé also be a coverup? In Standard Operating Procedure, Academy Award®-winning director Errol Morris turns the camera on the American soldiers who took the infamous Abu Ghraib photographs. read more

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Lost Girl

Director Ali Taleb depicts what has happened to the people of Iraq by telling the story of Huda, one of many Iraqi women forced to work in Jordan as a prostitute just to survive. Huda candidly describes her situation and philosophy. read more

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Secret of the Grain

Winner of best picture and best director Césars, this remarkable depiction of a family of North African immigrants in a decaying port town in southern France introduces a large group of characters you'll soon warm to as members of your own family-... read more

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Ramchand Pakistani

Gorgeous colors enhance this tense tale, based on actual events, about a young Pakistani boy who, with his father, inadvertently crosses the border into India. Both wind up in jail for years, while mother (Nandita Das) is left bewildered and alone... read more

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Two Timid Souls

The revelation of the Pordenone Silent Film Festival last fall was this charming, near-forgotten comic gem, which displays all the elegance, wit, and visual inventiveness that are hallmarks of its director. Archival print from the Cinémathèque Fr... read more

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War, Love, God & Madness

It's no surprise that making a feature film in Iraq in 2003 wasn't a picnic. But this extraordinary account of the peril-filled ordeal that the director and crew of Ahlaam went through must be seen to be believed. read more

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Killer Movie

A reality TV director copes with a spoiled celebutante and a show gone haywire when a masked killer starts bumping off the crew in this slasher-movie satire from a director who did time working on The Simple Life and The Real World/Road Rules Chal... read more

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90 Miles The Documentary

The title of Grammy-winner Gloria Estefan's latest album, 90 Millas, refers to the distance between Cuba and southern Florida, a region that has become synonymous with Latin culture. At the core of that culture is its music, and Gloria's husband E... read more

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2007 Before the Tracks Are Lost On the Wind

In 2007 Before the Tracks are Lost on the Wind, director Renate Günter-Greene's tracking camera surveys remnants of the Dusseldorf train station where Jews were deported to concentration camps. read more

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Don't Go In The Woods

Don't Go in the Woods is sound advice, especially when there's a killer on the loose. First-time director Vincent D'Onofrio (Full Metal Jacket, "Law & Order: Criminal Intent") explores love, greed and ruth... read more

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Under Our Skin

Arguably the most overlooked and misdiagnosed ailment currently verging on epidemic throughout the United States, Lyme disease and the shocking controversies surrounding its identification and treatment are the focus of this provocative and often ... read more

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Sita Sings the Blues

Using a variety of colorful animation techniques, writer-director Nina Paley wittily interweaves the story of Sita, the leading lady of the ancient Sanskrit epic Ramayana, with the story of a modern American woman struggling to keep her marriage a... read more

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Errata

Director Alexander Stewart gives new meaning to the term "carte blanche" in Errata, his animated film that evolved from a white sheet of paper. Using nostalgic forms of technology and the process of automated abstraction, Stewart takes a blank she... read more

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Girl Like Me

A Girl Like Me explores the standards of beauty imposed on today's black girls. Through a number of frank interviews with girls from the director's high school, the film delves beneath the surface in order to show how such standards affect self-es... read more

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Roof Sex

Rooftop furniture comes crashing together in this playful and provocative short that features "chair-on-chair" action. Screenwriter, director, and animator PES puts his background of printmaking and painting to good use in Roof Sex. read more

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Pelican

Dubbed "the French James Dean" for his roles in films by Claude Chabrol (Le beau Serge, Les cousins) and Howard Hawks (Hatari), Gérard Blain's work as director never surfaced in the U.S. This is his masterpiece, a moving account of parental love a... read more

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Premonition

Noted actor Jean-Pierre Darroussin's directorial debut portrays the spiritual journey of a wealthy Parisian lawyer (memorably played by Darroussin) who, in an attempt to shed the shackles of social conditioning, abandons the corrupt bourgeois worl... read more

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Small Ones

The Small Ones is a distillation portrait of the director's cousin Sandor, a doctor during WWII assigned to reconstruct the bones -- small and large -- of dead American soldiers. Composed of highly abstracted war imagery set against images of chi... read more