Archived Festival Film

My Empire

Shot using time-lapse photography on 16mm film over a period of six years, Ted Ciesielski's My Empire keeps a solitary watch over the Empire State Building, conjuring up impressions of both the human ingenuity that built it and the human excess th... read more

Archived Festival Film

My Dad Is 100 Years Old

In this unique tribute to the great filmmaker Roberto Rossellini, his daughter Isabella collaborates with cinephile par excellence Guy Maddin to create a loving and very personal portrait. A Zeitgeist release. Followed by the screening of a new a... read more

Archived Festival Film

Civic Duty

A seemingly well-adjusted American accountant loses his job and becomes obsessed with terrorist plots and cable news propaganda. When an Islamic student moves in next door, the accountant's suspicions lead to shocking conclusions in this post-Sept... read more

Archived Festival Film

Tuck That Shirt In

I.S. 109 in Queens, New York, was considered an "at-risk" school until Principal Shango Blake began using a mixture of hip-hop and innovative teaching methods to turn the school into a model of success. His efforts reached their culmination with T... read more

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

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Prix de Beauté

As her final starring role, the legendary Louise Brooks plays a typist who wins a beauty contest in this French-shot feature. We are screening the rare silent version, which is somewhat different from the sound version that is usually shown. Prece... 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

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Lure

A precocious high school girl flirts with a 13 year-old boy with riveting consequences. He is thrown for a loop when she wants him to come to her house for a good time. He's nervous because something just doesn't seem right… read more

Archived Festival Film

Akeelah and the Bee

Akeelah is a precocious 11-year-old from south Los Angeles with a gift for words. Despite her mother's objections, she enters several spelling contests, and with the support of a special tutor and the entire neighborhood, she earns a spot at the S... read more

Archived Festival Film

Milton Rogovin: The Forgotten Ones

The Forgotten Ones celebrates the life's work of 93-year-old photographer Milton Rogovin, an optometrist who was blacklisted by the House Un-American Activities Committee in the 1950s and subsequently dedicated his life to photographing the reside... read more