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Tribeca Festival · 2024

Tribeca Festival 2024

Midnight

Programme

6 films · 2 reviews

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The A-Frame

A quantum physicist's groundbreaking machine inadvertently opens a portal to a subatomic universe while attempting to prove its efficacy. During his experiments on rats, he stumbles upon a radical cancer treatment that could revolutionise modern medicine.

(Country: US; Year: 2024; Director: Calvin Lee Reeder; Writer: Calvin Lee Reeder; Stars: Johnny Whitworth, Dana Namerode, Nik Dodani, Laketa Caston)

Beacon

A shipwrecked sailor is rescued by a mysterious lighthouse keeper, but the more time they spend together, the more she suspects him of harbouring secrets.

(Country: US; Year: 2024; Director: Roxy Shih; Writer: Julio Rojas; Stars: Demián Bichir, Julia Goldani Telles)

A Desert

Review preview for A Desert

There’s a fantastically unhinged performance in here which it would be a spoiler to say too much about. Everyone is good at what they do.

Jennie Kermode · 4.5 out of 5
A photographer on a road trip meets a carefree young couple and finds himself in danger.

(Country: US; Year: 2024; Director: Joshua Erkman; Writer: Joshua Erkman, Bossi Baker; Stars: David Yow, Kai Lennox, Sarah Lind, Zachary Ray Sherman, Ashley B Smith, Rob Zabrecky)

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The Devil's Bath (The Devil's Bath)

Review preview for The Devil's Bath

Martin Gschlacht’s glorious and smart cinematography adds clarity here while sprinkling doubt over there.

Anne-Katrin Titze · 4.5 out of 5
A woman struggles with her life, leading her to take desperate measures in 18th Century Austria.

(Country: Austria, Germany; Year: 2024; Director: Severin Fiala, Veronika Franz; Writer: Severin Fiala, Veronika Franz; Stars: Anja Plaschg, Maria Hofstätter, David Scheid, Tim Valerian Alberti, Elias Schützenhofer)

Full review See: Veronika Franz and Severin Fiala on The Devil's Bath, Maria Hofstätter, and the Brothers Grimm

Mars

When a ragtag group of misfits — including a young man who ditches his fiancée on their wedding day — embark on a wild space mission to the red planet, they quickly discover they've been bamboozled by a billionaire with a hidden agenda.

(Country: US; Year: 2024; Director: Sevan Najarian; Writer: Trevor Moore, Zach Cregger, Sam Brown; Stars: Trevor Moore, Zach Cregger, Sam Brown, Darren Trumeter, Timmy Williams)

The Weekend

Meeting her fiancé's estranged family, an orphan discovers that having relatives is not always the blessing she imagined.

(Country: Nigeria; Year: 2024; Director: Daniel Emeke Oriahi; Writer: Egbemawei Dimiyei Sammy, Vanessa Kanu, Freddie O Anyaegbunam Jr; Stars: Uzoamaka Aniunoh, Bucci Franklin, Meg Otanwa, Keppy Ekpeyong Bassey, Gloria Anozie-Young, Damilola Ogunsi)