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The Adventures of Biffle and Shooster

Comedy · Slapstick

America's favorite fake 1930s comedy team is back in four all-new, all-different, all-hilarious shorts: "The Biffle Murder Case," "Imitation of Wife," "Schmo Boat" (in Cinecolor!) and the instant-classic horror spoof "Bride of Finklestein" (featuring Max Davidson in his talkie comeback). Starring Ni…

Boy

Sundance Film Festival · World Cinema · Comedy

Set on the east coast of New Zealand in the year 1984, an 11-year-old kid and devout Michael Jackson fan gets a chance to know his father, who has returned to find a bag of money he buried years ago. An international hit from acclaimed writer/director Taika Waititi (Flight of the Conchords, The Inbe…

Coincoin and the Extra-Humans

Science Fiction · Comedy

In Bruno Dumont’s farcical follow-up, Li’l Quinquin is all grown up and still living in the Côte D'Opale. When the townsfolk start behaving strangely, our beloved heroes Captain Van Der Weyden and Carpentier begin to suspect an alien attack.

Computer Chess

Sundance Film Festival · Avant Garde · RT Certified Fresh

Set over the course of a weekend tournament for chess software programmers thirty-some years ago, Computer Chess transports viewers to a nostalgic moment when the contest between technology and the human spirit seemed a little more up for grabs.

Diamantino

Fantasy · Cannes Film Festival · RT Certified Fresh

When big-hearted but dimwitted Portuguese soccer hunk Diamantino (Carloto Cotta, Tabu) blows it in the World Cup finals, he goes from superstar to laughing stock overnight. Searching for a new purpose, he sets out on a cosmic odyssey involving cigarette-smoking evil twins, Secret Service skulldugge…

The Fairy

Slapstick · Music & Dance · Romantic Comedy

Filled with a colorful cast of supporting characters and a number of gracefully executed dance sequences, THE FAIRY is a whimsical tale about the happiness that can be squeezed out of even the most mundane of lives.

In Another Country

Comedy · World Cinema · Drama

Legendary French actress Isabelle Huppert stars in a film from South Korean master Hong Sang-soo. In a triptych of overlapping stories, three different French women (a filmmaker, an adulterer and a divorce- Huppert, Huppert and...Huppert) visit a small Korean resort town and encounter a flirtatious …

Jafar Panahi's Taxi

Culture · RT Certified Fresh · World Cinema

Internationally acclaimed director Jafar Panahi (This is Not a Film) drives a yellow cab through the vibrant streets of Tehran, picking up a diverse (and yet representative) group of passengers in a single day. Each man, woman, and child candidly expresses his or her own view of the world, while bei…

Keep the Change

Comedy Drama · Tribeca Film Festival · Romantic Comedy

Under the guise of an off-kilter New York romantic comedy, Keep the Change does something quite radical in offering a refreshingly honest portrait of a community seldom depicted on the big screen.

Kills on Wheels

Crime · Action · Comedy

In this wildly original action-comedy – Hungary’s official submission to the 89th Academy Awards® – two teenaged boys living with disabilities find escape from their humdrum lives when they’re enlisted by a gruff ex-con to be his accomplices… as wheelchair hit men!

Li'l Quinquin

Comedy · Cannes Film Festival · World Cinema

French auteur Bruno Dumont, best known for uncompromising and austere dramas, proves with the comedy Li'l Quinquin that he is capable of shifting gears without conceding his signature style. This absurdist, metaphysical murder mystery opens with the discovery of human body parts stuffed inside a cow…

Molly's Theory of Relativity

Comedy · Drama

Jeff Lipsky creates a funny and beautifully idiosyncratic portrait of a 28-year-old unem- ployed astrophysicist about to make the most reckless deci- sion of her life. The family and friends that surround her - some real, dead, and possibly imaginary, come and go asMolly observes the unbreakable bon…

Pop Aye

Comedy Drama · Sundance Film Festival · Earth Day

A successful Bangkok architect in the midst of a midlife crisis is reunited with an elephant he knew growing up. The two embark on a road trip to the man's childhood home in the idyllic Thai countryside in Kirsten Tan’s feature debut, which won prizes (and hearts) at the Sundance and Rotterdam…

Slack Bay

Comedy · Cannes Film Festival · Slapstick

The bourgeois and extremely eccentric Van Peteghem family—among them Juliette Binoche, Fabrice Luchini, and Valeria Bruni Tedeschi—have settled in for another summer at their cliff-top villa overlooking the picturesque Slack Bay. Their leisurely rhythm of sunbathing and seaside constitut…

The Son of Joseph

Religion · Fine Art · Culture

The American-born expatriate filmmaker Eugène Green exists in his own special artistic orbit. His latest movie, The Son of Joseph, is perhaps his most buoyant. A nativity story reboot that gently skewers French cultural pretensions, it features newcomer Victor Ezenfis as a discontented Parisi…

Tip Top

Comedy · Cannes Film Festival · World Cinema

Serge Bozon's TIP TOP is a sharp and witty absurdist political commentary that will leave audiences with more questions about modern day France than answers. Farid, an Algerian turned informant for the French police, is found murdered in a small French town. Two offbeat and unethical female investig…

Winnebago Man

Comedy · Documentary

A search for the legendary RV salesman whose hilarious, foul-mouthed outbursts were caught on video and became an online phenomenon. Winnebago Man is a laugh-out-loud look at viral culture and an unexpectedly poignant tale of one man's response to unintended fame.

Zizou and the Arab Spring

Comedy · Drama

Férid Boughedir charmingly pulls off a lighthearted comedic fable about, of all things, the 2011 Arab Spring uprising in Tunisia. This year we’re treating the Friends of the Film Festival to the sweet story of Zizou, a naive and sincere optimist whose crush on a beautiful girl leads him…