postcards from the zoo

Festival Coverage || BY Brian Brooks || 04 20 2012 2:30 PM

VIDEO: Get to Know 5 More Tribeca 2012 Filmmakers (and Their Films)

On Thursday, Movieline spotlighted five Tribeca Film Festival filmmakers and trailers of their new films. There are more to share, so if you're a New Yorker still looking at the schedule to figure out what to see (or if you are looking for a taste of Tribeca from afar), here is a sneak glimpse at some of this year's offerings from the festival's World Narrative Competition and World Documentary Competition, plus its genre-centered Cinemania section.
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Festival Coverage || BY Stephanie Zacharek || 02 16 2012 5:00 PM

Berlinale Dispatch: A Chinese Epic and an Indonesian Zoo Tale Vie for the Jury's Favor

Today is the next-to-last day of competition screenings here at the Berlinale, which means people are speculating about a possible winner – to the extent that speculation is ever possible. This year’s jury is headed by Mike Leigh, and at dinner the other night some friends and I were playing the “WWMLL” – What Will Mike Leigh Like? – game.
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