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Slippin' - Ten Years with the Bloods
Archived Festival Film
Slippin' - Ten Years with the Bloods
Slippin' documents ten years on the inside of one of the world's most notorious gangs, the Bloods. The film follows five Los Angeles gang members from 1993, at the height of their gang activity-flying their colors, defending their turf-to the pres... read more
Boy From A War Movie
Archived Festival Film
Boy From A War Movie
When his mother is raped by a Serb soldier and then sent to the other side of the border late in her pregnancy, 10-year-old Alen is abandoned in the middle of the Bosnian conflict. This short explores both the tragedy of the Bosnian nation and th... read more
Young Filmmakers Rediscovered (1964-1974)
Beginning in 1963, art educator Rodger Larson mentored an array of New York City teenagers, many of them from disadvantaged backgrounds, about 16mm filmmaking. Cameras in hand, they created films of astonishing originality comprising of documenta... read more
TV Party
Archived Festival Film
TV Party
This eclectic documentary revisits the public access show Glenn O'Brien's TV Party that aired from 1978 to1982 and visually celebrated the explosive energy of New York's downtown arts scene. Includes show clips of TV Party regulars Fab Five Fredd... read more
Let the Bullets Fly
Archived Festival Film
Let the Bullets Fly
Set during the Age of the Warlords in the 1920s, this comic western is the highest grossing Chinese film ever. When circumstances force an outlaw (actor/director Jiang Wen) to impersonate a county governor and clean up a corrupt town, the Robin Ho... read more
Klitschko
Archived Festival Film
Klitschko
Six-foot-six Ukrainian brothers Vitali and Wladimir Klitschko emigrated to Germany to begin careers in heavyweight boxing in 1996, and the sport was never the same. After a 15-year reign over the ring, they made history in 2008, becoming the first... read more
Like Water
Archived Festival Film
Like Water
In the most brutal and often most misunderstood sport in the world, becoming a champion takes more than just blood, sweat, and tears. Like Water follows middleweight Ultimate Fighter Anderson Silva as he prepares to crown his four-year unbe... read more
Higher Ground
Archived Festival Film
Higher Ground
Vera Farmiga (Up in the Air) makes her directorial debut and stars in an adaptation of Carolyn S. Briggs' memoir. Set in a tight-knit spiritual community at the height of feminism in the 1960-70s, Higher Ground is an exquisite study ... read more
Heineken Audience Award Winner
Archived Festival Film
Heineken Audience Award Winner
Give Up Tomorrow won this award: In 1997, Paco Larrañaga was arrested for the murder of two sisters on a provincial island in the Philippines. Over the next 13 years, his case became the highest profile in the nation's history, and the foca... read more
Give Up Tomorrow
Archived Festival Film
Give Up Tomorrow
In 1997, Paco Larrañaga was arrested for the murder of two sisters on a provincial island in the Philippines. Over the next 13 years, his case became the highest profile in the nation's history, and the focal point in a far-reaching exposé of gros... read more
Despicable Dick and Righteous Richard
Archived Festival Film
Despicable Dick and Righteous Richard
Richard has been pissing people off for 50 years. A recovering alcoholic from North Dakota, he finally musters the courage to complete the eighth and ninth steps of the 12-Step Program. With a list of everyone he's wronged—from ex-wives to e... read more
Fame
Archived Festival Film
Fame
A permanent fixture in the popular culture and an inspiration to any kid who ever sought stardom, Fame burst into the world in 1980 with its energetic celebration of growing up, honing talent, confronting realities, finding love, and living... read more
Cairo Exit
Archived Festival Film
Cairo Exit
When 18-year-old Amal becomes pregnant, she struggles with the choice between absconding to Greece with her beloved Muslim boyfriend and staying in Cairo with her Coptic Orthodox Christian family. But when her motorbike gets stolen and she's fired... read more
Black Butterflies
Tribeca Film
Black Butterflies
Poetry, politics, madness, and desire collide in the true story of the woman hailed as South Africa's Sylvia Plath. In 1960s Cape Town, as Apartheid steals the expressive rights of blacks and whites alike, young Ingrid Jonker (Carice van Houten, <... read more
Loving Story
Archived Festival Film
Loving Story
Nancy Buirski's moving, evocative documentary recounts the unknown love story of Mildred and Richard Loving, the couple behind the 1967 Supreme Court ruling overturning anti-miscegenation laws in the United States. Drawing from a wealth of stunnin... read more
Best New Documentary Director Award
Archived Festival Film
Best New Documentary Director Award
Like Water won this award: In the most brutal and often most misunderstood sport in the world, becoming a champion takes more than just blood, sweat, and tears. Like Water follows middleweight Ultimate Fighter Anderson Silva as he prepares ... read more
Bully Project
Archived Festival Film
Bully Project
More than 18 million young people in the U.S. will be bullied this year. This alarming documentary takes us into a disquieting year in the life of several students joining this staggering statistic. As teachers and parents struggle to find the ans... read more
Blackthorn
Archived Festival Film
Blackthorn
Legend has it notorious American outlaw Butch Cassidy was killed in Bolivia in 1908. Mateo Gil's classic Western, however, finds Cassidy (Sam Shepard) 20 years later living on in hiding under the identity of James Blackthorn—and yearning for... read more
Bombay Beach
Archived Festival Film
Bombay Beach
The rusting relic of a failed 1960s development boom, the Salton Sea is a barren California landscape and symbol of the failure of the American Dream. Using a stylized amalgam of nonfiction and choreographed dance set to the music of Beirut and Bo... read more
NEDS
Tribeca Film
NEDS
Directed by actor/director Peter Mullan (My Name Is Joe, The Magdalene Sisters), NEDS takes place in the gritty and savage world of 1970s Glasgow. On the brink of adolescence, John McGill is a bright and sensitive boy. He's ea... read more
Shorts: All You Can Eat
Archived Festival Film
Shorts: All You Can Eat
This tasty assortment of animated shorts will leave you hungry for more. A polar bear in Hollywood has trouble going with the "floe" in The Beaufort Diaries. Love isn't what it's cracked up to be in Not Over Easy... read more
Janie Jones
Tribeca Film
Janie Jones
Ethan (Alessandro Nivola), a struggling musician content with his on-the-road rock-and-roll lifestyle and his much younger girlfriend (Brittany Snow), has his life turned upside down with the arrival of a 13-year-old daughter he never knew he had.... read more
Jesus Henry Christ
Tribeca Film
Jesus Henry Christ
Precocious doesn't even begin to describe Henry James Hermin, a petri dish child who writes rabble-rousing manifestos on the nature of truth… at age 10. This boy-genius misfit's world turns upside down when—to the dismay of the doting single mothe... read more