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Tribeca 1-Friday, August 19, 2011
Friday, August 19, 2011, 6:00 PM to Saturday, August 20, 2011, 12:00 AM
TRIBECA CINEMAS, 54 Varick Street, New York, NY 10013
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| Tickets | Price | Fees | Quantity |
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| FINDING FRANCIS - Documentary Feature (6:00-7:30pm) | $10.00 | $1.50 |
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| A HANDFUL OF SEA - (Bir avuc deniz) (8:00pm-9:30pm) | $10.00 | $1.50 |
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6/7:30 PM
Finding Francis (90 min. USA) WORLD PREMIERE
Dir. by John Greenlaw
Genres: Feature Documentary
Synopsis : Francis 'Cheech' Spruill comes to New York City, the city he grew up in, for the fight of his life. Cheech comes back to NYC from Los Angeles CA to try and find a cure for his cancer at Sloan Kettering. The Doctors in LA could no longer help him. He was able to get treatment at Sloan Kettering but they told him that he was incurable. Instead of dwelling on this terrible news Cheech decides to hit those same city streets he grew up on to find his own cure. What he encounters along the way is nothing less than a miracle. Everything happens for a reason and you will be amazed by the healing powers he finds.
8/9:30 PM
A Handful of Sea (Bir avuç deniz) (113m, Turkey) NORTH AMERICA PREMIERE
Dir. by L. Yilmaz
Genres: Drama
Synopsis: Mert is a well-educated successsful young man who is the role model of his social class. After living in New York for several years, he decides to come back to Istanbul to start a new life close to his parents, especially to his mother Rana.
Mert and his girlfriend Dilek run a sailing cruise on the Aegean with their close friends. The serene atmosphere of the cruise is interrupted by the unexpected stopover of Deniz. She blatantly seduce Mert. Mert finds himself in a fervent relationship with Deniz. The apparent changes in Mert`s life and behavior on account of Deniz are observed and disapproved of by his mother Rana. She is not to let him lose whatever it that makes him the person he is.
Finding Francis (90 min. USA) WORLD PREMIERE
Dir. by John Greenlaw
Genres: Feature Documentary
Synopsis : Francis 'Cheech' Spruill comes to New York City, the city he grew up in, for the fight of his life. Cheech comes back to NYC from Los Angeles CA to try and find a cure for his cancer at Sloan Kettering. The Doctors in LA could no longer help him. He was able to get treatment at Sloan Kettering but they told him that he was incurable. Instead of dwelling on this terrible news Cheech decides to hit those same city streets he grew up on to find his own cure. What he encounters along the way is nothing less than a miracle. Everything happens for a reason and you will be amazed by the healing powers he finds.
8/9:30 PM
A Handful of Sea (Bir avuç deniz) (113m, Turkey) NORTH AMERICA PREMIERE
Dir. by L. Yilmaz
Genres: Drama
Synopsis: Mert is a well-educated successsful young man who is the role model of his social class. After living in New York for several years, he decides to come back to Istanbul to start a new life close to his parents, especially to his mother Rana.
Mert and his girlfriend Dilek run a sailing cruise on the Aegean with their close friends. The serene atmosphere of the cruise is interrupted by the unexpected stopover of Deniz. She blatantly seduce Mert. Mert finds himself in a fervent relationship with Deniz. The apparent changes in Mert`s life and behavior on account of Deniz are observed and disapproved of by his mother Rana. She is not to let him lose whatever it that makes him the person he is.
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