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    Retro Short Films: Tribeca 2011 Film Festival

    Tribeca's (Online) Film Festival this year is quite extensive: 6 feature films, 9 in-competition shorts and these—9 "retro" shorts from the festival's past, all available for free! We'll cover this year's competition shorts in a series of forthcoming posts, but remember that Tribeca has their own spin on this online thing, so make sure to reserve a 24-hour screening window for each film in advance. These 9 retro shorts are a bit easier to manage, rather than signing up for specific 24-hour screening periods, they are available to view at any time between now and May 1st.

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    Fantasy Robert Löbel

    Link

    Two characters are linked by their hair. They influence each other with every move they make.

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    Thriller Paul Philipp

    The Peculiar Abilities of Mr. Mahler

    In East Germany, an investigator said to have paranormal abilities is assigned the task of looking into the disappearance of a six-year-old boy.

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    Competition Short Films Part 1: 2011 Tribeca Film Festival

    Friday I reviewed the 9 retrospective short films available to watch for free in the Tribeca Streaming Room. They underwhelmed me, which I found odd—shouldn't the program have been comprised of nothing but slam-dunk, all-star selections? Anyway, today we shift focus to the films that are actual 2011 Tribeca Film Fest selections, and fortunately  I think they are much better.

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    Fantasy Philipp Yuryev

    Tale of the Deaf

    Once upon a time, a mysterious stranger visits a tavern with his unusual barrel organ and gives a scary musical performance to the beggars within.

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    Documentary Chris Ware

    Cameraman

    This American Life takes to the visual form in this Chris Ware-designed animation about a bizarre event at an elementary school when all the students suddenly took up playing with pretend video cameras.

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    Competition Short Films Part 2: 2011 Tribeca Film Festival

    This is the second part of our coverage of the 9 in-competition short films Tribeca (Online) has made available, and the 3rd (and last) post overall in our coverage of Tribeca 2011 Online Films. You can still see part 1 and our post on the 9 retrospective shorts, but you only have a few more days to catch them.

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    Documentary Philipp Groth

    How to tell Gunshots from Fireworks

    To achieve her goal of a place on the podium at the 2021 Olympics, German runner Melat Kejeta must defy both physical and mental adversity at a training camp in Kenya, just a stone's throw from the country she was forced to flee nine years ago.

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    Romance Berthold Wahjudi

    Summer Hit

    Laia from Spain and Emil from Iceland are students in Munich. After having sex a couple of times, Emil professes his love to Laia—but she panics and runs away. Now the two have to figure out whether they are more than just a summer fling in this sexually frank, but sweetly tender and funny short film.

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    Horror Maximilian Niemann

    Five Minutes

    John is fighting to survive after being injured during a battle with a zombie. The viewer has to help him to make a test which will figure out the fate of him and his daughter.

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