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

Archived Festival Film

Octave

A skull at the beach, a busted watch, and a green brassiere are just some of the many wild images that are featured in this animated short. Director Emily Hubley plays with musical tones and shifting symbolic images to create eight moments when th... read more

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

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

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

Archived Festival Film

Hanging Garden

Meet the Kyobashis, a model suburban Japanese family. Or are they? In director Toshiaki Toyoda's skillful examination of contemporary domestic malaise, a mother's plan for the perfect family initially seems to be working, but we soon learn that he... read more

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

Archived Festival Film

Choking Man

The social anxiety of a morbidly shy Ecuadorian dishwasher working in a Queens diner provides the psychological engine that powers this intense blend of drama and magical realism from the famed music video director. Newcomer Octavio Gómez Berríos ... read more

Archived Festival Film

Journey to the End of the Night

São Paulo, Brazil, is considered one of the most dangerous cities in the world. But it is there, in the city's underworld of sex, drugs, money, and corruption that a father and son plan to finally shrug off the drudgery of their everyday lives. Br... read more

Archived Festival Film

Secrets of the Code

This spiritual road-trip follows the real-life path of Dan Brown's book The Da Vinci Code. Interweaving the themes and ideas of the novel, Secrets of the Code explores the past and the present-and holds out hope for the future. The festival will ... read more