Films screening at the TriBeCa Film Festival 2010

Wai dor lei ah yut ho (2010)

Cast: Lawrence Chou, Juno Mak, Derek Tsang, Michelle Ye, Eason Chan

Director: Pang Ho-cheung

Synopsis: This extreme slasher film from director Pang Ho-cheung stars Josie Ho as Cheng Lai-Sheung, a woman in Hong Kong whose goal is to live in a place wh... [MORE]

Beware the Gonzo (2010)

Cast: Ezra Miller, Jesse McCartney, Edward Gelbinovich, Griffin Newman, Zoë Kravitz

Director: Bryan Goluboff

Synopsis: A teenager learns both the upsides and downsides of upsetting the status quo in this comedy. Eddie Gilman (Ezra Miller) is a high school student wh... [MORE]

Brilliantlove (2010)

Cast: Liam Browne, Nancy Trotter Landry, Michael Hodgson, Arabella Arnott, Stephen Bent

Director: Ashley Horner

Synopsis: A couple's most private moments are exposed to the world in this sexually-charged comedy-drama from British filmmaker Ashley Horner. Manchester (Li... [MORE]

Big (1988)

Cast: Tom Hanks, Jared Rushton, Elizabeth Perkins, Robert Loggia, David Moscow

Director: Penny Marshall

Synopsis: More than anything else, 13-year old New Jerseyite Josh (David Moscow) wants to be "big". That's the wish he makes at an odd-looking amusement pier... [MORE]

30 for 30:: The Birth of Big Air (2009) (TVE)

Cast: Mat Hoffman

Director: Jeff Tremaine

The Chameleon (2010)

Cast: Marc-André Grondin, Famke Janssen, Ellen Barkin, Emilie de Ravin, Tory Kittles

Director: Jean-Paul Salomé

Synopsis: A family welcomes home a missing child, but he may not be all he seems to be in this suspense drama. Nicholas Barclay was a 13-year-old living in L... [MORE]

Climate of Change (2010)

Director: Brian Hill

Synopsis: Tilda Swinton narrates this documentary about ordinary people across the globe whose dedication to fighting the devastating effects of global warmi... [MORE]

Meet Monica Velour (2010)

Cast: Kim Cattrall, Dustin Ingram, Brian Dennehy, Jee Young Han, Daniel Yelsky

Director: Keith Bearden

Synopsis: A young man meets his dream woman (and isn't the least bit troubled that she's a washed-up porn actress 30 years his senior) in this independent co... [MORE]

Freakonomics (2010)

Director: Seth Gordon, Alex Gibney, Morgan Spurlock, Heidi Ewing, Rachel Grady, Eugene Jarecki

Synopsis: Inspired by authors Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner wildly popular best-seller Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of E... [MORE]

Letters to Juliet (2010)

Cast: Amanda Seyfried, Vanessa Redgrave, Christopher Egan, Gael García Bernal, Franco Nero

Director: Gary Winick

Synopsis: An American girl discovers a love letter that changes her life in this romantic comedy starring Amanda Seyfried and Vanessa Redgrave. The setting i... [MORE]

Shrek Forever After (2010)

Cast: Mike Myers, Eddie Murphy, Cameron Diaz, Antonio Banderas, Julie Andrews

Director: Mike Mitchell

Synopsis: A domesticated Shrek hatches a plan to recapture his mojo and discovers what life in Far Far Away land would have been like had he never existed in... [MORE]

Yeo-haeng-ja (2009)

Cast: Sae-ron Kim, Do Yeon Park, Ah-sung Ko

Director: Ounie Lecomte

L'arnacoeur (2010)

Cast: Romain Duris, Vanessa Paradis, Julie Ferrier, François Damiens, Héléna Noguerra

Director: Pascal Chaumeil

Synopsis: A man who ruins relationships for a living may have finally found a woman he can't easily manipulate in this French comedy from writer and director... [MORE]

Cairo Time (2009)

Cast: Patricia Clarkson, Alexander Siddig, Elena Anaya, Amina Annabi, Tom McCamus

Director: Ruba Nadda

Synopsis: A married magazine editor falls for one of her husband's old acquaintances while vacationing in Cairo in this romantic drama from writer/director R... [MORE]

The Disappearance of Alice Creed (2009)

Cast: Gemma Arterton, Martin Compston, Eddie Marsan

Director: J Blakeson

Synopsis: An abduction takes a number of unexpected turns in this independent thriller from Britain. Vic (Eddie Marsan) and Danny (Martin Compston) are a pai... [MORE]

Get Low (2009)

Cast: Robert Duvall, Sissy Spacek, Bill Murray, Lucas Black, Gerald McRaney

Director: Aaron Schneider

Synopsis: Inspired by the true story of Tennessee recluse Felix "Bush" Breazeale, who planned his funeral while he was still alive, director Aaron Schneider'... [MORE]

The Arbor (2010)

Cast: Christine Bottomley, Manjinder Virk, Neil Dudgeon, Monica Dolan

Director: Clio Barnard

Synopsis: Andrea Dunbar was a British playwright whose work reflected the gritty realities of life in working-class Bradford, West Yorkshire. Dunbar knew of ... [MORE]

Budrus (2009)

Director: Julia Bacha

Synopsis: Filmmaker Julia Bacha offers this thought-provoking look at the unintended consequences of the wall erected to keep the peace between Israel and Pa... [MORE]

Buried Land (2010)

Cast: Amir Susa, Goran Cakic, Semir Osmanagich, Emir Z. Kapetanovic, Geoffrey Alan Rhodes

Director: Geoffrey Alan Rhodes

Synopsis: Semir Osmanagic was born in Bosnia in 1960, but had been living in the United States for years when he returned to his homeland in 2005 to begin an... [MORE]

Dog Pound (2010)

Cast: Adam Butcher, Shane Kippel, Mateo Morales, Slim Twig, Taylor Poulin

Director: Kim Chapiron

Synopsis: Three boys caught between youth and adulthood struggle to survive behind bars in this hard-hitting drama. Alex (Mateo Morales), Butch (Adam Butcher... [MORE]

Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life (2010)

Cast: Eric Elmosnino, Lucy Gordon, Laetitia Casta, Doug Jones

Director: Joann Sfar

Synopsis: Director Joann Sfar's biopic Gainsbourg, Vie Héroïque recounts the colorful life story of French chanteur and provocateur Serge Gainsbourg, known a... [MORE]