This year, I will be attending the Tribeca Film Festival with a group from my school. We will be going for three days over a weekend. I’m not sure which movies I will be able to see, but I looked over all the movies that will be showing. I made a list of the top ten movies I am most in anticipation of. Some of the movies have trailers, and some do not. For the descriptions I simply took the description from the Tribeca Fesitval’s website. Here are my picks 6 - 10:
10. Keep Surfing, directed by Björn Richie Lob. (Germany) – International Premiere, Documentary. This kinetic and fast-paced documentary will put you right on the Eisbach in the heart of Munich, where river-surfing was invented 35 years ago. Stunningly shot with cameras literally on the surfboards, you can sense the exhilaration as they take to the water. With cameos by surfing legends like Nick Carroll and Kelly Slater, Keep Surfing will make you want to hit the waves! In English, German with English subtitles.
There is no trailer, but here is the Internet Movie Database profile.
9. Metropia, directed by Tarik Saleh, written by Fredrik Edin, Stig Larsson, and Tarik Saleh. (Sweden, Denmark, Norway) – New York Premiere. In the year 2024, all of Europe is united by a vast web of underground railways, populated by an army of downtrodden worker bees. When one such cog starts hearing voices and encounters a femme fatale shampoo model who seems to hold some answers, he finds himself unearthing a vast Orwellian conspiracy in this visually arresting animated noir. With the voices of Vincent Gallo, Juliette Lewis, Udo Kier, Stellan Skarsgård, and Alexander Skarsgård. A Tribeca Film release.
There is a trailer here, there is a lot of other content on YouTube as well.
8. Just Like Us, directed by Ahmed Ahmed. (USA) – World Premiere, Documentary. First-time director Ahmed Ahmed takes us on a hilarious tour from Dubai to Beirut, Riyadh to New York with a gaggle of other stand-up talent, including Maz Jobrani, Tom Papa, Ted Alexandro, Tommy Davidson, and Omid Djalili (The Infidel). Along the way, taboos of culture and geopolitics are exploded, and a younger generation of both comedy talents and audiences is born.
There is no trailer, but here is the Internet Movie Database profile.
7. Doctor Zhivago, directed by David Lean, written by Robert Bolt. (USA, UK, 1965) David Lean’s romantic Russian Revolution epic, adapted from Boris Pasternak’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, captured five Academy Awards® (including Best Adapted Screenplay) and five additional nominations after its 1965 release. In honor of its 45th anniversary, we welcome a magnificent state-of-the-art restoration of Doctor Zhivago, shown theatrically for the first time at Tribeca and available from Warner Home Video on Blu-ray disc May 4. Omar Sharif, Julie Christie, Geraldine Chaplin, Rod Steiger, Alec Guinness and Tom Courtenay star. In English, Russian with English subtitles.
This could be a really cool showing. I have never seen Doctor Zhivago in its entirety, but the pieces I have seen kept me interested. David Lean is an amazing filmmaker, among his resume; The Bridge on the River Kwai and Lawrence of Arabia. Plus, Alec Guinness is in it. Score. The original trailer is here.
6. Gerrymandering, directed by Jeff Reichert. (USA) – World Premiere, Documentary. This wake-up-call doc exposes the hidden history of our country’s redistricting wars, mapping battles that take place out of public scrutiny but shape the electoral landscape of American politics for decades at time, posing a threat not just to Democrats and Republicans, but democracy as a whole. Featuring stories from nine states, Gerrymandering takes a hard look at the framework of our democracy and how it provides our politicians a perfectly legal way to control electoral outcomes.
A preview on the documentary is here.
Here is the full list of films that will be shown at the Tribeca Film Festival.
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