The 2024 Tribeca Festival unveiled its lineup of 87 short narrative, documentary, and animated films, including 65 films in competition and 10 music videos. This year’s Festival, which takes place June 5-16, showcases 12 short film sections, presented by Starbucks, programmed to delight audiences with heartwarming and hilarious storytelling.
Set in the early 1990s, Liu Jian’s latest animated feature film Art College 1994 is based on his own experiences on the campus of the Chinese Southern Academy of Arts. It returns to the meticulous hand-drawn 2D animation style of predecessor Have a Nice Day.
Vertical has acquired The Exorcism (fka The Georgetown Project), the horror film starring Academy Award®-Winner Russell Crowe (Gladiator, A Beautiful Mind).
Finding The Money is a new documentary on deficit spending, the national debt and the controversial Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) featuring economist, NY Times Bestselling author, Professor Dr. Stephanie Kelto.
A mother films her family’s life while sheltering from Israel’s attacks during the Second Intifada in the West Bank in the documentary Three Promises. In 2017, almost 20 years later, her son filmmaker Yousef Srouji discovered her archive of home footage.
Dark Sky Films debuted the official trailer for Faceless After Dark, the horror film written by and starring Jenna Kanell from the Terrifier franchise.
Brainstorm Media shared the trailer for New Life, the horror thriller starring Hayley Erin as a mysterious woman on the run, and Sonya Walger as the fixer assigned to bring her in.
Gunnur Martinsdóttir Schlüter was awarded the Eva Maria Daniels Award for Vital Filmmaking for her narrative short film FÁR at the Stockfish Film & Industry Festival (SFIF). The prestigious prize came with 1.5 million Icelandic Króna for the filmmaker to put towards their next project. The ceremony took place at the 25th annual Edda Awards, presented by the Icelandic Film and Television Academy.
XYZ Films shared the official trailer for Backspot, the drama film starring Devery Jacob as a queer cheerleader navigating the world of professional cheerleading.
Oscilloscope Laboratories debuted the official trailer for Flipside, the documentary follows filmmaker Chris Wilcha as he reflects on opportunities lost and gained while trying to save the New Jersey record store where he worked as a teenage clerk.
Hulu shared the first look images from “Diane von Furstenberg: Woman in Charge,” the new documentary on the iconic fashion designer set to world premiere as the opening night selection at the 2024 Tribeca Festival, and launches on June 25 on Hulu in the U.S. and Disney+ internationally.
Kino Lorber shared the official trailer for Banel & Adama, the Senegalese romantic drama film starring Khady Mane as Banel and Mamadou Diallo as Adama, young adults who fall in love and decide to live separately from their families in a remote village in northern Senegal, and find their relationship tested by pressures from the community.