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Nanking
Archived Festival Film
Nanking
During the 1937-1938 Japanese occupation of Nanking, an estimated 200,000 Chinese were killed and 20,000 raped. But an unlikely partnership of Nazi businessmen and American missionaries saved 250,000 lives. Using letters, diaries and interviews wi... read more
Shotgun Stories
Archived Festival Film
Shotgun Stories
A family feud in rural Arkansas erupts in this biblical tale of blood ties and vengeance, sparked when two sets of half-brothers collide at the funeral of their father. This slow-burning drama recalls the character-driven storytelling of the 1970'... read more
Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samurai
From Tribeca Film. Revenge, honor and disgrace collide when a samurai’s request to commit ritual suicide leads to a tense showdown with his feudal lord. From cult auteur Takashi Miike (13 ASSASSINS). read more
Gumby: The Movie
Archived Festival Film
Gumby: The Movie
The original Green Hero! This popular 1995 claymation is re-mastered and re-edited to bring Gumby back to his band, the Clayboys, for all the action and adventure! While taking us in and out of books, from Toyland to Camelot to outer space, Gumby'... read more
This is England
Archived Festival Film
This is England
It's the summer of 1983 in northern England. Punks, mods and skinheads are on the rise, but employment is not. Eleven-year-old Shaun has lost his father but seems to find a surrogate family in a band of friendly skinheads. When they're joined by t... read more
The Hairy Tooth Fairy
Archived Festival Film
The Hairy Tooth Fairy
When Lucía loses a tooth, she is consoled to know that the Hairy Tooth Fairy, Pérez, will bring money in exchange. Pérez lives happily on a boat with hundreds of other mice, but tonight he encounters danger, and Lucía and a friend must set out to ... read more
Eye of the Dolphin
Archived Festival Film
Eye of the Dolphin
Sad and angry after losing her mother, 14-year-old Alyssa goes to live in the Bahamas with the father she never knew she had-a dolphin researcher busy keeping the island from becoming a tourist attraction. It's a rocky start for father and daughte... read more
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
A Conversation with Emmanuelle Beart
Archived Festival Film
A Conversation with Emmanuelle Beart
In the 16 years since she gained international acclaim for her extraordinary talent and beauty in Claude Berri's Manon of the Spring, Emmanuelle Béart has continually impressed viewers in films by Olivier Assayas, Claude Chabrol, Claire Denis, Fra... read more
Coffee & Cigarettes
Archived Festival Film
Coffee & Cigarettes
Jarmusch returns to his "early, funny" black-and-white roots with this inspired assemblage of absurdist vignettes, shot over the course of two decades. The titular addictions serve as the threads connecting 10 scenes, which unfold over steaming cu... read more
A Letter to True
Archived Festival Film
A Letter to True
Photographer-turned-director Weber composes a heartfelt visual diary incorporating his various interests and obsessions: old movies, war photography, the aftermath of September 11, and his five purebred dogs. An eclectic collage of footage, includ... read more
Baadasssss!
Archived Festival Film
Baadasssss!
Mario assumes the role of his father, Melvin, in this heartfelt homage to the making of the elder Peebles' groundbreaking 1971 feature Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song (also in the Festival). Intercutting brief clips from Sweetback with dramatic ... read more
Mix
Archived Festival Film
Mix
Freedom in South Africa after 1994 means the freedom for Tumelo and Dominique, two female hip-hop DJs, to express themselves in ways that genuinely baffle their parents. Communication breakdowns between parents and children, young and old, striki... read more
Suite Habana
Archived Festival Film
Suite Habana
A factory foreman inspects his workers. An old woman sells peanuts in paper cones. A hospital employee becomes a drag performer at night. Using only images, sound, and music, Perez presents a "day in the life" of 10 ordinary Havana residents, crea... read more
Wondrous Oblivion
Archived Festival Film
Wondrous Oblivion
When a Jamaican family moves into a working-class South London neighborhood during the early 1960s, the white residents are horrified. But a shared love of cricket forges a bond between the father (a quietly heroic Delroy Lindo) and an 11-year-old... read more
Shadows
Archived Festival Film
Shadows
One of the foundation texts of independent film, Shadows didn't just usher in a "new wave" in American cinema -- it was a new wave unto itself. Set in the world of beatnik coffee houses and jazz clubs, Cassavetes' first feature literally throws aw... read more