Featured Films
Below you will find the featured film screenings for the 2005 festival. Use the menu to the left to find out which short films are showing during the afternoon and evening film screenings.
Seats are filled on a first-come, first-served basis. Please arrive early for each screening. Ticket can be purchased 15 minutes before each screening. General admission $5; Students with ID $3; Tisch Students Free.
Sunday, September 25
Feature Film Screening: Keane
Directed by Lodge Kerrigan
IFC Theater
323 Sixth Avenue
7 pm
A man in his early 30's struggles with the loss of his daughter from Port Authority Bus Terminal in New York, while fighting serious battles with schizophrenia. The film is about a search for family, belonging, and the overwhelming need for human connection. It is a disturbing and thought provoking story about real characters dealing with every day life.
Directors Q&A and opening reception to follow
Wednesday, September 28
Feature Film Screening: Palindromes
Directed by Todd Solondz
721 Broadway
Theatre 006
10:30 am
A fable of innocence: thirteen-year-old Aviva Victor wants to be a 'mom'. She does all she can to make this happen, and comes very close to succeeding, but in the end her plan is thwarted by her sensible parents. So she runs away, still determined to get pregnant one way or another, but instead finds herself lost in another world, a less sensible one, perhaps, but one pregnant itself with all sorts of strange possibility. She takes a road trip from the suburbs of New Jersey, through Ohio to the plains of Kansas and back. Like so many trips, this one is round-trip, and it's hard to say in the end if she can ever be quite the same again, or if she can ever be anything but the same again.
Director Q&A to follow