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NEW YORK - With more than 200 movies, from timely political documentaries to relationship dramas, this year's Tribeca Film Festival - running from Wednesday to May 4 - has more than enough choices to satisfy every taste. We sorted through the lineup and selected 30 of the festival's most promising pickings, including a film by Salt Lake City resident and Salt Lake Tribune arts writer Julie Checkoway.

Documentaries:

1. ''Gunnin' for That 1 Spot'': Beastie Boy Adam Yauch follows eight of the country's top high school basketball players as they compete in an all-star competition at Harlem's Rucker Park. (Opens June 27)

2. ''Man on Wire'': This Sundance favorite revisits the 1973 stunt of daredevil Philippe Petit, who snuck to the top of the World Trade Center and walked a high wire between the two towers. (Opens Aug. 15)

3. "Waiting For Hockney": Checkoway profiles amateur artist Billy Pappas, who spent nearly nine years painting a painstaking portrait of Marilyn Monroe, using a magnifying glass and a sling to prop up his aching arms. He then tried to catch the attention of renowned pop artist David Hockney.

4. "Chevolution": How does an icon of a Communist revolution become an icon in a capitalist market? "Chevolution" traces the path of Che Guevara's face all the way to tees and beer bottles.

5. "Under Our Skin": If everything you learned about Lyme disease came from summer camp warnings against ticks, "Under Our Skin" gives you the lowdown on this growing epidemic.

6. "Guest of Cindy Sherman": Videographer Paul H-O reflects on his romance with artist Cindy Sherman, offering his personal account of the New York art world.

7. "Kassim the Dream": A look at the life of Kassim "The Dream" Ouma, whose career as an international middleweight boxing champ is worlds apart from his time as a child soldier in Uganda.

8. "The Chicken, the Fish and the King Crab": Watch chefs take their art very, very seriously as a Spanish chef, Jesus Almagro, prepares for the prestigious "Bocuse d'Or" competition in France.

9. "Pray the Devil Back to Hell": After a decadelong war in Liberia that killed a quarter-million people, thousands of Liberian women united in a peaceful protest.

10. "I Am Because We Are": Madonna narrates this documentary about the plight of AIDS orphans in Malawi, the native country of her newly adopted son.

11. "Run For Your Life": Meet Fred Lebow, the man who pioneered the New York City Marathon in the 1970s.

12. "Secrecy": Volumes of information are classified by the U.S. government each year, and "Secrecy" explores the details of the classification process.

13. "Profit motive and the whispering wind": Director John Gianvito visits gravesites around the country to salute social activists of centuries past.

14. "Theater of War": If you missed Meryl Streep in "Mother Courage and Her Children" when it was staged two summers ago in Central Park, see her up close in this behind-the-scenes documentary.

15. "Bigger, Stronger, Faster": Director Christopher Bell explores the issue of steroids and how it reflects a common American compulsion to be the best. (Opens May 30)

Features:

1. "Katyn": Nominated for best foreign film at the Oscars this year, "Katyn" delves into a dark chapter of Poland's history, when 15,000 officers were massacred by Russia in 1940.

2. "Eden": Love is barely in the air as an Irish couple approaches their 10th anniversary.

3. "The Secret of the Grain": Winner of the Cesars (the French Oscars) for best picture, director and screenplay, "The Secret of the Grain" centers on the trials of a Maghrebi family as they start up a coucous restaurant in southern France.

4. "Idiots and Angels": This latest creation from animator Bill Plympton is a darkly comic, trippy tale about a miserable barfly who one day sprouts a pair of wings that forces him to do nice things against his will.

5. "Worlds Apart": When a young Jehovah's Witness falls in love with a non-believer, she's forced to examine the insularity of her faith and consider the consequences of leaving her congregation.

6. "Confessions of a Ex-Doofus-ItchyFooted Mutha": Melvin Van Peebles directs and stars in this coming-of-age romp about a rascally boy who grows up with the goal of exploring the world.

7. "The Wackness": It's Manhattan circa mid-1990s, and a lonely kid spends his last summer before college trading marijuana for therapy sessions with the stepdad of his high school crush. (Opens July 3)

8. "Ramchand Pakistani": When a young boy accidentally crosses the Pakistan-Indian border, he and his father are arrested and thrown into an Indian prison for "spying."

9. "From Within": A small, peaceful evangelical town is terrorized by an evil presence that's been prompting residents to kill themselves.

10. "Trucker": Michelle Monaghan plays a trucker who's forced to check her rowdy lifestyle when an estranged son re-enters her life. Also starring Benjamin Bratt and Joey Lauren Adams.

11. "Life in Flight": Patrick Wilson and Amy Smart star as a couple whose seemingly perfect marriage is not so perfect.

12. "The Auteur": The "Martin Scorsese of Porn" gets a retrospective of his greatest films, including "My Left Nut" and "Requiem for a Wet Dream."

13. "Baghead": This horror/comedy stars four attractive 20-somethings in a cabin in the woods, plus a man with a bag on his head. (Opens July 25)

14. "Savage Grace": Based on the true story of Tony Baekeland, heir to the Bakelite fortune, "Savage Grace" captures the disintegration of the dysfunctional Baekeland family. Starring Julianne Moore. (Opens May 30)

15. "Bart Got a Room": A high school senior tries to score a prom date while his divorced parents (Cheryl Hines and William H. Macy) struggle with their own love lives.