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Tribeca Festival · 2025

Tribeca Festival 2025

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11 films · 4 reviews

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All We Cannot See

Two women are forever changed when they decide to take a road trip together from Portugal to Spain.

(Country: US, Spain; Year: 2025; Director: Alberto Arvelo; Writer: Wendy Guerra, Alberto Arvelo; Stars: María Valverde, Bruna Cusí)

Narrative. World premiere

A Bright Future

In a bleak little neighborhood that seems to exist out of time, clever and curious 18-year-old Elisa has been selected to go work in the North, a great honor both for her family and the entire neighborhood. The trouble is that nobody is able to visit the North, and the few people who are selected to go - like Elisa’s older sister - don’t come back.

(Country: Germany, Uruguay, Argentina; Year: 2025; Director: Lucía Garibaldi; Writer: Federico Alvarado, Lucía Garibaldi; Stars: Sofía Gala Castiglione, Alfonso Tort, Soledad Pelayo, Martina Paseggi)

Narrative. World premiere

Dead Language

Review preview for Dead Language

Both words of the title loom large together and apart and are sprinkled into the smallest verbal and non-verbal exchanges.

Anne-Katrin Titze · 4.5 out of 5
A chance encounter leads Aya to pick up a stranger at the airport. When he disappears, he leaves behind a gnawing hunger - one which perhaps only a complete stranger could fulfill.

(Country: Israel, Czech Republic, Poland; Year: 2025; Director: Oded Binnun, Mihal Brezis; Writer: Mihal Brezis, Amital Stern, Tom Shoval; Stars: Sarah Adler, Ulrich Thomsen, Yehezkel Lazarov, Lars Eidinger)

Full review See: Mihal Brezis and Oded Binnun on Dead Language and with Ed Bahlman on the music

Flor Di Latte

In this offbeat and surreal comedy, frustrated playwright Mark becomes addicted to huffing perfume to conjure memories from a previous Italian summer vacation. As he grows increasingly obsessed with chasing the high of the past, his present life unravels.

(Country: US, Italy; Year: 2025; Director: Charlotte Linden Ercoli Coe; Writer: Charlotte Linden Ercoli Coe; Stars: Gina Gershon, Julia Fox, Fisher Stevens, Kevin Kline, Tim Heidecker, Stefano Carannante, Marta Pozzan, Sabira Mokhtar, Tracy Wilder, Michael Townsend Wright, Shane Fleming, Vibhor Mathur, Paige Stark, Ivan Andrienko, Vadim Brunell)

Narrative. World premiere

Honeyjoon

Premiere. Honeyjoon is a sexy comedy-drama — about a mother-daughter trip. Persian- Kurdish Lela and her American daughter June take a trip to the romantic Azores after a recent loss, both with polar opposite views about why they’re there, how to grieve, and the size of June’s tiny bikini. Amidst honeymooners, the Woman, Life, Freedom movement and their hot, philosophical tour guide, João, the pair find each other... coming back to life.

(Country: US, Portugal; Year: 2025; Director: Lilian T Mehrel; Writer: Lilian T Mehrel; Stars: Ayden Mayeri, Amira Casar, José Condessa, Teresa Faria, Tomás Furtado de Melo, António Maria, Tiago Sarmento)

Narrative. World premiere

How Dark My Love

Controversial painter Joe Coleman, known for his intricate portraits of serial killers and outlaws, undertakes his most challenging subject yet - a seven foot portrait of his wife, Whitney.

(Country: US; Year: 2025; Director: Scott Gracheff; Writer: Scott Gracheff; Stars: Asia Argento, Iggy Pop, Joe Coleman, Whitney Ward, Dave Navarro)

Documentary. World premiere

Kites

In a magical realist world where you can have a conversation with your guardian angel, Duvo, a 25-year-old gangster, searches for peace and redemption from a life marked by crime.

(Country: Brazil; Year: 2025; Director: Walter Thompson-Hernandez; Writer: Walter Thompson-Hernandez; Stars: Larissa Borges, Thiago Oliveira, João Vittor Pedroza, Daniel Fernando do Prado Dorea Lima, Phillipe Augusto da Silva Souza)

Narrative. World premiere

Our Hero, Balthazar

Review preview for Our Hero, Balthazar

Watching the two young men, you may well find your sympathies shifting – and you may wonder which of them, if either, is actually en route to becoming a killer.

Jennie Kermode · 3 out of 5
Satire sees wealthy NYC teenager Balthy make dramatic gun control videos to impress his activist crush. When an online troll targets his content, Balthy becomes convinced he's communicating with a potential school shooter and embarks on an ill-advised journey to Texas to confront him.

(Country: US; Year: 2025; Director: Oscar Boyson; Writer: Oscar Boyson, Ricky Camilleri; Stars: Jennifer Ehle, Noah Centineo, Chris Bauer, Asa Butterfield, Jaeden Martell, Avan Jogia, Anna Baryshnikov, Becky Ann Baker, Will River, Abby Pauly, Pippa A. Knowles)

Full review

Narrative. World premiere

Videoheaven

Review preview for Videoheaven

When it comes to plain facts, it delivers well.

Jennie Kermode · 3.5 out of 5
Documentary exploring the video store as a vitally important site of film culture.

(Country: US; Year: 2025; Director: Alex Ross Perry; Writer: Alex Ross Perry; Stars: Maya Hawke)

Full review

Documentary. World premiere

What Marielle Knows (Was Marielle Weiß)

Review preview for What Marielle Knows

The intriguing concept plays out from initial parental disbelief and denial to unexpected changes in behaviour and attitudes.

Anne-Katrin Titze · 3.5 out of 5
Julia and Tobias discover that their daughter Marielle has suddenly developed telepathic abilities and can see and hear everything they do. This leads to situations ranging from the awkward to the absurd as uncomfortable truths are revealed.

(Country: Germany; Year: 2025; Director: Frédéric Hambalek; Writer: Frédéric Hambalek; Stars: Julia Jentsch, Felix Kramer, Laeni Geiseler, Moritz von Treuenfels, Mehmet Atesci, Sissy Höfferer)

Full review See: Frédéric Hambalek on What Marielle Knows (Was Marielle Weiß)

Narrative. International premiere

Widow Champion

In rural Kenya, where tribalism and patriarchal values rule, a subjugated group of women who have lost their husbands and therefore the rights to their inherited land turn to a last resort: the Widow Champion, Rodah Nafula Wekesa.

(Country: Kenya; Year: 2025; Director: Zippy Kimundu; Stars: Rodah Nafula Wekesa)

Documentary. World premiere