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Tribeca Festival

15 April – 26 April 2015

Tribeca Film Festival notches up its 14th year in 2015. This year it will feature work from 119 directors, 30 of whom are female - the highest percentage in the festival's history.

The festival - which runs from April 15 to 26 - will open with Saturday Night Live documentary Live From New York!

Other years (19)

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Latest reviews

  • MA
    Review preview for MA

    Director Celia Rowlson-Hall, a dancer and choreographer, is able to make visible through movement what harms the soul.

    Anne-Katrin Titze · 5 out of 5
    In this modern-day vision of Mother Mary’s pilgrimage, a woman crosses the American Southwest, deconstructing the world around her.
  • Among The Believers
    Review preview for Among The Believers

    Naqvi and Trivedi achieve a fine balancing act, giving no ground either to the fundamentalists or to the Islamophobes.

    Jennie Kermode · 4 out of 5
    An exploration into the spread of the radical Islamic school Red Mosque, which trains children to devote their lives to holy war, from a very young age.
  • Almost Holy
    Review preview for Almost Holy

    There are many ways of interpreting the events depicted here. The background of desperation is palpable.

    Jennie Kermode · 4 out of 5
    On the streets of Ukraine, a pastor kidnaps children to try and save them from a life of drug abuse and destitution.
  • Havana Motor Club
    Review preview for Havana Motor Club

    Perlmutt really knows his stuff and effortlessly evokes the iconic movie imagery that evolved to show these automobiles at their best.

    Jennie Kermode · 4 out of 5
    A documentary about motor racing culture on an island where it has been outlawed for decades.
  • Emelie
    Review preview for Emelie

    It's likely to be most appealing to people just too young to be officially allowed to see it.

    Jennie Kermode · 3 out of 5
    A replacement babysitter seems to have sinister intentions towards her young charges.
  • Gored
    Review preview for Gored

    This documentary captures what may be the last of Antonio Barrera's bullfighting days at a time when the sport itself seems about to fade into history.

    Jennie Kermode · 3.5 out of 5
    Following Spanish bullfighter Antonio Barrera, holder of the dubious title of “Most Gored Bullfighter in History,” as he grapples with the end of his career.
  • Bad Hurt
    Review preview for Bad Hurt

    The film hinges on a powerful central performance by Karen Allen.

    Jennie Kermode · 3.5 out of 5
    A family struggles with two grown up children who have complex mental health needs.
  • Bridgend
    Review preview for Bridgend

    Bridgend is a superb piece of work.

    Jennie Kermode · 4.5 out of 5
    As a policeman investigates a spate of suicides, his daughter is drawn into the youth culture from which they have emerged.
  • Backtrack
    Review preview for Backtrack

    Brody invests his character with much more depth than is there on the page.

    Jennie Kermode · 3 out of 5
    A psychotherapist discovers a horrifying secret about his patients that leads him on a journey to confront his past.
  • Peggy Guggenheim: Art Addict
    Review preview for Peggy Guggenheim: Art Addict

    Clips from Man Ray's L'étoile de mer with Kiki de Montparnasse and the famous Salvador Dali dream sequence from Alfred Hitchcock's Spellbound illuminate her passion.

    Anne-Katrin Titze · 3.5 out of 5
    Portrait of the art collector.

A–Z of Tribeca Festival 2015 reviews

Features

  • An American story
    Discovering MA with Celia Rowlson-Hall, Ian Bloom and Iva Radivojevic.
  • Learning from history
    Aferim! director Radu Jude on language, prejudice and seeing the past in the present.
  • A walk in the meadow
    Reed Morano on casting Meadowland, sound and Misty Upham.
  • Into the light
    Abigail Disney, Reverend Rob Schenck and Lucy McBath on guns and The Armor Of Light.
  • Magic in the West
    Director John Maclean on fairy tales, magical realism and two-trick ponies in Slow West.
  • Mountain views, part 2
    Laura Bispuri and Alba Rohrwacher on creating characters and transformation.
  • Westward bound
    Kodi Smit-McPhee on love, murder, horses and Slow West.
  • Fatherland
    David Evans and Philippe Sands on My Nazi Legacy.
  • Indigo blue
    Saverio Costanzo on casting and directing Hungry Hearts.
  • Mountain views, part 1
    Laura Bispuri and Alba Rohrwacher on gender roles and Sworn Virgin.
  • Virgin territory
    Flonja Kodheli on Sworn Virgin and life in regions of Albania.
  • Into the abyss with Alba Rohrwacher
    Inside Saverio Costanzo's Hungry Hearts.
  • The puppeteers
    Marta Donzelli on reimagining Pinocchio with Michelangelo Frammartino.
  • Go west, young man
    Ben Mendelsohn on playing the sinister stranger in Slow West.
  • Try these at Tribeca
    Films and events to look out for at 2015's festival.
  • Keeping score
    Composers Danny Bensi and Saunder Jurriaans talk about their work on films including Enemy, Nasty Baby, The Wolfpack and Last Days In The Desert.

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