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FILMS BY DIRECTORJeff Adachi
From silent film star Sessue Hayakawa to Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle, The Slanted Screen explores the portrayals of Asian men in American cinema, chronicling the experiences of actors who have had to struggle against ethnic stereotyping and limiting roles. More...
Mike Akel
Chalk is one of the wittiest films at the Festival, sketching out a year of rookie teachers at Harrison. In an improvisational style that wraps a bit of reality TV around a faux documentary core, the ensemble cast will win you over with their portrayal of high school staff way out of their depth. More...
Frank Anderson
If, in 1940, you had a lobotomized aunt, an institutionalized father, a racist mother, and were the only gay kid on the block, what do you think the odds would be that you'd end up a Tony winner, a staple of television, and a generational icon? Charles Nelson Reilly recounts his improbable story in “Save It For the Stage,” a one-man stage show filmed for the screen. More...
Alexander André
Hand-drawn animation of horses, cats, and monkeys on different media (sketches on paper, ink on board) is a whimsical experiment in movement. More...
Footage salvaged from other students’ film projects is assembled in a rhythmic montage set to music by the Pixies. More...
Andrea Arnold
This crackling feature debut by Andrea Arnold is an exceedingly dark thriller set in the chilly concrete housing estates on the edges of Glasgow. Jackie works for the closed-circuit security agency that monitors the dingy streets, alerting the copper to criminal behavior happening in the neighborhood. More...
Ramin Bahrani
Ahmad is a hard-working Pakistani, just trying to make ends meet. Relationships evolve between Ahmad and Noemi, a Spanish woman running a newsstand nearby, and Mohammad, a fellow Pakistani who hires Ahmad to do a little side-work for cash. Filmed over three weeks, mostly during the dark hours just before dawn, Man Push Cart is a luminous portrait of isolation and hope in post-9/11 New York. More...
Jennifer Baichwal
Internationally acclaimed for his large-scale photographs of “manufactured landscapes”—quarries, recycling yards, factories, mines and dams—Burtynsky creates stunningly beautiful art from civilization’s materials and debris. More...
Olivo Barbieri
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[JIMEX] (13 min) Jim and Joe's Shorts plays in Jim and Joe's Experimental Shorts
A revealing aerial portrait of Sin City. More...
Richard Berge
The Rape of Europa traces the systematic theft, deliberate destruction, and miraculous survival of Europe’s art treasures during the Third Reich and the Second World War. More...
Vidi Bilu
Compelling and controversial, the fictional film Close to Home has been celebrated by festival audiences worldwide as it chronicles the day-to-day life of two young Israeli women, Smadar and Mirit, during their compulsory military service. They are paired together, despite their differences, to patrol the streets of Jerusalem. More...
Pascal Blanchet
A slinky, jazzy animation drawn with a cool, retro style, Carlos tells the story of the doomed stranger who strides into Carlostown one day. More...
Emmanuel Bourdieu
A taut psychological thriller that would make Hitchcock proud, Poison Friends combines intrigue and academia in this razor-sharp exploration of the pretentious Parisian literary scene. On the first day of a graduate literature program at the Sorbonne, Eloi and Alexandre meet André, a handsome and impossibly brilliant new student who captures the attention of nearly everybody. André manipulates their fortunes with a touch of maliciousness worthy of Les Liaisons Dangereuses. More...
Eric Breitenbach
When Pigs Fly
[COSTO] (USA, 2006, 62 min) Film*Able: Disabilities on Screen plays with The Cost of Living
Injured in an accident when she was working as a trucker, Lory has chosen to open a sanctuary for abandoned pigs, despite the difficulties of doing so from a wheelchair. She is committed to her pigs past the point of common sense: feed costs most of what she gets from her monthly workers’ compensation checks. More...
Mel Brooks
One of the funniest films by a man who made some damn funny films, Mel Brooks’s Young Frankenstein holds up beautifully after more than 30 years, especially in this restored print courtesy of 20th Century Fox. The grandson of Baron von Frankenstein is drawn back to the family castle, where he’s tempted to recreate his grandfather’s famous experiments. More...
Jim Brown
The Moss family moved into this half-built development to find a safer neighborhood, a bigger kitchen, and more space to map out the complex schedule of car pools, after-school sports, and activities. But all is not bliss, and we get the impression that living on cul-de-sacs with faceless identical mansions, nothing within walking distance, may not be the dream of everyone in the family. More...
Chris Burgard
A Wisconsin native transplanted to California, Chris Burgard set out to make a homegrown film about the Mexican-U.S. border, to satisfy some of his own questions about what it means these days to “defend our borders.” More...
Daniel Burman
Family Law is a witty and touching portrait of a young man making the passage from delayed adolescence into adulthood. Daniel Hendler plays the neurotic and uptight lawyer Ariel Perelman, who has big shoes to fill as the son of a genial and legendary lawyer. Three generations of Perelmans confound each other with how much they need to learn about being a family. More...
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