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All-Star Comedy Roundtable presented by Ben Stiller with Zach Galifianakis, Sarah Silverman, and Andy Samberg
Signature Program
Event, 90 min
Interests: Comedy

Presented by NFF board member Ben Stiller, the roundtable includes special guest Zach Galifianakis (writer/comedian, The Hangover, TV’s Bored To Death) and Sarah Silverman (writer/comedian, The Sarah Silverman Program), and Andy Samberg (writer/comedian, Saturday Night Live). Read More

Alma
Shorts Program I
Short Narrative, 2009, 5 min
Directed by: Rodrigo Blaas
Plays In: Shorts Program I
Interests: *Short Films, Animation, Family Film

Little Alma is intrigued by a strange doll in an antique toy store window. She enters and embarks on an adventure. Read More

Another Harvest Moon
15th Anniversary Sidebar
Narrative Feature, 2009, 87 min
Directed by: Greg Swartz
Interests: *Feature Length Films, Drama

Anne Meara and Greg W. Swartz in attendance. With a powerful performance by Anne Meara as Ella, Another Harvest Moon is a sensitive drama about four elderly Americans coping with life in a nursing home. Read More

Apollo
Short in front of Feature
Short Narrative, 2010, 6 min
Directed by: Felix Gönnert
Precedes: Toy Story 3
Interests: *Short Films, Animation, Family Film

A tiny rocket makes an impact. From a distance, Earth is the most beautiful place in space. Read More

B

Best of Fest Repeat
Festival Film
Narrative Feature,
Interests: *Feature Length Films

The best of the festival gets an encore screening! If you missed it the first time, be sure to take advantage of this repeat performance of a program highlight. Read More

Bill Cunningham New York
Festival Film
Documentary Feature, 2010, 84 min
Directed by: Richard Press
Interests: *Feature Length Films, Arts & Artists, Biography

Richard Press and Philip Gefter in attendance. “We all get dressed for Bill,” says longtime Vogue editor Anna Wintour about Bill Cunningham, the 80-year-old New York Times photographer and unlikely man about town. Read More

The Birth of Big Air
Family Film Series
Documentary Feature, 2010, 52 min
Directed by: Jeff Tremaine
Interests: *Feature Length Films, Biography, Sports

In 1985, at the tender age of 13, Mat Hoffman entered the BMX circuit as an amateur, and by 16 he had risen to the professional level. Throughout his career, Hoffman has ignored conventional limitations and focused his efforts on the purity of the sport and the pursuit of the next big thing. Read More

C

Cairo Time
Festival Film
Narrative Feature, 2009, 88 min
Directed by: Ruba Nadda
Interests: *Feature Length Films, Female Director, Romance

A throwback to classic films with the restrained emotional tension of the work of Jane Austen, Cairo Time is a love letter to a city intertwined with a love story. Juliette (Patricia Clarkson), a magazine editor, travels to Cairo to meet her husband, Mark, a United Nations official working in Gaza, for a three week vacation. Mark is delayed and sends his friend and former security officer, Tareq (Alexander Siddig), to escort Juliette around the beautiful and exotic city. Read More

Capture the Flag
Shorts Program I
Short Narrative, 2010, 14 min
Directed by: Lisanne Skyler
Plays In: Shorts Program I
Interests: *Short Films, Drama, Family Film

In the turbulent early 1970s, Annie struggles to hold onto a family tradition in the wake of her parents’ divorce. Read More

The Concert
Festival Film
Narrative Feature, 2009, 123 min
Directed by: Radu Mihaileanu
Interests: *Feature Length Films, Arts & Artists, Drama, World Cinema

Andrei was once the celebrated Russian conductor of the Bolshoi Orchestra, but his championing of Jewish musicians led to his demotion to concert hall janitor. When Andrei intercepts an invitation to the current orchestra to perform in Paris, he masterminds a plan to pose as the leader of the group in order to make a triumphant return to the music scene. Read More

Countdown to Zero
Festival Film
Documentary Feature, 2009, 92 min
Directed by: Lucy Walker
Interests: *Feature Length Films, Female Director, Politics

During the Cold War, the bomb loomed large in the public mind. When the Soviet Union collapsed, the bomb became a symbol of another era. In recent years, however, the threat of nuclear proliferation has grown more urgent, and the political will to eliminate nuclear weapons is greater than ever in our history. Read More

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Diner
Barry Levinson Retrospective
Narrative Feature, 1982, 110 min
Directed by: Barry Levinson
Interests: *Feature Length Films, Classic, Comedy

Barry Levinson in attendance. A lively, poignant tale set in 1959, Diner centers on a group of young male friends coping with early adulthood and the new responsibilities that come with it while hanging out at Fells Point Diner. The first of four distinctly personal and semi-autobiographical films set in the Baltimore of Levinson's youth, Diner launched successful careers for Kevin Bacon, Ellen Barkin, Paul Reiser, and Mickey Rourke. Read More

Diplomacy
Shorts Program II
Short Narrative, 2009, 9 min
Directed by: Jon Goldman
Plays In: Shorts Program II
Interests: *Short Films, Politics

When the U.S. Secretary of State meets Iran’s Foreign Minister for the first high-level diplomatic talks in 30 years, interpreters play a key role. Read More

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The Extra Man
Opening Night Film
Narrative Feature, 2010, 108 min
Directed by: Robert Pulcini and Shari Springer Berman
Interests: *Feature Length Films, Comedy

Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini return to the Nantucket Film Festival with a sophisticated and offbeat comedy. Louis (Paul Dano) moves to New York City and finds residence with Henry Harrison (Kevin Kline), a man with a bizarre unpredictable schedule as an “extra man” – a male escort who serves as a social companion for wealthy widows. Read More

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Freedom Riders
Centerpiece Film
Documentary Feature, 2010, 115 min
Directed by: Stanley Nelson
Interests: *Feature Length Films, Politics

Special screening and conversation with Freedom Rider Bernard Lafayette and Stanley Nelson presented with Facing History and Ourselves. Freedom Riders is a powerful, harrowing, and ultimately inspirational story of six months in 1961 that changed the United States forever. From May to November 1961, more than 400 black and white Americans risked their lives—many enduring beatings and imprisonment—by simply traveling together on buses and trains through the Deep South. Read More

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