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Tribeca Festival · 2019

Tribeca Festival 2019

Tribeca Critics' Week

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5 films · 3 reviews

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American Factory

Review preview for American Factory

This consideration of multiple lives, rather than one constructed arc serves to underline the sense that each person is only a small cog turning in the bigger wheel of the machine.

Amber Wilkinson · 4.5 out of 5
In post-industrial Ohio, a Chinese billionaire opens a new factory in the husk of an abandoned General Motors plant, hiring 2,000 blue-collar Americans. Early days of hope and optimism give way to setbacks as high-tech China clashes with working-class America.

(Country: US; Year: 2019; Director: Steven Bognar, Julia Reichert)

Full review

Documentary. NYC premiere

Driveways

Review preview for Driveways

Beautifully acted all round, Driveways is a small film with a big heart.

Jennie Kermode · 3 out of 5
Eight-year-old Cody is spending the summer in an unfamiliar setting with his mom Kathy. Though he can’t relate to the neighbourhood kids, things take an unexpected turn when he develops an unusual friendship with grouchy old Del from next door.

(Country: US; Year: 2019; Director: Andrew Ahn; Writer: Hannah Bos, Paul Thureen; Stars: Jack Caleb, Stan Carp, Hong Chau, Jennifer Delora, Brian Dennehy, James DiGiacomo, Sophia DiStefano, Christine Ebersole, Lucas Jaye, Samantha Jones, Anastasia Veronica Lee, Raymond Lee, Fernando Mateo Jr., Robyn Payne, Wayne Pyle)

Full review

North American premiere

In Fabric

Review preview for In Fabric

You might not think you're in the mood for buying, but his extravagant sales pitch is likely to win you over by the end.

Amber Wilkinson · 4 out of 5
Two stories about a cursed dress and its victims.

(Country: UK; Year: 2018; Director: Peter Strickland; Writer: Peter Strickland; Stars: Gwendoline Christie, Sidse Babett Knudsen, Caroline Catz, Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Leo Bill, Hayley Squires, Richard Bremmer, Steve Oram, Julian Barratt, Karl Farrer, Gavin Brocker, Susanna Cappellaro, Fatma Mohamed, Sara Dee, Pano Masti)

Full review See: Interview with Peter Strickland about In Fabric

NYC premiere

This is Not Berlin

Seventeen-year-old Carlos doesn't fit in anywhere, not in his family nor with the friends he has chosen in school. But everything changes when he is invited to a mythical nightclub where he discovers the underground nightlife scene: punk, sexual liberty and drugs.

(Country: Mexico; Year: 2019; Director: Hari Sama; Writer: Rodrigo Ordoñez, Hari Sama, Max Zunino; Stars: Xabiani Ponce de León, José Antonio Toledano, Mauro Sánchez Navarro, Klaudia Garcia, Ximena Romo, Américo Hollander, Hari Sama, Marina de Tavira, Lumi Cavazos, Fernando Álvarez Rebeil, Juan Carlos Remolina, Rodrigo Rojo, Luna Balvanera, Sara Manni, Emilio Cuaik)

NYC premiere

The Weekend

A stand-up comic who's been struggling to get over her ex finds herself instead awkwardly third-wheeling her way through a weekend getaway alongside him and his new girlfriend.

(Country: US; Year: 2018; Director: Stella Meghie; Writer: Stella Meghie; Stars: Tone Bell, Y'lan Noel, Kym Whitley, DeWanda Wise, Sasheer Zamata, Tone Bell, Y'lan Noel, Kym Whitley, DeWanda Wise, Sasheer Zamata)

NYC premiere