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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...
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...
Cropsey
Cropsey
Urban legends: We either dismiss them or accept that they have some grain of truth. Directors Zeman and Brancaccio attempt to u...
Cutlass
Cutlass
In Cutlass, Robin remembers what it's like to want something really, really badly.
Dazzle
Dazzle
Cyrus Frisch, the enfant terrible of Dutch cinema, returns to the Festival with his latest feature that challenges classic mode...
Deadline
Deadline
An ex-con confronts an abusive guard from his past in Deadline.
Deconstruction Workers
Deconstruction Workers
Two Average Joes dig their way through the meaning of life in Deconstruction Workers.
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...
Delta's Fly-In Movies Winner
Delta's Fly-In Movies Winner
densen
densen
Inspired by the Japanese word for power line, densen is a musical voyage through photographs from Tokyo, St. Petersburg, Barcel...
Departures
Departures
Winner of the Academy Award® for best foreign language film, Departures is the eccentric, lushly scored, movingly funny tale of...
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 ...
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...
Entre nos
Entre nos
Adoring mother Mariana (talented codirector Paola Mendoza) has toted her two children from Colombia to New York to indulge her ...
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...
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...
First Steps
First Steps
A filmmaker chronicles his personal experience with multiple sclerosis in First Steps.
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...
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...
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...
Garapa
Garapa
Director José Padilha (Bus 174) follows up his Golden Bear-winning Elite Squad with this austere, unflinching examination of th...
Gefilte Fish
Gefilte Fish
Gail is torn between a fish and her family tradition in Gefilte Fish.
Glock
Glock
In Glock, a new secret agent "kills" time waiting for his first assignment.
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...
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...