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The Year My Parents Went On Vacation
Archived Festival Film
The Year My Parents Went On Vacation
It's the summer of 1970, and twelve-year-old Mauro's biggest concern is whether Brazil wins the World Cup-until his politicized parents are forced to flee the country, and he is thrust into the alien world of Sao Paolo's Jewish community. This sen... read more
Chasing 3000
Archived Festival Film
Chasing 3000
It's a long, strange trip when two homesick brothers-one of whom has muscular dystrophy-decide to drive from Los Angeles to Pittsburgh on a learner's permit at the end of the 1972 baseball season for the chance to see Roberto Clemente get his 3000... read more
The Gates
Archived Festival Film
The Gates
In 1979, artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude proposed one of the largest public art installations in history: a "golden river" of 7,500 fabric-paneled gates in Central Park. Transcending controversy, it was finally completed in 2005. Renowned docume... read more
Half Moon
Archived Festival Film
Half Moon
Graying but determined, Mamo is a famed Kurdish musician who obtains permission to cross the Iranian border to give his first concert in Iraqi Kurdistan. But the journey poses endless challenges, especially when he tries to bring a female singer f... read more
The Forty-First
Archived Festival Film
The Forty-First
One of the first major films of the post-Stalinist thaw and a 1957 Cannes award-winner, The Forty-First's remarkable power stems largely from the stunning camerawork of Sergei Urusevsky (The Cranes Are Flying, I Am Cuba), who creates a timeless la... read more
A Warm, Comforting Home
Archived Festival Film
A Warm, Comforting Home
Using 1960s-era home movies of the filmmaker as well as quotes and events from her life, director Annette Apitz examines her complicated relationship with her mother. read more
A Hole in One
Archived Festival Film
A Hole in One
Anna (Michelle Williams) is obsessed with mental health, coveting its latest fashion - transorbital lobotomy. Caught between a gangster (Meat Loaf Aday) and a Korean War vet (Tim Guinee), Anna yearns for clarity and calm as madness rages around he... read more
Carandiru
Archived Festival Film
Carandiru
The acclaimed director of Pixote and Kiss of the Spider Woman dramatizes the 1992 prisoner revolt and massacre at Sao Paulo's infamous Carandiru penitentiary. A tender, forceful, and personal film for Babenco and ultimately an insightful metaphor ... read more
Bear Cub
Archived Festival Film
Bear Cub
Pedro, a gay dentist with a very active social life, agrees to take care of his 11-year-old nephew for two weeks -- but it soon becomes a more permanent arrangement. In the tradition of Kramer vs. Kramer, Albaladejo seamlessly merges dramatic si... read more