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The 18th Tribeca Film Festival opened at the Apollo Theater with Roger Ross Williams' documentary The Apollo on April 24 and runs until May 5.
The festival will feature 103 films, with 50 per cent of the films in the three competition sections directed by women. There are 81 world premieres in the line-up. In addition to the feature films line-up, there is a full shorts programme.
View Films by Strand:
- Anniversary Screenings
- Documentary Competition
- International Narrative Feature Competition
- Midnight
- Movies Plus
- Spotlight Documentary
- Spotlight Narrative
- This Used To Be New York
- Tribeca Critics' Week
- US Narrative Competition
- Viewpoints
View previous years coverage of the Tribeca Festival festival:
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Recasts the tale of Snow White as the story of a sheltered young woman’s sexual awakening in this racy feminist fable.
Transgender high school athletes from across the US compete at the top of their fields, while also challenging the boundaries and perceptions of fairness and discrimination.
Gerrymandering has become a hot-button political topic and symbol for everything broken about the American electoral process. But there are those on the front lines fighting to change the system.
Set in New York City’s Chinatown, the film follows an ornery, chain-smoking Chinese grandma who goes all in at the casino, landing herself on the wrong side of luck… and in the middle of a gang war.
When writer Bruce Chatwin was dying of AIDS, his friend Werner Herzog made a final visit. As a parting gift, Chatwin gave Herzog his rucksack. Thirty years later, Herzog sets out on his own journey, inspired by Chatwin’s passion for the nomadic life.
She roams the neighbourhood with her best friend, attempts to fall in love, is sent to the hospital with an unclear diagnosis. Untethered from the wider world, 14-year-old Eun-hee floats through Seoul.
Charts a transgender man’s path to parenthood after he decides to carry his child himself. The pregnancy prompts an unexpected and profound reckoning with conventions of masculinity, self-definition and biology.
Reeling from a one-sided break-up, heartbroken Karen breaks into her ex’s lakehouse. There, she strikes up a complicated relationship with provocative younger woman Lana.
Riz is a recent South Asian immigrant who takes a job at a seedy motel in a bid to start over in America. The motel’s other employees and guests pull her back into a life she preferred to leave behind.
Called a maverick, a miracle-worker, and a quack, Dr Marty Goldstein is a pioneer of integrative veterinary medicine. By holistically treating animals after other vets have given up, Goldstein provides a last hope for pet owners with nothing left to lose.
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