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Tribeca Festival 2018

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Nico, 1988 Nico, 1988
Nico, 1988 and Daughter Of Mine
All These Small Moments (Country: US; Year: 2018; Director: Melissa B Miller-Costanzo; Writer: Melissa B Miller-Costanzo; Stars: Molly Ringwald, Jemima Kirke, Harley Quinn Smith, Brian d'Arcy James, Brendan Meyer, Roscoe Orman, David Joseph Craig, Salena Qureshi, Elijah Boothe, Spenser Granese, Derek Michalak, Sam McCarthy, Connor Johnston, Margot Steinberg, Evan Dominguez)
Howie Sheffield is at a turning point. As he watches his parents’ relationship crumbling, he becomes infatuated with Odessa, a woman he sees each day on the bus ride to school.
World premiere
Back Roads (Country: US; Year: 2018; Director: Alex Pettyfer; Writer: Tawni O'Dell, Adrian Lyne; Stars: Jennifer Morrison, Alex Pettyfer, Nicola Peltz, Juliette Lewis, Robert Patrick, Danika Yarosh, Tom Everett Scott, Chiara Aurelia, Sky Elobar, Robert Longstreet, Patrick Thomas Cragin, Jeff Pope, Hala Finley, Rebecca Chulew, Gavin Warren)
A young man cares for his sisters after their mother is imprisoned for murdering their abusive father. When he strikes up an affair with a married woman, long-dormant family secrets bubble to the surface.
World premiere
Blue Night (Country: US; Year: 2018; Director: Fabien Constant; Writer: Laura Eason; Stars: Sarah Jessica Parker, Simon Baker, Jacqueline Bisset, Common, Taylor Kinney, Renée Zellweger, Waleed Zuaiter)
A devastating diagnosis sends a famous singer reeling through the streets of New York City.
World premiere
The Captor (Stockholm) (Country: US; Year: 2018; Director: Robert Budreau; Writer: Robert Budreau; Stars: Noomi Rapace, Ethan Hawke, Mark Strong, Christopher Heyerdahl, Thorbjørn Harr, Mark Rendall, Bea Santos, Ian Matthews, John Ralston, Gustaf Hammarsten, Shanti Roney, Christopher Wagelin, Vladimir Jon Cubrt, Linzee Barclay, Nick Stojanovic)
In 1973, an unhinged American outlaw walked into a bank in Sweden demanding millions in cash in exchange for his hostages. The events that followed would capture the attention of the world and ultimately give a name to a new psychological phenomenon: Stockholm syndrome.
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World premiere
Daughter Of Mine (Figlia Mia) (Country: Italy, Germany, Switzerland; Year: 2018; Director: Laura Bispuri; Writer: Laura Bispuri, Francesca Manieri; Stars: Valeria Golino, Alba Rohrwacher, Sara Casu, Udo Kier, Michele Carboni)
Vittoria is growing up in a remote Sardinian village. One day she meets the wildly independent Angelica who is so very different to her own caring mother Tina. The young girl has no knowledge of the secret that connects these two women.
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North American premiere
The Captor The Captor
The Captor and The Seagull
Disobedience (Country: Ireland, UK, US; Year: 2017; Director: Sebastián Lelio; Writer: Sebastián Lelio, Rebecca Lenkiewicz, based on the book by Naomi Alderman; Stars: Rachel McAdams, Rachel Weisz, Anton Lesser, Alessandro Nivola, Cara Horgan, Nicholas Woodeson, Sophia Brown, Allan Corduner, Bernardo Santos, Alexis Zegerman, David Olawale Ayinde, Steve Furst, Dominic Applewhite, Bernice Stegers, Mark Stobbart)
After the death of her estranged rabbi father, a New York photographer returns to the Orthodox Jewish community in north London where she grew up and, in doing so, reignites long-dormant passions and controversies.
Full Review See: Alessandro Nivola in conversation on the timing of Sebastián Lelio's Disobedience
US premiere
In A Relationship (Country: US; Year: 2018; Director: Sam Boyd; Writer: Sam Boyd; Stars: Emma Roberts, Michael Angarano, Dree Hemingway, Janet Montgomery, Melora Walters, Gayle Rankin, Greta Lee, Patrick Gibson, Jay Ellis, Luka Jones, Chris Candy, Andre Hyland, George Todd McLachlan, Kyley J Scheier, Emma Roberts)
Long-term couple Owen and Hallie are breaking up — or maybe not? — and just as their relationship reaches a turning point, Matt and Willa embark on a romance of their own. One summer for two couples in LA.
World premiere
Jonathan (Duplicate) (Country: US; Year: 2018; Director: Bill Oliver; Writer: Gregory Davis, Peter Nickowitz; Stars: Ansel Elgort, Suki Waterhouse, Patricia Clarkson, Matt Bomer, Douglas Hodge)
Jonathan is a young man with a strange condition that only his brother understands. But when he begins to yearn for a different life, their unique bond becomes increasingly tested.
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World premiere
Mary Shelley (Country: US, UK, Luxembourg; Year: 2017; Director: Haifaa Al-Mansour; Writer: Haifaa Al-Mansour, Emma Jensen; Stars: Elle Fanning, Bel Powley, Maisie Williams, Stephen Dillane, Douglas Booth, Joanne Froggatt, Tom Sturridge, Ben Hardy, Hugh O'Conor, Ciara Charteris, Jack Hickey, Sarah Lamesch, Donna Marie Sludds, Laurence Foster, Michael Cloke)
The story of Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin’s whirlwind romance with the tempestuous poet Percy Shelley, which would lead her to write Frankenstein.
Full Review See: Haifaa Al-Mansour in concersation on Mary Shelley
US premiere
The Miseducation Of Cameron Post (Country: US; Year: 2018; Director: Desiree Akhavan; Writer: Desiree Akhavan, Cecilia Frugiuele, Emily M Danforth; Stars: Chloë Grace Moretz, Jennifer Ehle, Sasha Lane, John Gallagher Jr, Quinn Shephard, Forrest Goodluck, Christopher Dylan White, Steven Hauck, Emily Skeggs, Dalton Harrod, McCabe Slye, Isaac Jin Solstein, Melanie Ehrlich, Alexandra Imbrosci-Viera, Seamus Boyle)
1993: after being caught having sex with the prom queen, a girl is forced into a gay conversion therapy center.
Full Review
New York premiere
Mary Shelley Mary Shelley
Mary Shelley and Jonathan
Motherhood (Egg) (Country: US; Year: 2018; Director: Marianna Palka; Writer: Risa Mickenberg; Stars: Christina Hendricks, Alysia Reiner, David Alan Basche, Anna Camp, Gbenga Akinnagbe, Harris Doran, Christina Hendricks, Alysia Reiner, David Alan Basche, Anna Camp, Gbenga Akinnagbe, Harris Doran)
Two couples and a surrogate lay bare the complications, contradictions, heartbreak, and absurdities implicit in how we think about motherhood.
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World premiere
Nico, 1988 (Country: Italy, Belgium; Year: 2017; Director: Susanna Nicchiarelli; Writer: Susanna Nicchiarelli; Stars: Trine Dyrholm, Calvin Demba, Karina Fernandez, Sandor Funtek, John Gordon Sinclair, Anamaria Marinca, Thomas Trabacchi)
Biopic of the German singer, who sang with the Velvet Underground
Full Review See: Trine Dyrholm in conversation on not being defined by men, the costumes for Nico, 1988, Ruth Berlau and Bertolt Brecht, and Astrid Lindgren
, Trine Dyrholm in conversation on finding Nico's voice, the emotional states of mind of her character, and Susanna Nicchiarelli's vision for Nico, 1988
, Susanna Nicchiarelli in conversation on Trine Dyrholm, Nico's sense of irony, and the look from costume designers Francesca Vecchi and Roberta Vecchi for Nico, 1988
, Susanna Nicchiarelli in conversation on Nico, 1988
North American premiere
The Seagull (Country: US; Year: 2018; Director: Michael Mayer; Writer: Stephen Karam, based on the play by Anton Chekhov; Stars: Saoirse Ronan, Elisabeth Moss, Annette Bening, Michael Zegen, Brian Dennehy, Corey Stoll, Billy Howle, Glenn Fleshler, Mare Winningham, Jon Tenney, Ben Thompson, Barbara Tirrell, Thomas Hettrick, Paul Krisikos)
A love triangle unfolds between the legendary diva Irina, her lover Boris, and the ingénue Nina.
Full Review See: Michael Mayer in conversation on composer Nico Muhly, remembering the past, and a Hamlet scene not shot for The Seagull
, Michael Mayer in conversation on Annette Bening, Saoirse Ronan, Elisabeth Moss, Brian Dennehy, and the costumes of Ann Roth for The Seagull
World premiere
Untogether (Country: US; Year: 2018; Director: Emma Forrest; Writer: Emma Forrest; Stars: Jamie Dornan, Alice Eve, Lola Kirke, Ben Mendelsohn, Jennifer Grey, Scott Caan, Billy Crystal, Jemima Kirke, Julie McCullough, Amanda Rea, Miranda Jewel, Kathryn Zenna, Dana Schick, Lindsey Garrett, Victoria Summer)
Former writing prodigy Andrea tries not to fall for her one-night stand, while her sister Tara throws herself into a newfound religious zeal (and the arms of her charismatic rabbi) to avoid the truth about her current relationship.
World premiere
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