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As the Tribeca Film Festival ends its run on Sunday, we present our 'ideal viewing experience' for this weekend: Ten interesting films (plus a short) that seem worth the sacrifice.

Sacrifice? What sacrifice, you ask?

Well, advance tickets are pretty much sold out at this stage of the festival. So if you wanna catch anything at Tribeca before it closes, you're going to have to stand in line for 'rush' tickets.

Tribeca holds quite a few tickets back for each film; generally, they advise if you get there early--an hour early has worked for us in the past--you should be able to get in.

Especially for films earlier in the day, and films that sound unexciting to the average viewer.

But you're no average viewer, and neither are we--so below are the films that caught our eye.

Since Urbanite is a collective entity, we may even wind up seeing all of them this weekend--look for us with our amNY.com glow-in-the-dark pens.

* See Celebrity photos here; Tribeca videos and trailers are here

* List of Tribeca Film Festival competition winners is here, with full weekend schedule here

'Baghdad High' is one of those films you know will be good as soon as you hear the concept: Two journalists gave four Baghdad teens video cameras to capture their senior year of high school.

But like most of the packed house Tuesday night at the Tribeca Film Festival, I had no idea the finished documentary--gleaned from more than 300 hours of footage--would be great.

After the film, the Q&A (everybody stayed), and four rounds of applause, I felt like calling and emailing and texting everyone in my life, telling them to Go See This Film! (Or, Wait For it To Air on HBO Later This Year!)

Hayder, Anmar, Ali, Mohammad... if fame were based on merit, these four extraordinary teens would become as well-known as Brandon, Dylan, Kelly and Donna.

They catch themselves and each other, up close and personal, rapping (badly) to Tupac, singing (hilariously) to Britney, stressing about exams, playing soccer, celebrating holidays.

Plus the mandatory teen preening and male bravado (Anmar at one point flexes for the camera, and with a grin says, "Look at my body--extraordinary, the champion.") Mixed with telling displays of how much they care for each other (like a shot of them all lying in the warm sun, piled on top of each other).

But there's also gunfire, driving through checkpoints, a bombing, electricity rationing, hiding in the dark, worries for a girlfriend, relatives forced to move in because of safety concerns.... They "feel like you're in prison," Hayder says at his lowest point.

New Yorkers are standing in long lines--or playing the 'don't you know who I am?!' card--as the Tribeca Film Festival gets underway with its usual mix of dazzling small films and interesting major productions.

And the normal geographic confusion--this year it seems most of the 120 feature films from 31 different countries are actually screening in the East Village.

* See an interview with Bart Got a Room director Brian Hecker (and yes, see William Macy's Jewfro)

* Click here for fellow film fanatic Emily Ngo's interview with acclaimed director Robert Drew about his recut documentary, 'A President to Remember: In the Company of John F. Kennedy'--and the comparisons with Barack Obama.

* Click here for trailers for many of the films.

And my early favorites thru Tribeca's first weekend--from Muslim women playing soccer to fighting with chicken, crab and halibut--are after the jump.

Get a better feel for what films you want to see and check out around 50 trailers from the Tribeca Film Festival, which starts a week from today on April 23.

Click here to see the trailers.

You can get tickets here on their website.

Photo by Scott Wintrow/Getty Images