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Showing 214 Films from the festival year 2008
200000 Phantoms
200000 Phantoms
In 200000 Phantoms, filmmaker Jean-Gabriel Periot assembles a collage of postcards to highlight the havoc wrought by the droppi...
2001: A Space Odyssey
2001: A Space Odyssey
Kubrick's 2001 caught the imagination of a generation with its near-hallucinatory depiction of space, artificial intelligence, ...
2007 Before the Tracks Are Lost On the Wind
2007 Before the Tracks Are Lost On the Wind
In 2007 Before the Tracks are Lost on the Wind, director Renate Günter-Greene's tracking camera surveys remnants of the Dusseld...
2008 Breaking The Band
2008 Breaking The Band
Returning to the Tribeca Film Festival for a second time is Grammy-nominated music supervisor Alexandra Patsavas, who owns Chop...
57,000 Kilometers Between Us
57,000 Kilometers Between Us
A provocative yet charming take on digital communication, this debut follows a teen caught between her stepdad (who records the...
7 Cities
7 Cities
Striking painted visuals evoke the encounter between the great 13th-century Sufi poet Mevlana Rumi and the wandering dervish Sh...
90 Miles The Documentary
90 Miles The Documentary
The title of Grammy-winner Gloria Estefan's latest album, 90 Millas, refers to the distance between Cuba and southern Florida, ...
About Face
About Face
An office worker becomes much too popular when he signs up for a virtual reality social networking site in About Face.
Algeria, Unspoken Stories
Algeria, Unspoken Stories
Unearthing buried memories of Algeria’s war of independence, this bold revision of official history feels like the embrace of a...
All Saints Day
All Saints Day
A New York stoop the day after Halloween sets the stage for All Saints Day.
American Express Insider Center
American Express Insider Center
From April 24 through May 2, the Insider Center will become the Festival’s backstage, giving American Express® Cardmembers acce...
Ana's Way
Ana's Way
It's a long, lonely road for the woman in Ana's Way (El Camino de Ana).
Angels Die in the Soil
Angels Die in the Soil
An Iraqi-Kurdish girl faces war and redemption in Angels Die in the Soil (Fereshtegan Dar Khak Mimirand).
An Omar Broadway Film
An Omar Broadway Film
Using a contraband video camera inside the notorious gang unit at Newark's Northern State Prison, a jailed Bloods member puts h...
A Portrait of Diego: The Revolutionary Gaze
A Portrait of Diego: The Revolutionary Gaze
Fifty years ago, Diego Rivera, Gabriel Figueroa, and Manuel Alvarez Bravo collaborated on a documentary film about Rivera, but ...
A Powerful Noise
A Powerful Noise
Bookended by call-to-action quotes from Margaret Mead and Mahatma Gandhi, this inspiring documentary follows three extraordinar...
A President to Remember: In the Company of John F. Kennedy
A President to Remember: In the Company of John F. Kennedy
Culled from direct cinema pioneer Robert Drew's unparalleled behindthe-scenes footage of JFK at work in the Oval Office, and th...
A Story of the Red Hills
A Story of the Red Hills
The story of a disheartened dancer and a disabled boy--both of whose lives are transformed by the magic and power of Chhou, a t...
At Day's End
At Day's End
An Egyptian family gathers for food and television in At Day's End.
Baby Mama
Baby Mama
Tina Fey and Amy Poehler team with writer/director Michael McCullers and producers Lorne Michaels and John Goldwyn to tell the ...
Baghdad High
Baghdad High
Four classmates (Kurd, Christian, Shiite, and Sunni/Shiite) in Baghdad are given cameras to document their last year in high sc...
Baghdad Twist
Baghdad Twist
Recollections on being Jewish in Iraq are revealed in Baghdad Twist.
Baghead
Baghead
It's not often that a film can be both a hilariously tongue-in-cheek sendup of indie flicks and a brilliantly insightful bit of...
Ball Don't Lie
Ball Don't Lie
An urban coming-of-age story that follows Sticky, a talented streetballer (Grayson Boucher) who overcomes his troubled past thr...
Bart Got a Room
Bart Got a Room
It’s ticktock ticktock for Danny as the prom approaches, and he still doesn’t have a date. With the help of his plain-Jane best...