Tribeca Film Festival

April 16-27, 2014
New York, USA

The Tribeca Film Festival was founded to celebrate New York City as a major filmmaking centre and to contribute to the long-term recovery of lower Manhattan. The festival’s line-up includes a variety of independent films including documentaries, narrative features and shorts, as well as family-friendly films.

The festival also features panel discussions with personalities in the entertainment world and a music lounge to showcase artistes.

One of the more distinctive components of the festival is its Artists Awards programme, where emerging and renowned artistes celebrate filmmakers by providing original works of art that are given to the filmmakers’ competition winners.

The 2014 festival comprises films from 32 countries and includes 55 world premieres. 102 directors will present their films – 22 of them women – with 37 of these filmmakers making their feature directorial debuts.

Watch Out For!

World Documentary competition

Opening Films: Dior And I

A documentary about the House of Christian Dior with a privileged, behind-the-scenes look at the creation of Raf Simons’ first Dior Haute Couture collection as Artistic Director, will open the documentary section of the fest.

The 12 films of this year’s World Documentary Competition, besides the opening film, are:

• 1971

• Ballet 422

• Fishtail

• Garnet’s Gold

• Mala Mala

• Misconception

• Ne Me Quitte Pas

• Point And Shoot

• Regarding Susan Sontag

• Tomorrow We Disappear

• Virunga

World Narrative Competition

Opening Films: Gabriel

A film about a vulnerable and confused teenager longing for stability and happiness, Gabriel, will be the opening film of the World Narrative Competition.

Other films to be showcased under this category are:

• Brides

• Five Star

• Glass Chin

• Goodbye To All That

• Gueros

• Human Capital

• The Kidnapping of Michel Houellebecq

• Loitering With Intent

• Something Must Break

• X/Y

• Zero Motivation

Viewpoints Section

Opening Films: Summer of Blood

Director Onur Tukel’s film will open the Viewpoints section.

Now in its fourth year, Tribeca’s Viewpoints section is committed to launching fresh voices and embracing risky, utterly original storytelling. Some of the 22 films in this section are:

• Art And Craft

• The Bachelor Weekend

• Bad Hair

• Below Dreams

• Beneath The Harvest Sky

• Black Coal Thin Ice

• Broken Hills Blues

• Electric Slide

• Famous Nathan

• An Honest Liar

• Honeymoon

• I Won’t Come Back