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Tribeca Festival

24 April – 5 May 2019

The 18th Tribeca Film Festival opened at the Apollo Theater with Roger Ross Williams' documentary The Apollo on April 24 and runs until May 5.

The festival will feature 103 films, with 50 per cent of the films in the three competition sections directed by women. There are 81 world premieres in the line-up. In addition to the feature films line-up, there is a full shorts programme.

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Latest reviews

  • White As Snow
    Review preview for White As Snow

    There’s a lot of clever twists here, and plenty of knowing references to Snow White.

    Jane Fae · 3 out of 5
    Recasts the tale of Snow White as the story of a sheltered young woman’s sexual awakening in this racy feminist fable.
  • Changing The Game
    Review preview for Changing The Game

    Barnett excels at capturing nuances of expression and action.

    Jennie Kermode · 4.5 out of 5
    Transgender high school athletes from across the US compete at the top of their fields, while also challenging the boundaries and perceptions of fairness and discrimination.
  • Slay The Dragon
    Review preview for Slay The Dragon

    If the film has a message, it's that ordinary people need to be alert to these risks and work together to keep democracy free from corruption.

    Jennie Kermode · 4.5 out of 5
    Gerrymandering has become a hot-button political topic and symbol for everything broken about the American electoral process. But there are those on the front lines fighting to change the system.
  • Lucky Grandma
    Review preview for Lucky Grandma

    Grandma is neither sweet nor innocent: a hard smoking, confrontational battleaxe with, nonetheless a heart of gold.

    Jane Fae · 3.5 out of 5
    Set in New York City’s Chinatown, the film follows an ornery, chain-smoking Chinese grandma who goes all in at the casino, landing herself on the wrong side of luck… and in the middle of a gang war.
  • Nomad: In The Footsteps Of Bruce Chatwin
    Review preview for Nomad: In The Footsteps Of Bruce Chatwin

    Everything comes to life under Herzog's gaze, but rarely has he revealed so much of himself directly.

    Jennie Kermode · 4.5 out of 5
    When writer Bruce Chatwin was dying of AIDS, his friend Werner Herzog made a final visit. As a parting gift, Chatwin gave Herzog his rucksack. Thirty years later, Herzog sets out on his own journey, inspired by Chatwin’s passion for the nomadic life.
  • House Of Hummingbird
    Review preview for House Of Hummingbird

    House Of Hummingbird centres on a quiet yet never passive performance from Park, who draws us into Eun-hee's world as we watch her absorbing and processing the events going on around her.

    Jennie Kermode · 4 out of 5
    She roams the neighbourhood with her best friend, attempts to fall in love, is sent to the hospital with an unclear diagnosis. Untethered from the wider world, 14-year-old Eun-hee floats through Seoul.
  • Seahorse
    Review preview for Seahorse

    Finlay has a good eye for the details that help us connect to people and places.

    Jennie Kermode · 4 out of 5
    Charts a transgender man’s path to parenthood after he decides to carry his child himself. The pregnancy prompts an unexpected and profound reckoning with conventions of masculinity, self-definition and biology.
  • Clementine
    Review preview for Clementine

    What does happen is likely nothing at all like what you expected to happen.

    Jane Fae · 3.5 out of 5
    Reeling from a one-sided break-up, heartbroken Karen breaks into her ex’s lakehouse. There, she strikes up a complicated relationship with provocative younger woman Lana.
  • Stray Dolls
    Review preview for Stray Dolls

    Brilliantly composed, Stray Dolls finds beauty as well as ugliness in these desperate lives.

    Jennie Kermode · 4 out of 5
    Riz is a recent South Asian immigrant who takes a job at a seedy motel in a bid to start over in America. The motel’s other employees and guests pull her back into a life she preferred to leave behind.
  • The Dog Doc
    Review preview for The Dog Doc

    Meehl puts her animal subjects at ease and is relaxed enough with her human ones that they sometimes - Goldstein included - say a little bit more than they might have meant to.

    Jennie Kermode · 2.5 out of 5
    Called a maverick, a miracle-worker, and a quack, Dr Marty Goldstein is a pioneer of integrative veterinary medicine. By holistically treating animals after other vets have given up, Goldstein provides a last hope for pet owners with nothing left to lose.

A–Z of Tribeca Festival 2019 reviews

Features

  • Different for girls
    Jennifer Reeder on teenage lives, adult epiphanies, #MeToo and Knives And Skin
  • Making a discovery
    Michela Occhipinti on Cristiano Travaglioli, body image, Flesh Out and Ring Of Fire
  • Unlocking the narrative
    Frédéric Tcheng on his director's cut of Halston, Charles James, and Truman Capote's Black and White Ball
  • 20 years for 17 Blocks
    Davy Rothbart talks about the long journey for his family-focused doc
  • Spellbinding
    Frédéric Tcheng on Liza Minnelli, Elsa Peretti, Tavi Gevinson and the Battle of Versailles in Halston
  • Mirroring image
    Michela Occhipinti on Flesh Out and Open Roads: New Italian Cinema
  • Was the place to be
    Celine Danhier on Downtown 81, Maripol, Eric Mitchell, Cookie Mueller and Otto Preminger
  • In dreams
    River Gallo on Ponyboi, telling intersex stories and the importance of fantasies
  • Tribeca Film Festival early bird highlights
    Flesh Out, Driveways, Halston and Luce
  • Rhapsody in red
    Peter Strickland on dreaming through films and In Fabric

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