by Larry Richman
May 10, 2008 10:54 PM

The 2008 Tribeca Film Festival has come to an end and it's time to take stock of the experience.

I attended a total of 50 screenings, including 47 feature films, one shorts program, and two special screenings. 27 films, more than half, were from outside the U.S. Of the 47, there were 20 World Premieres, four International Premieres (first time seen outside their country of origin), 15 North American Premieres, two U.S. Premieres, and six New York Premieres.

As I do following every film festival (25 since the start of 2006), I'll wrap up by selecting my favorites. Since there were so many to choose from, I picked ten.

Here is my list of Top Picks from the 2008 Tribeca Film Festival. Titles are linked to their respective reviews. Countries of origin are listed in parentheses.

(in alphabetical order)

The 27 Club (USA)
57,000 Kilometers Between Us (France)
Boy A (UK)
Charly (France)
From Within (USA)
Katyn (Poland)
Let the Right One In (Sweden)
Newcastle (Australia)
Somers Town (UK)
Tennessee (USA)

There were two films on my list which went on to win jury awards. Let the Right One In was chosen as Best Narrative Feature and the Best Actor Award went to both Thomas Turgoose and Piotr Jagiello of Somers Town.