Category: NEW YORK
Tribeca 2025: Voices of Identity and Belonging Take Center Stage
The 2025 Tribeca Film Festival reaffirmed its role as a platform for powerful storytelling, spotlighting films that explored identity, belonging, and resilience. Standouts included Rebecca, a portrait of pop star Becky G; Happy Birthday, a moving debut from Egypt’s Sarah Goher; and Runa Simi, a Peruvian documentary about reclaiming Indigenous language through cinema.
The 32nd New York African Film Festival
This May, the 32nd New York African Film Festival returns to Lincoln Center, spotlighting bold, intimate, and urgent stories from across Africa and its diaspora. From Abderrahmane Sissako’s quiet cross-cultural romance Black Tea to the searing adaptation of Wole Soyinka’s prison memoir The Man Died, the festival is a powerful reminder of cinema’s ability to confront, connect, and inspire.
Tribeca Film Festival 2024
From powerful reexaminations of historical experiments to deeply personal portraits of artists and coming-of-age tales, this year’s Tribeca Film Festival offered a vibrant and emotionally rich slate of documentaries and features. Highlights include The Stanford Prison Experiment: Unlocking the Truth, Luther: Never Too Much, Alien Weaponry: Kua Tupu Te Ara, and more.