Long Story Short at the Tribeca Film Festival

This year the Tribeca Film Festival accepted sixty shorts, and screened them all on the festival's final day. We saw six: a moving live action animation about Chernobyl (Leonid's Story, pictured above); a puzzlingly bad documentary of a falconer responding to the Egyptian revolution (A Falcon, A Revolution); a very funny documentary about New Yorker cartoonists (Every Tuesday: A Portrait of The New Yorker Cartoonists); a documentary that contrasts the beefy men who make ballet shoes with the graceful women who wear them, which, sadly, didn't really have legs (The Perfect Fit); a beautifully shot story of the last ice harvester in a remote part of Ecuador (The Last Ice Merchant); and a expose on the cremated remains found at the Oregon State Hospital (Library of Dust). The best --- Leonid's Story and The Last Ice Merchant --- perfectly married subject matter to form, presenting a precise narrative that nevertheless left us wanting just a few minutes more.
 
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