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Tribeca Festival · 2024

Tribeca Festival 2024

Documentary Competition

Programme

12 films · 2 reviews

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Antidote

Documentary focusing on whistleblowers and activists who have worked to uncover Vladimir Putin’s deadly regime - and are now facing dangerous and fatal consequences for their courageous actions.

(Country: UK; Year: 2024; Director: James Jones)

Bad Actor: A Hollywood Ponzi Scheme

Wannabe actor Zachary Horwitz was desperate to make it big as a movie star. The only thing stopping him was talent.

(Director: Joslyn Jensen; Stars: Zach Avery)

Checkpoint Zoo

After the Russian invasion, thousands of animals were trapped behind enemy lines at the zoo in Kharkiv, Ukraine. Running out of food and water while facing constant peril from Russian bombs, a heroic team of zookeepers and volunteers undertake a daring rescue.

(Country: UK; Year: 2024; Director: Joshua Zeman)

The Debutantes

Focusing on the first group of Black debutantes in Canton, Ohio in over a decade, this documentary follows the young women as they unpack the ball’s troubled legacy and chart their path forward, both for tradition and themselves.

(Country: US; Year: 2024; Director: Contessa Gayles)

Driver

Review preview for Driver

While the women’s relationship with one another may be strong as houses, Azimi opens a window to the precarity of the industry.

Amber Wilkinson · 4 out of 5
An exploration of resolute female long-haul truck drivers pursuing validation for their hard-earned work as they navigate the oppressive forces in their industry.

(Country: US; Year: 2024; Director: Nesa Azimi)

Full review See: Driver director Nesa Azimi on following life on road for women truckers, their campaigning and community

Hacking Hate

Follows award-winning Swedish journalist My Vingren as she goes undercover online as a white supremacist in order to expose a network of neo-Nazis and far-right organizations that are viciously fostering hate speech and extremism on a global scale.

(Country: Sweden; Year: 2024; Director: Simon Klose; Writer: Simon Klose; Stars: My Vingren)

Made In Ethiopia

Review preview for Made In Ethiopia

As the directors patiently capture the lives of Workinesh, Motto and Beti, a shared theme of familial hardship emerges.

Sergiu Inizian · 3.5 out of 5
An exploration of the rapid industrialisation in modern-day Ethiopia and China's economic gamble in Africa, seen through the experiences of three women.

(Country: US, Denmark, Canada, UK, South Korea; Year: 2024; Director: Max Duncan, Xinyan Yu; Writer: Max Duncan, Xinyan Yu)

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New Wave

Exploration of the Vietnamese new wave music scene and its connection to the past.

(Country: US; Year: 2024; Director: Elizabeth Ai; Writer: Elizabeth Ai)

Pirópolis

A company of volunteer firefighters in the Chilean port city of Valparaiso battle wildfires, and witness political and social turmoil of a more man-made kind.

(Country: Chile; Year: 2024; Director: Nicolás Molina)

Quad Gods

Profile of the world’s first all quadriplegic esports gaming team.

(Country: US; Year: 2024; Director: Jess Jacklin)

Sabbath Queen

Consideration of the life of Rabbi Amichai Lau-Lavie, a 39th generation Orthodox rabbi - and drag queen.

(Country: US; Year: 2024; Director: Sandi Simcha Dubowski; Writer: Francisco Bello, Sandi Simcha Dubowski, Jeremy Stulberg)

Shelf Life

A global odyssey into the world of cheese, drawing unexpected parallels between the ageing of cheese and the human experience of growing old.

(Country: US; Year: 2024; Director: Ian Cheney)