Currently On Sale On Sale: 2008 Archive On Sale: 2007 Archive All That Fosse GS: Clara Bow Met: Roméo et Juliette Val Lewton Spanish Cinema Now Program Overview Barcelona (A Map) Bolboreta, ... Chaotic Ana Contestant Doghead Education of Fairies 53 Winter Days Lola Mataharis Scandalous Septembers Seven Billiards Tables Shortmetraje Solitary Fragments Theresa, the Body... Under the Stars Yo Pilar Miró La Guerra Filmada YFF: ...Dollhouse Accattone in Jazz GS: Battling Butler Pasolini The Iron Horse Freewheelin’: Music Docs David Fincher Whole Shootin' Match Rolex Art Weekend NYWIFT: Attica YFF: Murmur... Beyond Boundaries IN: Greensboro 10 Years HK Leo Awards 07 Chinese Modern Avant-Garde De Andrade For Goodis Sake YFF: Run Fatboy... Zeki Demirkubuz FCS: The Last Winter Latinbeat 07 Latinbeat 07 Sidebar Gerard Depardieu IN: Life on the Mesa YFF: Bullets over B'way FCS: Executioner’s Song FCS: Them Green Screens: 11th Hour Polanski Scanners: NY Video Fest Woodfall Studios FCS: Norman Mailer SFP: Way Down East SE: After This... YFF: King of New York SE: Talk To Me Kino Live Earth FCS: Joshua Next Gen.: Scorsese Human Rights Watch IN: Banished SE: Evening New Italian Cinema YFF: The Story of Qiu Ju Magnum Barry Lyndon 4 from Schlesinger Lee Marvin Wide Awake White Nights Paul Mazursky Duke Ellington SE: Il Trittico YFF: Waitress SFP: Toons, Tunes... Carlos Saura China's Independents FCS: Electra FCS: Hot Fuzz African Film Festival Daniel Barenboim ND/NF Classics Tian Zhuangzhuang Offside Rendez-Vous FCS: P. Verhoeven IN: A Dream in Doubt Film Comment Selects YFF: In the Soup Donald Cammell SE: Days of Glory Farmanara Retro NY Jewish Film Festival Whitaker Films SE: Forest Whitaker SE: For Goodis Sakepostponed Dance on Camera 2007 On Sale: 2006 Archive On Sale: 2005 Archive Archive 2005 - To April Archive 2004 - WRT Archive 2003 - WRT Archive 2002 - WRT Archive 2001 - WRT Archive 2000 - WRT Archive 1999 - WRT Archive 1998 - WRT Archive 1997 - WRT Archive 1996 - WRT

Contestant / Concursante Series: Spanish Cinema Now Director: Rodrigo Cortes, Country: Spain, Release: 2007, Runtime: 90 After he wins the greatest prize in the history of television––more than 3 million Euros worth of goods and property––Martin Circo’s (Leonardo Sbaraglia) seemingly normal life as a respected professor of economics spirals into a Kafka-esque nightmare. With all the hidden taxes and penalties, he is shocked to learn that he simply cannot afford to be a millionaire. Despite a desperate attempt to rid himself of all his winnings, he is pulled deeper and deeper into the jungle of debt and tax bureaucracy. Aware that his life is spinning out of control, Martin seeks the advice of Edmundo Figueroa (Chete Lera), an extravagant, dissident economist who has his own remedies for the violence and brutality of the market economy. An impressive debut feature, Contestant is a witty, quick-paced critique of consumer-capitalist society, impeccably constructed and filled with jet-black humor.

Buy Tickets Sat Dec 8: 3:45 Fri Dec 14: 3:10 Sun Dec 16: 1:30