Archived Festival Film

Acetate Diary

After receiving a difficult medical diagnosis, experimental filmmaker Russell Sheaffer decided to use a roll of 16mm film as a written diary. Projected, Acetate Diary is an expression of handmade sound and color. Examined as an object, the acetate... read more

Archived Festival Film

Venus in Fur

Thomas (Matthieu Almaric) is staging an adaptation of an obscure 19th century Austrian novel. Frustrated by the actresses he has auditioned, Thomas nearly gives up, when mysterious Vanda (Emmanuelle Seigner) arrives in his theater knowing eve... read more

Archived Festival Film

Human Voice

Set against the backdrop of Naples, Italy, in 1950, Human Voice, based on the iconic Jean Cocteau play of the same name, tells the story of Angela (Sophia Loren), a woman in her twilight years, who rides the emotional roller coaster of her last te... read more

Archived Festival Film

Super Duper Alice Cooper

Emerging from the Detroit music scene of the 1970s in a flurry of long hair and sequins, Alice Cooper restored showmanship to hard rock while simultaneously striking fear into the heart of Middle America with chicken-slaughtering, deadbaby-eating ... read more

Archived Festival Film

Showfolk

For seven Hollywood golden-era veterans with a combined age of 662, the show goes on. From a Vaudeville comedian still working at 100 to the stunning siren who dated Ronald Reagan when he was a Democrat, these showfolk, all living at the motion pi... read more

Archived Festival Film

Güeros

A water balloon dropping from the sky, exploding on a mother’s head, in the frantic first moments of this striking debut feature, announces its director, Alonso Ruizpalacios, as a bold new voice of Mexican cinema. Set amidst the 1999 student strik... read more

Archived Festival Film

Nae Pasaran

In a small Scottish town in 1974, factory workers refuse to carry out repairs on warplane engines in an act of solidarity against the violent military coup in Chile. Four years pass before the engines, left to rust in factory yard, mysteriously di... read more

Archived Festival Film

Silenced

Only 11 Americans have ever been charged under the Espionage Act of 1917; eight since President Obama took office. Oscar®-nominee James Spione returns to TFF with the incredible personal journeys of two of them, Thomas Drake and John Kiriakou... read more

Archived Festival Film

La Carnada

The film follows a 13-year-old boy (Manny) from Tijuana as he embarks on his first drug smuggle across the 'Devil’s Highway,' a notoriously fatal stretch of desert on the Arizona/Mexico border. Screening in Shorts Program: read more

Tribeca Film

Maladies

A daring new film from internationally acclaimed multimedia artist Carter, MALADIES charts the struggles of an unstable former soap opera star (James Franco) in 1960’s New York as he tries to restart his floundering creative career. Hoping to find... read more