Archived Festival Film

Carla Cope

A story of life, love, and loss centered on the September 11 tragedy in New York City, this timely short follows Carla through the city as she looks back on all she has lost while she grapples with the uncertainty of her future. read more

Archived Festival Film

Two Works-In-Progress: The Gates and The Dalai Lama in Central Park

In 1979, legendary filmmakers Albert and David Maysles began shooting The Gates as Christo and Jeanne-Claude began pursuing their dream of adorning Central Park with miles of saffron-colored cloth-a massive, controversial, and ultimately successfu... read more

Archived Festival Film

Barren Lives

A newly-struck copy of a classic early film by Pereira dos Santos, whose Brasilia 18% is premiering at the Festival. Adapted from a novel by Graciliano Ramos, the film follows a ranch hand and his family, who are forced off their land by a severe ... read more

Archived Festival Film

A Guest of Life

In 1819, a Transylvanian traveler set out on foot for Asia, convinced that there he would discover "the original Hungarians." What he found, at the foot of the Himalayas, introduced Tibet's rich culture and the practice of Buddhism to the world at... read more

Archived Festival Film

Emily's First 100 Days of School

On Emily's first day of school, her teacher announces that there will be a party after 100 days. But with so much to do on day 1, Emily feels like it will take forever to reach day 100. However, as the days, weeks, and months go by, Emily and her ... read more

Archived Festival Film

Underbelly: Coffee

Rohitash Rao and Abraham Spear are collectively known as the founders of Ugly Pictures. Coffee is the first in a long series of films based on Underbelly the surreal comics penned by Kathy Hepinstall and Rao that appeared in Ray Gun and Bikini mag... read more

Archived Festival Film

Loss

Interweaving 8mm home movies, contemporary film footage, photographs, interviews and audio recordings, Loss explores faded memories and long-term grief. This film unravels through a personal narrative, which centers around the loss of the filmmake... read more

Archived Festival Film

In the Beginning was the Image: Conversations with Peter Whitehead

Peter Whitehead's work as a key independent British filmmaker of the 1960's has been the subject of recent worldwide retrospectives. This documentary on the artist, by a returning TFF filmmaker, is important not only as a portrait, but also as a m... read more

Archived Festival Film

The True Legend of Tony Vilar

Using a tongue-in-cheek mockumentary style, this half-true, half-imagined tale is based on the story of real-life singer Tony Vilar. Born in Italy, he later moved to Argentina and became one of the most popular crooners in 1960's Latin America, th... read more

Archived Festival Film

Miss Universe 1929

Amateur filmmaker Marci Tenczer was smitten with his cousin, Liesl Goldarbeiter and chronicled her rise from a modest childhood in Vienna to the Texas competition where she was crowned the first Miss Universe. Then Hitler upended everyone's univer... read more