Archived Festival Film

Nagpapanggap

Lourdes is a teacher, a mother and a wife. Always placing others first, she is determined to help the women around her. But faced with the possibility of her husband's infidelity, can she find the strength to help herself? Set against the backdr... read more

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Film as a Subversive Art: Amos Vogel and Cinema 16

In 1947, Austrian émigré Amos Vogel launched Cinema 16 as a place where New Yorkers could see a wide range of "different" films -- documentaries, works from overseas, experimental cinema. It soon grew into the most influential film society in Ame... read more

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Man from the Embassy

The empty existence of a German official living in Tbilisi, Georgia, brightens when he forms a tenuous friendship with a 12-year-old girl living in one of the city's refugee camps. But corruption, violence and accusations of pedophilia taint their... read more

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Piece By Piece

Piece By Piece is a documentary about the resurgence of the Rubik's Cube and, specifically, the sport of speedcubing. Meet one of the original creators of a well-known speedcubing algorithm and the 1982 Swedish speedcubing champion. Watch one-hand... read more

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Story of People in War & Peace

A deeply personal meditation on the horrors of war and its effects is shown through the eyes of Armenian journalist Vardan Hovhannisyan. Weaving together footage from his country's 1994 conflict with neighboring Azerbaijan over the Nagoma Karabakh... read more

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Man Who Stole My Mother's Face

Two days before Christmas in 1988, a 59-year-old woman was sexually assaulted in her home in Johannesburg, South Africa. Because of police bungling, the crime was never solved. Now the woman's daughter, an Australian documentary filmmaker, returns... read more

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Red Shoes

An aging Chinatown masseuse, Linda, tries to find a way to buy her 10 year-old daughter, Dee, a pair of shoes. When pressured by her client to make easy money, her vanity gets the better of her and she gives in to temptation. But as Linda finds he... read more

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Becket

Richard Burton and Peter O'Toole dominate the screen in this exquisitely restored version of the film its producer Hal Wallis (Casablanca, The Maltese Falcon) called "the best picture I ever made." Becket recounts the battle of wills between King ... read more

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Volcano

Producer Prince Francesco Alliata (who also produced Renoir's The Golden Coach) journeys from Palermo to present the Cineteca di Bologna's masterful restoration of Dieterle's 1949 classic. Shown here in the U.S. for the first time in its original ... read more

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Cry, the Beloved Country

In this powerful adaptation of Alan Paton's classic novel, a black South African pastor (James Earl Jones) and a white landowner (Richard Harris) become tragically linked by a senseless murder in Johannesburg. Strong, dignified turns by the two le... read more

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Tribute to Stan Brakhage

Stan Brakhage (1933-2003) was one of the most significant avant-garde artists of his generation. This program features three portraits of Stan, by fellow filmmakers Benjamin Meade and Bill Pryor, Pip Chodorov, and Ken and Nisi Jacobs, as well as f... read more

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Boat Is Full

A dramatization of Swiss complicity in Nazi atrocities, The Boat Is Full boldly broached a then-taboo subject upon its initial release in 1980. Seven labs took three years to create this digitally restored version of this long-lost classic, for wh... read more

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Thriller Night

Join filmmaker and “Thriller” video director John Landis for a special 25th anniversary screening of Michael Jackson's epic 1984 music video, plus the classic Making of Thriller. Learn the Thriller dance and take part in the world's largest zombie... read more

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Nostradamus and Me

Dublin 1986. Nora has never kissed a boy, but who has time for that when the arms race is out of control and the world is falling apart? Now two Frenchmen are about to change her life: Antoine, the French exchange student, and Nostradamus, the see... read more

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Detour De Seta

Vittorio de Seta (b. 1923) is credited with having made both features and documentaries that depicted the brutal industrial development, which transformed Italy in the second half of the 20th Century. This documentary will be accompanied by Martin... read more

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Billy's Dad is a Fudge-Packer

Billy learns how “wonderful” the world would be if everyone were the same in this satirical re-creation of a 1950’s educational film. Though set in a time of conservative viewpoints and narrow-minded beliefs, the film raises a timely question: Whe... read more

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Man Who Walked Between the Towers

Based on the Caldecott Medal book, this is the true story of Philippe Petit, a young French aerialist, and his daring 1974 high wire walk between the two towers of the World Trade Center. Narrated by Jake Gyllenhaal. read more

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Coney Island, 1945

This short experimental film mixes the use of 35mm film, digital video, and animation, this documentary becomes the dream of an artist from Brooklyn, Isaiah Zagar, who recalls his memories with his mother as they enjoyed the surf and sand of Coney... read more

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Gettin' Grown

In this inspired and heartfelt film, 12 year-old Eric's mother sends him across town to pick up a desperately needed prescription for his grandma. He has an hour to get there and within minutes, he is lured into a serious ball game. Then, when he ... read more

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3719 Broadleaf Road

Sam hates the scary movies his parents force him to watch on “family movie night.” But on one such movie night in 1982 the horror seems to be coming from his own suburban home. Is that Dad upside—down in gravity boots, or is that a vision from th... read more

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How to Make Friends

The story of a mother, who at her wits end, invites two neighborhood girls to her home with the hopes that they can befriend her lonely 11-year old son. And she's completely surprised by the end result. How To Make Friends is a warm, touching, an... read more

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Boats Out of Watermelon Rinds

In a small Turkish village in the 1960's, two young boys are so in love with the movies that they fashion a makeshift projector out of a wooden box. Made on less than a shoestring budget, by a reclusive filmmaker with several accomplished shorts ... read more

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Flood in Baath Country

In 1970, Omar Amiralay made a beautiful short documentary (it opens this program) in praise of the ruling Baath party's project to construct an impressive system of dams. Today, after fatal construction flaws have been found, his controversial new... read more

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Gilaneh

It is the Iranian New Year, 1988. Sadaam is bombing Tehran. And Gilaneh's family is being ripped apart by the war. Her son-in-law is missing after deserting the army. Her charming son, Ishmael, is heading off to fight for his country. Fifteen year... read more

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Punk: Attitude

Time: the mid 1970s. Place: the transatlantic twin cities of New York and London. A revolution in pop music, film, and fashion shatters the establishment's status quo and impacts all future youth generations. Punk: Attitude chronicles how teenage ... read more