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Showing 161 Films from the festival year 2009
City Island
City Island
Vinnie's been secretly taking acting classes, his daughter's moonlighting as a stripper, his son's got a weighty fetish, and mo...
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Con Artist
Con Artist
One of the biggest names in the East Village art scene of the '80s, "business artist" Mark Kostabi gleefully made a fortune sig...
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Cropsey
Cropsey
Urban legends: We either dismiss them or accept that they have some grain of truth. Directors Zeman and Brancaccio attempt to u...
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Cutlass
Cutlass
In Cutlass, Robin remembers what it's like to want something really, really badly.
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Dazzle
Dazzle
Cyrus Frisch, the enfant terrible of Dutch cinema, returns to the Festival with his latest feature that challenges classic mode...
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Deadline
Deadline
An ex-con confronts an abusive guard from his past in Deadline.
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Deconstruction Workers
Deconstruction Workers
Two Average Joes dig their way through the meaning of life in Deconstruction Workers.
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Defamation
Defamation
Is anti-Semitism an extant threat on the verge of coalescing into a second Holocaust? Or is it a scare tactic used by right-win...
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Delta's Fly-In Movies Winner
Delta's Fly-In Movies Winner
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densen
densen
Inspired by the Japanese word for power line, densen is a musical voyage through photographs from Tokyo, St. Petersburg, Barcel...
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Departures
Departures
Winner of the Academy Award® for best foreign language film, Departures is the eccentric, lushly scored, movingly funny tale of...
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Don McKay
Don McKay
Don McKay (Thomas Haden Church) should have followed the old cliché: "You can't go home again." After 25 years, he returns for ...
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Easy Virtue
Easy Virtue
Kristin Scott Thomas, Colin Firth, Jessica Biel, and Ben Barnes (Prince Caspian) star in the comical tale of a young Englishman...
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Entre nos
Entre nos
Adoring mother Mariana (talented codirector Paola Mendoza) has toted her two children from Colombia to New York to indulge her ...
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Fear Me Not
Fear Me Not
In this intensely chilling psychological thriller, a run-down middle-aged workaholic (Ulrich Thomsen) enrolls in a clinical tri...
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FILM IST. a girl & a gun
FILM IST. a girl & a gun
Gustav Deutsch, the maestro of found footage filmmaking, excavates old movies from archives worldwide (including the Kinsey Ins...
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First Steps
First Steps
A filmmaker chronicles his personal experience with multiple sclerosis in First Steps.
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Fish Eyes
Fish Eyes
Set during the 2008 Olympics on the outskirts of Beijing, first-time filmmaker Zheng Wei's beautiful and poetic portrait of mod...
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Fixer: The Taking of Ajmal Naqshbandi
Fixer: The Taking of Ajmal Naqshbandi
In 2007, the Taliban kidnapped 24-year-old Ajmal Naqshbandi and an Italian journalist. Naqshbandi was one of Afghanistan's best...
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Founders Award for Best Narrative Feature
Founders Award for Best Narrative Feature
From the New York indie gem Roger Dodger (TFF '02) to the icy-cool Swedish vampire flick Let the Right One In (TFF '08), the Wo...
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Garapa
Garapa
Director José Padilha (Bus 174) follows up his Golden Bear-winning Elite Squad with this austere, unflinching examination of th...
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Gefilte Fish
Gefilte Fish
Gail is torn between a fish and her family tradition in Gefilte Fish.
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Glock
Glock
In Glock, a new secret agent "kills" time waiting for his first assignment.
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Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench
Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench
First-time director Damien Chazelle infuses his black-and-white, 16mm vérité-style relationship drama with all that jazzy roman...
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Ha'Aki
Ha'Aki
Filmmaker Iriz Pääbo tells the highly subjective story of a hockey game, using NHL stalwart of the '60s and '70s Eric Nesterenk...
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