This year brought 18 features and seven shorts, all presented with live musical accompaniment.
The film is a quaint but inane portrait of a modern-day Big Apple family.
This period psychological thriller features two scenes of startling violence, but they’re far more unpleasant than shocking.
The film suggests a condensed version of Michael Apted’s Up series.
It’s the film’s more general, humanistic portrait of man’s multifaceted nature that truly inspires
Jay Anania’s William Vincent is a turgid experiment in elliptical lyricism.
The Disappearance of Alice Creed initially coasts on its intriguing setup but quickly unravels in the second half.
To watch Open House is to revisit some of the hoarier conceits marking the last half-century of the non-supernatural horror film.
It leads one to only wonder about this compulsion to delve directly into an artist’s life for answers to the art when it’s all mere speculation in the end.
Don’t go looking for a story where there is none.
The documentary is cautiously inspiring in its snapshot of independence blossoming amidst oppression.
Lucky Life reflects on issues of remembrance, life, and death with a heartfelt lyricism bordering on affectation.
The film is a series of sight gags and quirky scenes that don’t build upon one another.
Evoking a Baz Luhrmann musical by way of 1950s communist Russia, Hipsters stirred up lots of buzz at the festival.
What’s most thrilling about Two Escobars is the filmmakers’ nonjudgmental approach.
Little more than an ethnographic sketch, American Mystic supplies slender snapshots of three Americans practicing alternative religions.
For every bit of evocative audio/video collision, there’s too much here that’s willfully obscure.
In a world ridden with hypocrisy, Gentelev’s film refreshingly exposes the respect-worthy honesty of Russia’s state-sanctioned thieves.
In Lola’s downtrodden Manila setting, everything revolves around money.
Nowhere Boy is an unusually accomplished first feature by female British artist Sam Taylor Wood.
Lucy Walker’s documentary is alternately gratifying and heart-wrenching.