Tribeca Festival — A–Z of films

This was raw, visceral stuff, for which we have writer/director Eva Vives to thank.

A refreshing look at the realities of a world that most people have strong opinions on but few really know much about.

The iconography of the feminine is twisted into something deadly.

A nice study in group dynamic.

There's a lot packed into Justin P Lange's downbeat horror fable.

Beautifully lit, Daughter Of Mine conjures up a tremendous sense of place, all salt breezes, scrubland and golden sand.

Place, who appears in almost every scene, has never been better.

When the price of obedience is a life of lies where humiliation has no bounds, the pent-up desire explodes.

Doillon is wonderfully adept and natural, and it's really her performance that makes the film compelling.

Jeff Kaufman's documentary explores the intersection of the personal, the political and the artistic with a focus on understanding what the playwright always advanced as the most important of human endeavours: communication.

This is Boundaoui's second film and her style is straightforward and undecorative but, if anything, this adds weight to what she has to say.

Flashes a light to illuminate different stages in the life of the man who invented himself with style and grace.

Brady doesn't want us to feel good, she wants us to feel the connection

Hill, who is only a couple of years older than her 15-year-old character, has a fierce screen presence, adeptly balancing Sarah's ballsiness and vulnerability.

It is carefully crafted, the work of a film-maker who is very in charge of what he is doing.

Thompson's forceful, charismatic performance brings life to what could have been a relentlessly grim film, but it also unbalances the drama somewhat.

Elle Fanning as Shelley has sadness and fire, a performance that could be classed as electric.

McQueen was an artist who designed dresses that became living sculptures

I was won over by the whole approach of this confident sophomore feature pretty early on, from the witty, frank but also very tender script to the great casting and performances.

This is a feminist film in every sense of the word.

While it's great to see female voices being put centre-stage, something more from the websites in the firing line, such as Google, Twitter or Facebook would be a welcome addition.

This is astonishing filmmaking.

Expanding on the notion of loneliness and the importance of familiar places in our lives, Rocher brings in themes about emotional dependency, possessiveness and the ways we define our identities in relation to others.

A stunning feature début for Marcus Rutherford.

This builds into a compelling combination of personal film essay and tense drama as Magid's audacious plan comes to fruition.

Michael Mayer's reframing of the action puts more emphasis on the female characters and, in so doing, helps to bring out its more contemporary aspects.

Not only is the film thorough and engaging, it explains what's happening in such a way that viewers will be able to identify examples of similar events in their own local environments.

While it’s interesting to hear his approach and the steps taken from writing the lyrics to matching the words with the beat, there is still a sense that Songwriter does nothing more than just self-promote.

To its great distinction, To Dust is concerned with the spirit in physical things.

The story, such as it is, has the dreamy flow of childhood remembered, but though the honeyed tones of the magic hour are often used, there's never a glossing over the toughness of life being faced by these free-range kids.

Offering a clear-sighted view of the situation that calls to mind executive producer Matthew Heinemann’s approach to the drug trade in Cartel Land, Kasbe digs at the complexity of the poaching problem.

Guo Pei is full of contradictions and Yellow Is Forbidden doesn't try to hide that, quite the opposite.