Archived Festival Film

This is England

It's the summer of 1983 in northern England. Punks, mods and skinheads are on the rise, but employment is not. Eleven-year-old Shaun has lost his father but seems to find a surrogate family in a band of friendly skinheads. When they're joined by t... read more

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Hairy Tooth Fairy

When Lucía loses a tooth, she is consoled to know that the Hairy Tooth Fairy, Pérez, will bring money in exchange. Pérez lives happily on a boat with hundreds of other mice, but tonight he encounters danger, and Lucía and a friend must set out to ... read more

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Eye of the Dolphin

Sad and angry after losing her mother, 14-year-old Alyssa goes to live in the Bahamas with the father she never knew she had-a dolphin researcher busy keeping the island from becoming a tourist attraction. It's a rocky start for father and daughte... read more

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Year My Parents Went On Vacation

It's the summer of 1970, and twelve-year-old Mauro's biggest concern is whether Brazil wins the World Cup-until his politicized parents are forced to flee the country, and he is thrust into the alien world of Sao Paolo's Jewish community. This sen... read more

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Chasing 3000

It's a long, strange trip when two homesick brothers-one of whom has muscular dystrophy-decide to drive from Los Angeles to Pittsburgh on a learner's permit at the end of the 1972 baseball season for the chance to see Roberto Clemente get his 3000... read more

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Gates

In 1979, artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude proposed one of the largest public art installations in history: a "golden river" of 7,500 fabric-paneled gates in Central Park. Transcending controversy, it was finally completed in 2005. Renowned docume... read more

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Half Moon

Graying but determined, Mamo is a famed Kurdish musician who obtains permission to cross the Iranian border to give his first concert in Iraqi Kurdistan. But the journey poses endless challenges, especially when he tries to bring a female singer f... read more

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Forty-First

One of the first major films of the post-Stalinist thaw and a 1957 Cannes award-winner, The Forty-First's remarkable power stems largely from the stunning camerawork of Sergei Urusevsky (The Cranes Are Flying, I Am Cuba), who creates a timeless la... read more

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Warm, Comforting Home

Using 1960s-era home movies of the filmmaker as well as quotes and events from her life, director Annette Apitz examines her complicated relationship with her mother. read more

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Hole in One

Anna (Michelle Williams) is obsessed with mental health, coveting its latest fashion - transorbital lobotomy. Caught between a gangster (Meat Loaf Aday) and a Korean War vet (Tim Guinee), Anna yearns for clarity and calm as madness rages around he... read more

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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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Kill Bill Vol. 1

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Bear Cub

Pedro, a gay dentist with a very active social life, agrees to take care of his 11-year-old nephew for two weeks -- but it soon becomes a more permanent arrangement. In the tradition of Kramer vs. Kramer, Albaladejo seamlessly merges dramatic si... read more

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Conversation with Emmanuelle Beart

In the 16 years since she gained international acclaim for her extraordinary talent and beauty in Claude Berri's Manon of the Spring, Emmanuelle Béart has continually impressed viewers in films by Olivier Assayas, Claude Chabrol, Claire Denis, Fra... read more

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Coffee & Cigarettes

Jarmusch returns to his "early, funny" black-and-white roots with this inspired assemblage of absurdist vignettes, shot over the course of two decades. The titular addictions serve as the threads connecting 10 scenes, which unfold over steaming cu... 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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Baadasssss!

Mario assumes the role of his father, Melvin, in this heartfelt homage to the making of the elder Peebles' groundbreaking 1971 feature Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song (also in the Festival). Intercutting brief clips from Sweetback with dramatic ... read more

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Mix

Freedom in South Africa after 1994 means the freedom for Tumelo and Dominique, two female hip-hop DJs, to express themselves in ways that genuinely baffle their parents. Communication breakdowns between parents and children, young and old, striki... read more

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Suite Habana

A factory foreman inspects his workers. An old woman sells peanuts in paper cones. A hospital employee becomes a drag performer at night. Using only images, sound, and music, Perez presents a "day in the life" of 10 ordinary Havana residents, crea... read more

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Wondrous Oblivion

When a Jamaican family moves into a working-class South London neighborhood during the early 1960s, the white residents are horrified. But a shared love of cricket forges a bond between the father (a quietly heroic Delroy Lindo) and an 11-year-old... read more

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Shadows

One of the foundation texts of independent film, Shadows didn't just usher in a "new wave" in American cinema -- it was a new wave unto itself. Set in the world of beatnik coffee houses and jazz clubs, Cassavetes' first feature literally throws aw... read more

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Yeah, Right... Whatever

The emotional roller coaster that is being a teenager is explored in this series of short films for young adults. (Older adults can be thankful that this time is long gone.) (Ages 13+) read more

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Being Pavarotti

Elton, a 13-year-old South African opera singer, fell in love with opera after his cousin gave him a tape of famed Italian tenor Luciano Pavarotti. Elton's performances, from solo stints at open-air festivals to opening for established opera sing... read more

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Three Sisters Searching for a Cure

When she was diagnosed with ALS in 1997, 35-year-old theater producer Jenifer Estess rallied the corporate and entertainment communities together to work toward finding a cure. This intimate and unflinching documentary traces Estess' efforts, with... read more

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Another Road Home

The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is given a human face -- actually, as many human faces as a family reunion -- through Israeli filmmaker Elon's quest to find Musa Obeidallah, the Palestinian man who kept house for her family in Jerusalem for more ... read more