Archived Festival Film

Torte Bluma

Director Benjamin Ross (The Young Poisoner's Handbook) manages to cram both history and style into this visually stunning and emotionally sobering short. Torte Bluma is inspired by a real-life episode that involved Franz Stangl, the German command... read more

Archived Festival Film

Yo Soy Boricua, Pa' Que Tu Lo Sepas! (I'm Boricua, Just So You Know!)

In her debut doc, the always sparkling Rosie Perez takes viewers down the route of New York City's Puerto Rican Day Parade and through an exploration of her heritage. Weaving snippets of family moments and the often bumpy history of the island, Pe... read more

Archived Festival Film

The Debt

Two illegal Georgian immigrants from the former Soviet Union fight for their survival on the unforgiving streets of Brooklyn, New York. Shot entirely with a digital still photo camera, The Debt gives viewers an honest look into a private and often... read more

Archived Festival Film

She She She She's A Bombshell

During a long ride home from a punk show, a young boy fails to realize that sometimes incessant chatter about a girl can annoy even your closest friends. In this animated short, director Ben Levin quite literally draws from his childhood, which wa... read more

Archived Festival Film

Marion

Director Ry Russo-Young presents a film-as-art projection that puts a personalized and distinctly modern spin on the Hitchcock classic Psycho. Three separate women play Marion Crane--now immortalized by Janet Leigh and a certain shower scene--in t... read more

Archived Festival Film

Topor and Me

If you were a fan of the soft-core Emmanuelle films of the '70s, '80s, and '90s, then Dutch actress Sylvia Kristel was likely your own personal sex goddess. However, Kristel also happens to be an avid painter, and in her directorial debut she waxe... read more

Tribeca Film

Struck By Lightning

Even being killed by a bolt of lightning won't keep Carson Phillips quiet. A hyper-ambitious and outspoken high school senior in a small-minded town, Carson (Glee's Chris Colfer) narrates his own funeral and the last few weeks of his life t... read more

Archived Festival Film

Wah-Wah

Based on first-time director Grant's childhood in British-controlled Swaziland, Wah-Wah paints a picture of colonialism on the wane and frames it with the story of a boy's awakening to the wider world. Starring Gabriel Byrne, Miranda Richardson, a... read more

Tribeca Film

Booker's Place: A Mississippi Story

While filming a documentary on racism in Mississippi in 1965, Frank De Felitta forever changed the life of an African-American waiter and his family. More than 40 years later, Frank's son Raymond (director of City Island) returns to the sit... read more

Archived Festival Film

Women Workers Leaving the Factory

In Women Workers Leaving the Factory, director José Luis Torres does for factory girls, what Zola or Bruegel did for the common worker. Torres first shows us the dirty factory, where only women work at the production units. During their short brea... read more