Jenna Ortega, Kristen Stewart and Lily Gladstone
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The Tribeca Festival has announced the features lineup for its 2024 edition, which will open with the world premiere of Hulu documentary Diane von Furstenberg: Woman in Charge, directed by Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy and Trish Dalton.
Other highlights in this year’s features lineup include the world premieres of documentaries about Liza Minnelli (Liza: A Truly Terrific Absolutely True Story), Harry Belafonte (Following Harry, exploring his life and legacy through the artists and activists carrying on his work, which will be followed by the presentation of the 2024 Harry Belafonte Voices for Social Justice Award), Renee Elise Goldsberry (Satisfied), Ani DiFranco (1-800-ON-HER-OWN), Linda Perry (Let It Die Here) and Avicii (I’m Tim) dream hampton (It Was All a Dream) and “the Brat Pack” (the Andrew McCarthy-directed BRATS) and the New York premiere of Dawn Porter’s Luther Vandross documentary, Never Too Much.
Tribeca Festival will also feature screenings of Jazzy, with Lily Gladstone in Morrisa Maltz’s follow-up to The Unknown Country; Daddio, starring Dakota Johnson and Sean Penn; Firebrand starring Alicia Vikander and Jude Law; Michael Angarano’s Sacramento, starring Michael Cera, Kristen Stewart and Maya Erskine; All That We Love, starring Margaret Cho and Jesse Tyler Ferguson; the psychological thriller McVeigh, based on the Oklahoma City bombing; and the world premiere of Tiffany Paulsen’s Winter Spring Summer or Fall starring Jenna Ortega and Percy Hynes White.
The festival will also world premiere two comedian-centric docs: The Kevin Hart-produced Group Therapy, with Neil Patrick Harris, Mike Birbiglia and Tig Notaro, and Outstanding: A Comedy Revolution, with Lily Tomlin, Wanda Sykes, Rosie O’Donnell, Hannah Gadsby and Joel Kim Booster.
“Each year, the Tribeca Festival reflects our culture, capturing the essence of the present moment. We’re thrilled to showcase our 23rd edition, delving into captivating explorations of artificial intelligence with Demis Hassabis, thought-provoking discussions on the future of democracy, and so much more,” Tribeca co-founder and CEO Jane Rosenthal said in a statement. “Storytelling possesses a remarkable ability to bring us together, offering hope in these challenging times. We eagerly anticipate engaging with audiences on difficult yet timely subjects.”
Tribeca Festival director and senior vp, programming, Cara Cusumano, added: “In a year of record high submissions, despite industry-wide challenges, and global tumult, our incredible filmmaking community delivered again with some of the most surprising, inspiring, hilarious, galvanizing, boundary-breaking, and downright entertaining work we’ve had the privilege to feature at the festival. Whether grappling with everything from the crisis of global democracy to the most intimate of human dramas, it was heartening to be reminded of the undeniable power of a great film to illuminate our world.”
The features lineup for year’s festival, which marks the first time the Viewpoints interdisciplinary section will be in competition, was selected from more than 13,000 submissions and consists of 103 feature films from 114 filmmakers across 48 countries. The festival will feature 86 world premieres, two international premieres, six North American premieres and eight New York premieres. Half of the films in competition are directed by women, while 35 percent of the feature films at the 2024 festival are directed by filmmakers who are Black, indigenous or people of color. Thirty of the films in this year’s competition are directed by first-time filmmakers and 25 directors in the 2024 lineup are returning to Tribeca.
The 2024 Tribeca Festival, the 23rd edition of the annual New York event, is set to run from June 5-16 in New York.
More information about this year’s festival is available here.
