The Traverse City Film Festival is an annual film festival

Film festival

A film festival is an organised, extended presentation of films in one or more movie theaters or screening venues, usually in a single locality. More and more often film festivals show part of their films to the public by adding outdoor movie screenings...

 held every late July through early August in Traverse City, Michigan

Traverse City, Michigan

Traverse City is a city in the U.S. state of Michigan. It is the county seat of Grand Traverse County, although a small portion extends into Leelanau County. It is the largest city in the 21-county Northern Michigan region. The population was 14,674 at the 2010 census, with 143,372 in the Traverse...

. The festival was created as an annual event in 2005 to help “save one of America's few indigenous art forms—the cinema." The event was co-founded by Michael Moore

Michael Moore

Michael Francis Moore is an American filmmaker, author, social critic and activist. He is the director and producer of Fahrenheit 9/11, which is the highest-grossing documentary of all time. His films Bowling for Columbine and Sicko also place in the top ten highest-grossing documentaries...

, the Oscar-winning film director, well known for his anti-establishment films and documentaries such as Fahrenheit 9/11

Fahrenheit 9/11

Fahrenheit 9/11 is a 2004 documentary film by American filmmaker and political commentator Michael Moore. The film takes a critical look at the presidency of George W. Bush, the War on Terror, and its coverage in the news media...

, Bowling for Columbine

Bowling for Columbine

Bowling for Columbine is a 2002 documentary film written, directed, produced, and narrated by Michael Moore. The film explores what Michael Moore suggests are the causes for the Columbine High School massacre and other acts of violence with guns...

, and Roger & Me

Roger & Me

Roger & Me is a 1989 American documentary film directed by Michael Moore. Moore portrays the regional negative economic impact of General Motors CEO Roger Smith's summary action of closing several auto plants in Flint, Michigan, costing 30,000 people their jobs at the time and economically...

, along with author Doug Stanton

Doug Stanton

Doug Stanton is an author and a founder of the Traverse City Film Festival. He graduated from the Interlochen Arts Academy in Michigan and Hampshire College in Massachusetts.-Biography:...

 and photographer John Robert Williams. The mission of the Festival is to show movies representing excellence in filmmaking, particularly those rare independent films and documentaries by both noted and new filmmakers, that do not receive mainstream distribution. The Traverse City Film Festival is a non-profit organization, and is funded by businesses, community groups and individuals, plus ticket sales for various events. The Festival is headed by a committee of Michigan area filmmakers, writers, and creative professionals. Deb Lake has been the executive director of the Traverse City Film Festival since 2006, and is one of only two paid employees who work year round. All other work is done by the nearly 1,000 volunteers.

The 2005 Traverse City Film Festival was held July 27-31. The 5-day event featured many independent films, plus four classic films. The independent films were shown in three indoor venues in downtown Traverse City: the State Theatre

State Theatre (Traverse City)

]The State Theatre in Traverse City, Michigan, USA was recently acquired by the Traverse City Film Festival from a gift by Grand Traverse Rotary. The theatre underwent restoration and was re-opened on November 17, 2007....

, the Old Town Playhouse, and the City Opera House

City Opera House (Traverse City)

The City Opera House is located in downtown Traverse City, Michigan at 106 East Front Street. Constructed in 1891, the City Opera House provided performance space for traveling artists as well as a perfect setting for formal balls, such as an Installation Ball held in 1892. In 2005, the bulk of a...

. In addition, each night, a classic film was shown on a giant inflatable screen along West Grand Traverse Bay

Grand Traverse Bay

Grand Traverse Bay is a bay of Lake Michigan formed by part of Northern Michigan. The bay is long, 10 miles wide, and up to deep in spots. It is divided into two arms by the Old Mission Peninsula...

 in the city’s Open Space Park. Broken Flowers

Broken Flowers

Broken Flowers is a 2005 French/American comedy-drama film written and directed by Jim Jarmusch and produced by Jon Kilik and Stacey Smith. The film focuses on an aging "Don Juan" who embarks on a cross-country journey to track down four of his former lovers after receiving an anonymous letter...

, a winner at the 2005 Cannes Film Festival

Cannes Film Festival

The Cannes International Film Festival , is an annual film festival held in Cannes, France, which previews new films of all genres including documentaries from around the world. Founded in 1946, it is among the world's most prestigious and publicized film festivals...

, was shown at the Traverse City Film Festival before being released to the general public. Other 2005 Traverse City Film Festival selections covered a gamut of film subjects ranging from period romances, unemployment, terrorism, among many other subjects.

The second annual Traverse City Film Festival was held July 31st - August 6th, 2006.

The third annual festival was held July 31st - August 5th, 2007.

The fourth annual festival: July 29th - August 3rd, 2008. Special appearance by Madonna

Madonna (entertainer)

Madonna is an American singer-songwriter, actress and entrepreneur. Born in Bay City, Michigan, she moved to New York City in 1977 to pursue a career in modern dance. After performing in the music groups Breakfast Club and Emmy, she released her debut album in 1983...

, on August 2, 2008, introducing her film I Am Because We Are

I Am Because We Are

I Am Because We Are is a 2008 documentary film directed by Nathan Rissman and written, narrated, and produced by Madonna.The film premiered at the 7th annual Tribeca Film Festival in New York City, on April 24, 2008 and at the 61st annual Cannes Film Festival in Cannes, France on May 21, 2008...

. Also world premiere for Religulous

Religulous

Religulous is a 2008 American comic documentary film written by and starring comedian Bill Maher and directed by Larry Charles. The title of the film is a portmanteau derived from the words "religion" and "ridiculous"; the documentary examines and mocks organized religion and religious...

.

The fifth annual festival was held from July 28th - August 2nd, 2009.

The sixth annual festival was held from July 27th - August 1st, 2010.

The seventh annual festival was held from July 26th - July 31st, 2011.

2011

• All Good Things
  All Good Things (film)
  All Good Things is a 2010 romantic mystery film directed by Andrew Jarecki starring Ryan Gosling and Kirsten Dunst. The film is inspired by the life of accused murderer Robert Durst. All Good Things was filmed between April and July 2008 in Connecticut and New York...
  
  
• Antoine
  Antoine
  Antoine is a French given name meaning beyond praise or highly praise-worthy.-As a first name:*Antoine Arbogast, French mathematician*Antoine Arnauld, French theologian, philosopher and mathematician...
  
  
• Battle for Brooklyn
• Being Elmo: A Puppeteer’s Journey
• Bellflower
  Bellflower (film)
  Bellflower is a 2011 American film written and directed by Evan Glodell. It was produced on a shoestring budget in Ventura, California and premiered in January 2011 at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival....
  
  
• Bill Cunningham New York
  Bill Cunningham New York
  Bill Cunningham New York is a 2010 documentary film directed by Richard Press and produced by Philip Gefter. Bill Cunningham New York is distributed by Zeitgeist Films and was released in theaters on March 16, 2011.-Synopsis:...
  
  
• Black Butterflies
  Black Butterflies
  Black Butterflies is a Dutch film about the life of South-African poet Ingrid Jonker. The film was directed by Paula van der Oest and premiered in the Netherlands on February 6th before being released on March 31, 2011...
  
  
• The Blob
  The Blob
  The Blob is an independently made 1958 American horror/science-fiction film that depicts a giant amoeba-like alien that terrorizes the small community of Phoenixville, Pennsylvania...
  
  
• Bride Flight
  Bride Flight
  Bride Flight is a film about the victory of the KLM flight in the 1953 London to Christchurch air race. It was directed by Ben Sombogaart and stars Karina Smulders, Waldemar Torenstra and Rawiri Paratene. The film premièred in 2008, with the first release in Belgium. The Dutch singer Ilse DeLange...
  
  
• Brothers on the Line
• A Cat in Paris
• Cave of Forgotten Dreams
  Cave of Forgotten Dreams
  Cave of Forgotten Dreams is a 2010 3-D documentary film by Werner Herzog, about the Chauvet Cave in southern France. The film premiered at the 2010 Toronto International Film Festival and consists of footage filmed inside the cave as well as interviews with various scientists and historians...
  
  
• Conan O’Brien Can’t Stop
• The Dark Knight
  The Dark Knight (film)
  The Dark Knight is a 2008 superhero film directed, produced and co-written by Christopher Nolan. Based on the DC Comics character Batman, the film is part of Nolan's Batman film series and a sequel to 2005's Batman Begins...
  
  
• DeadHeads
• Don’t Fence Me In
• An Encounter with Simone Weil
• Even the Rain
  Even the Rain
  Even the Rain is a 2010 Spanish drama film directed by Icíar Bollaín about Spanish director Sebastián and executive producer Costa who travel to Bolivia to shoot a film depicting Christopher Columbus’s conquest...
  
  
• Everything Must Go
  Everything Must Go (film)
  Everything Must Go is a 2011 American comedy-drama film directed by Dan Rush and starring Will Ferrell. The film was based on Raymond Carver's short story Why Don't You Dance? and was released in theaters on May 13, 2011.-Plot:...
  
  
• Exporting Raymond
  Exporting Raymond
  Exporting Raymond is a 2010 documentary film, directed by Philip Rosenthal. The documentary follows Everybody Loves Raymond creator Philip Rosenthal on a journey to create a Russian version of the TV hit series under the name Voroniny.-Cast:...
  
  
• Face to Face
  Face to Face (2011 film)
  Face to Face is an independent Australian film directed by Michael Rymer, based on the play of the same name, written by Australian playwright David Williamson. It stars Vince Colosimo, Sigrid Thornton, Luke Ford and Matthew Newton....
  
  
• Fordson: Faith, Fasting, Football
• Four Lions
  Four Lions
  Four Lions is a 2010 British satirical comedy film. It is the debut feature from director Chris Morris, written by Morris, Sam Bain and Jesse Armstrong. The film is a jihad satire following a group of homegrown Islamist terrorist jihadis from Sheffield, England.-Plot:A group of young Muslim men...
  
  
• The Front
  The Front
  The Front is a 1976 film drama about the Hollywood blacklist during the age of live television. It is written by Walter Bernstein, directed by Martin Ritt and stars Woody Allen and Zero Mostel....
  
  
• Give Up Tomorrow
• Gnarr
• Granito: How to Nail a Dictator
• The Guard
• Habanastation
  Habanastation
  Habanastation is a 2011 Cuban drama film directed by Ian Padrón. The film has been selected as the Cuban entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 84th Academy Awards.-Cast:* Claudia Alvariño as Maestra Claudia* Rubén Araujo as Compinche del ñato...
  
  
• Hesher
  Hesher (film)
  Hesher is a 2010 American dark comedy/drama film written and directed by Spencer Susser and starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Rainn Wilson, and Natalie Portman. First screened at the Sundance Film Festival January 22, 2010, the film was released in the United States on May 13, 2011...
  
  
• Hey, Boo: Harper Lee and ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’
• Higher Ground
  Higher Ground (film)
  Higher Ground is a 2011 American drama film starring Vera Farmiga. The film is also Farmiga's directorial debut.-Plot:Pregnant, married, and awkward at eighteen years old, Corinne Briggs grows more and more interested in Jesus, eventually giving herself over to a radical New Testament church...
  
  
• Hot Coffee
  Hot Coffee (film)
  Hot Coffee is a 2011 documentary film that analyzes and discuses the impact of tort reform on the United States judicial system. It is directed by Susan Saladoff who was a medical malpractice attorney of 26 years. The film premiered at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival on January 24, 2011 and later...
  
  
• How to Start Your Own Country
  How to Start Your Own Country
  How To Start Your Own Country was a six-part BBC Television documentary comedy series aired between August and September 2005. The show was presented by British writer/comedian Danny Wallace and followed his quest to start his own country in his flat in Bow, London...
  
  
• If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front
  If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front
  If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front is a documentary film by filmmaker Marshall Curry, exploring the origins, motives, and organization of the Earth Liberation Front and Eco-terrorism in general...
  
  
• In a Better World
  In a Better World
  In a Better World is a 2010 Danish-Swedish drama thriller film written by Anders Thomas Jensen and directed by Susanne Bier. The film stars Mikael Persbrandt, Trine Dyrholm, and Ulrich Thomsen in a story which takes place in small-town Denmark and a refugee camp in Africa.A Danish majority...
  
  
• Incendies
  Incendies
  Incendies is a 2010 Quebec film written and directed by Denis Villeneuve. Adapted from Wajdi Mouawad's play, Scorched, Incendies follows the journey of twin brother and sister as they attempt to unravel the mystery of their mother's life. The film premiered at the Venice and Toronto Film Festivals...
  
  
• Kooky
  Kooky
  Kooky is a 2010 Czech action comedy film directed by Jan Svěrák. The film combines techniques of puppet animation, stop motion and live action. It tells the story of a six-year-old asthmatic boy whose parents force him to throw away his favorite toy, an old teddy bear named Kooky...
  
  
• Kumaré
• L’amour fou
• L’Inferno
• Largo Winch
  Largo Winch
  Largo Winch is a Belgian comic book series by Philippe Francq and Jean Van Hamme, published by Dupuis.The principal character is Largo Winch whose birth name is Largo Winczlav. Other important characters include Nerio Winch , senior Group W executives John D. Sullivan and Dwight E...
  
  
• The Loving Story
• Made in Dagenham
  Made in Dagenham
  Made in Dagenham is a 2010 British film directed by Nigel Cole. The film stars Sally Hawkins, Miranda Richardson, Rosamund Pike and Jaime Winstone. It dramatises the Ford sewing machinists strike of 1968 that aimed for equal pay for women...
  
  
• Mia and the Migoo
  Mia and the Migoo
  Mia and the Migoo is a 2008 French animated film produced by Folimage and directed by Jacques-Rémy Girerd, about a young girl's search for her father in a tropical paradise threatened by the construction of a gigantic hotel resort. The film won the European Film Award for Best Animated Feature at...
  
  
• Mike’s Surprise
• Miral
  Miral
  Miral is a 2010 biographical political film directed by Julian Schnabel. The screenplay was written by Rula Jebreal, based on her novel. The film was released on 3 September at the 2010 Venice Film Festival and on 15 September 2010 in France. The film was set for release on 3 December 2010 in the...
  
  
• Modern Times
  Modern Times
  Modern Times can refer to modern history.It may also refer to:* Modern Times , a 1936 Charlie Chaplin film* Modern Times , a 1975 album by Al Stewart...
  
  
• Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
  Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
  Mr. Deeds Goes to Town is a 1936 American screwball comedy film directed by Frank Capra, and starring Gary Cooper and Jean Arthur in her first featured role...
  
  
• Mrs. Doubtfire
  Mrs. Doubtfire
  Mrs. Doubtfire is a 1993 American comedy film starring Robin Williams and Sally Field and based on the novel Madame Doubtfire by Anne Fine. It was directed by Chris Columbus and distributed by 20th Century Fox. It won the Academy Award for Best Makeup...
  
  
• My Piece of the Pie
• Nuremberg: Its Lesson for Today: The Schulberg/Waletzky Restoration
• One, Two, Three
  One, Two, Three
  One, Two, Three is a 1961 American comedy film directed by Billy Wilder and written by him and I.A.L. Diamond. It is based on the 1929 Hungarian one-act play Egy, kettö, három by Ferenc Molnár, with a "plot borrowed partly from" Ninotchka, a 1939 film co-written by Wilder...
  
  
• PressPausePlay
• The Princess of Montpensier
  The Princess of Montpensier
  The Princess of Montpensier is a 2010 French period romance film directed by Bertrand Tavernier, inspired by a short story anonymously published by Madame de La Fayette. It stars Mélanie Thierry in the title role, alongside Gaspard Ulliel, Grégoire Leprince-Ringuet, Lambert Wilson and Raphaël...
  
  
• Project Nim
  Project Nim (film)
  -Synopsis:The film focuses on Project Nim, which follows a chimpanzee named Nim Chimpsky.-Reception:Project Nim has received an aggregated score of 98% from 114 reviews on Rotten Tomatoes....
  
  
• Queen to Play
  Queen to Play
  Queen to Play is a 2009 French-German film directed by Caroline Bottaro. The film is distributed in the U.S. by Zeitgeist Films.-Synopsis:...
  
  
• Rabbit Hole
  Rabbit Hole
  Rabbit Hole is a play written by David Lindsay-Abaire. It was the recipient of the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. The play was originally commissioned by South Coast Repertory and first presented at its Pacific Playwrights Festival reading series in 2005...
  
  
• Rabies
  Rabies
  Rabies is a viral disease that causes acute encephalitis in warm-blooded animals. It is zoonotic , most commonly by a bite from an infected animal. For a human, rabies is almost invariably fatal if post-exposure prophylaxis is not administered prior to the onset of severe symptoms...
  
  
• Rid of Me
  Rid of Me
  Rid of Me is the second studio album by British musician PJ Harvey. It was released by Island Records in May 1993, approximately one year after the release of her critically acclaimed debut album Dry...
  
  
• Romantics Anonymous
• Semper Fi: Always Faithful
• Short Animation
• Short Documentaries
• Shorts by Students
• Shorts by U of M Students
• Shorts for Adults I
• Shorts for Adults II
• Shorts for Kids
• Shorts for Midnight
• Shut Up Little Man! An Audio Misadventure
• Star Wars™: Episode V The Empire Strikes Back
• The Swell Season
  The Swell Season
  The Swell Season is a folk rock duo formed by Irish musician Glen Hansard and Czech singer and pianist Markéta Irglová. "The Swell Season" name is derived from Hansard's favourite novel by Josef Škvorecký from 1975 bearing the same title...
  
  
• Tangled
• To Kill a Mockingbird
  To Kill a Mockingbird
  To Kill a Mockingbird is a novel by Harper Lee published in 1960. It was instantly successful, winning the Pulitzer Prize, and has become a classic of modern American literature...
  
  
• Traces of a Diary
• The Trip
  The Trip (2010 film)
  The Trip is a British comedy film, edited from the BAFTA award-winning television sitcom series of the same name. The film stars Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon as fictionalised versions of themselves undertaking a restaurant tour of northern England. It premiered at the Toronto International Film...
  
  
• Trollhunter
• Trophy Wife
  Trophy wife
  Trophy wife is an expression used to describe a wife, usually young and attractive, who is regarded as a status symbol for the husband, who is often older and affluent.-History:The term's etymological origins are disputed...
  
  
• Twigson
• Two Spirits
• Under Western Stars
  Under Western Stars
  Under Western Stars is an American Western film starring Roy Rogers and Smiley Burnette. This was the first starring role for Rogers, made under contract to Republic Pictures....
  
  
• Vapor Trail (Clark)
• Visionaries
• When the Drum Is Beating
• Where Soldiers Come From
  Where Soldiers Come From
  Where Soldiers Come From is a 2011 American documentary film directed by Heather Courtney. The film is about three friends who sign up for the National Guard and are sent to Afghanistan to sweep for roadside bombs. It premiered at South by Southwest festival, where it won the best documentary...
  
  
• The White Balloon
• The White Meadows
  The White Meadows
  The White Meadows is a 2009 Iranian film written, directed and produced by Mohammad Rasoulof. The film was edited by leading Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi and stars Hassan Pourshirazi as Rahmat.-About the Director:...
  
  
• Wild & Weird: Alloy Orchestra’s Favorite Short Silent Films
• Windfall
  Windfall
  Windfall is a serial drama television series about a group of people in an unnamed small city who win almost $400 000 000 in a lottery. The series premiered Thursday, June 8, 2006 on NBC, taking the time slot occupied by ER during the rest of the year.On August 31, 2006, NBC announced the show's...
  
  
• With Babies and Banners: Story of the Women’s Emergency Brigade
• The Women on the 6th Floor
• Young Goethe in Love
• You’ve Been Trumped

2010

OPEN SPACE

• Twister
• Finding Nemo
  Finding Nemo
  Finding Nemo is a 2003 American comi-drama animated film written by Andrew Stanton, directed by Andrew Stanton and Lee Unkrich and produced by Pixar. It tells the story of the overly protective clownfish Marlin who, along with a regal tang called Dory , searches for his abducted son Nemo...
  
  
• Help!
  Help! (film)
  Help! is a 1965 film directed by Richard Lester, starring The Beatles—John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr—and featuring Leo McKern, Eleanor Bron, Victor Spinetti, John Bluthal, Roy Kinnear and Patrick Cargill. Help! was the second feature film made by the Beatles and is a...
  
  
• Raising Arizona
  Raising Arizona
  Raising Arizona is a 1987 comedy film directed by the Coen Brothers and starring Nicolas Cage, Holly Hunter, William Forsythe, John Goodman, Frances McDormand and Randall "Tex" Cobb. Not a blockbuster at the time of its release, it has since achieved cult status...
  
  
• Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
  Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
  Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade is a 1989 American adventure film directed by Steven Spielberg, from a story co-written by executive producer George Lucas. It is the third film in the Indiana Jones franchise. Harrison Ford reprises the title role and Sean Connery plays Indiana's father, Henry...
  
  
• Mary Poppins
  Mary Poppins
  Mary Poppins is a series of children's books written by P. L. Travers and originally illustrated by Mary Shepard. The books centre on a magical English nanny, Mary Poppins. She is blown by the East wind to Number Seventeen Cherry Tree Lane, London and into the Banks' household to care for their...
  
  

OPENING AND CLOSING NIGHT

• The Kids Are All Right
  The Kids Are All Right (film)
  The Kids Are All Right is a 2010 American comedy-drama film directed by Lisa Cholodenko and written by Cholodenko and Stuart Blumberg.One of Sundance 2010's breakout hits, it opened in limited release on July 9, 2010, expanding to more theaters on July 30, 2010. It was released on DVD and Blu-ray...
  
  
• Nowhere Boy
  Nowhere Boy
  Nowhere Boy is a 2009 British biopic about John Lennon's adolescence, his relationships with his guardian aunt and his birth mother, the creation of his first band, the Quarrymen, and its evolution into the Beatles. The film is based on a biography written by Lennon's half-sister Julia Baird...
  
  
• The Girl Who Played With Fire
  The Girl Who Played with Fire
  The Girl Who Played with Fire is the second novel in the best-selling "Millennium series" by Swedish writer Stieg Larsson. It was published posthumously in Swedish in 2006 and in English in January 2009....
  
  
• TCFF 3D
• Cane Toads: The Conquest
• U2 3D
  U2 3D
  U2 3D is a 2008 American-produced 3-D concert film featuring rock band U2 performing during the Vertigo Tour in 2006. The film features performances of 14 songs, including tracks from How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb , the album supported by the tour. The concert footage includes political and...
  
  

COMEDY & DRAMA FROM HOME & ABROAD

• Apart Together
  Apart Together
  Apart Together is a 2010 Chinese drama film directed by Wang Quan'an. It was nominated for the Golden Bear at the 60th Berlin International Film Festival and won the Best Screenplay award.-Cast:* Lu Yan as Qiao Yu-e* Xu Caigen as Qiao Yu-e's husband...
  
  
• A Brand New Life
  A Brand New Life
  A Brand New Life is a 2009 French-South Korean film. The film is the debut feature of the director Ounie Lecomte, who directed and wrote this film....
  
  
• Castaway on the Moon
• Cherry
  Cherry
  The cherry is the fruit of many plants of the genus Prunus, and is a fleshy stone fruit. The cherry fruits of commerce are usually obtained from a limited number of species, including especially cultivars of the wild cherry, Prunus avium....
  
  
• Cherry Blossoms
  Cherry Blossoms (film)
  Cherry Blossoms is a 2008 German film directed by Doris Dörrie.-Plot:The story culminates in a pilgrimage to Mount Fuji in the midst of the cherry blossom season, a celebration of beauty, impermanence, and new beginnings....
  
  
• The Concert
  Le Concert
  Le Concert is a 2009 French comedy film by Radu Mihăileanu starring Aleksei Guskov, Mélanie Laurent and Miou-Miou. It has won the Best Original Score and Best Sound awards at César Awards 2010.- Plot :...
  
  
• Farsan
  Farsan
  Farsan is a city in and the capital of Farsan County, Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 26,219, in 5,665 families....
  
  
• The French Kissers
  The French Kissers
  The French Kissers is a 2009 French teen film. Its original French title is Les beaux gosses, which means "the handsome boys". It was written and directed by Riad Sattouf, marking his film debut...
  
  
• The Happy Poet
  The Happy Poet
  The Happy Poet is a 2010 film written and directed by Paul Gordon. It is shot on-location in Austin, Texas. It has appeared at a variety of film festivals, including the Venice Film Festival's "Venice Days" section.-Cast:...
  
  
• Heartbreaker
  Heartbreaker (2010 film)
  Heartbreaker is a 2010 French romantic comedy film starring Romain Duris, Vanessa Paradis, Julie Ferrier and Andrew Lincoln.-Plot:The bulk of the story takes place in Monaco...
  
  
• In the Beginning
  In the Beginning (2009 film)
  In the Beginning is a 2009 French drama film directed by Xavier Giannoli. The film competed in the main competition at the 62nd Cannes Film Festival.- Cast :* François Cluzet* Gérard Depardieu* Emmanuelle Devos* Brice Fournier - Louis* Roch Leibovici...
  
  
• The Infidel
  The Infidel (2010 film)
  The Infidel is a 2010 British comedy film directed by Josh Appignanesi and written by David Baddiel. The film stars Omid Djalili, Richard Schiff, Yigal Naor and Matt Lucas and revolves around a British Muslim who goes through an identity crisis when he discovers he was adopted as a child and born...
  
  
• Lebanon, PA
• Legacy
  Legacy (2010 film)
  Legacy is a 2010 psychological thriller film directed by Nigerian/British director Thomas Ikimi and produced by Black Camel Pictures. The film premièred at the Glasgow Film Festival on the 28 February, 2010 and was released theatrically in the United States on 15 October, 2010...
  
  
• The Man Next Door
• Me and Orson Welles
  Me and Orson Welles
  Me and Orson Welles is a 2009 period-drama film directed by Richard Linklater and starring Zac Efron, Christian McKay, and Claire Danes. Based on Robert Kaplow's novel of the same name, the story, set in 1937 New York, tells of a teenager hired to perform in Orson Welles's stage production of...
  
  
• Mid-August Lunch
• Please Give
  Please Give
  Please Give is a 2010 dark comedy film written and directed by Nicole Holofcener and starring Catherine Keener. It is the fourth film Keener and Holofcener have made together...
  
  
• The Secret in Their Eyes
• Solitary Man
  Solitary Man (film)
  Solitary Man is a 2009 American film co-directed by Brian Koppelman and David Levien. The film stars Michael Douglas, Susan Sarandon, Jenna Fischer, Jesse Eisenberg, Mary-Louise Parker and Danny DeVito.-Plot:...
  
  
• Tiny Furniture
  Tiny Furniture
  Tiny Furniture is a 2010 American independent comedy film written, directed and starring Lena Dunham, daughter of co-star, Laurie Simmons.It premiered at South by Southwest, where it won best narrative feature, and was released theatrically in the United States on November 12, 2010.-Plot:Aura...
  
  
• The Trotsky
  The Trotsky
  The Trotsky is a 2009 Canadian comedy film directed by Jacob Tierney.-Plot:Montreal West high school student Leon Bronstein believes that he is the reborn incarnation of Marxist/Bolshevik leader Leon Trotsky. Shortly after he starts to work in his family's clothing factory, he attempts to unionize...
  
  
• Welcome
  Welcome (2009 film)
  Welcome is a 2009 French film directed by Philippe Lioret. It stars Vincent Lindon and features Firat Ayverdi and Derya Ayverdi in their inaugural roles. The film was released on 11 March 2009 in France...
  
  
• When We Leave
  When We Leave
  When We Leave is a 2010 German drama film, produced, written and directed by Feo Aladag, which highlights the problem of honour killings by depicting the drama of a Turkish family living in Germany.-Cast:* Sibel Kekilli - Umay* Nizam Schiller - Cem...
  
  
• Will You Marry Us?

DANGEROUS DOCS

• 8: The Mormon Proposition
  8: The Mormon Proposition
  8: The Mormon Proposition is an American documentary written by Reed Cowan, directed by Cowan and Steven Greenstreet, and narrated by Dustin Lance Black. The film documents The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints' involvement in the 2008 California Proposition 8...
  
  
• 11/4/08
• 12th & Delaware
• American Radical: The Trials of Norman Finkelstein
  American Radical: the trials of Norman Finkelstein
  American Radical: The Trials of Norman Finkelstein is a 2009 documentary film about the life of the American academic Norman Finkelstein, directed and produced by David Ridgen and Nicolas Rossier...
  
  
• Auto*Mate
• Budrus
  Budrus
  Budrus is a Palestinian town in the Ramallah and al-Bireh Governorate, located 31 kilometers Northwest of Ramallah in the northern West Bank. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics , the town had a population of 1,399 inhabitants in 2007."Budrus" is Arabic for "Peter" and in...
  
  
• Cleanflix
• Collapse
  Collapse (film)
  Collapse, directed by Chris Smith, is an American documentary film exploring the theories, writings and life story of controversial author Michael Ruppert...
  
  
• Czech Peace
• Draquila - Italy Trembles
• The Elephant in the Living Room
  The Elephant in the Living Room
  The Elephant in the Living Room is a documentary feature-length film about the raising of exotic pets in homes around the United States, and the controversy surrounding the issue.-General information:...
  
  
• GasLand
  Gasland
  Gasland is a 2010 American documentary film written and directed by Josh Fox. The film focuses on communities in the United States impacted by natural gas drilling and, specifically, a stimulation method known as hydraulic fracturing.-Synopsis:...
  
  
• Google Baby
• Harlan – In the Shadow of Jew Süss
  Harlan – In the Shadow of Jew Süss
  Harlan – In the Shadow of Jew Süss is a 2008 documentary film by German director Felix Moeller about one of the most notorious Nazi German filmmakers, Veit Harlan and his family...
  
  
• His & Hers
• How to Fold a Flag
• Iranian Cookbook
• The Miscreants of Taliwood
• The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers
  The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers
  The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers is a 2009 documentary film directed by Judith Ehrlich and Rick Goldsmith...
  
  
• The Oath
  The Oath
  The Oath is the English title of Le serment de Kolvillag, a novel by Elie Wiesel. It tells the story of Azriel, the only surviving Jewish member of the small Hungarian town of Kolvillag after a pogrom perpetrated by neighboring Christians. Azriel carries the secret of Kollvilag's destruction within...
  
  
• Restrepo
  Restrepo (film)
  Restrepo is a 2010 documentary film about the Afghanistan war, directed by American journalist Sebastian Junger and British/American photojournalist Tim Hetherington....
  
  
• Rush: Beyond the Lighted Stage
  Rush: Beyond the Lighted Stage
  Rush: Beyond the Lighted Stage is a 2010 documentary film directed by Scot McFadyen and Sam Dunn. The film offers an in-depth look at the Canadian progressive rock band Rush, chronicling the band's musical evolution from their progressive rock sound of the 1970s to their current heavy rock style...
  
  
• Smile 'Til It Hurts
• South of the Border
• Teenage Paparazzo
  Teenage Paparazzo
  Teenage Paparazzo is a 2010 documentary film about the life and times of a 14-year-old Paparazzi photographer named Austin Visschedyk. It was directed by actor Adrian Grenier. Produced by Adrian Grenier and Matthew Cooke.-Film premise:...
  
  
• The Tillman Story
  The Tillman Story
  The Tillman Story is a 2010 documentary film directed by Amir Bar-Lev. The film is about the 2004 death of U.S. Army Ranger Pat Tillman in the war in Afghanistan, the cover-up of the true circumstances of his death, and his family's struggle to unearth the truth. It was nominated for the Grand...
  
  
• Waiting for "Superman"

MIDNIGHT

• Clash
  Clash (film)
  Clash is a 2009 Vietnamese martial arts/action film directed by Le Thanh Son.-Plot:Trinh codename Phoenix , a mercenary, must complete a series of organized crime jobs for her boss Hac Long in order to win the release of her kidnapped daughter...
  
  
• Tucker & Dale vs Evil
  Tucker & Dale vs Evil
  Tucker & Dale vs Evil is a 2010 Canadian comedy horror film written and directed by Eli Craig. The film stars Alan Tudyk, Tyler Labine, Katrina Bowden and Jesse Moss.-Plot:...
  
  
• Zonad
  Zonad
  Zonad is a film by John Carney and Kieran Carney that premiered in July 2009 at the Galway Film Fleadh with the directors in attendance.The film went to general release in Ireland March 19, 2010.- Plot :...
  
  

A SALUTE TO CUBAN FILM

• Dreaming in Blue
• Horn of Plenty
• Strawberry and Chocolate
  Strawberry and Chocolate
  Strawberry and Chocolate is a Cuban-Spanish-Mexican co-produced film, directed by Tomás Gutiérrez Alea and Juan Carlos Tabío, based on the short story "The Wolf, The Forest and the New Man" written by Senel Paz in 1990. Senel Paz also wrote the screenplay for the film.- Plot :The story takes...
  
  
• Viva Cuba
  Viva Cuba
  Viva Cuba is a 2005 Cuban film, directed by Juan Carlos Cremata and Iraida Malberti Cabrera, and written by Cremata and Manolito Rodriguez...
  
  

SPECIAL SCREENINGS

• Dodsworth: Jeff Garlin's Gems
• Mike's Surprise
• Reel Injun
  Reel Injun
  Reel Injun is a 2009 Canadian documentary film directed by Cree filmmaker Neil Diamond, Catherine Bainbridge and , that explores the portrayal of Native Americans in film...
  
  
• The Last Command (with the Alloy Orchestra)

KIDS FEST

• The Secret of Kells
• Kirikou and the Sorceress
  Kirikou and the Sorceress
  Kirikou and the Sorceress is a 1998 Franco-Belgian animated film written and directed by Michel Ocelot. Drawn directly from West African folk tales, it tells of how a newborn boy saves his village by ridding them of the evil witch Karaba...
  
  
• Oblivion Island
• Eleanor's Secret

THE BEATLES AT THE MOVIES (A 40TH ANNIVERSARY)

• A Hard Day's Night
  A Hard Day's Night (film)
  A Hard Day's Night is a 1964 British black-and-white comedy film directed by Richard Lester and starring The Beatles—John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr—during the height of Beatlemania. It was written by Alun Owen and originally released by United Artists...
  
  
• Help!
  Help! (film)
  Help! is a 1965 film directed by Richard Lester, starring The Beatles—John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr—and featuring Leo McKern, Eleanor Bron, Victor Spinetti, John Bluthal, Roy Kinnear and Patrick Cargill. Help! was the second feature film made by the Beatles and is a...
  
  
• Nowhere Boy
  Nowhere Boy
  Nowhere Boy is a 2009 British biopic about John Lennon's adolescence, his relationships with his guardian aunt and his birth mother, the creation of his first band, the Quarrymen, and its evolution into the Beatles. The film is based on a biography written by Lennon's half-sister Julia Baird...
  
  

SIZZLIN' SHORTS

• Short Documentaries
• Shorts by Jon Alpert
• Shorts by Rory Kennedy
• Shorts by U of M Students
• Short Fiction 1
• Short Fiction 2
• Shorts for Midnight

2009

• An Unmarried Woman
  An Unmarried Woman
  An Unmarried Woman is a 1978 American comedy-drama film that tells the story of the wealthy New York wife Erica Benton whose “perfect” life is shattered when her stockbroker husband Martin leaves her for a younger woman. The film documents Erica's attempts at being single again, where she suffers...
  
  
• A Matter of Life and Death
• A Matter of Size
• About Elly
  About Elly
  About Elly is a 2009 Iranian film directed by Asghar Farhadi. It is the fourth film by Farhadi. The film is about the relationship among some middle class families in Iran....
  
  
• Azur and Asmar
• Big Fan
  Big Fan
  Big Fan is a 2009 independent drama film written and directed by Robert D. Siegel, and starring Patton Oswalt, Kevin Corrigan, Marcia Jean Kurtz, Michael Rapaport, and Scott Ferrall. The story revolves around the bleak yet amiable life of the self-described "world’s biggest New York Giants fan",...
  
  
• Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice
  Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice
  Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice is a 1969 comedy-drama film directed by Paul Mazursky. It stars Natalie Wood, Robert Culp, Elliott Gould and Dyan Cannon....
  
  
• Burma VJ
  Burma VJ
  Burma VJ: Reporting from a Closed Country is a 2008 documentary film directed by Anders Østergaard. It follows the September 2007 uprisings against the military regime in Burma. Some of it was filmed on hand-held cameras, and the footage was smuggled out of the country...
  
  
• Chomsky & Company
• Crude
• Dead Snow
  Dead Snow
  Dead Snow is a 2009 Norwegian horror film directed by Tommy Wirkola, starring Charlotte Frogner, Stig Frode Henriksen, Bjørn Sundquist, Ane Dahl Torp and Jenny Skavlan.- Plot :A woman, Sara, is being chased through the snows of Norway...
  
  
• Defamation
• Departures
  Departures (film)
  All compositions by Joe Hisaishi.#"Shine of Snow I" 1:12#"Nohkan" 3:10#"Kaisan" 0:53#"Good-Bye Cello" 2:16#"New Road" 1:15#"Model" 0:47#"First Contact" 1:51#"Washing" 0:34#"Kizuna I" 1:57#"Beautiful Dead I" 3:12#"Okuribito " 1:51...
  
  
• Earth Days
  Earth Days
  Earth Days is a 2009 documentary film about the start of the environmental movement in the United States. It was directed by Robert Stone and is distributed by Zeitgeist Films while in theaters. Earth Days premiered on United States television April 19...
  
  
• Eden is West
  Eden Is West
  Eden Is West is a 2009 film by Greek-French director Costa-Gavras about an illegal immigrant called Elias who tries to get to Paris. The original title in Greek is “Paradissos sti Dysi” and since it is a Greek-French production, the also original French title is “Eden à l'ouest'...
  
  
• Enemies, A Love Story
  Enemies, a Love Story
  Enemies, a Love Story is a novel by Isaac Bashevis Singer first published serially in the Jewish Daily Forward in 1966. The English translation was published in 1972.-Plot summary:...
  
  
• Entre nos
  Entre nos
  Entre Nos is a 2009 drama film starring Paola Mendoza. The film, which was co-written and co-directed by Mendoza with Gloria LaMorte, explores the life of Mariana, a Colombian immigrant attempting to survive on the streets of New York City with her two children...
  
  
• Everlasting Moments
  Everlasting Moments
  Everlasting Moments is a 2008 Swedish drama film directed by Jan Troell, starring Maria Heiskanen, Mikael Persbrandt and Jesper Christensen. It is based on the true story of Maria Larsson, a Swedish working class woman in the early 1900s, who wins a camera in a lottery and goes on to become a...
  
  
• Examined Life
  Examined Life
  Examined Life is a 2008 documentary film directed by Astra Taylor. The film features eight influential contemporary philosophers walking around New York and other metropolises and discussing the practical application of their ideas in modern culture....
  
  
• Food, Inc.
  Food, Inc.
  Food, Inc. is a 2008 American documentary film directed by Emmy Award-winning filmmaker Robert Kenner. The film examines corporate farming in the United States, concluding that agribusiness produces food that is unhealthy, in a way that is environmentally harmful and abusive of both animals and...
  
  
• Football Under Cover
  Football Under Cover
  Football Under Cover is a 2008 German/Iranian documentary film directed by David Assmann and Ayat Najafi. It follows the attempts of German Marlene Assmann and Iranian Ayat Najafi to organise a football match between Assman's team BSV Aldersimspor and the Iranian national woman's team.-Reception:At...
  
  
• Harmony and Me
• Helen + Joy
• Herb & Dorothy
• Humpday
  Humpday
  Humpday is a 2009 American comedy film starring Mark Duplass, Joshua Leonard, and Alycia Delmore; and directed, produced, and written by Lynn Shelton. It premiered at the 2009 Sundance film festival. International distribution rights have been purchased by Magnolia Pictures for a mid-six figure sum...
  
  
• In the Loop
  In the Loop (film)
  In the Loop is a 2009 British satirical black comedy film directed by Armando Iannucci. It is based on the BBC Television series The Thick of It satirising Anglo-American politics in the 21st century and the Invasion of Iraq...
  
  
• Julie & Julia
  Julie & Julia
  Julie & Julia is a 2009 American comedy-drama film written and directed by Nora Ephron starring Meryl Streep, Stanley Tucci, Amy Adams, and Chris Messina...
  
  
• Laila's Birthday
• Learning Gravity
• Lemon Tree
  Lemon Tree (film)
  Lemon Tree is a 2008 Israeli drama movie directed by Eran Riklis and codirected by his cousin Ira Riklis. It stars Hiam Abbass, Ali Suliman, Danny Leshman, Rona Lipaz-Michael, Tarik Kopty, Amos Lavi, Lana Zreik and Amnon Wolf...
  
  
• Mary and Max
  Mary and Max
  Mary and Max is a 2009 Australian clay-animated black comedy-drama film written and directed by Adam Elliot and produced by Melanie Coombs. The voice cast included Philip Seymour Hoffman, Toni Collette, Eric Bana, Bethany Whitmore, with narration by Barry Humphries. The film premiered on the...
  
  
• Metropolis
  Metropolis
  A metropolis is a very large city or urban area which is a significant economic, political and cultural center for a country or region, and an important hub for regional or international connections and communications...
  
  
• Mike's Surprise
• No Impact Man
  No Impact Man
  No Impact Man is a 2009 American documentary film directed by Laura Gabbert and Justin Schein. The film, which premiered September 4, 2009, follows Colin Beavan and his family during their year-long experiment to have sustainable zero impact on the environment.-See also:* Appropriate technology*...
  
  
• O'Horten
• Outrage
  Outrage (2009 film)
  Outrage is a 2009 Emmy Award-nominated American documentary film written and directed by Kirby Dick. The film presents a narrative discussing the hypocrisy of individuals purported in the documentary to be closeted politicians who promote anti-gay legislation...
  
  
• Patrik, Age 1.5
• Rachel
  Rachel
  Rachel , as described in the Hebrew Bible, is a prophet and the favorite wife of Jacob, one of the three Biblical Patriarchs, and mother of Joseph and Benjamin. She was the daughter of Laban and the younger sister of Leah, Jacob's first wife...
  
  
• Registered Sex Offender
• Revanche
  Revanche
  Revanche was a short-lived Marvel Comics character, associated with the X-Men. She was created by writer Fabian Nicieza and first appeared in X-Men -Fictional character biography:...
  
  
• Roger & Me
  Roger & Me
  Roger & Me is a 1989 American documentary film directed by Michael Moore. Moore portrays the regional negative economic impact of General Motors CEO Roger Smith's summary action of closing several auto plants in Flint, Michigan, costing 30,000 people their jobs at the time and economically...
  
  
• Rudo y Cursi
  Rudo y Cursi
  Rudo y Cursi is a 2008 Mexican film starring Diego Luna, Gael García Bernal and Guillermo Francella. It is directed by Carlos Cuarón and produced by Cha Cha Cha Films...
  
  
• Saint Misbehavin'
• Salt of this Sea
  Salt of this Sea
  Salt of this Sea is a 2008 Palestinian film directed by Annemarie Jacir. It is Palestine's submission to the 81st Academy Awards for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film-Awards:* FIPRESCI PRIZE - INTERNATIONAL CRITICS AWARD...
  
  
• Seraphine
  Séraphine (film)
  Séraphine is a 2008 French-Belgian film directed by Martin Provost and written by Marc Abdelnour and Provost. It stars Yolande Moreau as the French painter Séraphine Louis and Ulrich Tukur as Wilhelm Uhde. It won the 2009 César Award for Best Film.-Plot:...
  
  
• Sita Sings the Blues
  Sita Sings the Blues
  Sita Sings the Blues is a 2008 animated feature film written, directed, produced and animated entirely by American artist Nina Paley , primarily using 2D computer graphics and Flash Animation.It intersperses events from the Ramayana, illustrated conversation between Indian shadow puppets,...
  
  
• Soundtrack for a Revolution
  Soundtrack for a Revolution
  Soundtrack for a Revolution is a 2009 documentary film written and directed by Bill Guttentag and Dan Sturman. This documentary traces the story of the civil rights movement and the struggles fought by young African-American activists with an emphasis on the power of music...
  
  
• Sugar
  Sugar
  Sugar is a class of edible crystalline carbohydrates, mainly sucrose, lactose, and fructose, characterized by a sweet flavor.Sucrose in its refined form primarily comes from sugar cane and sugar beet...
  
  
• Sunshine Barry and the Disco Worms
• The Answer Man
  The Answer Man
  The Answer Man was a United States 15-minute radio program that aired from 1937 to 1956 on the Mutual Broadcasting System and also in syndication. It was broadcast late Sunday evening on some stations. During the 1940s, the program was sponsored by Trommer's White Label Beer. The Answer Man was...
  
  
• The Baader Meinhof Complex
• The Chaser
  The Chaser
  The Chaser are an Australian satirical comedian group, known for their television programmes on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation channel. The group take their name from their production of satirical newspaper, a publication known to challenge conventions of taste...
  
  
• The Cove
• The End of the Line
  The End of the Line: How Overfishing Is Changing the World and What We Eat
  The End of The Line: How Overfishing Is Changing the World And What We Eat is a book by journalist Charles Clover about overfishing. Clover, an environment editor of the Daily Telegraph , describes how modern fishing is destroying ocean ecosystems. He concludes that current worldwide fish...
  
  
• The Garden
  The Garden (2008 film)
  The Garden is a 2008 American documentary film directed by Scott Hamilton Kennedy. It tells the story of the now demolished South Central Farm; a community garden and urban farm located in Los Angeles, California. The Garden details the plight of the farmers who organized and worked on the farm...
  
  
• The Girlfriend Experience
  The Girlfriend Experience
  The Girlfriend Experience is a 2009 experimental drama film shot in New York City. It is directed by Steven Soderbergh and stars then-active porn star Sasha Grey. A rough cut was screened at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2009. The film has also been made available on Amazon Video on Demand...
  
  
• The Greatest
  The Greatest (2009 film)
  The Greatest is a 2009 American drama film written and directed by Shana Feste and starring Pierce Brosnan , Susan Sarandon, Carey Mulligan, and Michael Shannon.-Plot:...
  
  
• The Only Good Indian
  The Only Good Indian
  The Only Good Indian is a 2009 independent feature film directed by Kevin Willmott.The film was shot almost entirely in Kansas -- the only exception being a scene at Missouri's Ha Ha Tonka State Park -- featuring locations such as the Monument Rocks and Fort Larned...
  
  
• The Rest is Silence
  The Rest Is Silence
  The Rest is Silence is an album by Randy, released in 1996.-Track listing:#"Snorty Pacifical Rascal"#"Utilizing Peanuts"#"At Any Cost"#"Where Our Heart Is"#"All Eaten Up"#"More The Meek"#"You're Eating From Their Hand"#"On The Rack"...
  
  
• Troubled Water
• Valentino: The Last Emperor
  Valentino: The Last Emperor
  Valentino: The Last Emperor is a documentary film about the life of Valentino Garavani. It was produced and directed by Matt Tyrnauer, Special Correspondent for Vanity Fair magazine. The film is an exploration of the singular world of one of Italy's most famous men, Valentino Garavani...
  
  
• Waltz with Bashir
  Waltz with Bashir
  Waltz with Bashir is a 2008 Israeli animated documentary film written and directed by Ari Folman. It depicts Folman in search of his lost memories from the 1982 Lebanon War....
  
  
• Waterlife
  Waterlife
  Waterlife is a 2009 documentary film and web documentary about the state of the Great Lakes.-Film:Kevin McMahon began filming Waterlife in 2007. The film explores the beauty of the Great Lakes as well as their degradation due to water pollution. The film looks at the water system from its...
  
  
• Which Way Home
  Which Way Home
  Which Way Home is a 2009 documentary film directed by Rebecca Cammisa. The film follows several children who are attempting to get from Mexico to the United States. Cammisa received a Fulbright Scholar Grant to make the documentary in 2006. The film premiered on HBO on August 24, 2009.-External...
  
  
• William Kunstler: Disturbing the Universe
• Winnebago Man
  Winnebago Man
  Winnebago Man is a 2009 American documentary feature film directed by Ben Steinbauer that follows the Internet phenomenon created by a series of twenty-year-old outtakes from a Winnebago sales video featuring profane outbursts from the salesperson, Jack Rebney...
  
  
• Woodstock: The Director's Cut

2008

• Absurdistan
  Absurdistan (film)
  Absurdistan is a 2008 film written and directed by Veit Helmer.It formed part of the World Cinema Dramatic Competition at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival.-Plot:...
  
  
• Anvil! The Story of Anvil
  Anvil! The Story of Anvil
  Anvil! The Story of Anvil is a 2008 documentary film about the Canadian heavy metal band, Anvil. The film is directed by screenwriter Sacha Gervasi, whose previous credits include The Big Tease and The Terminal....
  
  
• Baghdad High
• Bigger, Stronger, Faster
• Blow-Up
  Blow-Up
  -History:Claudio Camaione and Paolo Cilione came to New York City in the late 1990s, then further on to Southern California to build their studio for recording and film editing in a villa overlooking Silver Lake...
  
  
• Body of War
  Body of War
  Body of War, directed by Ellen Spiro and Phil Donahue, is a 2007 documentary following Tomas Young, an Iraq War veteran paralyzed from a bullet to the spine, on a physical and emotional journey as he adapts to his new body and begins to question the decision to go to war in Iraq.As Tomas's journey...
  
  
• Buddha Collapsed Out of Shame
  Buddha Collapsed out of Shame
  Buddha Collapsed Out of Shame is a 2007 Iranian film directed by Hana Makhmalbaf. The story takes place in modern Afghanistan following the removal of the Taliban and revolves around a 5-year-old Afghan girl who wants to attend a newly opened school...
  
  
• Captain Abu Raed
  Captain Abu Raed
  Captain Abu Raed is a 2007 Jordanian Film directed and written by Amin Matalqa. It was the first feature film produced in Jordan in more than 50 years. The Royal Film Commission of Jordan endorsed Captain Abu Raed to be submitted to the 81st Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film, the...
  
  
• CSNY Déjà Vu
  CSNY Déjà Vu
  CSNY/Déjà Vu is a 2008 film directed by Bernard Shakey, a pseudonym for Neil Young. It focuses on the career of Crosby Stills Nash and Young, its musical connection to its audience and the turbulent times with which its music is associated as the band goes on their 2006 Freedom of Speech tour.It...
  
  
• The Deal
  The Deal (2008 film)
  The Deal is a 2008 American satirical comedy film directed by Steven Schachter. The screenplay by Schachter and William H. Macy is based on the 1991 novel of the same title by Peter Lefcourt. Macy and Meg Ryan co-star....
  
  
• Dinner with the President: A Nation's Journey
• The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
  The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (film)
  The Diving Bell and the Butterfly is a 2007 biographical drama film based on Jean-Dominique Bauby's memoir of the same name. The film depicts Bauby's life after suffering a massive stroke, on December 8, 1995, at the age of 42, which left him with a condition known as locked-in syndrome. The...
  
  
• Dust
• Encounters at the End of the World
  Encounters at the End of the World
  Encounters at the End of the World is an American documentary film by Werner Herzog completed in 2007. The film studies people and places in Antarctica...
  
  
• Flash of Genius
  Flash of Genius (film)
  Flash of Genius is a 2008 American biographical film directed by Marc Abraham. The screenplay by Philip Railsback, based on a 1993 New Yorker article by John Seabrook, focuses on Robert Kearns and his legal battle against the Ford Motor Company when they developed an intermittent windshield wiper...
  
  
• 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
  4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
  4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days is a 2007 Romanian film written and directed by Cristian Mungiu. It won the Palme d'Or and the FIPRESCI Award at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival....
  
  
• Frozen River
  Frozen River
  Frozen River is a 2008 American drama film written and directed by Courtney Hunt. The screenplay focuses on two working-class women who smuggle illegal immigrants in the trunk of a car from Canada to the United States in order to make ends meet...
  
  
• Funny Face
  Funny Face
  Funny Face is an American musical film released in 1957 in VistaVision Technicolor, with assorted songs by George and Ira Gershwin. The film was written by Leonard Gershe and directed by Stanley Donen. It stars Audrey Hepburn, Fred Astaire, and Kay Thompson...
  
  
• The General
  The General (1927 film)
  The General is a 1926 American silent comedy film released by United Artists inspired by the Great Locomotive Chase, which happened in 1862. Buster Keaton starred in the film and co-directed it with Clyde Bruckman...
  
  
• Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson
  Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson
  Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson is a 2008 documentary film directed by Alex Gibney. It details Hunter S. Thompson's landmark writings on music and politics...
  
  
• Goodbye Bafana
  Goodbye Bafana
  Goodbye Bafana, also released under the name The Color of Freedom, is a 2007 drama film, about the relationship between Nelson Mandela and James Gregory , his censor officer and prison guard, based on Gregory's book Goodbye Bafana: Nelson Mandela, My Prisoner, My Friend.Bafana means 'boys'...
  
  
• The Grocer's Son
  The Grocer's Son
  The Grocer's Son is a dramatic film set in Provence, France, directed by experienced French documentarian Éric Guirado...
  
  
• Hamlet 2
  Hamlet 2
  Hamlet 2 is a 2008 American comedy film directed by Andrew Fleming, written by Fleming and Pam Brady, and starring Steve Coogan, Catherine Keener, Amy Poehler, and David Arquette. It was produced by Eric Eisner, Leonid Rozhetskin, and Aaron Ryder. Hamlet 2 was filmed primarily at a high school in...
  
  
• Head Wind
• Helvetica
  Helvetica (film)
  Helvetica is an independent feature-length documentary film about typography and graphic design, centered on the typeface of the same name. Directed by Gary Hustwit, it was released in 2007 to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the typeface's introduction in 1957 and is considered the first of...
  
  
• I Am Because We Are
  I Am Because We Are
  I Am Because We Are is a 2008 documentary film directed by Nathan Rissman and written, narrated, and produced by Madonna.The film premiered at the 7th annual Tribeca Film Festival in New York City, on April 24, 2008 and at the 61st annual Cannes Film Festival in Cannes, France on May 21, 2008...
  
  
• Idiocracy
  Idiocracy
  Idiocracy is a 2006 American film, a satirical science fiction comedy, directed by Mike Judge and starring Luke Wilson, Maya Rudolph, Dax Shepard, and Terry Crews....
  
  
• Johnny Got His Gun
  Johnny Got His Gun
  Johnny Got His Gun is an anti-war novel written in 1938 by American novelist and screenwriter Dalton Trumboand published by J. B. Lippincott company.-Plot:...
  
  
• Kenny
  Kenny (2006 film)
  Kenny is a 2006 Australian mockumentary film starring Shane Jacobson as Kenny Smyth, a Melbourne plumber who works for corporate bathroom rental company Splashdown....
  
  
• The Last Winter
  The Last Winter
  The Last Winter is a 2006 thriller film, directed by Larry Fessenden. The Last Winter premiered in The Contemporary World Cinema Programme at the 2006 Toronto International Film Festival on September 11, 2006...
  
  
• A League of Their Own
  A League of Their Own
  A League of Their Own is a 1992 American comedy-drama film that tells a fictionalized account of the real-life All-American Girls Professional Baseball League . Directed by Penny Marshall, the film stars Geena Davis, Lori Petty, Tom Hanks, Madonna, and Rosie O'Donnell...
  
  
• Let the Right One In
• Man in the Chair
  Man in the Chair
  Man in the Chair is a 2007 independent film written and directed by Michael Schroeder. The film stars Christopher Plummer, Michael Angarano, M. Emmet Walsh, and Robert Wagner.-Premise:...
  
  
• Man on Wire
  Man on Wire
  Man on Wire is a 2008 British documentary film directed by James Marsh. The film chronicles Philippe Petit's 1974 high-wire walk between the Twin Towers of New York's World Trade Center. It is based on Philippe Petit's book, To Reach the Clouds, recently released in paperback with the new title...
  
  
• Michael Moore: Live In London - (Mike's Surprise)
• Miss Gulag
• Mongol
  Mongol (film)
  Mongol is a 2007 semi-historical film directed by Sergei Bodrov. The storyline was conceived from a screenplay written by Bodrov and Arif Aliev. Producers for the film comprised Bodrov, Sergei Selyanov and Anton Melnik. The film is based on the early life of Temüjin, who later came to be known as...
  
  
• The Objective
  The Objective
  The Objective is a 2008 science fiction horror film, directed by Daniel Myrick who also directed The Blair Witch Project and Believers, starring Jonas Ball, Matthew R. Anderson, and Michael C. Williams...
  
  
• Older Than America
  Older Than America (film)
  Older Than America is an independently produced award winning film directed by Native American director/actress Georgina Lightning, originally released in 2008...
  
  
• On the Town
  On the Town (film)
  On the Town is a 1949 musical film with music by Leonard Bernstein and Roger Edens and book and lyrics by Betty Comden and Adolph Green. It is an adaptation of the Broadway stage musical of the same name produced in 1944, although many changes in script and score were made from the original stage...
  
  
• Paraiso Travel
• Persepolis
  Persepolis (film)
  Persepolis is a 2007 French animated film based on Marjane Satrapi's autobiographical graphic novel of the same name. The film was written and directed by Satrapi with Vincent Paronnaud. The story follows a young girl as she comes of age against the backdrop of the Iranian Revolution. The story...
  
  
• The Pope's Toilet
  The Pope's Toilet
  The Pope's Toilet is a 2007 Uruguayan film directed by César Charlone and Enrique Fernandez, starring César Troncoso, Virginia Méndez, Mario Silva and Virginia Ruiz.-Plot :...
  
  
• Pray the Devil Back to Hell
  Pray the Devil Back to Hell
  Pray the Devil Back to Hell is a documentary film directed by Gini Reticker and produced by Abigail Disney. The film premiered at the 2008 Tribeca Film Festival, where it won the award for Best Documentary. The film had its theatrical release in New York City on November 7, 2008.The film documents...
  
  
• A President to Remember: In the Company of John F. Kennedy
• The Prisoner or: How I Planned to Kill Tony Blair
  The Prisoner or: How I Planned to Kill Tony Blair
  The Prisoner or: How I Planned to Kill Tony Blair is a documentary film by American documentary filmmaker Michael Tucker.The film depicts Yunis Khatayer Abbas, an Iraqi journalist who was detained by US troops in 2003 and later imprisoned at Abu Ghraib prison for nine months...
  
  
• Profit motive and the whispering wind
• Redacted
  Redacted (film)
  Redacted is a 2007 American war film written and directed by Brian De Palma. It is a fictional dramatization, loosely based on the 2006 Mahmudiyah killings in Mahmoudiyah, Iraq...
  
  
• Religulous
  Religulous
  Religulous is a 2008 American comic documentary film written by and starring comedian Bill Maher and directed by Larry Charles. The title of the film is a portmanteau derived from the words "religion" and "ridiculous"; the documentary examines and mocks organized religion and religious...
  
  
• Sleep Dealer
  Sleep Dealer
  Sleep Dealer is a 2008 futuristic science fiction film directed by Alex Rivera.-Plot:'Sleep Dealer' is set in a future, militarized world marked by closed borders, virtual labor and a global digital network that joins minds and experiences, where three strangers risk their lives to connect with...
  
  
• Song Sung Blue
• The Substitute
• Sympathy for the Lobster
• Tell No One
  Tell No One
  Tell No One is a 2006 French thriller film directed by Guillaume Canet and based on the novel of the same name by Harlan Coben. It was written by Guillame Canet and Philippe Lefèbvre and stars François Cluzet...
  
  
• Battle for Terra
• Theater of War
• Them
  Them (2006 film)
  Them is a 2006 French horror film directed by David Moreau and Xavier Palud.Olivia Bonamy plays Clementine, a young teacher, who has recently moved from France to a remote but idyllic country house near Bucharest, Romania with her lover Lucas played by Michael Cohen.- Story :The film opens with a...
  
  
• Trouble the Water
  Trouble the Water
  Trouble the Water is a 2008 documentary film produced and directed by Tia Lessin and Carl Deal, producers of Fahrenheit 9/11. Trouble the Water is a redemptive tale of a couple surviving failed levees, bungling bureaucrats, and their own troubled past and a portrait of a community abandoned long...
  
  
• Trumbo
  Trumbo
  Notable people named Trumbo include:*Andrew Trumbo, American politician*Arthur C. Trumbo, original owner of the A. C. Trumbo House*Christopher Trumbo...
  
  
• Up the Yangtze
  Up the Yangtze
  Up the Yangtze is a 2007 documentary film directed by Chinese-Canadian director Yung Chang. The film focuses on people affected by the building of the Three Gorges Dam across the Yangtze river in Hubei, China. The theme of the film is the transition towards consumer capitalism from a farming,...
  
  
• Vicky Christina Barcelona
• War, Inc.
  War, Inc.
  War, Inc. is a 2008 American political satire film starring John Cusack and directed by Joshua Seftel. Cusack also co-wrote and produced the film.- Plot :...
  
  
• War, Love, God & Madness
• When Did You Last See Your Father?
• Wild Strawberries
  Wild Strawberries (film)
  Wild Strawberries is a 1957 Swedish film written and directed by Ingmar Bergman, about an old man recalling his past. The original Swedish title is Smultronstället, which literally means "the wild strawberry patch", but idiomatically means an underrated gem of a place...
  
  
• Yonkers Joe
• The Youngest Candidate

Free Movies at the Open Space:

• Ghost Busters
• The Best of Looney Tunes
  Looney Tunes
  Looney Tunes is a Warner Bros. animated cartoon series. It preceded the Merrie Melodies series and was Warner Bros.'s first animated theatrical series. Since its first official release, 1930's Sinkin' in the Bathtub, the series has become a worldwide media franchise, spawning several television...
  
  
• Singin' in the Rain
  Singin' in the Rain
  Singin' in the Rain is a 1952 American comedy musical film starring Gene Kelly, Donald O'Connor and Debbie Reynolds and directed by Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen, with Kelly also providing the choreography...
  
  
• Back to the Future
  Back to the Future
  Back to the Future is a 1985 American science-fiction adventure film. It was directed by Robert Zemeckis, written by Zemeckis and Bob Gale, produced by Steven Spielberg, and starred Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Lea Thompson, Crispin Glover and Thomas F. Wilson. The film tells the story of...
  
  
• A League of Their Own
  A League of Their Own
  A League of Their Own is a 1992 American comedy-drama film that tells a fictionalized account of the real-life All-American Girls Professional Baseball League . Directed by Penny Marshall, the film stars Geena Davis, Lori Petty, Tom Hanks, Madonna, and Rosie O'Donnell...
  
  

2007

• 9 Star Hotel
• Al Franken: God Spoke
  Al Franken: God Spoke
  Al Franken: God Spoke is a 2006 documentary film starring political commentator and current United States Senator Al Franken. The film was made by the same producers of The War Room...
  
  
• Arctic Tale
  Arctic Tale
  Arctic Tale is a 2007 documentary film from the National Geographic Society about the life cycle of a walrus and her calf, and a polar bear and her cubs, in a similar vein to the 2005 hit production March of the Penguins, also from National Geographic. It was directed by Adam Ravetch and Sarah...
  
  
• Away from Her
  Away From Her
  Away from Her is a 2006 Canadian film which debuted at the Toronto International Film Festival and also played in the Premier category at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival...
  
  
• Black Butterfly
  Black Butterfly
  Black Butterfly is the fourth studio album by American hard rock band Buckcherry. The album was released on September 12, 2008 in Japan, Canada, and the United Kingdom while being released on September 16 in the United States. It had been in production since late 2007. The limited fan edition was...
  
  
• Black Sheep
  Black Sheep (2007 film)
  Black Sheep is a New Zealand made comedy horror film written and directed by Jonathan King. North American distribution rights were acquired by The Weinstein Company and IFC Films. The Weinstein Company released the film on DVD on 9 October 2007 under their Dimension Extreme brand through Genius...
  
  
• Blame it on Fidel
  Blame it on Fidel
  Blame it on Fidel is a 2006 French drama film directed by Julie Gavras.-Plot summary:A 9-year-old girl, Anna de la Mesa , weathers big changes in her household as her parents become radical political activists in 1970-71 Paris...
  
  
• Blue State
  Blue State (film)
  Blue State is an Canadian / American romantic comedy film, released in 2007, starring Breckin Meyer and Anna Paquin. Meyer's character, a dedicated John Kerry campaigner, actually follows through on a drunken campaign promise to move to Canada if George W. Bush gets re-elected...
  
  
• The Bridge on the River Kwai
  The Bridge on the River Kwai
  The Bridge on the River Kwai is a 1957 British World War II film by David Lean based on The Bridge over the River Kwai by French writer Pierre Boulle. The film is a work of fiction but borrows the construction of the Burma Railway in 1942–43 for its historical setting. It stars William...
  
  
• Chicago 10
• Curse of the Golden Flower
  Curse of the Golden Flower
  Curse of the Golden Flower is a 2006 Chinese epic drama film directed by Zhang Yimou.With a budget of US$45 million, it was at the time of its release the most expensive Chinese film to date, surpassing Chen Kaige's The Promise...
  
  
• Day Night Day Night
  Day Night Day Night
  Day Night Day Night is a 2006 drama film written and directed by Julia Loktev, starring Luisa Williams. It documents 48 hours in the life of an anonymous nineteen year old woman who plans to become a suicide bomber in Times Square....
  
  
• Deliver Us from Evil
  Deliver Us from Evil (2006 film)
  Deliver Us from Evil is a documentary film directed by Amy J. Berg which tells the true story of Catholic priest Oliver O'Grady, who admitted to having molested and raped approximately 25 children in Northern California between the late 1970s and early 1990s...
  
  
• Dont Look Back
  Dont Look Back
  Dont Look Back is a 1967 documentary film by D.A. Pennebaker that covers Bob Dylan's 1965 concert tour in the United Kingdom.In 1998, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically...
  
  
• Eleven Men Out
  Eleven Men Out
  Eleven Men Out is comedy-drama directed by Robert Ingi Douglas. The film participated in the Toronto International Film Festival , the Berlin International Film Festival , and the Hawaii International Film Festival.- Plot summary :Ottar Thor is the star player of the Icelandic football team KR...
  
  
• Everything's Cool
  Everything's Cool (film)
  Everything's Cool is a 2007 documentary film that examines the divide between scientists and the general populace on the topic of global warming...
  
  
• The Fever of '57
• Fireworks Wednesday
  Fireworks Wednesday
  Fireworks Wednesday is a 2006 Iranian film directed by Asghar Farhadi and co-written by Farhadi and Mani Haghighi. It stars Hedyeh Tehrani, Taraneh Alidousti, and Hamid Farokhnezhad.-Plot:...
  
  
• Grace Is Gone
  Grace Is Gone (film)
  Grace Is Gone is a 2007 drama film starring John Cusack as a father who does not want to tell his two daughters that their mother has died while serving in Iraq...
  
  
• The Graduate
  The Graduate
  The Graduate is a 1967 American comedy-drama motion picture directed by Mike Nichols. It is based on the 1963 novel The Graduate by Charles Webb, who wrote it shortly after graduating from Williams College. The screenplay was by Buck Henry, who makes a cameo appearance as a hotel clerk, and Calder...
  
  
• The Host
  The Host (film)
  The Host is a 2006 South Korean monster film, which also contains elements of comedy and drama films. The film was directed by Bong Joon-ho, who co-wrote the screenplay, along with Baek Chul-hyun....
  
  
• I Am an American Soldier
  I Am an American Soldier
  I Am an American Soldier is a 2007 documentary film about the Iraq War, produced by John Laurence."One Year in Iraq with the 101st Airborne."...
  
  
• In a Lonely Place
  In a Lonely Place
  In a Lonely Place is a film noir directed by Nicholas Ray, and starring Humphrey Bogart and Gloria Grahame, produced for Bogart's Santana Productions. The script was adapted by Edmund North from the 1947 novel In a Lonely Place by Dorothy B. Hughes.Bogart stars in the film as Dixon Steele, a...
  
  
• In the Shadow of the Moon
  In the Shadow of the Moon
  In the Shadow of the Moon is a 2006 British documentary film about the United States' manned missions to the Moon. It premiered at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival, where it won the World Cinema Audience Award. In March 2008, it was the first film to win the Sir Arthur Clarke Award for Best Film...
  
  
• The King of Kong
• Little Children
  Little Children (film)
  Little Children is a 2006 American drama film directed by Todd Field. It is based on the novel of the same name by Tom Perrotta, who along with Field wrote the screenplay. It stars Kate Winslet, Patrick Wilson, Jennifer Connelly, Jackie Earle Haley, Noah Emmerich, Gregg Edelman, Phyllis Somerville...
  
  
• The Lives of Others
  The Lives of Others
  The Lives of Others is a 2006 German drama film, marking the feature film debut of filmmaker Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck. The film involves the monitoring of the cultural scene of East Berlin by agents of the Stasi, the GDR's secret police...
  
  
• Maxed Out
  Maxed Out
  Maxed Out: Hard Times, Easy Credit and the Era of Predatory Lenders is an independent feature-length documentary film and book that chronicles abusive practices in the credit card industry....
  
  
• Mephisto
  Mephisto (1981 film)
  Mephisto is the title of a 1981 film adaptation of Klaus Mann's novel of the same name, directed by István Szabó, and starring Klaus Maria Brandauer as Hendrik Höfgen...
  
  
• Miss Navajo
  Miss Navajo
  Miss Navajo is a pageant that has been held annually on the Navajo Nation, United States, since 1952.The first Miss Navajo was Dr. Beulah Melvin Allen, in 1952...
  
  
• Molière
• My Best Friend
  My Best Friend (film)
  My Best Friend is a French film starring Daniel Auteuil and Dany Boon.- Plot :François is a middle-aged Parisian who thinks he has everything. After telling a story at dinner about a funeral he attended where only a handful of people turned up, his colleagues suggest that no-one would go to his...
  
  
• Nashville
• Nimrod Nation
• No End in Sight
  No End in Sight
  No End in Sight is a 2007 documentary film about the American occupation of Iraq. The film marks the directorial debut of Academy Award winning documentary film producer Charles H. Ferguson. The film premiered January 22, 2007 at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival. The film opened in limited release...
  
  
• Notes on a Scandal
  Notes on a Scandal (film)
  Notes on a Scandal is a 2006 British psychological thriller film, adapted from the 2003 novel of the same name by Zoë Heller. The screenplay was written by Patrick Marber and the film was directed by Richard Eyre. Many parts of the film were shot in Islington Arts and Media School...
  
  
• Once
  Once (film)
  Once is a 2006 Irish musical film written and directed by John Carney. Set in Dublin, this naturalistic drama stars musicians Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglová as musicians...
  
  
• Our Daily Bread
  Our Daily Bread
  Our Daily Bread is a devotional calendar-style booklet published by RBC Ministries in nearly 30 languages. The booklet is one of the most widely read Christian devotionals in circulation today. The booklet was first published in April 1956, and includes writing about the Bible and insights into...
  
  
• Paprika
• Paris, je t'aime
  Paris, je t'aime
  Paris, Je t'aime is a 2006 anthology film starring an ensemble cast of actors of various nationalities. The two-hour film consists of eighteen short films set in different arrondissements...
  
  
• Pierrepoint: The Last Hangman
  Pierrepoint (film)
  Pierrepoint , is a 2005 British film directed by Adrian Shergold about the life of British executioner Albert Pierrepoint....
  
  
• Please Vote for Me
  Please Vote for Me
  Please Vote for Me is a 2007 documentary film following the elections for class monitor in a 3rd grade class of eight year old children in the Evergreen Primary School in Wuhan, China...
  
  
• Rocket Science
  Rocket Science (film)
  Rocket Science is a 2007 American comedy-drama film written and directed by Jeffrey Blitz, and starring Reece Thompson, Anna Kendrick, Nicholas D'Agosto, Vincent Piazza, and Aaron Yoo...
  
  
• Sherrybaby
  Sherrybaby
  Sherrybaby is a 2006 American drama film written and directed by Laurie Collyer. Screened at the Sundance Film Festival on January 25, 2006, the film received a limited release in the United States on September 8, 2006.-Plot:...
  
  
• Sicko
  Sicko
  Sicko is a 2007 documentary film by American filmmaker Michael Moore. The film investigates health care in the United States, focusing on its health insurance and the pharmaceutical industry. The movie compares the for-profit, non-universal U.S...
  
  Deleted Scenes — (Mike's Surprise)
• The Situation
  The Situation (film)
  The Situation is 2006 film starring Connie Nielsen and directed by Philip Haas.The film plays out against the backdrop of the 2003 Iraq War, where an American journalist is collecting material to write a meaningful story.-Cast:* Connie Nielsen as Anna Molyneuz* Damian Lewis as Dan Murphy*...
  
  
• Slaughterhouse-Five
  Slaughterhouse-Five
  Slaughterhouse-Five, or The Children's Crusade: A Duty-Dance with Death is a satirical novel by Kurt Vonnegut about World War II experiences and journeys through time of a soldier called Billy Pilgrim...
  
  
• A Slim Peace
• Talk to Me
  Talk to Me (2007 film)
  Talk To Me is a 2007 biographical film about Washington, D.C. radio personality Ralph "Petey" Greene, an ex-con who became a popular talk show host and community activist, and Dewey Hughes, his friend and manager...
  
  
• Taxi to the Dark Side
  Taxi to the Dark Side
  Taxi to the Dark Side is a 2007 documentary film directed by American filmmaker Alex Gibney, and produced by Eva Orner and Susannah Shipman, which won the 2007 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature...
  
  
• The Ten
  The Ten
  The Ten is a 2007 American comedy film, directed by David Wain and cowritten by Wain and Ken Marino, released through ThinkFilm. The film was released on August 3, 2007...
  
  
• Trainwreck: My Life as an Idoit
• Tuya's Marriage
  Tuya's Marriage
  Tuya's Marriage is a 2006 Chinese film directed by Wang Quan'an.-Storyline:The film depicts life in Inner Mongolia, in a region where desertification is making life hard for nomadic herders...
  
  
• The Valet
  The Valet
  The Valet is a 2006 French comedy film written and directed by Francis Veber. The screenplay focuses on a parking valet who is enlisted to impersonate the lover of a famous fashion model in order to deflect attention from her relationship with a married businessman.-Plot:Pierre Levasseur is a...
  
  
• Waitress
  Waitress (film)
  Waitress is a 2007 American comedy-drama film written and directed by Adrienne Shelly, who also appears in a supporting role. The film debuted at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival and went into limited theatrical release in the US on May 2, 2007.-Plot:...
  
  
• War/Dance
  War/Dance
  War/Dance is a 2007 American documentary film written and directed by Sean Fine and Andrea Nix Fine and produced by Shine Global's Susan MacLaury, a professor at Kean University, and Albie Hecht...
  
  
• West Bank Story
  West Bank Story
  West Bank Story is a comedy/musical short film, directed by Ari Sandel, co-written by Sandel and Kim Ray, produced by Pascal Vaguelsy, Amy Kim, Ashley Jordan, Ravi Malhotra, Bill Boland and featuring choreography by Ramon Del Barrio. The film is a parody of the classic musical film West Side Story,...
  
  

Free Movies at the Open Space:

• E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
  E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
  E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial is a 1982 American science fiction film co-produced and directed by Steven Spielberg, written by Melissa Mathison and starring Henry Thomas, Dee Wallace, Robert MacNaughton, Drew Barrymore, and Peter Coyote...
  
  
• Grease
  Grease (film)
  Grease is a 1978 American musical film directed by Randal Kleiser and based on Warren Casey's and Jim Jacobs's 1971 musical of the same name about two lovers in a 1950s high school. The film stars John Travolta, Olivia Newton-John, Stockard Channing, and Jeff Conaway...
  
  
• North by Northwest
  North by Northwest
  North by Northwest is a 1959 American thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint and James Mason, and featuring Leo G. Carroll and Martin Landau...
  
  
• Raiders of the Lost Ark
  Raiders of the Lost Ark
  Raiders of the Lost Ark is a 1981 American action-adventure film directed by Steven Spielberg, produced by George Lucas, and starring Harrison Ford. It is the first film in the Indiana Jones franchise...
  
  

2006

• a/k/a Tommy Chong
  A/k/a Tommy Chong
  a/k/a Tommy Chong, written, produced, and directed by Josh Gilbert, is a documentary film that chronicles the Drug Enforcement Administration raid on comedian Tommy Chong's house and his subsequent jail sentence for trafficking in illegal drug paraphernalia...
  
  
• Air Guitar Nation
  Air Guitar Nation
  Air Guitar Nation is a feature-length 2006 documentary about the first US Air Guitar Championships, following the top contestants, David "C-Diddy" Jung and Dan "Björn Türoque" Crane, to the 2003 World Championship in Oulu, Finland....
  
  — Audience Prize (Silver)
• Amadeus
  Amadeus (film)
  Amadeus is a 1984 period drama film directed by Miloš Forman and written by Peter Shaffer. Adapted from Shaffer's stage play Amadeus, the story is based loosely on the lives of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Antonio Salieri, two composers who lived in Vienna, Austria, during the latter half of the...
  
  
• The Beauty Academy of Kabul
• Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan
  Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan
  Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan, often referred to simply as Borat, is a 2006 mockumentary comedy film directed by Larry Charles and distributed by 20th Century Fox...
  
  — Excellence in Filmmaking Award
• Born on the Fourth of July
  Born on the Fourth of July (film)
  Born on the Fourth of July is a 1989 American film adaptation of the best selling autobiography of the same name by Vietnam War veteran Ron Kovic. Tom Cruise plays Kovic, in a performance that earned him his first Academy Award nomination. Oliver Stone co-wrote the screenplay with Kovic, and also...
  
  
• Caché
  Caché (film)
  Caché is a 2005 Austrian-French film written and directed by Michael Haneke. It stars Daniel Auteuil as Georges and Juliette Binoche as his wife Anne.-Plot:...
  
  
• The Canary Effect
  The Canary Effect
  The Canary Effect is a 2006 documentary that looks into the effects of that the United States and its policies have on the Indigenous peoples who are residents...
  
  — Stanley Kubrick Award for Bold and Innovative Filmmaking
• The Dying Gaul
  The Dying Gaul (film)
  The Dying Gaul is a 2005 American drama film written and directed by Craig Lucas. The screenplay is based on his 1998 off-Broadway play, the title of which was derived from an ancient Roman marble copy of a lost Hellenistic sculpture.-Plot:...
  
  
• Far and Away
  Far and Away
  Far and Away is a 1992 adventure-drama-romance film directed by Ron Howard from a script by Howard and Bob Dolman, and stars Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman. Cinematography by Mikael Salomon, with a music score by John Williams...
  
  
• Flirting with Disaster
• Fresh
• Hotel Rwanda
  Hotel Rwanda
  Hotel Rwanda is a 2004 American drama film directed by Terry George. It was adapted from a screenplay written by both George and Keir Pearson. Based on real life events which took place in Rwanda during the spring of 1994, the film stars Don Cheadle as hotelier Paul Rusesabagina, who attempts to...
  
  
• I Want Someone to Eat Cheese With
  I Want Someone to Eat Cheese With
  I Want Someone to Eat Cheese With is a 2006 independent film released by IFC Films and The Weinstein Company. Written, produced and directed by, and starring Jeff Garlin , it features Garlin, Sarah Silverman and Bonnie Hunt...
  
  
• An Inconvenient Truth
  An Inconvenient Truth
  An Inconvenient Truth is a 2006 documentary film directed by Davis Guggenheim about former United States Vice President Al Gore's campaign to educate citizens about global warming via a comprehensive slide show that, by his own estimate, he has given more than a thousand times.Premiering at the...
  
  
• Innocent Voices
• Iraq in Fragments
  Iraq in Fragments
  Iraq in Fragments is a documentary feature directed by James Longley. Longley shot the film in Digital Video on a Panasonic DVX100 miniDV camcorder. The film premiered at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival. The film is also a part of the Iraq Media Action Project film collection. It was nominated for...
  
  
• Iron Island
  Iron Island (film)
  -Synopsis:Old Captain Nemat runs a tight ship. This benevolent dictator is almost a father to the scores of poor, homeless, uneducated families who live on his immensely overcrowded tanker, anchored several yards offshore. The fact that the ship's owner and the authorities have ordered him to...
  
  
• Jesus Camp
  Jesus Camp
  Jesus Camp is a 2006 American documentary film directed by Rachel Grady and Heidi Ewing about a charismatic Christian summer camp, where children spend their summers learning and practicing their prophetic gifts and being taught that they can "take back America for Christ." According to the...
  
  — Scariest Film Award
• John and Jane Toll Free
• Joyeux Noël
• Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
  Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
  Kiss Kiss Bang Bang is a 2005 crime/dark comedy film, which engages many conventions of the classic film noir genre in a tongue-in-cheek fashion. It is based, in part, on the novel Bodies Are Where You Find Them by Brett Halliday. The cast includes Robert Downey, Jr., Val Kilmer, Michelle Monaghan...
  
  
• L'America
• La Moustache
  La Moustache
  La Moustache is a French film from 2005, directed by Emmanuel Carrère and starring Vincent Lindon, and adapted from Carrère's own novel. The film features music from Phillip Glass...
  
  
• Little Miss Sunshine
  Little Miss Sunshine
  Little Miss Sunshine is a 2006 American comedy-drama film. The road movie's plot follows a family's trip to a children's beauty pageant.Little Miss Sunshine was the directorial film debut of the husband-wife team of Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris. The screenplay was written by first-time writer...
  
  — Audience Prize (Bronze)
• Lost Skeleton of Cadavra
• Men at Work
  Men at Work (2006 film)
  Men at Work is a 2006 Iranian film written and directed by Mani Haghighi.-Cast:*Mahnaz Afshar as Sahar*Ahmad Hamed as Mammad*Mahmoud Kalari as Mohsen*Reza Kianian as Jalil*Fatemah Motamed-Aria as Mina...
  
  — Founders Prize
• Nine Lives
  Nine Lives (2005 film)
  Nine Lives is a 2005 American drama film written and directed by Rodrigo García. The screenplay, an example of hyperlink cinema, relates nine short, loosely intertwined tales with nine different women at their cores. Their themes include parent-child relationships, fractured love, adultery,...
  
  
• O Lucky Malcolm
• Paradise Now
  Paradise Now
  Paradise Now is a 2005 film directed by Hany Abu-Assad about two Palestinian men preparing for a suicide attack in Israel. It won a Golden Globe for best foreign language film and was nominated for an Academy Award in the same category....
  
  
• Pittsburgh
• President Mir Qanbar
  President Mir Qanbar
  President Mir Qanbar is a 2005 Iranian documentary film directed by Mohammad Shirvani. The film follows Mir Qanbar, an elderly Iranian man, as he campaigns in the country's presidential election....
  
  
• The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio
  The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio
  The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio is a 2005 film written and directed by Jane Anderson, based on the book by Terry "Tuff" Ryan. The DVD was released on March 14, 2006.-Plot:...
  
  — 'Splain Award (why this film wasn't brought to Traverse City)
• The Promise
  The Promise (2005 film)
  The Promise is a 2005 Chinese epic fantasy film directed by Chen Kaige and starring Jang Dong-gun, Hiroyuki Sanada, Cecilia Cheung and Nicholas Tse. The film is based on the wuxia romance The K'un-lun Slave, written by P'ei Hsing at the time of the Tang Dynasty.First released in mainland China on...
  
  
• The Road to Guantánamo
  The Road to Guantanamo
  The Road to Guantanamo, alternatively The Road to Guantánamo, is a British 2006 docudrama directed by Michael Winterbottom and Mat Whitecross about the incarceration of three British detainees at a detainment camp in Guantánamo Bay Naval Base, Cuba...
  
  — Founders Prize
• Scoop
  Scoop (2006 film)
  Scoop is a 2006 American-British romantic comedy/murder mystery written and directed by Woody Allen and starring Hugh Jackman, Scarlett Johansson, Ian McShane, and Allen himself...
  
  
• Soldiers Pay
  Soldiers Pay
  Soldiers Pay is a 2004 documentary film by David O. Russell. It takes its name from Soldiers' Pay, a novel by William Faulkner....
  
  
• Some Mother's Son
  Some Mother's Son
  Some Mother's Son is a 1996 film written and directed by Irish filmmaker Terry George, co-written by Jim Sheridan, and based on the true story of the 1981 hunger strike in the Maze Prison, in Northern Ireland...
  
  
• Son of Man
  Son of Man (film)
  Son of Man is a 2005 movie directed by South African director Mark Dornford-May. It was the first South African movie to make its debut at Sundance Film Festival.-Plot:...
  
  — Founders Prize
• The Squid and the Whale
  The Squid and the Whale
  The Squid and the Whale is a 2005 American drama film written and directed by Noah Baumbach and produced by Wes Anderson. It tells the semi-autobiographical story of two boys in Brooklyn dealing with their parents' divorce in the 1980s. The film is named after a giant squid and sperm whale diorama...
  
  
• Street Thief
  Street Thief
  Street Thief is a 2006 documentary-style fictional film that follows the life of putative Chicago burglar Kaspar Karr , played by Malik Bader...
  
  — Homeland Security Award
• The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada
  The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada
  The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada is a 2005 American drama film directed by Tommy Lee Jones and written by Guillermo Arriaga. It stars Tommy Lee Jones, Barry Pepper, Julio Cedillo, and Dwight Yoakam....
  
  
• The Great 04 Slacker Uprising - (Mike's Surprise)
• This Film Is Not Yet Rated
  This Film Is Not Yet Rated
  This Film is Not Yet Rated is a 2006 independent documentary film about the Motion Picture Association of America's rating system and its effect on American culture, directed by Kirby Dick and produced by Eddie Schmidt. It premiered at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival and was released limited on...
  
  
• Three Kings
• Tsotsi
  Tsotsi
  Tsotsi is a 2005 film written and directed by Gavin Hood. The film is an adaptation of the novel Tsotsi, by Athol Fugard. The soundtrack features Kwaito music performed by popular South African artist Zola as well as a score by Mark Kilian and Paul Hepker featuring the voice of South African...
  
  
• The TV Set
  The TV Set
  The TV Set is a 2006 comedy about an idealistic writer attempting to bring his vision for a TV show to fruition on the small screen.-Plot:...
  
  
• Viva Zapatero!
  Viva Zapatero!
  Viva Zapatero! is a 2005 documentary by Sabina Guzzanti telling her side of the story regarding the conflict with Silvio Berlusconi over a late-night TV political satire show broadcast on RAI-3....
  
  — Audience Prize (Gold)
• The War Tapes
  The War Tapes
  The War Tapes is the first documentary film of the 2003 invasion of Iraq to be produced by the soldiers themselves. The film follows three New Hampshire National Guard soldiers before, during, and after their deployment to Iraq about a year after the invasion...
  
  — Best Cinematography
• Who Killed the Electric Car?
  Who Killed the Electric Car?
  Who Killed the Electric Car? is a 2006 documentary film that explores the creation, limited commercialization, and subsequent destruction of the battery electric vehicle in the United States, specifically the General Motors EV1 of the mid 1990s...
  
  — Roger Smith Award
• Winter Passing
  Winter Passing
  Winter Passing is a 2005 American drama film. It is the directorial debut of playwright Adam Rapp, also known for his work on the show The L Word. The film stars Zooey Deschanel and Ed Harris, with supporting performances by Will Ferrell and Amelia Warner...
  
  — Best Use of the Words Traverse City in a Feature Film
• Wordplay
  Wordplay (film)
  Wordplay is a 2006 documentary film directed by Patrick Creadon. It features Will Shortz, the editor of the New York Times crossword puzzle, crossword constructor Merl Reagle, and many other noted crossword solvers and constructors...
  
  — Best Action Film
• Zathura
  Zathura (film)
  Zathura: A Space Adventure is a 2005 fantasy science fiction film directed by Jon Favreau, and is loosely based on the illustrated book Zathura by Chris Van Allsburg, author of Jumanji. It stars Jonah Bobo as Danny and Josh Hutcherson as Walter. Tim Robbins also had a small role as the boys'...
  
  

Stanley Kubrick Tribute:

• 2001: A Space Odyssey
  2001: A Space Odyssey (film)
  2001: A Space Odyssey is a 1968 epic science fiction film produced and directed by Stanley Kubrick, and co-written by Kubrick and Arthur C. Clarke, partially inspired by Clarke's short story The Sentinel...
  
  
• Barry Lyndon
  Barry Lyndon
  Barry Lyndon is a 1975 British-American period romantic war film produced, written, and directed by Stanley Kubrick based on the 1844 novel The Luck of Barry Lyndon by William Makepeace Thackeray which recounts the exploits of an 18th century Irish adventurer...
  
  
• A Clockwork Orange
  A Clockwork Orange (film)
  A Clockwork Orange is a 1971 film adaptation of Anthony Burgess's 1962 novel of the same name. It was written, directed and produced by Stanley Kubrick...
  
  
• Eyes Wide Shut
  Eyes Wide Shut
  Eyes Wide Shut is a 1999 drama film based upon Arthur Schnitzler's 1926 novella Traumnovelle . The film was directed, produced and co-written by Stanley Kubrick, and was his last film. The story, set in and around New York City, follows the sexually-charged adventures of Dr...
  
  
• Full Metal Jacket
  Full Metal Jacket
  Full Metal Jacket is a 1987 war film produced and directed by Stanley Kubrick. It is an adaptation of the 1979 novel The Short-Timers by Gustav Hasford and stars Matthew Modine, Vincent D'Onofrio, R. Lee Ermey, Arliss Howard and Adam Baldwin. The film follows a platoon of U.S...
  
  
• The Killing
• Lolita
  Lolita (1962 film)
  Lolita is a 1962 comedy-drama film by Stanley Kubrick based on the classic novel of the same title by Vladimir Nabokov. The film stars James Mason as Humbert Humbert, Sue Lyon as Dolores Haze and Shelley Winters as Charlotte Haze with Peter Sellers as Clare Quilty.Due to the MPAA's restrictions at...
  
  
• Paths of Glory
  Paths of Glory
  Paths of Glory is a 1957 American anti-war film by Stanley Kubrick based on the novel of the same name by Humphrey Cobb. Set during World War I, the film stars Kirk Douglas as Colonel Dax, the commanding officer of French soldiers who refused to continue a suicidal attack...
  
  
• The Shining
  The Shining (film)
  The Shining is a 1980 psychological horror film produced and directed by Stanley Kubrick, co-written with novelist Diane Johnson, and starring Jack Nicholson, Shelley Duvall, and Danny Lloyd. The film is based on the novel of the same name by Stephen King. A writer, Jack Torrance, takes a job as an...
  
  
• Spartacus
  Spartacus (film)
  Spartacus is a 1960 American epic historical drama film directed by Stanley Kubrick and based on the novel of the same name by Howard Fast...
  
  
• Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures
  Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures
  Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures is a 2001 documentary about the life and work of Stanley Kubrick, famed film director, made by his long-time assistant and brother-in-law Jan Harlan...
  
  

Free Movies at the Open Space:

• Dr. Strangelove
• Jurassic Park
  Jurassic Park (film)
  Jurassic Park is a 1993 American science fiction adventure film directed by Steven Spielberg. The film is based on the novel of the same name by Michael Crichton. It stars Sam Neill, Laura Dern, Jeff Goldblum, Richard Attenborough, Martin Ferrero, and Bob Peck...
  
  
• Monty Python and the Holy Grail
  Monty Python and the Holy Grail
  Monty Python and the Holy Grail is a 1974 British comedy film written and performed by the comedy group Monty Python , and directed by Gilliam and Jones...
  
  
• Napoleon Dynamite
  Napoleon Dynamite
  Napoleon Dynamite is a 2004 comedy film co-written and directed by Jared Hess and Jerusha Hess and stars Jon Heder as Napoleon Dynamite. The film was Jared Hess' first full-length feature and is partially adapted from his earlier short film, Peluca....
  
  
• Pee-wee's Big Adventure
  Pee-wee's Big Adventure
  Pee-wee's Big Adventure is a 1985 American adventure comedy film directed by Tim Burton in his full-length debut and starring Paul Reubens as Pee-wee Herman. Reubens also co-wrote the script with Phil Hartman and Michael Varhol. Supporting roles are played by Elizabeth Daily, Mark Holton, Diane...
  
  
• The Wizard of Oz
  The Wizard of Oz (1939 film)
  The Wizard of Oz is a 1939 American musical fantasy film produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. It was directed primarily by Victor Fleming. Noel Langley, Florence Ryerson and Edgar Allan Woolf received credit for the screenplay, but there were uncredited contributions by others. The lyrics for the songs...
  
  

2005

• 11 de Septembre
• The Assassination of Richard Nixon
  The Assassination of Richard Nixon
  The Assassination of Richard Nixon is a 2004 American film, directed by Niels Mueller. It stars Sean Penn, Don Cheadle and Naomi Watts, and is based on the story of would-be assassin Samuel Byck, who plotted to kill Richard Nixon in 1974. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2004...
  
  
• The Ax
• Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
  Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress (film)
  Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress is a 2002 Franco-Chinese romance drama film with dialogue in the Sichuan dialect directed by Dai Sijie and starring Zhou Xun, Chen Kun and Liu Ye...
  
  
• The Baxter
  The Baxter
  The Baxter is a 2005 film written by, directed by and starring American comedian Michael Showalter. A “Baxter”, as defined by the film, is the nice, dull guy in a romantic comedy who is dumped at the end of the story for the protagonist....
  
  — Audience Grand Prize
• Broken Flowers
  Broken Flowers
  Broken Flowers is a 2005 French/American comedy-drama film written and directed by Jim Jarmusch and produced by Jon Kilik and Stacey Smith. The film focuses on an aging "Don Juan" who embarks on a cross-country journey to track down four of his former lovers after receiving an anonymous letter...
  
  
• Czech Dream
  Czech Dream
  Czech Dream is a documentary film directed by two young Czech directors: Vít Klusák and Filip Remunda. The film was released in February 2004. It recorded a large-scale hoax perpetuated by Klusák and Remunda on the Czech public, culminating in the "opening event" of a fake hypermarket...
  
  — Nonfiction Prize
• Downfall
  Downfall (film)
  Downfall is a 2004 German/Italian/Austrian epic war film directed by Oliver Hirschbiegel, depicting the final ten days of Adolf Hitler's life in his Berlin bunker and Nazi Germany in 1945....
  
  — Fiction Prize
• The Edukators
  The Edukators
  The Edukators is a German-Austrian film made by the Austrian director Hans Weingartner and released in 2004. Nominated for the Palme d'Or at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival, it stars Daniel Brühl, Stipe Erceg and Julia Jentsch....
  
  — Founders' Grand Prize
• Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room
  Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room
  Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room is a 2005 documentary film based on the best-selling 2003 book of the same name by Fortune reporters Bethany McLean and Peter Elkind, a study of one of the largest business scandals in American history...
  
  — Scariest Film
• A Good Woman
  A Good Woman (film)
  A Good Woman is a 2004 drama film directed by Mike Barker. The screenplay by Howard Himelstein is based on the 1892 play Lady Windermere's Fan by Oscar Wilde...
  
  
• Grizzly Man
  Grizzly Man
  Grizzly Man is a 2005 American documentary film by German director Werner Herzog. It chronicles the life and death of bear enthusiast Timothy Treadwell. The film consists of Treadwell's own footage of his interactions with grizzly bears before he and his girlfriend were killed and eaten by a bear...
  
  — Founders' Grand Prize
• Gunner Palace
  Gunner Palace
  Gunner Palace is a 2004 documentary film by American documentary filmmaker Michael Tucker, which had a limited release in the United States on March 4, 2005. The film was an account of the complex realities of the situation in Iraq during 2003–2004 amidst the Iraqi insurgency not seen on the...
  
  
• Home of the Brave
  Home of the Brave (2004 film)
  Home of the Brave is a 2004 film directed by Paola di Florio. It is a documentary about Viola Liuzzo, a white civil rights activist who was murdered in 1965 in Selma, Alabama, USA, as she campaigned for black suffrage....
  
  
• Italian for Beginners
  Italian for Beginners
  Italian for Beginners is a 2000 Danish romantic comedy film written and directed by Lone Scherfig. The film stars Anders W. Berthelsen, Lars Kaalund and Peter Gantzler. The film was made by the austere principles of the Dogme 95 movement, including the use of hand held video cameras and natural...
  
  — Preservationist Award
• Time Out
  L'Emploi du temps
  Time Out is a 2001 French drama directed by Laurent Cantet, starring Aurélien Recoing and Karin Viard. Loosely based on the life story of Jean-Claude Romand , it focuses on one of Cantet's favorite subject matters: a man's relationship with his job...
  
  
• Land of Plenty
• Les Misérables
  Les Misérables (1995 film)
  Les Misérables is a 1995 film written and directed by Claude Lelouch. Set in France during World War II, it concerns a poor and illiterate man Henri Fortin who is introduced to Victor Hugo's classic novel Les Misérables and begins to see parallels between it and his own life.-Plot:The film starts...
  
  — Preservationist Award
• Mad Hot Ballroom
  Mad Hot Ballroom
  Mad Hot Ballroom is a documentary film by director Marilyn Agrelo and writer/producer Amy Sewell about a ballroom dance program in the New York City Public School system....
  
  
• Me and You and Everyone We Know
  Me and You and Everyone We Know
  Me and You and Everyone We Know is a 2005 American romantic comedy-drama film written and directed by Miranda July and stars July, John Hawkes, Miles Thompson, Brandon Ratcliff, Natasha Slayton, Najarra Townsend, Carlie Westerman, and JoNell Kennedy.-Plot:The structure of the film consists of...
  
  
• Mondovino
  Mondovino
  Mondovino is a 2004 documentary film on the impact of globalization on the world's different wine regions written and directed by American film maker Jonathan Nossiter...
  
  
• My Summer of Love
  My Summer of Love
  My Summer of Love is a 2004 British drama film directed by Pawel Pawlikowski and co-written by Pawel Pawlikowski and Michael Wynne. Based on the novel of the same name by Helen Cross, the film explores the relationship between two young women from different classes and backgrounds...
  
  
• Human Resources
  Ressources humaines
  Human Resources is a 1999 French film directed by Laurent Cantet. As the name implies, the subject of the film is the workplace and the personal difficulties that result from conflicts between management and labour, corporations and individuals. It stars Jalil Lespert. Most of the other actors are...
  
  
• The Life of Brian — (Mike's Surprise)
• The Talent Given Us
  The Talent Given Us
  The Talent Given Us is a film by Andrew Wagner. Most of the cast in the movie is Wagner's own family.Roger Ebert praised "The Talent Given Us" as "one of the most original, daring, intriguing, and honest films of the year," while 2004 CineVegas juror Wendy Mitchell, writing about the film for...
  
  — Best First Film
• Tarnation — Stanley Kubrick Prize
• The Woodsman
  The Woodsman
  The Woodsman is a 2004 drama film directed and co-written by Nicole Kassell, based on Fechter's play of the same name. The movie stars Kevin Bacon as a convicted child molester who must adjust to life after prison.-Plot:...
  
  

Free Movies at the Open Space:

• Casablanca
  Casablanca (film)
  Casablanca is a 1942 American romantic drama film directed by Michael Curtiz, starring Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman and Paul Henreid, and featuring Claude Rains, Conrad Veidt, Sydney Greenstreet, Peter Lorre and Dooley Wilson. Set during World War II, it focuses on a man torn between, in...
  
  
• Ferris Bueller's Day Off
  Ferris Bueller's Day Off
  Ferris Bueller's Day Off is a 1986 American teen coming-of-age comedy film written and directed by John Hughes.The film follows high school senior Ferris Bueller , who decides to skip school and spend the day in downtown Chicago...
  
  
• Jaws
  Jaws (film)
  Jaws is a 1975 American horror-thriller film directed by Steven Spielberg and based on Peter Benchley's novel of the same name. In the story, the police chief of Amity Island, a fictional summer resort town, tries to protect beachgoers from a giant man-eating great white shark by closing the beach,...
  
  
• The Princess Bride
  The Princess Bride (film)
  The Princess Bride is a 1987 American film based on the 1973 novel of the same name by William Goldman, combining comedy, adventure, romance, and fantasy. The film was directed by Rob Reiner from a screenplay by Goldman...
  
  

Celebrities in attendance

• Michael Moore
  Michael Moore
  Michael Francis Moore is an American filmmaker, author, social critic and activist. He is the director and producer of Fahrenheit 9/11, which is the highest-grossing documentary of all time. His films Bowling for Columbine and Sicko also place in the top ten highest-grossing documentaries...
  
  
• Madonna
  Madonna (entertainer)
  Madonna is an American singer-songwriter, actress and entrepreneur. Born in Bay City, Michigan, she moved to New York City in 1977 to pursue a career in modern dance. After performing in the music groups Breakfast Club and Emmy, she released her debut album in 1983...
  
  
• Larry Charles
  Larry Charles
  Larry Charles is an American writer, director, and producer. He is best known as a staff writer for the American sitcom Seinfeld for its first 5 seasons, contributing some of the show's darkest and most absurd storylines...
  
  
• Terry George
  Terry George
  Terry George is an Irish screenwriter and director. Born and raised in Belfast, Northern Ireland much of his film work involves the Troubles in Northern Ireland...
  
  
• Christine Lahti
  Christine Lahti
  Christine Lahti is an American actress and film director. Lahti has had a successful career in television and film. Throughout her career she has garnered 2 Golden Globe Awards from 8 Nominations, An Emmy Award from 6 Nominations and 2 Academy Award nominations...
  
  
• Stanley Donen
  Stanley Donen
  Stanley Donen ; is an American film director and choreographer whose most celebrated works are Singin' in the Rain and On the Town, both of which he co-directed with Gene Kelly. His other noteworthy films include Royal Wedding, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, Funny Face, Indiscreet, Damn...
  
  
• Paul Mazursky
  Paul Mazursky
  Paul Mazursky is an American film director, screenwriter and actor.-Personal life:He was born Irwin Mazursky in Brooklyn, New York, the son of Jean , a piano player for dance classes, and David Mazursky, a laborer. Mazursky was born to a Jewish family; his grandfather was an immigrant from...
  
  
• Malcolm MacDowell
• Jeff Daniels
  Jeff Daniels
  Jeffrey Warren "Jeff" Daniels is an American actor, musician and playwright. He founded a non-profit theatre company, the Purple Rose Theatre Company, in his home state of Michigan...
  
  
• Matthew Modine
  Matthew Modine
  Matthew Avery Modine is an award-winning American actor. His film roles include Private Joker in Stanley Kubrick's Full Metal Jacket, the title character in Alan Parker's Birdy, high school wrestler Louden Swain in Vision Quest, football star turned spy Alec McCall in Funky Monkey and the...
  
  
• David O. Russell
  David O. Russell
  David Owen Russell is an American film director and screenwriter. He has been praised for the loose, comic energy that characterizes his work, and is notorious for his explosive confrontations with cast members.-Early life:...
  
  
• Jan Harlan
  Jan Harlan
  Jan Harlan is a film producer and the brother of Christiane Kubrick, Stanley Kubrick's widow. He was born in Karlsruhe, Germany on May 5, 1937....
  
  
• D.A. Pennebaker
• Chris Hegedus
• Phil Donahue
  Phil Donahue
  Phillip John "Phil" Donahue is an American media personality, writer, and film producer best known as the creator and host of The Phil Donahue Show. The television program, also known as Donahue, was the first to use a talk show format. The show had a 26-year run on U.S...
  
  
• Sabina Guzzanti
  Sabina Guzzanti
  Sabina Guzzanti is an Italian satirist, actress, writer and producer whose work is devoted to examining social and political life in Italy.-Early life:...
  
  
• John Lyons
• Michael Barker
  Michael Barker
  Lieutenant-General Michael George Henry Barker CB, DSO was a British Army general.-Military career:Barker, born 1884 in Wells District, Somerset, served in the Militia during the Second Boer War before accepted a commission in The Lincolnshire Regiment in 1903...
  
  
• Tom Bernard
• Ari Emanuel
  Ari Emanuel
  Ariel "Ari" Zev Emanuel is an American talent agent, founder of the Endeavor Talent Agency in Beverly Hills, California, and now co-CEO of William Morris Endeavor Entertainment, Endeavor's successor by merger...
  
  
• Rory Kennedy
  Rory Kennedy
  Rory Elizabeth Katherine Kennedy is an American documentary filmmaker and producer. She is the youngest of the eleven children of U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy and his wife Ethel .-Early life and education:...
  
  
• Jon Alpert
  Jon Alpert
  Jon Alpert is an American journalist and documentary filmmaker, known for his use of a cinéma vérité approach in his films. A native of Port Chester, New York, Alpert is a 1970 graduate of Colgate University, and has a black belt in karate....
  
  
• Gretchen Mol
  Gretchen Mol
  Gretchen Mol is an American actress and former model. She is known for her roles in films like Rounders, Celebrity, 3:10 to Yuma, The Thirteenth Floor,and The Notorious Bettie Page, where she played the title character...
  
  
• Jeff Garlin
  Jeff Garlin
  Jeffrey "Jeff" Garlin is an American stand-up comedian, actor, producer, voice artist, director, writer and author, best known for his role as Jeff Greene on the HBO show Curb Your Enthusiasm...
  
  
• Alex Gibney
  Alex Gibney
  Alex Gibney is an American documentary film director and producer. In 2010, Esquire magazine said Gibney "is becoming the most important documentarian of our time."...
  
  
• Kirby Dick
  Kirby Dick
  Kirby Dick is an American film director, producer, screenwriter, and editor. He is best known for directing documentary films. He received an Academy Award nomination for Best Documentary Feature for directing Twist of Faith...
  
  
• Lesley Chilcott
• Bill Plympton
  Bill Plympton
  William "Bill" Calvin Plympton is an American animator, former cartoonist, director, screenwriter and producer best known for his 1987 Academy Award-nominated animated short Your Face. and his series of shorts Guard Dog, Guide Dog, Hot Dog and Horn Dog.- Biography :Bill Plympton was born in...
  
  
• Thom Powers
• Patton Oswalt
  Patton Oswalt
  Patton Oswalt is an American stand-up comedian, writer, actor and voice actor. He is best known for portraying Spencer Olchin in the popular sitcom The King of Queens, voicing Remy from the film Ratatouille and Thrasher from the Cartoon Network original series Robotomy.-Early life:Oswalt was born...
  
  
• Christopher Trumbo
  Christopher Trumbo
  Christopher Trumbo was an American television writer, screenwriter and playwright. Trumbo was considered an expert on the Hollywood blacklist during the McCarthy era. His father, screenwriter Dalton Trumbo, was blacklisted as a member of The Hollywood Ten. Trumbo was born on September 25, 1940,...
  
  
• Wavy Gravy
  Wavy Gravy
  Wavy Gravy is an American entertainer and activist for peace, best known for his hippie appearance, personality and beliefs. His moniker...
  
  
• Thomas Lynch
  Thomas Lynch (poet)
  Thomas Lynch is an American poet, essayist, and undertaker.-Early life:Lynch was educated by nuns and Christian Brothers at Brother Rice High School in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. Lynch then went to university and mortuary school, from which he graduated in 1973...
  
  
• Emily Kunstler
  Emily Kunstler
  Emily Kunstler is an activist and a documentary filmmaker. Kunstler grew up in New York City's West Village neighborhood.- Education :...
  
  
• Robert Byington
• Ben Steinbauer
  Ben Steinbauer
  Ben Steinbauer is an American documentary film director, based in Austin, Texas. Steinbauer’s films have premiered at South by Southwest and the Austin Film Festival, played on PBS, won awards including top prize at the 2006 Cinematexas Film Festival and screened at the Directors Guild Theatre in...
  
  
• Craig and Cynthia Corrie
• Country Joe McDonald
  Country Joe McDonald
  Country Joe McDonald is an American musician who was the lead singer of the 1960s psychedelic rock group Country Joe and the Fish.-Personal life:...
  
  
• Wes Studi
  Wes Studi
  Wesley "Wes" Studi is a Cherokee actor, who has earned notability for his portrayal of Native Americans in film. He has appeared in well-received Academy Award-winning films, such as Kevin Costner's Dances with Wolves, Michael Mann's The Last of the Mohicans, the award-winning Geronimo: An...
  
  
• Yoav Shamir
  Yoav Shamir
  ' is an Israeli documentary filmmaker most noted for the films Checkpoint and Defamation. Shamir's films have received awards from independent film festivals including Best Feature Documentary at the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam, Best International Documentary at the Hot Docs...
  
  
• Joe Berlinger
  Joe Berlinger
  Joseph "Joe" Berlinger is an American documentary film-maker who, in collaboration with Bruce Sinofsky, has created such films as Paradise Lost about the West Memphis 3, Brother's Keeper, Some Kind of Monster, and Crude....
  
  
• Kevin McMahon
• Jim Czarnecki
• Robert Stone
  Robert Stone (director)
  Robert Stone is a British-American documentary filmmaker. His work has been screened at dozens of film festivals and televised around the world, notably several times on PBS's American Experience series. His most recent work is Earth Days , about the beginnings of the environmental movement in the...
  
  
• Gini Reticker
• John W. Walter
• Kurt Engfehr
• Brett Morgen
• Marilyn Agrelo
• Rebecca Reynolds
  Rebecca Reynolds
  -Life:She grew up inWahsington D. C. She graduated from Vassar College, Rutgers University , and the University of Michigan . She taught at Baylor University...
  
  
• Tod Williams
• Jake Kasdan
  Jake Kasdan
  Jake Kasdan is an American television and film director.Kasdan was born in Detroit, Michigan, the son of Meg , a writer, and writer-director Lawrence Kasdan. His younger brother, Jon Kasdan, also works in the film and television industry as an actor and writer...
  
  
• Mani Haghighi
  Mani Haghighi
  Mani Haghighi is an Iranian filmmaker, screen writer and actor. He is the grandson of the writer and filmmaker Ebrahim Golestan.-Education:...
  
  
• John Laurence
• Adrian Belic
• Andrew Wagner
  Andrew Wagner
  Andrew Wagner is an American film director.Wagner is an alumnus of The Collegiate School. He received degrees in Creative Writing and Psychology from Brown University. He received an M.F.A...
  
  
• Jonathan Caouette
  Jonathan Caouette
  Jonathan Caouette is an American film director, writer, editor and actor. Caouette is the director and editor of Tarnation , an autobiographical documentary, and director of All Tomorrow's Parties about a cult music festival.-Films:...
  
  
• Rob Tapert
• Larry Brand
• Robert Hughes
• Richard Brooks
  Richard Brooks
  Richard Brooks was an American screenwriter, film director, novelist and occasional film producer.-Early life and career:...
  
  
• Joel Milner
• Tod H. Williams
• Daniel B. Gold
• Judith Helfand
• Malik Bader
• Josh Gilbert
• Mark Dornford-May
  Mark Dornford-May
  Mark Dornford-May is a British-born South African theatre and film director.-Early life:Mark Dornford-May was born on his Grandfathers farm near Eastoft in Yorkshire. His paternal Grandfather was a miner on the Yorkshire coalfields...
  
  
• Jason Pollock
• Tia Lessin
  Tia Lessin
  Tia Lessin is a New York-based documentary filmmaker. Tia is the director and producer of Trouble the Water , and producer of several of Michael Moore's films including Capitalism: A Love Story, Fahrenheit 9/11 and Bowling for Columbine.-Career:...
  
  
• Carl Deal
  Carl Deal
  Carl Deal is a New York–based documentary filmmaker. He is producer and director of the film Trouble the Water as well as producer for several of Michael Moore's films including Capitalism: A Love Story, Bowling for Columbine, and Fahrenheit 9/11.-Career:...
  
  
• Chris Bell
• Ellen Spiro
  Ellen Spiro
  Ellen Spiro is an American documentary filmmaker. Spiro is known for making humorous social issue films for national and international television broadcasts and theatrical release....
  
  
• Jim Burnstein

External links

• Official Site - Traverse City Film Festival
• Ongoing Film Festival coverage, including daily news, blog & photos from the Record-Eagle, Traverse City's daily newspaper