Surviving 7th Grade

Seventh-graders Kim and Dara are best friends. One day, while hanging out at a local playground, their classmate Marc shows up ...

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Swan's Island

A dance between camera operator and subject, Swan's Island profiles artist Katy Martin, who covers herself with blue paint and ...

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Taking Father Home

Filled with bitterness and a thirst for revenge, a 17-year-old boy leaves his rural Chinese village to seek out the father who ...

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Tell Me Do You Miss Me

For over a decade, New York darlings Luna played lullabies for the indie set, but in 2004 they hung up their guitars for good. ...

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TFF Juror Lunch and Portraits

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TFI Youth Programs Panel

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The 100% Perfect Girl

A melancholic fairy tale exploring the possibility/impossibility of perfect love. An anonymous boy believes that he's met "the ...

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The Architect

Based on Scottish playwright David Greig's The Architect, Tauber's debut feature pits an architect (Anthony LaPaglia) against a...

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The Backbrace

Puberty is embarrassing, particularly if you're a teenage boy with scoliosis and your parents force you to wear a backbrace. Th...

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The Big Bad Swim

An eclectic assortment of non-swimmers gather at the local rec center swimming class in this ensemble piece about conquering fe...

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The Big Combo

The UCLA Film & Television Archive's new restoration of this memorably nasty film noir is especially good news since it was...

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The Biology of King Kong

Peter Jackson's special-effects extravaganza presents one of the most realistic movie monsters in cinematic history, but could ...

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The Blood of My Brother

Thoughts of revenge are tempered by more practical concerns in The Blood of My Brother, which shows the war in Iraq from the pe...

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The Bracelet

A slacker's life is saved from a robot revolution when he purchases a Live Strong-inspired rubber bracelet in support of the ro...

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The Bridge

In this bold and thought-provoking documentary about suicide and its complex aftermath, Steel spends from dusk until dawn filmi...

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The Canary Effect

This visually powerful documentary explores the horrific abuses enacted on Native Americans throughout history, abuses which me...

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The Case of the Grinning Cat

Only cinema's greatest essayist would dare combine a personal glance at French (and world) politics of the first few years of t...

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The Cats of Mirikitani

Jimmy Mirikitani is a fiercely independent, homeless 80-year-old Japanese-American artist who lost family and friends to both W...

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The Cell Phone

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The Dignity of the Nobodies

Following his analysis in A Social Genocide (TFF 2004) of globalization's role in Argentina's economic disaster, this master of...

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The Elephant King

This pensive, artfully crafted drama by 2004 TFF Best Short Winner Grossman explores the twisted symbiosis between two American...

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The Fall of Troy

This early historical fresco prefigures Pastrone's 1914 masterwork Cabiria.

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The Flowers of St. Francis

Roberto Rossellini's delicate mediation of the life of St. Francis of Assisi, whom we follow from his immersion in religion to ...

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The Free Will

This sometimes shockingly graphic German film delves into the dark and complex world of Theo, a convicted rapist released from ...

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The Green Hat

The 2005 Grand Jury Prizewinner is a startling break with the historical and political concerns of recent Chinese cinema, notew...

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