Archived Festival Film

The Cottage

A kidnapping plot goes horribly awry when two brothers and their potty-mouthed hostage stumble into the wrong farmhouse in this gory horror-comedy from the director of London to Brighton. read more

Archived Festival Film

Head Wind

The government of the Islamic Republic of Iran does its best to restrict its citizens' access to information and media from the rest of the world. The award-winning director of Iron Island shows how Iranians demonstrate what we'd call "Yankee reso... read more

Archived Festival Film

Gotta Dance

Festival vet Berinstein (ShowBusiness, TFF '05) tells the inspirational story of the New Jersey NETSationals, the NBA's first senior citizen hiphop dance team. Against all odds, these energetic and dedicated seniors prove that even in their golden... read more

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Making Of

Bahta, 25, heads up a group of break dancers in Tunisia but after the eruption of hostilities in Iraq in 2003, he falls in with a group of fundamentalists, whose brainwashing is intended to make him a suicide bomber. In the framing story, the acto... read more

Archived Festival Film

Forging A Nation

Accompanied by his mother, cousins, aunts and uncles, the director retraces the steps of his Jewish ancestors, who fled Europe in the 1920's hoping to find in Argentina the land of their dreams. This poignant film journey uses the documentary as ... read more

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Invisibles

Giving voice to those silenced by international indifference, Academy Award®-nominated actor Javier Bardem teams with Doctors Without Borders to produce this powerful collection of short films. Five acclaimed directors shed light on heroic, yet un... read more

Archived Festival Film

Abadan

Separated from but still emotionally attached to her husband, a woman searches desperately for her runaway father who is obsessed with going to Abadan, the oil-rich city destroyed in the war with Iraq. Aided by a remarkable cast, Haghighi's direct... read more

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The Pornographer (a love story)

Indie stalwart (and Hal Hartley fixture) Martin Donovan shines in this cat-and-mouse tale of a tightly wound director who forges an obsessive relationship with an actress (Irene Jacob, winner of the 1991 Best Actress award at Cannes for her perfor... read more

Archived Festival Film

Crystal

A young woman is afflicted by a strange and rare disease that leads to painful crystals being produced in her eyelids and uterus. In her directorial debut, Akbari (lead actress in Abbas Kiarostami's Ten) transcends the sensational aspects of this ... read more

Archived Festival Film

War Is Over!

The prizewinning director of A Time for Drunken Horses and Marooned in Iraq went to Iraq immediately after Saddam's fall in an attempt to bring cinema back to a country where it had ceased to exist. This impromptu sketchbook of what he saw reveals... read more