Written & Directed by Wladyslaw Pasikowski Produced by Dariusz Jablonski, Violetta Kaminska & Izabela Wojcik Released by Menemsha Films Polish with English subtitles Poland/Netherlands/Russia/Slovakia. 104 min. Not rated With Maciej Stuhr, Ireneusz Czop, Jerzy Radziwilowicz, Zuzana Fialova, Andrzej Mastalerz, Zbigniew Zamachowski & Danuta Szaflarska Aftermath, an intense thriller, exposes the corrosive effect of collective silence and lies […]

Directed by Eran Riklis Produced by Gareth Unwin & Fred Ritzenberg Written by Nader Rizq Released by Strand Releasing English, Hebrew & Arabic with English subtitles UK/Israel. 110 min. Not rated With Stephen Dorff, Abdallah El Akal, Alice Taglioni, Loai Noufi, Tarik Copti, Ashraf Barhom, Mira Awad, Ashraf Farah, Joni Arbid, & Ali Suliman Israel’s […]

Directed by Fernando Trueba Produced by Cristina Huete Written by Jean-Claude Carrière & Trueba French with English subtitles Released by Cohen Media Group. Spain/France. 105 min. Not rated With Jean Rochefort, Aida Folch, Claudia Cardinale, Götz Otto, Chus Lampreave, Martin Gamet & Christian Sinniger Even if you’re not great with names, you’ll recognize 83-year-old actor […]

For the first time since it was founded 11 years ago, the narrative films competing for awards at the Tribeca Film Festival made up a noteworthy and motley bunch, and it was a real race. Usually gems by an unknown filmmaker made without any stars can be discovered in the various sidebars, but this year, […]

Directed by Joshua Oppenheimer Produced by Signe Byrge Sorensen, Joram ten Brink, Anne Köhncke, Michael Uwemedimo, Oppenheimer, Christine Cynn & Anonymous Released by Drafthouse Films Denmark/Norway/UK/Sweden/Finland. 122 min. Not rated You may or may not remember a little movie from 1980 called Cannibal Holocaust about the discovery of film shot by a documentary team in […]

Produced & Directed by Ron Maxwell Written by Bill Kauffman, based on the novel by Harold Frederic Released by Brainstorm Media USA. 120 min. PG-13 With Billy Campbell, Angus MacFadyen, Peter Fonda, Casey Brown & Lucy Boynton Civil War sesquicentennial celebrations continue to reignite interest in the conflict that divided the nation over the issue […]

  Written & Directed by Eliav Lilti Produced by Arik Bernstein Released by Alma Films Hebrew with English subtitles Israel. 93 min. Not rated Like diaries and letters in the old days, home movies are more and more being mined for their historical and sociological significance. The amateur footage edited together in Israel: A Home […]

Directed by James Marsh Produced by Chris Coen, Andrew Lowe & Ed Guiney Written by Tom Bradby, based on his novel Released by Magnolia Pictures UK/Ireland/France. 100 min. Rated R With Andrea Riseborough, Clive Owen, Gillian Anderson, Aiden Gillen, Domhnall Gleeson, David Wilmot, Martin McCann & Bríd Brennan Terrorism, sectarian loyalties, die-hard fanatics, civilian casualties, […]

Some of Tribeca Film Festival’s lesser-known documentaries and fiction films were the strongest I’d seen in the program. There were certainly standouts, films that had what seemed like impossible footage of an event—Alias Ruby Blade shares secrets firsthand from within the heart of a country’s rebellion—or feature films that explore familiar territory with nuance and […]