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Strangers
Archived Festival Film
Strangers
In Berlin, an Israeli man and a Palestinian woman accidentally swap backpacks on their way to the World Cup. Meeting again, they discover an instant connection, but can two people from the same land but different worlds transcend the larger strugg... read more
Somers Town
Archived Festival Film
Somers Town
Winner, Best Actors Award (Thomas Turgoose and Piotr Jagiello). A charming comedy by Shane Meadows (This Is England), built around the unlikely friendship between Tomo, who's turned 16 and fled to London from a difficult life in the Midlan... read more
Eden
Archived Festival Film
Eden
Winner, Best Actress Award (Eileen Walsh). Taking a frank look at the slow disintegration of a marriage during the week before a couple's 10th anniversary, Recks catapults an intimate story from O'Brien's award-winning play onto the big sc... read more
Empire II
Archived Festival Film
Empire II
Although inspired by a monument of cinematic stasis, Andy Warhol's eight-hour Empire (1964), this new three-hour experiment is an astonishingly beautiful and unexpectedly lively tone poem paying unforgettable tribute to the sights and sou... read more
Eclipse
Archived Festival Film
Eclipse
Eclipse is a mélange of mystical images from Mumbai. read more
Attica
Archived Festival Film
Attica
In 1971, inmates at Attica State Prison seized control of D-yard and took 35 hostages after peaceful efforts for reforms failed. Attica investigates the rebellion and its bloody suppression, revealing institutionalized injustices, sanctioned disho... read more
Night of the Hunchback
Archived Festival Film
Night of the Hunchback
This dark comedy, a key masterwork of Iranian cinema, has long remained unseen in the West. Adapted from a story in 1001 Nights and set in a popular theatre troupe, the story follows the death of an actor in a farcical accident and the brilliantly... read more
NYC Weights and Measures
Archived Festival Film
NYC Weights and Measures
NYC Weights and Measures is a simple gathering of New York City street footage. Shot with a spring-wound 16mm Bolex on, above, and below the streets of Manhattan and Brooklyn , this dreamy film explores the city's many moods, even including footag... read more
Forging A Nation
Archived Festival Film
Forging A Nation
Accompanied by his mother, cousins, aunts and uncles, the director retraces the steps of his Jewish ancestors, who fled Europe in the 1920's hoping to find in Argentina the land of their dreams. This poignant film journey uses the documentary as ... read more
Armin
Archived Festival Film
Armin
Ibro takes his 13-year-old son Armin from their small Bosnian village to Croatia to audition for a German film about the Balkan conflict. A skeptical take on the promises of the "New Europe," Armin is also the story of a growing relationship betwe... read more
The Last Dog in Rwanda
Archived Festival Film
The Last Dog in Rwanda
David is, like so many 10-year-old boys, fascinated by war: he builds plastic models of all kinds of military vehicles and plays war games with his friends. Fourteen years later, in May 1994, he has established himself as a news photographer, and ... read more
The Pornographer (a love story)
Archived Festival Film
The Pornographer (a love story)
Indie stalwart (and Hal Hartley fixture) Martin Donovan shines in this cat-and-mouse tale of a tightly wound director who forges an obsessive relationship with an actress (Irene Jacob, winner of the 1991 Best Actress award at Cannes for her perfor... read more
Original Cast Album: Company
Archived Festival Film
Original Cast Album: Company
Pennebaker's goundbreaking film documents the marathon 18 1/2-hour recording session for the cast album of Stephen Sondheim's landmark musical. Original Cast Album caused a sensation when it debuted, and it's easy to see why: By capturing the arti... read more
Alias Kurban Said
Archived Festival Film
Alias Kurban Said
Since its initial publication in Vienna in 1937, the exotic love story Ali & Nino has been surrounded by controversy over the true identity of its pseudonymous author. Alias sets out to shed light on the mystery surrounding Said's identity: Was he... read more
James Benning - Circling the Image
Archived Festival Film
James Benning - Circling the Image
Documentarian Wulf accompanies Benning, whose work takes a meditative look at the American landscape, as he embarks on scouting locations and shooting his feature, 13 Lakes (2002). Ever-faithful to his 16mm camera, Benning's long takes are influen... read more
Jane Lloyd
Archived Festival Film
Jane Lloyd
This technique-based film tells a life story in 600 distinct shots of Jane Lloyd, an English-born, Hollywood actress. Shot on 8mm, 16mm, 35mm, and digital video, the narrative is expressed with images of her written name over the course of her lif... read more
The Falling Man
Archived Festival Film
The Falling Man
A Windows on the World waiter is sent down to the 103rd floor but cannot find the Canter-Fitzgerald employee who placed the order, nor anyone else. It's 9:41 a.m., September 11, 2001. Inspired by the September 11 photograph that ran once in The Ne... read more
The Mantis Parable
Archived Festival Film
The Mantis Parable
A lowly caterpillar is trapped in a bug collector's jar and desperately needs some help. An arrogant praying mantis eventually comes along to offer some advice, at which point the caterpillar realizes that the newcomer will need to be taught a les... read more
Night Visions
Archived Festival Film
Night Visions
Since September 11, 2001, over a million Americans have served in the armed forces stationed in Iraq and Afghanistan. Night Visions focuses on one young man who joined the U.S. Army for idealistic reasons but emerged from the service a very differ... read more
Peace Tree
Archived Festival Film
Peace Tree
When two best friends, one Muslim and the other Christian, announce their plan to celebrate each other's holidays, the girls are met with resistance from their parents. In response, they create a Peace Tree celebrating all religions and cultures. ... read more
Rubber Soles
Archived Festival Film
Rubber Soles
Unlike the other kids in his corner of Harlem, 11-year-old Francis is a complete mess on the basketball court. He much prefers the solace of his own room, where he can slap on a James Brown record and turn himself into a pint-sized version of the ... read more
epitaph*
Archived Festival Film
epitaph*
On September 11, smoke billowed up from the lower Manhattan skyline. The future was more uncertain than ever, and time seemed to freeze. From the sound of the first plane flying low over Manhattan, to the candles that lit New Yorkers' faces during... read more
Golden Venture
Archived Festival Film
Golden Venture
The merchant ship Golden Venture ran aground near New York City in 1993 with 300 undocumented Chinese immigrants onboard. Many of them went to jail for up to four years, and they're still seeking permanent legal residence (i.e. green cards) today.... read more
Confessions of a Late Bloomer
Archived Festival Film
Confessions of a Late Bloomer
For 15-year-old Donny, high school is more irritating than a lifelong case of athlete's foot. He's the smallest in the class and is only ever noticed when he's the butt of someone's joke. To escape the pummeling of his life, he meakly accepts the... read more