Archived Festival Film

Trucker

Michelle Monaghan is riveting as a tough-talking, devil-may-care truck driver who is faced with raising her estranged 11-year-old son after his father (Benjamin Bratt) is hospitalized. This eloquent and uplifting story also features Joey Lauren Ad... read more

Archived Festival Film

Roads

A 13-year-old Arab and an Israeli ex-soldier connect in Roads. read more

Archived Festival Film

My Life Inside

At 17, mild-mannered Rosa Jiménez came to the United States to provide a better life for her family back in Mexico. This riveting, heartbreaking film examines how she comes to stand accused of murder in a Texas courtroom. Co-hosted with The Mexica... read more

Archived Festival Film

Katyn

In this Academy Award®-nominated film, one of Europe's master filmmakers has finally been able to depict the suffering resulting from one of the darkest episodes of the 20th century: the 1940 slaughter of Poland's 15,000-man officer corps, which c... read more

Archived Festival Film

7 Cities

Striking painted visuals evoke the encounter between the great 13th-century Sufi poet Mevlana Rumi and the wandering dervish Shamsuddin of Tabriz, who would become his mentor. read more

Archived Festival Film

Shift

Hell hath no fury like an employee scorned in Shift (15 Minuten Wahrheit). read more

Archived Festival Film

Newcastle

Revolving around Jesse, a 17-year-old surfer who treads the line between success and self-destruction, Newcastle saturates the senses with magnificent surfing footage and absorbs viewers in the fresh loves and personal tragedies of Jesse and his m... read more

Archived Festival Film

Waiting For Hockney

At 38-years-old, aspiring artist Billy Pappas is the ultimate dreamer. Checkoway chronicles the 10 years Pappas spent meticulously drawing his masterpiece in his parents' attic-and the success or failure he believes hinges on his ability to show h... read more

Archived Festival Film

Zoned In

Filmed over the course of nine years, this documentary traces the remarkable journey of 16-year-old Daniel from a Bronx high school to an Ivy League university while simultaneously exploring the role of race and class in the American education sys... read more

Archived Festival Film

Secrecy

In the years following September 11, the black redaction stripe has become a familiar sight to most Americans. Secrecy probes the roots of the United States' culture of classification-and its consequences. read more

Archived Festival Film

Lou Reed's Berlin

Hosted by the School of Visual Arts Lou Reed's critically acclaimed 1973 album "Berlin" was yet another musical step forward in the career of the man who brought the darkest themes of literature to rock and roll. For years, "Berlin" was considered... read more

Archived Festival Film

Night Tide

The feature debut of the versatile Curtis Harrington (1926-2007) stars a young Dennis Hopper, and until now it has not been seen on 35mm for many years. Set in an amusement park, Harrington's film blends a romantic mystery story with elements of f... read more

Tribeca Film

Northeast

Will (David Call), an unemployed and aimless playboy living in Brooklyn, New York, has spent his 20’s skating on easy charm from one casual, distant affair to the next. Noticing his friends’ happiness as they gradually settle into steady jobs and ... read more

Archived Festival Film

Like a Blade of Grass in the Meadow

Benedetta is a 14-year-old school girl, and like many girls her age, she is prone to day dreams. In Benedetta's case she sits around and dreams of Prince Charming. Instead of facing life and meeting real boys, she prefers to make up a perfect worl... read more

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

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

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

Archived Festival Film

I Just Wanted To Be Somebody

What do the religious right and the gay liberation movement have in common? Both were fortified by the efforts of one woman: Anita Bryant. Part document and part poem, and composed of news footage, commercials and Bryant's own home movies, I Just ... read more