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NYILFF ON THE EDGEOPERACION PATAKON (Operation Patakon)
From dark films to offbeat comedies, to horror to the downright deadly. Welcome to NYILFF on the Edge, the festival’ genre category. Thirteen films, thirteen filmmakers that we are sure will have you talking long after you’ve left the theater. 
SCHEDULE
Sunday, July 29 | 4:00 PM
The Imaginasian Theater
239 East 59th Street
Synopsis An edgy comedy ripped from today’s headlines, Operacion Patakon tells the story of the Spanish Secret Service and the Dominican police, which team up to prevent the smuggling of a secret weapon and break up a ring of international terrorists. But nothing is at seems. Additional Screening: Wednesday, July 25 THE YARDSALE
From dark films to offbeat comedies, to horror to the downright deadly. Welcome to NYILFF on the Edge, the festival’ genre category. Thirteen films, thirteen filmmakers that we are sure will have you talking long after you’ve left the theater. 
SCHEDULE
Thursday, July 16 | 9:00 PM
Tinker Auditorium
(inside Florence Gould Hall)
55 East 59th Street
Synopsis Hector, a down on his luck sap, needs to repropose to his gold-digging fiancée, Iris, after he fumbles it the first time. Standing in the way of matrimonial bliss is Iris’ thuggish ex-boyfriend, Chuy. Bigger problems ensue when Hector accidentally loses Iris’ re-engagement ring. Laughs, high jinks and much misfortune follow as Hector finds himself at a climactic crossroads where looters, riots, catfights and The Lord of the Fingers all collide. Additional Screening: Wednesday, July 25 THE YARDSALE
From dark films to offbeat comedies, to horror to the downright deadly. Welcome to NYILFF on the Edge, the festival’ genre category. Thirteen films, thirteen filmmakers that we are sure will have you talking long after you’ve left the theater.
SCHEDULE
Wednesday, July 25 | 12:00 PM
Florence Gould Hall
55 East 59th Street
Synopsis Hector, a down on his luck sap, needs to repropose to his gold-digging fiancée, Iris, after he fumbles it the first time. Standing in the way of matrimonial bliss is Iris’ thuggish ex-boyfriend, Chuy. Bigger problems ensue when Hector accidentally loses Iris’ re-engagement ring. Laughs, high jinks and much misfortune follow as Hector finds himself at a climactic crossroads where looters, riots, catfights and The Lord of the Fingers all collide. Additional Screening: Thursday, July 26 THE CRY
From dark films to offbeat comedies, to horror to the downright deadly. Welcome to NYILFF on the Edge, the festival’ genre category. Thirteen films, thirteen filmmakers that we are sure will have you talking long after you’ve left the theater. 
SCHEDULE
Wednesday, July 25 | 7:00 PM
JCC in Manhattan
334 Amsterdam Ave @ 76th St
Synopsis The Cry is a supernatural thriller based on the legend of La Llorona (The Weeping Mother), an evil spirit said to abduct and kill children. NYPD Detective Scott is struggling to stop a series of child abductions plaguing the city, while he battles the memories of his own son’s death eight years earlier. Called in to interrogate a young mother, Maria, arrested for the drowning murder of her nine month-old daughter, Detective Scott is taunted with chilling details of his own child’s murder – details Maria could not possibly know. The investigation leads him to an old mystic, who reveals the truth: the outbreak of awful crimes is caused by La Llorona. It’s now a race against time as Maria and Scott team up to root out this evil. OPERACION PATAKON (Operation Patakon)
From dark films to offbeat comedies, to horror to the downright deadly. Welcome to NYILFF on the Edge, the festival’ genre category. Thirteen films, thirteen filmmakers that we are sure will have you talking long after you’ve left the theater.
SCHEDULE
Wednesday, July 25 | 7:30 PM
Tinker Auditorium
(inside Florence Gould Hall)
55 East 59th Street
Synopsis An edgy comedy ripped from today’s headlines, Operacion Patakon tells the story of the Spanish Secret Service and the Dominican police, which team up to prevent the smuggling of a secret weapon and break up a ring of international terrorists. But nothing is at seems. Additional Screening: Sunday, July 29 LOS PAJARRACOS (THE Champion)
From dark films to offbeat comedies, to horror to the downright deadly. Welcome to NYILFF on the Edge, the festival’ genre category. Thirteen films, thirteen filmmakers that we are sure will have you talking long after you’ve left the theater. <
SCHEDULE
Saturday, July 28 | 10:30 PM
The Imaginasian Theater
239 East 59th Street
Synopsis When Miguel “Cachondo” Sanabria, a womanizing, playboy wrestler, impregnates the daughter of the town’s most powerful and ruthless drug dealer, he finds himself involved in the most chilling – and hilarious – adventure of his life: an adventure that takes him from Mexico to Los Angeles in search of freedom and his dreams. KILTRO (CRUZA DE AMOR Y FURIA) | (Kiltro (The Crossroads of Love and Fury))
From dark films to offbeat comedies, to horror to the downright deadly. Welcome to NYILFF on the Edge, the festival’ genre category. Thirteen films, thirteen filmmakers that we are sure will have you talking long after you’ve left the theater.
SCHEDULE
Saturday, July 28 | 8:15 PM
The Imaginasian Theater
239 East 59th Street
Synopsis The story of an immature street fighter’s journey to become a martial arts master. After his childhood love is captured by a vengeance-crazed gang-leader, our hero must travel to a legendary martial arts teacher in order to learn the path of the warrior. Only then will he be able to return and save the woman of his dreams. PLAYING WITH: NYILFF ON THE EDGE: SHORT FILM SWEET TOOTH 5 MIN / COLOR / DIGITAL WORLD PREMIERE Director: Michael Baez King Kupcake and his evil henchmen are planning the biggest birthday cake heist of the year when The Banana Splits bust in, kick ass and save Little Lucy’s party! ADDITIONAL SCREENING: THURSDAY, JULY 26 KILTRO (CRUZA DE AMOR Y FURIA) | (Kiltro (The Crossroads of Love and Fury))
From dark films to offbeat comedies, to horror to the downright deadly. Welcome to NYILFF on the Edge, the festival’ genre category. Thirteen films, thirteen filmmakers that we are sure will have you talking long after you’ve left the theater.
SCHEDULE
Thursday, July 26 | 5:00 PM
Director’s Guild Theater
110 West 57th Street
Synopsis The story of an immature street fighter’s journey to become a martial arts master. After his childhood love is captured by a vengeance-crazed gang-leader, our hero must travel to a legendary martial arts teacher in order to learn the path of the warrior. Only then will he be able to return and save the woman of his dreams. PLAYING WITH: NYILFF ON THE EDGE: SHORT FILM SWEET TOOTH 5 MIN / COLOR / DIGITAL WORLD PREMIERE Director: Michael Baez King Kupcake and his evil henchmen are planning the biggest birthday cake heist of the year when The Banana Splits bust in, kick ass and save Little Lucy’s party! ADDITIONAL SCREENING: SATURDAY, JULY 28 ASH WEDNESDAY: CAPITULO UNUS
From dark films to offbeat comedies, to horror to the downright deadly. Welcome to NYILFF on the Edge, the festival’ genre category. Thirteen films, thirteen filmmakers that we are sure will have you talking long after you’ve left the theater.
SCHEDULE
Saturday, July 28 | 6:15 PM
Tinker Auditorium
(inside Florence Gould Hall)
55 East 59th Street
Synopsis What begins as a mother’s worst nightmare—the kidnapping of her son –mushrooms into something larger and even more terrifying than she ever could have imagined. Ash Wednesday: Capitulo Unus is a highly stylized thriller that involves a secret underworld of drug trafficking, kidnapping and murder. ADDITIONAL SCREENING: Thursday, July 26 ASH WEDNESDAY: CAPITULO UNUS
From dark films to offbeat comedies, to horror to the downright deadly. Welcome to NYILFF on the Edge, the festival’ genre category. Thirteen films, thirteen filmmakers that we are sure will have you talking long after you’ve left the theater.
SCHEDULE
Thursday, July 26 | 10:30 PM
The Imaginasian Theater
239 East 59th Street
Synopsis What begins as a mother’s worst nightmare—the kidnapping of her son –mushrooms into something larger and even more terrifying than she ever could have imagined. Ash Wednesday: Capitulo Unus is a highly stylized thriller that involves a secret underworld of drug trafficking, kidnapping and murder. ADDITIONAL SCREENING: Saturday, July 28  |
