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Tribeca Festival

2007

We Are Together won the audience award
We Are Together won the audience award

Marking its sixth year, the festival screened 159 feature films and 85 shorts selected from 4,550 film submissions.

The narrative feature award went to Israeli feature My Father My Lord (Hofshat Kaits), which looks at the price that may be exacted by upholding strict religious tenets. Taxi To The Dark Side - Alex Gibney's hard-hitting look at US torture techniques, which would later go on to scoop an Oscar - won best documentary feature. British filmmaker Paul Taylor, meanwhile, picked up the audience award for We Are Together (Thina Simunya) - about life in an African orphanage which sees the children united by a love of singing.

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    Ghostly goings on have rarely looked so gorgeous as they do in this spooky little period story.

    Amber Wilkinson · 3.5 out of 5
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    There are about two decent gags in the whole of Numb. Even the trailer had me yawning.

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    An angry powder-keg of a film, exploding the reactionary myth that under certain circumstances torture can be acceptable, serviceable or even necessary.

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