Alphabetical Listing of All Films
All Feature Films
Able
Danger After Dark presented by TLA Entertainment
As an aggressive virus ravages the city, a group of Berliners resort to their basic animal instincts for survival, resulting in disturbing and murderous consequences.
Danger After Dark presented by TLA Entertainment
As an aggressive virus ravages the city, a group of Berliners resort to their basic animal instincts for survival, resulting in disturbing and murderous consequences.
All Inclusive
Latino Cinema of Today
A family undergoes a seismic change in their relations when they travel to a Mexican seaside resort and the area’s various temptations affect them all.
Latino Cinema of Today
A family undergoes a seismic change in their relations when they travel to a Mexican seaside resort and the area’s various temptations affect them all.
American Violet
Fade to Black
This must-see drama will inspire inner strength and a determination to fight for what’s right, even when the odds are stacked against you.
Fade to Black
This must-see drama will inspire inner strength and a determination to fight for what’s right, even when the odds are stacked against you.
The Answer Man
Centerpiece Screenings
Shot in Philadelphia and featuring a winning performance by Jeff Daniels, this Sundance 09 romantic comedy turns its lens on a spiritual self-help author who actually doesn’t have a clue when it comes to life and love.
Centerpiece Screenings
Shot in Philadelphia and featuring a winning performance by Jeff Daniels, this Sundance 09 romantic comedy turns its lens on a spiritual self-help author who actually doesn’t have a clue when it comes to life and love.
Art & Copy
The Documentary Tradition
The mavericks of American advertising divulge the stories behind the most successful ad campaigns in history in this hugely entertaining and thought-provoking documentary.
The Documentary Tradition
The mavericks of American advertising divulge the stories behind the most successful ad campaigns in history in this hugely entertaining and thought-provoking documentary.
Art of the Devil 3
Danger After Dark presented by TLA Entertainment
Revenge is served hot, quick and drenched in an unimaginable flood of bloody ooze in this scream-inducing, spectacularly creative and violent prequel that makes the popular Saw franchise seem like child’s play.
Danger After Dark presented by TLA Entertainment
Revenge is served hot, quick and drenched in an unimaginable flood of bloody ooze in this scream-inducing, spectacularly creative and violent prequel that makes the popular Saw franchise seem like child’s play.
Institute Benjamenta, or This Dream People Call Human Life
Awards & Honorees
Stephen and Timothy Quay have carved out a niche for themselves as preeminent animators, but with 1995's Institute Benjamenta, they broke new ground for their work -- a film without puppets.
Awards & Honorees
Stephen and Timothy Quay have carved out a niche for themselves as preeminent animators, but with 1995's Institute Benjamenta, they broke new ground for their work -- a film without puppets.
A Quay Brothers Sampler
Awards & Honorees
Curated by The University of the Arts in association with the Quay Brothers, we are delighted to present early masterpieces in short form by Stephen and Timothy Quay.
Awards & Honorees
Curated by The University of the Arts in association with the Quay Brothers, we are delighted to present early masterpieces in short form by Stephen and Timothy Quay.
Back Soon
International Comedies
An eccentric, almost surreal Icelandic comedy shares the misadventures of a female pot dealer, her family and her most unusual set of friends and clients.
International Comedies
An eccentric, almost surreal Icelandic comedy shares the misadventures of a female pot dealer, her family and her most unusual set of friends and clients.
The Beautiful Person
The French Reconnection
Unrequited love is no bore in this scintillating Gallic tale of a young teacher’s sexual obsession with a high school student.
The French Reconnection
Unrequited love is no bore in this scintillating Gallic tale of a young teacher’s sexual obsession with a high school student.
Before the Fall
Latino Cinema of Today
A meteor is approaching the earth in three days and all life will be extinguished, but one family has a more pressing fear -– a deranged and vengeful killer just released from prison is headed their way in this original apocalyptic thriller.
Latino Cinema of Today
A meteor is approaching the earth in three days and all life will be extinguished, but one family has a more pressing fear -– a deranged and vengeful killer just released from prison is headed their way in this original apocalyptic thriller.
Best of the Backseat Film Festival Showcase
Special Presentations
This is a long overdue "best-of-the-best" of this most unique film festival!
Special Presentations
This is a long overdue "best-of-the-best" of this most unique film festival!
Bitter & Twisted
World Focus
An emotionally powerful family drama about a suburban Sydney family and how the unexpected death of a son affects them.
World Focus
An emotionally powerful family drama about a suburban Sydney family and how the unexpected death of a son affects them.
Blind Loves
The Documentary Tradition
These four vignettes are universal stories with a unique point of view: how people live and love, their hopes and dreams, challenges and fantasies from a blind person's perspective.
The Documentary Tradition
These four vignettes are universal stories with a unique point of view: how people live and love, their hopes and dreams, challenges and fantasies from a blind person's perspective.
Boy Interrupted
The Documentary Tradition
Dana and Hart Perry have crafted a haunting, intimate portrait of their son, Evan — an articulate, sensitive boy besieged by the inescapable ravages of bipolar disorder.
The Documentary Tradition
Dana and Hart Perry have crafted a haunting, intimate portrait of their son, Evan — an articulate, sensitive boy besieged by the inescapable ravages of bipolar disorder.
The Brothers Bloom
American Independents
The Bloom brothers Stephen and Bloom (Mark Ruffalo and Adrien Brody) are con men extraordinaire in this lavish rollicking high-octane caper film and road movie.
American Independents
The Bloom brothers Stephen and Bloom (Mark Ruffalo and Adrien Brody) are con men extraordinaire in this lavish rollicking high-octane caper film and road movie.
Burning Plain
American Independents
Messy relationships have been central to Guillermo Arriaga’s art as a screenwriter, as has his penchant for a certain narrative disconnect that brings disparate pieces together –- these qualities are what drive his fascinating first film as a director.
American Independents
Messy relationships have been central to Guillermo Arriaga’s art as a screenwriter, as has his penchant for a certain narrative disconnect that brings disparate pieces together –- these qualities are what drive his fascinating first film as a director.
The Chaser
World Focus
A violent, action-packed crime thriller about a serial killer and the lowlife pimp forced to act as vigilante. A huge popular hit in Korea.
World Focus
A violent, action-packed crime thriller about a serial killer and the lowlife pimp forced to act as vigilante. A huge popular hit in Korea.
Chef's Special
International Comedies
Energetic performances from Almodóvar regulars Javier Cámara (Talk to Her) and Lola Dueñas (Volver) anchor this wholly entertaining farce bustling with quick-witted dialogue and comical hi-jinks.
International Comedies
Energetic performances from Almodóvar regulars Javier Cámara (Talk to Her) and Lola Dueñas (Volver) anchor this wholly entertaining farce bustling with quick-witted dialogue and comical hi-jinks.
Children of Invention
American Independents
Two Asian-American children are left to fend for themselves when their mother goes missing in director Tze Chun's accomplished, semi-autobiographical feature.
American Independents
Two Asian-American children are left to fend for themselves when their mother goes missing in director Tze Chun's accomplished, semi-autobiographical feature.
The Country Teacher
World Focus
A poignant and affecting drama about a repressed gay schoolteacher who moves to a Czech farming village and befriends a lonely widow and her teenage son.
World Focus
A poignant and affecting drama about a repressed gay schoolteacher who moves to a Czech farming village and befriends a lonely widow and her teenage son.
Cowards
Latino Cinema of Today
Themes of security and fear underscore this tale of a young boy, mercilessly bullied on the schoolyard and ignored by adults who are lost in their web of cell phones and closed-circuit cameras.
Latino Cinema of Today
Themes of security and fear underscore this tale of a young boy, mercilessly bullied on the schoolyard and ignored by adults who are lost in their web of cell phones and closed-circuit cameras.
Cuttin' Da Mustard
Fade to Black
This entertaining and fast-paced independent comedy chronicles the lives, loves, ambitions and fears of a group of young actors in Queens.
Fade to Black
This entertaining and fast-paced independent comedy chronicles the lives, loves, ambitions and fears of a group of young actors in Queens.
The Desert Within
Latino Cinema of Today
In this intense, devastating drama about religious fanaticism and parental devotion, a father places his family in jeopardy following the 1928 Mexican Revolution.
Latino Cinema of Today
In this intense, devastating drama about religious fanaticism and parental devotion, a father places his family in jeopardy following the 1928 Mexican Revolution.
Dioses
Latino Cinema of Today
Portraying a seemingly idyllic life that is actually soulless and cruel, Gods condemns the class disparity that exists in many Latin American countries.
Latino Cinema of Today
Portraying a seemingly idyllic life that is actually soulless and cruel, Gods condemns the class disparity that exists in many Latin American countries.
Don't Look Down
Latino Cinema of Today
A young man is introduced to the almost hallucinatory joys of sex after he meets a gorgeous older woman in this explicit but innocent coming-of-age romp from Argentina.
Latino Cinema of Today
A young man is introduced to the almost hallucinatory joys of sex after he meets a gorgeous older woman in this explicit but innocent coming-of-age romp from Argentina.
Eldorado
World Focus
Rarely does a film successfully combine elements of melancholy and personal loneliness with existential absurdness and surreal humor, but the Belgian-made Eldorado does so — and entertainingly succeeds.
World Focus
Rarely does a film successfully combine elements of melancholy and personal loneliness with existential absurdness and surreal humor, but the Belgian-made Eldorado does so — and entertainingly succeeds.
Embodiment of Evil
Danger After Dark presented by TLA Entertainment
An ode to midnight movies of days gone by, mutilated bodies and disturbing sex acts await you as the final chapter of cult fan favorite Coffin Joe digs his sharp talons into your soul.
Danger After Dark presented by TLA Entertainment
An ode to midnight movies of days gone by, mutilated bodies and disturbing sex acts await you as the final chapter of cult fan favorite Coffin Joe digs his sharp talons into your soul.
The Enemy Is Us (Shorts Program)
Festival of Independents presented by DIVE
Two powerful documentaries that illustrate the damages of war from our enemies, our allies and our own government.
Festival of Independents presented by DIVE
Two powerful documentaries that illustrate the damages of war from our enemies, our allies and our own government.
The Equation of Love and Death
World Focus
Five characters — a tough lovelorn female cabbie, two inept smugglers from the countryside, a man of multiple personas and a baffled policeman are all caught up together in this fast-paced Chinese thriller.
World Focus
Five characters — a tough lovelorn female cabbie, two inept smugglers from the countryside, a man of multiple personas and a baffled policeman are all caught up together in this fast-paced Chinese thriller.
…Even Jesus Had an Accountant (Shorts Program)
Festival of Independents presented by DIVE
Four shorts filled with a wealth of wisdom, including a documentary on Camden's outspoken activist-poet-and priest Father Doyle.
Festival of Independents presented by DIVE
Four shorts filled with a wealth of wisdom, including a documentary on Camden's outspoken activist-poet-and priest Father Doyle.
(500) Days of Summer
Opening Night
This "anti-romantic" comedy inspired Sundance 09 audiences to standing ovations for its bubbly yet authentic, intelligently funny and delightfully visual approach to dating in the new millennium.
Opening Night
This "anti-romantic" comedy inspired Sundance 09 audiences to standing ovations for its bubbly yet authentic, intelligently funny and delightfully visual approach to dating in the new millennium.
Food, Inc.
The Documentary Tradition
Scary, dirty little secrets of the food production industry are served up in this stylish expose that is sure to make you think twice the next time you write your grocery list.
The Documentary Tradition
Scary, dirty little secrets of the food production industry are served up in this stylish expose that is sure to make you think twice the next time you write your grocery list.
For My Father
Cinema of the Muslim Worlds
A gripping but tender political and humanistic drama about a young Palestinian suicide bomber, a Jewish Orthodox young woman he meets and the mission he feels compelled to complete.
Cinema of the Muslim Worlds
A gripping but tender political and humanistic drama about a young Palestinian suicide bomber, a Jewish Orthodox young woman he meets and the mission he feels compelled to complete.
4bia
Danger After Dark presented by TLA Entertainment
Thailand’s best directors take no prisoners in this aggressively scary ride, delivering four tales of horror guaranteed to shake, rattle and roll your nerves.
Danger After Dark presented by TLA Entertainment
Thailand’s best directors take no prisoners in this aggressively scary ride, delivering four tales of horror guaranteed to shake, rattle and roll your nerves.
A French Gigolo
The French Reconnection
A successful middle-aged women (Nathalie Baye) decides to avoid emotional entanglements and instead uses male escorts for her sexual needs. This is a classy, spirited and satisfying French comedy.
The French Reconnection
A successful middle-aged women (Nathalie Baye) decides to avoid emotional entanglements and instead uses male escorts for her sexual needs. This is a classy, spirited and satisfying French comedy.
A Game for Girls
World Focus
Set in a privileged world of rich young Italians, this drama follows the lives of four beautiful teenage girls and their charismatic queen who plots sexual revenge on a teacher she both likes and hates.
World Focus
Set in a privileged world of rich young Italians, this drama follows the lives of four beautiful teenage girls and their charismatic queen who plots sexual revenge on a teacher she both likes and hates.
Garbage Dreams
The Documentary Tradition
Real-life melodrama and environmental concerns intersect in this four-year glimpse into the lives of three teens who are memebers of Cairo's Zaballeen-- "garbage people."
The Documentary Tradition
Real-life melodrama and environmental concerns intersect in this four-year glimpse into the lives of three teens who are memebers of Cairo's Zaballeen-- "garbage people."
The Girl From Monaco
The French Reconnection
This over-the-top French sex comedy follows the trials of a staid defense attorney whose world goes topsy-turvy when he travels to Monaco to defend a local matriarch and falls under the rollicking influence of a party hound who is also a local cable channel’s weather girl.
The French Reconnection
This over-the-top French sex comedy follows the trials of a staid defense attorney whose world goes topsy-turvy when he travels to Monaco to defend a local matriarch and falls under the rollicking influence of a party hound who is also a local cable channel’s weather girl.
The Glass House
The Documentary Tradition
This poignant documentary follows a handful of disadvantaged young Iranian women who are provided with a sense of self-worth and the opportunity to experience a full range of life options through education and training.
The Documentary Tradition
This poignant documentary follows a handful of disadvantaged young Iranian women who are provided with a sense of self-worth and the opportunity to experience a full range of life options through education and training.
Go Go 70s
World Focus
One of Korea’s biggest box office sensations of 2008, this music biopic will have you dusting off those go-go boots, working that miniskirt and shimmying down the aisle.
World Focus
One of Korea’s biggest box office sensations of 2008, this music biopic will have you dusting off those go-go boots, working that miniskirt and shimmying down the aisle.
God's Forgotten Town
Latino Cinema of Today
When a film crew begins to unlock the dark secrets of an abandoned town, the battle between good and evil begins in this Spanish mystery thriller.
Latino Cinema of Today
When a film crew begins to unlock the dark secrets of an abandoned town, the battle between good and evil begins in this Spanish mystery thriller.
Goodbye Solo
American Independents
From Ramin Bahrani, one of the most distinctive voices working in American independent cinema today, comes this absorbing, touching drama of a Senegalese immigrant’s relationship with a man determined to kill himself.
American Independents
From Ramin Bahrani, one of the most distinctive voices working in American independent cinema today, comes this absorbing, touching drama of a Senegalese immigrant’s relationship with a man determined to kill himself.
The Great Northeaster (Shorts Program)
Festival of Independents presented by DIVE
Two Philadelphia-centric documentaries that reveal what happens to young African-American adults when people invest in their lives.
Festival of Independents presented by DIVE
Two Philadelphia-centric documentaries that reveal what happens to young African-American adults when people invest in their lives.
GS Wonderland
World Focus
Playfully re-creating Japan’s answer to the Britpop invasion that influenced ’60s Japanese music and style, GS Wonderland charts the time when the pop sensibility of the Beatles collided with an entirely different culture.
World Focus
Playfully re-creating Japan’s answer to the Britpop invasion that influenced ’60s Japanese music and style, GS Wonderland charts the time when the pop sensibility of the Beatles collided with an entirely different culture.
Hanger
Danger After Dark presented by TLA Entertainment
Full frontal nudity, female masturbation and vaginal mutilation are just the tip of the iceberg in the latest gross-out and repulsively satisfying revenge shocker from the director of Gutterballs and Live Feed.
Danger After Dark presented by TLA Entertainment
Full frontal nudity, female masturbation and vaginal mutilation are just the tip of the iceberg in the latest gross-out and repulsively satisfying revenge shocker from the director of Gutterballs and Live Feed.
Hardcore Heroes and Heroins (Shorts Program)
Festival of Independents presented by DIVE
This provocative adults-only program (18+) of 9 shorts is not for everybody.
Festival of Independents presented by DIVE
This provocative adults-only program (18+) of 9 shorts is not for everybody.
Heart of Stone
Festival of Independents presented by DIVE
In a school gripped by violence and hopelessness, one teacher fights to save his city's future by saving his students at any cost.
Festival of Independents presented by DIVE
In a school gripped by violence and hopelessness, one teacher fights to save his city's future by saving his students at any cost.
Herb and Dorothy
The Documentary Tradition
In their modest one-bedroom New York apartment, unassuming couple Herb and Dorothy Vogel quietly amassed one of the world’s most extraordinary collections of minimalist and conceptual art.
The Documentary Tradition
In their modest one-bedroom New York apartment, unassuming couple Herb and Dorothy Vogel quietly amassed one of the world’s most extraordinary collections of minimalist and conceptual art.
Hunger
Centerpiece Screenings
This startlingly intense political and human drama tells the harrowing story of IRA leader Bobby Sands and his fellow prisoners in the hands of British authorities in the early 1980s.
Centerpiece Screenings
This startlingly intense political and human drama tells the harrowing story of IRA leader Bobby Sands and his fellow prisoners in the hands of British authorities in the early 1980s.
The Hurt Locker
Centerpiece Screenings
Powerful in both sound and visuals, this suspenseful story of a crack trio of bomb-disposal experts on the hostile streets of Baghdad will get your adrenaline pumping and leave you breathless.
Centerpiece Screenings
Powerful in both sound and visuals, this suspenseful story of a crack trio of bomb-disposal experts on the hostile streets of Baghdad will get your adrenaline pumping and leave you breathless.
I Sell the Dead
Danger After Dark presented by TLA Entertainment
Vampires, ghouls and vicious rivalries are just part of the fantastical adventures in this devilishly mischievous horror film that slayed audiences at Slamdance ’09 and the Toronto After Dark Film Festival.
Danger After Dark presented by TLA Entertainment
Vampires, ghouls and vicious rivalries are just part of the fantastical adventures in this devilishly mischievous horror film that slayed audiences at Slamdance ’09 and the Toronto After Dark Film Festival.
I'd Rather Be a Shellfish
World Focus
Katsuo Fukuzawa’s intimate epic about military justice miscarried is a poetic narrative coupled with handsome cinematics, doubly honoring a story that has become a beloved cultural/political touchstone in Japan.
World Focus
Katsuo Fukuzawa’s intimate epic about military justice miscarried is a poetic narrative coupled with handsome cinematics, doubly honoring a story that has become a beloved cultural/political touchstone in Japan.
I'm Going to Explode
Latino Cinema of Today
Shimmering with style and a pulsating electronica soundtrack (Interpol, Bright Eyes), this Mexican import is genuinely tender and sweepingly romantic.
Latino Cinema of Today
Shimmering with style and a pulsating electronica soundtrack (Interpol, Bright Eyes), this Mexican import is genuinely tender and sweepingly romantic.
Il Divo
World Focus
Imagine an Italian Mafia saga – replete with intrigue, shifting alliances, backstabbing, and violent and bloody retributions -- and then set it all in the historically true world of contemporary Italian politics and you’ll get Il Divo, the Jury Award Winner at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival
World Focus
Imagine an Italian Mafia saga – replete with intrigue, shifting alliances, backstabbing, and violent and bloody retributions -- and then set it all in the historically true world of contemporary Italian politics and you’ll get Il Divo, the Jury Award Winner at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival
Is Anybody There?
World Focus
In this comedy-drama about an eccentric magician who forms a friendship with a precocious ten-year-old. Two-time Academy Award winning actor Michael Caine delivers another amazing performance.
World Focus
In this comedy-drama about an eccentric magician who forms a friendship with a precocious ten-year-old. Two-time Academy Award winning actor Michael Caine delivers another amazing performance.
It's Not Me I Swear!
World Focus
Winning performances by two young lead actors anchor this darkly comic, rebellious coming-of-age story set in the suburbs of Montreal in the late 1960s.
World Focus
Winning performances by two young lead actors anchor this darkly comic, rebellious coming-of-age story set in the suburbs of Montreal in the late 1960s.
The Joy of Singing
The French Reconnection
Fasten your cinema seatbelts for this witty spy-caper musical involving a missing key; duplicitous, bed-hoping spies and a seriously unusual singing class.
The French Reconnection
Fasten your cinema seatbelts for this witty spy-caper musical involving a missing key; duplicitous, bed-hoping spies and a seriously unusual singing class.
Julia
The French Reconnection
Tilda Swinton is mesmerizing as a raging alcoholic in this adrenaline rush of a film about a botched kidnapping.
The French Reconnection
Tilda Swinton is mesmerizing as a raging alcoholic in this adrenaline rush of a film about a botched kidnapping.
Jury Duty
The French Reconnection
A mild-mannered murderer serves on the jury for the very crime he committed in this gripping crime thriller.
The French Reconnection
A mild-mannered murderer serves on the jury for the very crime he committed in this gripping crime thriller.
Kabuli kid
Cinema of the Muslim Worlds
A beleaguered cab driver finds a baby in his backseat and becomes obsessed with finding either its mother or a new home for it in this captivating urban road movie set in a war-ravaged Kabul.
Cinema of the Muslim Worlds
A beleaguered cab driver finds a baby in his backseat and becomes obsessed with finding either its mother or a new home for it in this captivating urban road movie set in a war-ravaged Kabul.
Kassim the Dream
The Documentary Tradition
Executive Producer Forrest Whittaker presents an inspirational story in the journey that led a Ugandan soldier to become the Junior Middleweight Boxing Champion of the World.
The Documentary Tradition
Executive Producer Forrest Whittaker presents an inspirational story in the journey that led a Ugandan soldier to become the Junior Middleweight Boxing Champion of the World.
The King of Ping Pong
World Focus
This affecting coming-of-age tale avoids all the usual clichés but none of the compassion as it profiles two brothers holed up in a snow-bound rural town.
World Focus
This affecting coming-of-age tale avoids all the usual clichés but none of the compassion as it profiles two brothers holed up in a snow-bound rural town.
Kisses
World Focus
In this spirited coming-of-age story that is intentionally shot in both color and black and white, director Lance Daly skillfully balances the beauty and ugliness of human existence while coaxing wonderful performances out of his adventurous young leads.
World Focus
In this spirited coming-of-age story that is intentionally shot in both color and black and white, director Lance Daly skillfully balances the beauty and ugliness of human existence while coaxing wonderful performances out of his adventurous young leads.
Lake Tahoe
Latino Cinema of Today
Three teenagers in a small Mexican town have differing distractions from their troubles at home in this alternately comedic and heartbreaking film.
Latino Cinema of Today
Three teenagers in a small Mexican town have differing distractions from their troubles at home in this alternately comedic and heartbreaking film.
Landscape #2
World Focus
This dark, allegorical political thriller tells the story of a thief who accidentally uncovers a document revealing a post-WWII atrocity and soon finds himself the target of a coldly efficient assassin.
World Focus
This dark, allegorical political thriller tells the story of a thief who accidentally uncovers a document revealing a post-WWII atrocity and soon finds himself the target of a coldly efficient assassin.
Left Bank
Danger After Dark presented by TLA Entertainment
Mounting doubt, dread and helplessness plague an attractive woman’s state of mind as she begins to unlock a mystery that will put her face to face with an ancient, unknowable evil.
Danger After Dark presented by TLA Entertainment
Mounting doubt, dread and helplessness plague an attractive woman’s state of mind as she begins to unlock a mystery that will put her face to face with an ancient, unknowable evil.
Lemon Tree
Cinema of the Muslim Worlds
Palestinian actress Hiam Abbass shines in this tale that puts a human face on Israeli-Palestinian politics.
Cinema of the Muslim Worlds
Palestinian actress Hiam Abbass shines in this tale that puts a human face on Israeli-Palestinian politics.
Lightbulb
American Independents
Witty, charming and smart, Lightbulb is the story of two dreamers on a search for “the” idea that will make them rich.
American Independents
Witty, charming and smart, Lightbulb is the story of two dreamers on a search for “the” idea that will make them rich.
Loose Rope
Cinema of the Muslim Worlds
Two men are instructed to take a large injured cow to market in Tehran. Their task proves anything but simple (the cow’s not into it!) in this gently humorous culture-clash drama.
Cinema of the Muslim Worlds
Two men are instructed to take a large injured cow to market in Tehran. Their task proves anything but simple (the cow’s not into it!) in this gently humorous culture-clash drama.
Love, Soccer and other Catastrophies
World Focus
A fast-paced comedy/drama about the tumultuous lives of five soccer-obsessed friends and how the game of sport affects their more important game of life.
World Focus
A fast-paced comedy/drama about the tumultuous lives of five soccer-obsessed friends and how the game of sport affects their more important game of life.
Lymelife
Closing Night
A bevy of excellent performances (led by a remarkably nuanced Rory Culkin) anchor this bittersweet and slightly surreal tale in which the impending threat of Lyme Disease surrounds the adolescent tedium of suburban Long Island in the late 1970s.
Closing Night
A bevy of excellent performances (led by a remarkably nuanced Rory Culkin) anchor this bittersweet and slightly surreal tale in which the impending threat of Lyme Disease surrounds the adolescent tedium of suburban Long Island in the late 1970s.
The Magic Hour
International Comedies
In this rousingly funny and entertaining gangster spoof, a clueless actor is hired to portray a notorious hitman, unaware that the role of his career is deadly real.
International Comedies
In this rousingly funny and entertaining gangster spoof, a clueless actor is hired to portray a notorious hitman, unaware that the role of his career is deadly real.
Marcello, Marcello
World Focus
Set in an idyllic Italian fishing village in 1956, this sweet story of young love revolves around a teen boy’s frantic efforts to find a gift for the father of the beautiful young woman he adores.
World Focus
Set in an idyllic Italian fishing village in 1956, this sweet story of young love revolves around a teen boy’s frantic efforts to find a gift for the father of the beautiful young woman he adores.
The Merry Gentleman
American Independents
Prolific actor Michael Keaton (who achieved superstardom in the early '90's as the caped crusader Batman) has one foot behind the camera and the other in front in this comedic dark drama set on the streets of a Christmassy Chicago.
American Independents
Prolific actor Michael Keaton (who achieved superstardom in the early '90's as the caped crusader Batman) has one foot behind the camera and the other in front in this comedic dark drama set on the streets of a Christmassy Chicago.
Mississippi Damned
Fade to Black
Bitterly honest and profoundly subtle writer/director Tina Mabry draws on her own life experiences to successfully capture the feelings of growing up in a world where opportunities seem to die in a myriad of destructive compulsions.
Fade to Black
Bitterly honest and profoundly subtle writer/director Tina Mabry draws on her own life experiences to successfully capture the feelings of growing up in a world where opportunities seem to die in a myriad of destructive compulsions.
Mommy Is at the Hairdresser's
World Focus
Director Léa Pool (Set Me Free, Lost and Delirious) shows a keen eye for detail in this breezy French-Canadian period piece full of serious dramatic elements as well as youth and spirited freedom.
World Focus
Director Léa Pool (Set Me Free, Lost and Delirious) shows a keen eye for detail in this breezy French-Canadian period piece full of serious dramatic elements as well as youth and spirited freedom.
Moon
Centerpiece Screenings
In this independent science fiction thriller, Sam Rockwell’s brilliant performance and Duncan Jones’ (David Bowie’s son) expert direction made this one of the must-see films at Sundance this year.
Centerpiece Screenings
In this independent science fiction thriller, Sam Rockwell’s brilliant performance and Duncan Jones’ (David Bowie’s son) expert direction made this one of the must-see films at Sundance this year.
Morris County
Festival of Independents presented by DIVE
Not for those with sensitive dispositions, these three shocking tales of suburban survival, horror and death will remain in your nightmares.
Festival of Independents presented by DIVE
Not for those with sensitive dispositions, these three shocking tales of suburban survival, horror and death will remain in your nightmares.
Mortadelo and Filemon: Mission - Save the Planet
International Comedies
Inept super spies Mortadelo and Filemon are reunited to save the world from drought in this visually outlandish and wildly cartoonish caper spoof.
International Comedies
Inept super spies Mortadelo and Filemon are reunited to save the world from drought in this visually outlandish and wildly cartoonish caper spoof.
My Dear Enemy
World Focus
In this sly urban road movie/romance, a woman must team up with her roguish ex-boyfriend in order to recoup the money he owes her.
World Focus
In this sly urban road movie/romance, a woman must team up with her roguish ex-boyfriend in order to recoup the money he owes her.
My Voice Is in My Sword (Shorts Program)
Festival of Independents presented by DIVE
Six films covering mysticism, death, life, poetry, hope, anger and revelation.
Festival of Independents presented by DIVE
Six films covering mysticism, death, life, poetry, hope, anger and revelation.
The Nail: The Story of Joey Nardone
Festival of Independents presented by DIVE
Tony Luke, Jr. stars as an out-of-shape who boxer leaves prison and gets a shot at redemption by fighting for one young boy's future.
Festival of Independents presented by DIVE
Tony Luke, Jr. stars as an out-of-shape who boxer leaves prison and gets a shot at redemption by fighting for one young boy's future.
9 to 5: Days in Porn
The Documentary Tradition
An insightful and often surprising documentary chronicling the professional and personal lives of adult film stars.
The Documentary Tradition
An insightful and often surprising documentary chronicling the professional and personal lives of adult film stars.
No Boundaries
Festival of Independents presented by DIVE
First-time co-directors Jake Willing and Violet Mendoza provide a different view of Philadelphia in their locally-filmed drama about a young illegal immigrant who finds a new life and new love.
Festival of Independents presented by DIVE
First-time co-directors Jake Willing and Violet Mendoza provide a different view of Philadelphia in their locally-filmed drama about a young illegal immigrant who finds a new life and new love.
Not Quite Hollywood
Danger After Dark presented by TLA Entertainment
Forget about Peter Weir art films or Nicole Kidman musicals. “Ozploitation” was the gleefully dirty sibling of the Australian film industry that celebrated full frontal nudity (we’ve got bush!), unrelenting gore and over-the-top explosive mayhem in the ’70s and ’80s.
Danger After Dark presented by TLA Entertainment
Forget about Peter Weir art films or Nicole Kidman musicals. “Ozploitation” was the gleefully dirty sibling of the Australian film industry that celebrated full frontal nudity (we’ve got bush!), unrelenting gore and over-the-top explosive mayhem in the ’70s and ’80s.
Number One with a Bullet
Fade to Black
Featuring Ice Cube, Fat Joe, The Last Mr. Bigg and many other talented and charismatic rap-stars who have all survived the deadly impact of a bullet.
Fade to Black
Featuring Ice Cube, Fat Joe, The Last Mr. Bigg and many other talented and charismatic rap-stars who have all survived the deadly impact of a bullet.
Of Time and the City
The Documentary Tradition
Acclaimed director Terrence Davies’ nostalgic ode to Liverpool -— the city of his birth -— is an exquisitely assembled tiny jewel.
The Documentary Tradition
Acclaimed director Terrence Davies’ nostalgic ode to Liverpool -— the city of his birth -— is an exquisitely assembled tiny jewel.
Old Partner
The Documentary Tradition
Director Chung-ryoul Lee delivers a poignant, humanitarian and heart-warming story laden with nostalgia for a way of life that is quickly disappearing.
The Documentary Tradition
Director Chung-ryoul Lee delivers a poignant, humanitarian and heart-warming story laden with nostalgia for a way of life that is quickly disappearing.
One Day You'll Understand
The French Reconnection
Israeli director Amos Gitai brings us this complicated family drama which asks whether a Holocaust survivor has the right to avoid the issue, or must pass on its sad facts.
The French Reconnection
Israeli director Amos Gitai brings us this complicated family drama which asks whether a Holocaust survivor has the right to avoid the issue, or must pass on its sad facts.
The Other One
The French Reconnection
A middle-aged woman descends into obsessive jealousy when her much younger lover begins seeing another older woman in this startlingly cool and complex film.
The French Reconnection
A middle-aged woman descends into obsessive jealousy when her much younger lover begins seeing another older woman in this startlingly cool and complex film.
The Perfect Season
Special Presentations
The Perfect Season chronicles the Phillies' journey from spring training through the World Series with exclusive player footage and interviews, as told by the words and deeds of the Phillies team. Narrated by All-Star closer Brad Lidge, this 75-minute feature covers all the highlights of the ’08 campaign
Special Presentations
The Perfect Season chronicles the Phillies' journey from spring training through the World Series with exclusive player footage and interviews, as told by the words and deeds of the Phillies team. Narrated by All-Star closer Brad Lidge, this 75-minute feature covers all the highlights of the ’08 campaign
Phantom Punch
Fade to Black
Director Robert Townsend connects us with a little boxing history that may have been overshadowed by the phenomenon that succeeded it.
Fade to Black
Director Robert Townsend connects us with a little boxing history that may have been overshadowed by the phenomenon that succeeded it.
Plague Town
Danger After Dark presented by TLA Entertainment
Brutally sadistic, mutant children begin a cat-and-mouse game with an American family on a stomach-churning quest to add more victims to their count.
Danger After Dark presented by TLA Entertainment
Brutally sadistic, mutant children begin a cat-and-mouse game with an American family on a stomach-churning quest to add more victims to their count.
Playing Columbine
The Documentary Tradition
Society was stunned when Colorado resident Danny Ledonne created “Super Columbine Massacre RPG!” a crudely crafted, interactive computer game that encouraged players to re-enact the recent Columbine High School massacre.
The Documentary Tradition
Society was stunned when Colorado resident Danny Ledonne created “Super Columbine Massacre RPG!” a crudely crafted, interactive computer game that encouraged players to re-enact the recent Columbine High School massacre.
Pressure Cooker
Fade to Black
Pressure Cooker is an inspiring look at the work of tough-as-nails teacher Wilma Stephenson and the three catering class students who strive to excel in the kitchen and beyond.
Fade to Black
Pressure Cooker is an inspiring look at the work of tough-as-nails teacher Wilma Stephenson and the three catering class students who strive to excel in the kitchen and beyond.
Revanche
World Focus
An ex-con, a former prostitute, a rural policeman and his frustrated wife — find themselves fatefully intertwined in this taut, Academy Award-nominated thriller.
World Focus
An ex-con, a former prostitute, a rural policeman and his frustrated wife — find themselves fatefully intertwined in this taut, Academy Award-nominated thriller.
Rock Prophecies
Centerpiece Screenings
Filled with interviews of rock guitar luminaries (such as Jeff Beck, Carlos Santana and Slash) and brimming with close-up concert footage, Rock Prophecies is a sure-fire music lover’s delight that chronicles the 40-year career of photographer Robert Knight.
Centerpiece Screenings
Filled with interviews of rock guitar luminaries (such as Jeff Beck, Carlos Santana and Slash) and brimming with close-up concert footage, Rock Prophecies is a sure-fire music lover’s delight that chronicles the 40-year career of photographer Robert Knight.
The Rocky Balboa Picture Show 2 - Rock Treatment (Shorts Program)
Festival of Independents presented by DIVE
Ten Philly filmmakers grab their cameras and travel the world, but you can't escape Rocky.
Festival of Independents presented by DIVE
Ten Philly filmmakers grab their cameras and travel the world, but you can't escape Rocky.
Rudo y Cursi
Latino Cinema of Today
Gael García Bernal and Diego Luna, the adorable teens from 2001’s Y Tu Mamá También are together again as brothers in Rudo Y Cursi, a raunchy comedy about the pitfalls of fame.
Latino Cinema of Today
Gael García Bernal and Diego Luna, the adorable teens from 2001’s Y Tu Mamá También are together again as brothers in Rudo Y Cursi, a raunchy comedy about the pitfalls of fame.
Rumba
International Comedies
Decked out in eye-popping primary colors and with a minimum of dialogue (a la Jacques Tati), this tiny French-Belgian moral fable by a trio of inventive filmmakers shrewdly details how the vagaries of life affect a young couple’s dreams and goals.
International Comedies
Decked out in eye-popping primary colors and with a minimum of dialogue (a la Jacques Tati), this tiny French-Belgian moral fable by a trio of inventive filmmakers shrewdly details how the vagaries of life affect a young couple’s dreams and goals.
Salt of This Sea
Cinema of the Muslim Worlds
A Brooklyn-born Palestinian woman emigrates to Ramallah, determined to fight for the land, money and dignity owed her family in this controversial look at Israeli-Palestinian relations.
Cinema of the Muslim Worlds
A Brooklyn-born Palestinian woman emigrates to Ramallah, determined to fight for the land, money and dignity owed her family in this controversial look at Israeli-Palestinian relations.
Saving Grace B. Jones
American Independents
Connie Stevens steps away from her pervasive image and moves behind the camera for this companionable, old-fashioned melodrama about a small-town Missouri family thrown for a loop when the titular Grace comes home.
American Independents
Connie Stevens steps away from her pervasive image and moves behind the camera for this companionable, old-fashioned melodrama about a small-town Missouri family thrown for a loop when the titular Grace comes home.
The Sea Wall
The French Reconnection
A classic and sensual melodrama starring Isabelle Huppert as a widow who must desperately fight to save her land and family.
The French Reconnection
A classic and sensual melodrama starring Isabelle Huppert as a widow who must desperately fight to save her land and family.
See What I'm Saying: The Deaf Entertainers Documentary
Festival of Independents presented by DIVE
In this film that dazzles, confounds and educates equal time to four Deaf entertainers, each facing a turing-point in their careers.
Festival of Independents presented by DIVE
In this film that dazzles, confounds and educates equal time to four Deaf entertainers, each facing a turing-point in their careers.
Sita Sings the Blues
Special Presentations
A rousing mash-up of shadow puppetry and full-on Technicolor Bollywood splendor, director Nina Paley’s autobiographical, animated concoction explodes of the screen.
Special Presentations
A rousing mash-up of shadow puppetry and full-on Technicolor Bollywood splendor, director Nina Paley’s autobiographical, animated concoction explodes of the screen.
The Sitting Machine
Festival of Independents presented by DIVE
Fifth graders unleash their creative thinking in this wildly funny and touching film about a different way to educate. Exploring new design and engineering ideas, 10 year-olds are challenged to try new concepts that often confound adults.
Festival of Independents presented by DIVE
Fifth graders unleash their creative thinking in this wildly funny and touching film about a different way to educate. Exploring new design and engineering ideas, 10 year-olds are challenged to try new concepts that often confound adults.
Snow
Cinema of the Muslim Worlds
Minimalism rules in Aida Beglic’s Bosnian feature about widowed mountain women’s daily grind to eke out a spare existence — and to keep their memories, dashed dreams and passions at bay as they struggle to survive.
Cinema of the Muslim Worlds
Minimalism rules in Aida Beglic’s Bosnian feature about widowed mountain women’s daily grind to eke out a spare existence — and to keep their memories, dashed dreams and passions at bay as they struggle to survive.
The Song of Sparrows
Cinema of the Muslim Worlds
A simple ostrich farmer is seduced by the materialistic and competitive charms of the city at the expense of his family and his sanity in this captivating Iranian drama.
Cinema of the Muslim Worlds
A simple ostrich farmer is seduced by the materialistic and competitive charms of the city at the expense of his family and his sanity in this captivating Iranian drama.
Stone of Destiny
World Focus
A band of intrepid university students attempt to steal a quarter ton stone associated with Scottish nationalism from London’s Westminster Abbey in this rollicking action/comedy based on a true event.
World Focus
A band of intrepid university students attempt to steal a quarter ton stone associated with Scottish nationalism from London’s Westminster Abbey in this rollicking action/comedy based on a true event.
Straight for the Kill (Shorts Program)
Danger After Dark presented by TLA Entertainment
Enter a dark lair of twisted films as you take small bites of terror, horror and animated fantasy, served quick and fast. From killer trees to serial killers to children in jeopardy, it’s a smorgasbord of gruesomeness, fun and dark humor.
Danger After Dark presented by TLA Entertainment
Enter a dark lair of twisted films as you take small bites of terror, horror and animated fantasy, served quick and fast. From killer trees to serial killers to children in jeopardy, it’s a smorgasbord of gruesomeness, fun and dark humor.
Sugar
Fade to Black
Sugar tells the story of a Dominican teenager's journey from poverty to self-realization.
Fade to Black
Sugar tells the story of a Dominican teenager's journey from poverty to self-realization.
Summer Hours
The French Reconnection
Three adult siblings must decide what to do with their recently deceased mother’s art-filled home in this elegant drama about family life and French culture.
The French Reconnection
Three adult siblings must decide what to do with their recently deceased mother’s art-filled home in this elegant drama about family life and French culture.
Sun Dogs
American Independents
Booze, blood and fireworks converge in this offbeat romance set in post-Katrina New Orleans.
American Independents
Booze, blood and fireworks converge in this offbeat romance set in post-Katrina New Orleans.
Surveillance
American Independents
When a series of shocking and grotesque murders disrupts the normally tranquil open plains of America’s heartland, the FBI is called in to piece together the three survivors’ very different stories.
American Independents
When a series of shocking and grotesque murders disrupts the normally tranquil open plains of America’s heartland, the FBI is called in to piece together the three survivors’ very different stories.
Taking Root: The Vision of Wangari Maathai
Fade to Black
ITVS, WHYY and Philadelphia CineFest Present a Community Cinema Special Event Premiere of Taking Root: The Vision of Wangari Maathai.
Fade to Black
ITVS, WHYY and Philadelphia CineFest Present a Community Cinema Special Event Premiere of Taking Root: The Vision of Wangari Maathai.
Three Blind Mice
World Focus
In this action-packed evening of comedic excess, three men are propelled into a life-changing adventure.
World Focus
In this action-packed evening of comedic excess, three men are propelled into a life-changing adventure.
The Tour
World Focus
From acclaimed director Goran Markovic comes this disquieting black comedy about a squabbling, self-centered acting troupe who find themselves stranded on the front lines of the bloody Bosnian civil war.
World Focus
From acclaimed director Goran Markovic comes this disquieting black comedy about a squabbling, self-centered acting troupe who find themselves stranded on the front lines of the bloody Bosnian civil war.
Training Rules
The Documentary Tradition
Jennifer Harris spent her life training to become a champion basketball player, but her name will forever be synonymous with her fight to challenge the discriminatory practices of a powerful coach.
The Documentary Tradition
Jennifer Harris spent her life training to become a champion basketball player, but her name will forever be synonymous with her fight to challenge the discriminatory practices of a powerful coach.
Treeless Mountain
World Focus
The two young actresses in Treeless Mountain are astonishing. Though only seven and five, they calmly sustain this heartbreaking story of cast-off children with grown-up worries.
World Focus
The two young actresses in Treeless Mountain are astonishing. Though only seven and five, they calmly sustain this heartbreaking story of cast-off children with grown-up worries.
Tulpan
World Focus
A sweeping and innocently romantic Kazakh tale of one young man’s persistent wooing of a shy –- and seemingly uninterested -- country girl.
World Focus
A sweeping and innocently romantic Kazakh tale of one young man’s persistent wooing of a shy –- and seemingly uninterested -- country girl.
20th Century Boys
Danger After Dark presented by TLA Entertainment
Stephen King influences, T. Rex rock ‘n’ roll and comic book mythology fuse together as Naoki Urasawa’s epic manga gets a big screen treatment with a group of childhood friends racing against time to untap a conspiracy to end the world .
Danger After Dark presented by TLA Entertainment
Stephen King influences, T. Rex rock ‘n’ roll and comic book mythology fuse together as Naoki Urasawa’s epic manga gets a big screen treatment with a group of childhood friends racing against time to untap a conspiracy to end the world .
20th Century Boys: Chapter Two
Danger After Dark presented by TLA Entertainment
In the conclusion to Naoki Urasawa’s epic manga's big screen treatment, a group of childhood friends race against time to untap a conspiracy to end the world. See 20th Century Boys for more information.
Danger After Dark presented by TLA Entertainment
In the conclusion to Naoki Urasawa’s epic manga's big screen treatment, a group of childhood friends race against time to untap a conspiracy to end the world. See 20th Century Boys for more information.
Tyson
Fade to Black
Mike Tyson is the subject and executive producer of this docu-biography, which – dare we say it? – really packs a punch.
Fade to Black
Mike Tyson is the subject and executive producer of this docu-biography, which – dare we say it? – really packs a punch.
Wages of Spin
Festival of Independents presented by DIVE
Philadelphia Icon Dick Clark's musical legacy is examined anew in this fast, frank and sometimes indicting documentary
Festival of Independents presented by DIVE
Philadelphia Icon Dick Clark's musical legacy is examined anew in this fast, frank and sometimes indicting documentary
The Way We Get By
The Documentary Tradition
A deeply moving documentary about three senior-citizens whose sense of patriotism, past military experience and family traditions compel them to serve as Maine Troop Greeters.
The Documentary Tradition
A deeply moving documentary about three senior-citizens whose sense of patriotism, past military experience and family traditions compel them to serve as Maine Troop Greeters.
White Night Wedding
World Focus
Nordic bad boy auteur Baltasar Kormákur is back with this emotionally charged, briskly paced and tragically comic rendition of Anton Chekhov’s “Ivanov” set on a desolate island off Iceland’s northern coast.
World Focus
Nordic bad boy auteur Baltasar Kormákur is back with this emotionally charged, briskly paced and tragically comic rendition of Anton Chekhov’s “Ivanov” set on a desolate island off Iceland’s northern coast.
Worlds Apart
World Focus
This classic story about falling in love and fighting to be together despite being ostracized by family and faith shines with superb acting from the entire cast.
World Focus
This classic story about falling in love and fighting to be together despite being ostracized by family and faith shines with superb acting from the entire cast.
Youssou Ndour: I Bring What I Love
Fade to Black
A treat for lovers of world music and Afro-pop, this heartfelt documentary follows legendary Senegalese crooner Youssou N’Dour through his struggles with his 2004 Grammy Award-winning release, “Egypt.”
Fade to Black
A treat for lovers of world music and Afro-pop, this heartfelt documentary follows legendary Senegalese crooner Youssou N’Dour through his struggles with his 2004 Grammy Award-winning release, “Egypt.”
Zift
World Focus
Javor Gardev’s debut feature is a well-crafted thriller that uniquely combines elements of both neo-noir and Soviet pseudo-socialist art.
World Focus
Javor Gardev’s debut feature is a well-crafted thriller that uniquely combines elements of both neo-noir and Soviet pseudo-socialist art.
2009 TLA Entertainment Group, Inc. / 2009 Philadelphia Cinema Alliance
