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We Are Together won the audience award
We Are Together won the audience award
Marking its sixth year, the festival screened 159 feature films and 85 shorts selected from 4,550 film submissions. The narrative feature award went to Israeli feature My Father My Lord (Hofshat Kaits), which looks at the price that may be exacted by upholding strict religious tenets. - Alex Gibney's hard-hitting look at US torture techniques, which would later go on to scoop an Oscar - won best documentary feature. British filmmaker Paul Taylor, meanwhile, picked up the audience award for (Thina Simunya) - about life in an African orphanage which sees the children united by a love of singing.

Tribeca Film Festival Latest Reviews

Times And Winds
A haunting portrait of life in a remote Turkish mountain village.

A Walk Into The Sea
A search for the truth about a brilliant young filmmaker and Warhol associate who disappeared and may have drowned himself.

Numb
A love-struck screnwriter tries to come to terms with depersonalisation disorder.

Taxi To The Dark Side
An unflinching look at the Bush administration's policy on torture.

The King Of Kong
Arcade gamers battle it out to be top dog at Donkey Kong.

The Air I Breathe
Multi-stranded film sees four lives collide.

Charlie Bartlett
A bright but troubled rich kid unexpectedly finds himself in the American ‘public school’ system – and finds a novel way of beating the bullies.

Shotgun Stories
Blood ties and vengeance in rural Arkansas.

The Premonition
A lawyer rejects his bourgeois past and moves to the inner city in an attempt to engage with ordinary life.

Still Life
Parallel stories of the search for lost love set against the backdrop of the Three Gorges Dam Project.

Tribeca Film Festival Festival Features

Tribeca Film Festival Diary: Day nine and beyond
Festival wrap-up, the audience award and a Mexican gem.

Tribeca Film Festival Diary: Days 7 and 8
Numb with Matthew Perry, a good time with James Franco, cake with Mary Stuart Masterson, plus a daliance with Taxidermia.

Tribeca Film Festival: Day Six
Lucy Liu the vamp, Sarah Michelle Gellar the pop star and what to do in the event of choking.

Tribeca Film Festival: Days Four and Five
Creature features, Buffy the Vampire Slayer turns Suburban Girl and Salman Rushdie sighted.

Tribeca Film Festival Days 2 and 3
Award-winning films and a clash with a critic.

Tribeca Opening Night: A tale of rain, rubbed heels and rubbing shoulders with stars.
Al Gore opens festival with save the planet showcase, while our diarist has trouble saving her soles.

Tribeca Film Festival Day One
Brando bigged up, while our diarist gets lost in translation and lost in Beijing.

Tribeca Film Festival News

Dosh for docs
Tribeca announce new finishing fund for documentaries.

Tribeca Film Festival winners announced
More than £125,000 given in prizes.

Tribeca to send SOS on opening night
Al Gore kicks off gala with short films on global climate crisis, while festival wraps up with Maysles documentary.

Tribeca shows off Spider sense
Much-anticipated sequel to get US premiere in Peter Parker's hometown

Tribeca Film Festival Competition and Spotlight films announced
34 feature films from 25 countries to battle it out

News & Features Baby Mama

Although some of the films at FrightFest had a cutting edge, many offered variations on older movies - we examine the killers and the copycats in our postmortem.

In our exclusive interview Brit acting stalwart Perry Benson talks about his contrasting roles in Somers Town and Mum & Dad.

At least they will be, if you take them to the Family Friendly Film Festival in Manchester this August.

Sunshine director 'delighted' by invitation.

The Frijj Film Festival offers a classic selection.

The numbers are now in and they suggest a big event in the making.
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