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Tribeca Festival · 2018

Tribeca Festival 2018

Midnight

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5 films · 2 reviews

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7 Stages To Achieve Eternal Bliss By Passing Through The Gateway Chosen By The Holy Storsh

Midwestern couple Claire and Paul are thrilled to find a great deal on an affordable Los Angeles apartment. But the rent is cheap for a reason: cult members keep breaking in at random to commit ritual suicide in their bathtub.

(Country: US; Year: 2018; Director: Vivieno Caldinelli; Writer: Christopher Hewitson, Clayton Hewitson, Justin Jone; Stars: Kate Micucci, Sam Huntington, Dan Harmon, Taika Waititi, Mark McKinney)

World premiere

Braid (Nobody Leaves)

Review preview for Braid

The iconography of the feminine is twisted into something deadly.

Jennie Kermode · 3.5 out of 5
Two drug dealers on the lam seek refuge inside their mentally unstable friend’s mansion. But in order to stay, they have to participate in her elaborate, and increasingly dangerous, game of permanent make-believe.

(Country: US; Year: 2018; Director: Mitzi Peirone; Writer: Mitzi Peirone; Stars: Madeline Brewer, Sarah Hay, Scott Cohen, Imogen Waterhouse, Jill Dalton, Brad Calcaterra, Mauricio Ovalle, Mary Looram, Nancy Ozelli, Dhoni Middleton, Tai Lyn Sandhu, Ethel Fisher, Lenore Wolf, Zoe Feigelson, Zack Calhoon)

Full review

World premiere

Cargo

An infected father navigates a zombie-riddled Australian Outback with his infant daughter. Fortunately, he’s found an Aboriginal community that may hold the disease’s cure. Unfortunately, he has only 48 hours to live.

(Country: Australia; Year: 2017; Director: Ben Howling, Yolanda Ramke; Writer: Yolanda Ramke; Stars: Martin Freeman, Anthony Hayes, Susie Porter, Caren Pistorius, Kris McQuade, Natasha Wanganeen, Bruce R. Carter, Simone Landers, David Gulpilil, Joesiah Amos, Ella Barter, Ikee Blackman, Latrelle Coulthard, Karum Fisher, Shannon Mckenzie)

International premiere

The Dark

Review preview for The Dark

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

Jennie Kermode · 3.5 out of 5
Undead and hating it, young flesh-eater Mina haunts the woods surrounding her childhood home. When she befriends a physically abused boy, she must figure out why, for once, she isn’t feeling homicidal.

(Country: Austria; Year: 2018; Director: Justin P Lange; Writer: Justin P Lange; Stars: Nadia Alexander, Toby Nichols, Karl Markovics, Margarete Tiesel, Dylan Trowbridge, Sarah Murphy-Dyson, Scott Beaudin, Chris Farquhar, Nadia Alexander, Toby Nichols, Karl Markovics, Margarete Tiesel, Dylan Trowbridge, Sarah Murphy-Dyson, Scott Beaudin)

Full review See: Interview with Toby Nichols about The Dark, Desolation, Iron Fist, Trumbo and Underground

World premiere

You Shall Not Sleep (No dormirás)

A young actress joins an experimental play set inside an abandoned asylum. The objective is clear: The actors must stay awake for as long as possible. The hospital's former residents, however, have different plans.

(Country: Argentina, Spain, Uruguay; Year: 2018; Director: Gustavo Hernández; Writer: Juma Fodde; Stars: Eva De Dominici, Natalia de Molina, Juan Manuel Guilera, Susana Hornos, Miguel Angel Maciel, Germán Palacios, Joche Rubio, Belén Rueda, Eugenia Tobal, María Zabay, Eva De Dominici, Natalia de Molina, Juan Manuel Guilera, Susana Hornos, Miguel Angel Maciel)

International premiere