Swimming Home had its North American première at Tribeca, 10 Jun 2024 At the beginning of writer/director Justin Anderson’s feature debut Swimming Home, war journalist Isabel (Mackenzie Davis) and her intense, taciturn husband Josef (executive producer Christopher Abbott) have just picked up their former university professor Laura (Nadine Labaki) from the airport, and are on…
Psycho Therapy: The Shallow Tale Of A Writer Who Decided To Write About A Serial Killer had its world première at Tribeca, 8 June 2024 As text captions absurdly reveal, The Shallow Tale Of A Writer Who Decided To Write About A Serial Killer opens in 40,000 B.C., Slovenia, as though this were a bombastic,…
The Weekend had its world première at Tribeca 2024, 9 June 2024 Daniel Oriahi’s The Weekend opens, harrowingly, in medias res, with Luc Chezeta (Bucci Franklin) – bound, gagged and terrified – in a hut full of cultic paraphernalia, as he is bent over a stump to be beheaded. Just before the axe is seen…
She Loved Blossoms More had its world première at Tribeca 2024, 9 June 2024 Yannis Veslemes’ She Loved Blossoms More opens with an impressionistic montage. We see an elegant old Parisian house with statuary guarding its front door, a long-legged spider crawling across an old staticky television set, a reel-to-reel tape recorder on which Logo…
#AMFAD: All My Friends Are Dead had its world première at Tribeca 2024, 8 June, and will be released in select theatres, on demand and on digital from 2 August. Like Sarah Pirozek’s #Like (2019), Cho Il Hyung’s #Alive (#Saraitda, 2020) and Travis Bible’s #chadgetstheaxe (2023), the title of Marcus Dunstan’s feature comes with its…
Beacon had its world première at Tribeca 2024, 8 Jun 2024 Beacon opens with Emily (Julia Goldani Telles) on the deck of her boat Winddancer, a little floating island surrounded by nothing but water. Emily is doing a to-camera piece about her six-month solo mission to circumnavigate the globe the old-fashioned way, with a sextant…
Vulcanizadora had its world première at Tribeca 2024, 8 Jun 2024 “When I was a kid, I was digging in my backyard, and He was like way down there,” Marty Jackitansky (Joshua Burge) tells his friend Derek Skiba (Joel Potrykus), of a youthful encounter with God, or perhaps with the Devil, down in the hole….
Hunters On A White Field (Jakt) had its world première at Tribeca, 8 June 2024 Hunters On A White Field (Jakt) opens with the sound of a heartbeat, and a close-up of the skin on a neck, throbbing rhythmically, racing even, to its owner’s accelerating pulse. Alex (Ardalan Esmaili) is passenger in an open-top sports…
A Desert had its world première at Tribeca, 7 June 2024 A Desert opens in a cinema – not just the one in which perhaps you are watching it if you have not opted for home video or streaming, but in a closed-down, mothballed picture house whose plastic-wrapped interiors the professional photographer Alex Clark (Kai…
The A-Frame had its world première at Tribeca, 7 June 2024 The A-Frame opens with two sequences that seem unrelated, linked only by a shape. In the first impressionistic sequence, the camera tracks steadily towards a red-lit triangular device in a laboratory, as computer readouts of red text and multiple images of a man’s face…
The Damned had its world première at Tribeca 2024, 6 Jun 2024 It is midwinter on the Icelandic coast in the late nineteenth century, and food has become so scarce for the small crew manning a remote fishing station here that they have resorted to eating the fish reserved for bait. The helmsman Ragnar (Rory…