#festival news
Get ready for Haley Bennett’s monster of a performance in Carlo Mirabella-Davis’ electrifying, jaw-dropping, feminist thriller Swallow, which won Bennett a Best Actress prize at Tribeca 2019 and is coming to theaters this March from IFC Films. Take a look!
Traumatized by the death of his wife, a Hasidic cantor (Géza Röhrig) obsesses over how her body will decay. He seeks answers from a local biology professor (Matthew Broderick) in Shawn Snyder’s To Dust, the unlikeliest of buddy comedies. Winner of Best New Narrative Director and the Narrative Audience Award at the 2018 Tribeca Film Festival Snyder’s hilarious film is also a wrenching meditation on grief and features, in Son of Saul’s Röhrig, one of the past year’s most underrated screen performances.
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An Oscar nominee for Best Documentary — Short Subject, Carol Dysinger’s beautiful, Tribeca-winning Learning to Skateboard in a Warzone (If You’re a Girl) tells the story of young Afghan girls learning to read, write—and skateboard—in Kabul.
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Gerrymandering has become a symbol for everything broken about the American electoral process. But many are fighting to change the system.
From Tribeca 2019, Chris Durrance and Barak Goodman’s documentary Slay the Dragon is a detailed, maddening, and ultimately inspiring look at those fighting to keep democracy alive. See it in theaters starting March 13th! ✊
