Tribeca Film Festival Lineup

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  • Opening Night Film

  • World Narrative Feature Competition

    • About Elly (Darbareye Elly)
      • Director: Asghar Ferhadi (Iran): North American Premiere
      • Writer: Asghar Ferhadi
      • Synopsis from Tribeca Film Festival: "A group of old college pals reunites for a weekend adventure on the sea, but compounding lies and deception quickly lead to catastrophe."
    • Accidents Happen
      • Director: Andrew Lancaster (Australia): World Premiere
      • Writer: Brian Carbee
      • Synopsis from Tribeca Film Festival: "There are dysfunctional families... and then there are the Conways. After a family tragedy, 15-year-old Billy Conway has become the de facto glue between his bitter mom (Geena Davis), distant brother, and stoic dad."
    • The Eclipse
      • Director: Conor McPherson (Ireland): World Premiere
      • Writer: Conor McPherson
      • Synopsis from Tribeca Film Festival: "A widower who sees and hears strange things in his house. His life converges with a beautiful author of supernatural fiction and a full-of-himself pop novelist at an international literary festival that will alter their lives in surprising ways." Starring: Ciaran Hinds, Aidan Quinn and Iben Hjejle
    • The Exploding Girl
      • Director: Bradley Rust Gray (USA): North American Premiere
      • Writer: Bradley Rust Gray
      • Synopsis from Tribeca Film Festival: "College student Ivy is back home in Brooklyn for spring break with her longtime platonic guy pal Al in tow. As her relationship with her boyfriend slowly disintegrates via cell phone, Al's friendship is cast in a new light."
    • The Fish Child (El nino pez)
      • Director: Lucia Puenzo (Argentina, Spain, France): North American Premiere
      • Writer: by Lucia Puenzo
      • Synopsis from Tribeca Film Festival: "When an upper-class Argentine falls for her family's sultry Paraguayan maid, the two make plans to run away together, but their hope for escape is derailed when shocking secrets become unveiled." (In Spanish with English subtitles)
    • Handsome Harry
      • Director: Bette Gordon(USA): World Premiere
      • Writer: Nicholas T. Proferes
      • Synopsis from Tribeca Film Festival: "Harry, a divorced father and former sailor, lives a simple life in his small town. But when his dying best friend sparks Harry's drive to confront his past, buried secrets resurface and force him to deal with painful memories." Starring Jamey Sheridan, Aidan Quinn, John Savage and Campbell Scott
    • Here and There (Tamo i ovde)
      • Director: Darko Lungulov (Serbia): World Premiere.
      • Writer: Darko Lungulov
      • Synopsis from Tribeca Film Festival: "Miserable middle-aged musician Robert suddenly finds himself homeless and in need of quick cash. He accepts an offer from a young, enterprising Serbian immigrant...discovers that happiness comes when least expected, and begins to question whether money or love would be the true cure to his ills." (In English and Serbian with English subtitles)
    • North (Nord)
      • Director: Rune Denstad Laglo (Norway): North American Premiere
      • Writer: Erlend Loe
      • Synopsis from Tribeca Film Festival: "A wry comedy about a former ski champion recovering from a mental breakdown and on a journey to start anew." (In Norwegian with English subtitles)
    • Queen to Play (Joueuse)
      • Director: Caroline Bottaro (France, Germany): World Premiere
      • Writer: Caroline Bottaro
      • Synopsis from Tribeca Film Festival: "An inquisitive hotel maid captivated by a vacationing couple playing chess. Thus begins her obsession with mastering the game and transforming her uninspired life." In French with English subtitles) Starring: Sandrine Bonnaire, Kevin Kline, Jennifer Beals and Francis Renaud
    • Seven Minutes in Heaven (Sheva Dakot Be'gan Eden)
      • Director: Omri Givon (Israel): International Premiere
      • Writer: Omri Givon
      • Synopsis from Tribeca Film Festival: "A young woman struggles to reconstruct her memory of the events immediately following the Jerusalem bus bombing that took the life of her boyfriend and left her back badly scarred." (In Hebrew with English subtitles)
    • Stay Cool
      • Director: Michael Polish (USA): World Premiere
      • Writer: Mark Polish
      • Synopsis from Tribeca Film Festival: "Henry McCarthey returns home to give the commencement speech at his high school. But even after almost 20 years, it's as if he never left. This charming comedy, featuring, reminds us that time certainly does fly and old flames are hard to put out." Starring Mark Polish, Winona Ryder and Hilary Duff
    • Vegas: Based on a True Story
      • Director: Amir Naderi (USA): North American Premiere
      • Writers: Susan Brennan, Bliss Esposito, Charlie Lake Keaton and Amir Naderi
      • Synopsis from Tribeca Film Festival: "The film takes place away from the glittering strip of luxury mega casinos, but the judgment-clouding greed of Sin City is just as pervasive on the desert outskirts of town, where an otherwise happy family is thrown into turmoil after learning of a forgotten fortune that may be buried underneath their scrubby little home."

  • World Documentary Feature Competition

    • The Burning Season
      • Director: Cathy Henkel (Australia): International Premiere
      • Synopsis from Tribeca Film Festival: "Three lives affected by deliberately lit fires raging across Indonesia. Following a carbon-trading entrepreneur, an orangutan rescuer, and a palm oil farmer, this doc inspirationally shows those caught at the intersection of big business and conservation." Hugh Jackman narrates (In English, Indonesian with English subtitles)
    • Defamation (Hashmatsa)
      • Director: Yoav Shamir (Denmark, Austria, USA, Israel): North American Premiere
      • Synopsis from Tribeca Film Festival: "Speaking with the head of the Anti-Defamation League, controversial author Norman Finkelstein, and others, Shamir sets out to discover the realities of anti-Semitism today. His findings are both shocking and wryly funny." (In English, Hebrew, Russian with English subtitles)
    • Fixer: The Taking of Ajmal Naqshbandi
      • Director: Ian Olds (USA): North American Premiere
      • Synopsis from Tribeca Film Festival: "In 2007, the Taliban kidnapped 24-year-old Ajmal Naqshbandi and an Italian journalist. This gripping, tragic story is a behind-the-scenes look into the dangerous and unseen world that happens before we get the news." (In English, Dari, Pashto, Italian with English subtitles)
    • Garapa
      • Director: Jose Padilha (Brazil): North American Premiere
      • Synopsis from Tribeca Film Festival: "this austere, unflinching examination of the realities of chronic hunger for three Brazilian families. At once intimate and universal, Padilha's hauntingly visual film humanizes the enormity of the global hunger crisis." (In Portuguese with English subtitles)
    • Only When I Dance
      • Director: Beadie Finzi (Brazil, UK): World Premiere
      • Synopsis from Tribeca Film Festival: "Two teenage ballet dancers from the working-class favelas of Rio are determined to dance their way to a better life, but to do so they must grow up against harsh prejudice, doubt, and some of the best dancers in the world." (In Portuguese with English subtitles)
    • Outrage
      • Director: Kirby Dick (USA): World Premiere
      • Synopsis from Tribeca Film Festival: "A searing indictment of the hypocrisy of closeted politicians who actively campaign against the LGBT community they covertly belong to."
    • Partly Private
      • Director: Danae Elon (Canada): World Premiere
      • Synopsis from Tribeca Film Festival: "From New York to London, Istanbul to Israel, Danae Elon travels the world in a shockingly funny, sometimes cringe-inducing (they show it, fellas) effort to understand the controversial ritual of male circumcision."
    • Racing Dreams
      • Director: Marshall Curry (USA): World Premiere
      • Synopsis from Tribeca Film Festival: "What Little League is to baseball, go-karting is to auto racing.Three adolescents and their families must discover if they have the talent and dedication - and sponsorship dollars - to one day become NASCAR superstars." Part of the Tribeca/ESPN Sports Film Festival
    • Shadow Billionaire
      • Director: Alexis Manya Spraic (USA): World Premiere
      • Synopsis from Tribeca Film Festival: "When DHL founder Larry Hillblom disappeared following a 1995 plane crash off his Micronesian island home, dozens of would-be heirs from the Philippines came out of the woodwork to lay claim to his mega fortune. Within the framework of the fantastic legal battle, Spraic's debut doc slowly uncovers the stranger-than-fiction life of this eccentric billionaire."
    • Team Qatar
      • Director: Liz Mermin (UK): World Premiere
      • Synopsis from Tribeca Film Festival: "Team Qatar follows the first Qatari national debate team and their springy English coach as they train in Doha, London, and New York in preparation for the world championship in DC." Part of the Tribeca/ESPN Sports Film Festival.
    • Transcendent Man
      • Director: Barry Ptolemy (USA): World Premiere
      • Synopsis from Tribeca Film Festival: "Futurist and famed inventor Ray Kurzweil is the preeminent theorist on the pending fusion of humans and super-intelligent machines as the next phase of evolution, a "singularity" he predicts will occur within 30 years. This fascinating (and at times terrifying) doc explores the personal ideals behind his controversial ideas."
    • Yodok Stories
      • Director:Andrzej Fidyk (Norway, Poland): North American Premiere
      • Synopsis from Tribeca Film Festival: "Chronicles a group of North Korean concentration camp escapees and their contributions to a powerful musical based on their experiences." (In English, Korean with English subtitles)

  • Discovery

    • American Casino
      • Director: Leslie Cockburn (USA): World Premiere, Documentary
      • Synopsis from http://www.tribecafilm.com/festival/features/TFF_09_Discovery_Section.html Tribeca Film Festival]: "investigative journalist Leslie Cockburn's debut feature gets to the guts of the matter, visiting defectors from Bear Stearns and Standard & Poor's and other high-level players in the subprime mortgage gamble and, on the flipside, visiting the working-class Americans who were the unwitting chips on the table."

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