Film Festivals
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Tribeca Film Festival
A relative latecomer to the film festival scene, Tribeca was launched by Robert De Niro and partners in the wake of September 11, 2001, to promote NYC's general recovery and enduring vigor as a filmmaking center. It immediately shot to the upper ranks of global festival awareness thanks to its mix of independent, international and Hollywood work, with plenty of annual star power cinching the deal.
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2011
Shakespeare High
Executive produced by Kevin Spacey, SHAKESPEARE HIGH is an inspiring documentary that follows a diverse group of California high school students as they prepare for and compete in an annual Shakespeare Festival, a program that counts many of Hollywood's biggest stars among its alumni.Start your free trial to watch -
2011
Grey Matter
Set in Kigali, Rwanda’s capital, this radiantly self-referential film-within-a-film describes the vision and trials of a determined filmmaker named Balthazar, as he tries to produce his first feature, THE CYCLE OF THE COCKROACH. The trenchant drama, about a brother and sister dealing with the aftermath of genocide, finds no...Start your free trial to watch
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2010
The Woodmans
The tragic story of Francesca Woodman, a young photographer renowned for her extraordinary nude self-portraits, is also the story of her brilliantly artistic family. With THE WOODMANS, director C. Scott Willis shows how the struggle for fame in the high-stakes world of art resulted in tragedy and then in healing and...Start your free trial to watch -
2010
Collision of Parts
A kaleidoscopic reverie recorded over a period of five years in various urban milieus. An excavation of the concept of montage: small moments public and private brush up against each other, creating a charged tapestry of the immediate. Inside and outside, motion and stasis, home and travel, light and dark:...Start your free trial to watch -
2009
Blank City
BLANK CITY is an "absorbing snapshot of a daring time" (Los Angeles Times) when a disparate crew of renegade filmmakers emerged from an economically bankrupt and dangerous moment in New York history. From the late 1970s through the mid-'80s, when the East Village was still a wasteland of cheap rent and cheap drugs, these...Start your free trial to watch
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2009
Love the Beast
What if you were a Hollywood movie star with an obsession for cars and racing? You would probably read every script with even the tiniest link to the subject matter in the hope that you could tell a great car story of the likes of GRAND PRIX. Then, one day, you happened to open your garage door and sitting there, right in...Start your free trial to watch -
2009
Masquerades
After working for much of his life as a gardener in his dusty Algerian village, Mounir dreams of improving his family’s fortune and gaining a measure of respect by marrying off his narcoleptic sister, Rym, to a “real gentleman.” However, Rym has other plans; she dreams of marrying Mounir’s best friend, Khliffa, who has...Start your free trial to watch
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2008
Somers Town
Two teenagers, both newcomers to London, forge an unlikely friendship over the course of a hot summer. Tomo (Thomas Turgoose) is a runaway from Nottingham; Marek (Piotr Jagiello), a Polish immigrant, lives in the district of SOMERS TOWN, between King's Cross and Euston stations, where his dad is working on a new rail link....Start your free trial to watch -
2007
The Workshop
In a wooded glade somewhere near San Francisco, THE WORKSHOP challenges the rules of modern society by pushing all boundaries of normal convention (especially the sexual ones)! A group of people agree to take part in a ten-day workshop led by spiritual leader Paul Lowe in their search for a higher personal truth. On the first...Start your free trial to watch -
2007
Lady Chatterley
Robbed of intimacy by her blueblood husband's war injuries, Constance Chatterley longs for the emotional fulfillment and physical passion that her marriage lacks. When she espies the gamekeeper Parkin (Jean-Louis Coullo'ch) unselfconsciously bathing, stripped to the waist amidst the beauty of nature, she experiences a sexual...Start your free trial to watch -
2006
Saint of 9/11
In an enduring photograph of 9/11, a team of rescue worker carry a Franciscan priest's body from the World Trade Center. The world came to know Father Mychal Judge as a symbol of courage and sacrifice. SAINT OF 9/11 represents the turbulent, restless, spiritual and remarkable journey of Father Mychal. Compassionate champion...Start your free trial to watch
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2005
The F Word
A "fictional documentary" about Joe Pace, a radio talk show host whose program, THE F WORD, is being shut down by the F.C.C. after racking up over a million dollars in unpaid indecency fines. On his last day on the air, which coincides with the last day of the Republican National Convention (à la MEDIUM COOL and,...Start your free trial to watch -
2005
Stolen Life
A young girl is taken to live with her aunt and grandmother in Beijing. As an adolescent, Yanni is withdrawn and reclusive, believing that she has been abandoned by her parents and that she has no control over either her life or her fate. The fact that her “family” doesn’t have much hope for her future only compounds her...Start your free trial to watch -
2005
Prostitution Behind the Veil
This film unveils the lives of two women, Minna and Fariba, in a city in Iran. The women are neighbors, good friends and support each other. Both of them have to live with the widespread mistreatment of women and the double standards that permeate Iranian society today. They both make a living from...Start your free trial to watch -
2005
Puzzlehead
In a post apocalyptic world where technology is outlawed, Walter, a reclusive scientist, secretly creates a self-aware android, “Puzzlehead.” Jealousy erupts when Puzzlehead wins the affection of Julia, the beautiful shopgirl that Walter has longed for. The resulting Sci-Fi love triangle is a Frankensteinian fable that traps...Start your free trial to watch
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2004
The Time We Killed
The post-9/11 political situation is refracted through an isolated female subjectivity in Jennifer Reeves’ bold foray into narrative filmmaking. “Terrorism brought me out of the house,” says poet Robyn (Lisa Jarnot) in her winding voiceover, “But the War on Terror drove me back in.” Reeves freely...Start your free trial to watch -
2003
Divan
As a teenager, filmmaker Pearl Gluck left her Orthodox Jewish clan in Brooklyn for secular life in Manhattan. Many years later, Pearl’s father has one wish: that she marry and return to the community. Pearl, however, takes a more creative approach to mend the breach. She travels to Hungary to retrieve a turn-of-the-century...Start your free trial to watch -
2003
The Return
A mixture of psychological thriller and road movie, THE RETURN tells the story of two young brothers, Andrei (Vladimir Garin) and Ivan (Ivan Dobronravov), who must cope with the sudden and unexplained return of their long absent father. Unusually close and notably protective of each other's interests, Andrei and Ivan embark...Start your free trial to watch -
2003
Blind Shaft
BLIND SHAFT tells the story of two itinerant miners (Song Jinming and Tang Chaoyang) who risk their lives under dangerous working conditions and develop questionable morals in order to survive. In the dark caves of one of the many illegal Chinese coal mines, Song and Tang murder a co-worker whom they have convinced to pose as...Start your free trial to watch
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2003
Margarette's Feast
A Brazilian black-and-white silent film, MARGARETTE'S FEAST is director Renato Falcão's stunning debut feature. The phenomenal Hique Gomez plays the stereotypical little-guy-against-the-world whose predicament transforms him into this tall stick of a human alternately tugging at your heart-strings and your...Start your free trial to watch




