2005 NYFF Good Night, and Good Luck Regular Lovers The Death of Mr. Lazarescu Methadonia L'Enfant (The Child) Avenge But One of My Two Eyes Bubble The Squid and the Whale I Am Capote Something Like Happiness Sympathy for Lady Vengeance Manderlay Tale of Cinema Breakfast on Pluto Through the Forest The President's Last Bang Who's Camus Anyway? Three Times Paradise Now Tristram Shandy Gabrielle The Sun The Passenger Cache (Hidden) Special Events Ticket Information Press Office		The 43rd New York Film Festival September 23 - October 9,2005 Sponsored by Sponsored by HSBC Private Bank, a division of HSBC USA, N.A., The New York Times, and Audi
			I Am An 11-year-old Polish boy, nicknamed Mongrel with casual cruelty, escapes from his bleak foster home yearning to be back with his hard-drinking mother. But she doesn’t want him; he’s a nuisance who gets in the way of her bad romances. So he sets up a patchy homestead of his own on an abandoned river barge, where he is befriended by a little girl no less lonely for having a real family and house to return home to at night. As she showed in Nothing (1998) and especially in The Crows (1994), Dorota Kedzierzawska has a rare gift for working with children, allowing them to be themselves yet also, safely, wholly invented characters within her troubling dramas. And while she draws from them performances of great naturalism and flashes of pathos-free wit, her frequent artistic collaborator Arthur Reinhart offsets the essential harshness of the story with cinematography of disconcerting loveliness. 100 min. Poland, 2005. * Director expected to attend. Click here for New York Times review and festival coverage. Shown with Lâl (Dirk Schaefer, Germany, 2005, 17 min). Istanbul: a German psychoanalyst who believes that "normalcy is an illusion" reunites with her ex-terrorist daughter after a long period of estrangement. Click here to watch select short films from the 43rd New York Film Festival, available exclusively online at NYTimes.com