E. Nina Rothe, 04.14.2011

Contributor, Bespoke magazine

This year's TFF offers some incredible treats for those interested in traveling the world through the cinematic lens. It seems to belong to the many Arab and Middle Eastern films featured in the festival.

Brad Balfour, 03.23.2011

Veteran Interviewer and Pop Culture Chronicler

When it debuted at the 2010 Tribeca Film Festival, Monogamy seemed more like a fiction film done documentary style than a highly stylized indie featur...

Paper Magazine, 04.02.2011

PAPERMAG.com

(Image via Planet Magazine) Steve Lazarides is best known for popularizing street art, most prominently as Banksy's dealer, an association that h...

Kristin McCracken, 03.30.2011

Editor, TribecaFilm.com

While the practice seems unthinkable to many, honor killings are still horrifically common -- a fact that inspired German actress Feo Aladag to direct her debut feature film, When We Leave.

Andy Ostroy, 03.23.2011

Political & pop culture analyst

I founded ASF with a singular mission: to support women filmmakers.

Tribeca Film, 03.23.2011

Movies, Film Culture and More

Put on your best costume for the day and watch the classic Maysles brothers documentary on Jackie O's relatives, Big Edie and Little Edie Beale. Grey...

Tribeca Film, 03.23.2011

Movies, Film Culture and More

With the recent dispiriting news that father-daughter duo Ryan O'Neal and Tatum O'Neal are shopping around a reality series about their potential reconciliation, let's go back to happier times, when Ryan and Tatum were co-starring in the classic Paper Moon.

Kristin McCracken, 03.23.2011

Editor, TribecaFilm.com

Director Fatih Akin follows up Head-On and The Edge of Heaven with Soul Kitchen, a comedy about food, family, and gentrification in Hamburg. It's a delightful dish.

Tribeca Film, 03.23.2011

Movies, Film Culture and More

Tribeca Film, 03.23.2011

Movies, Film Culture and More

Werner Herzog takes a steamboat over a hill in Burden of Dreams, Les Blank's clear-eyed documentary about the hubris, ambition, and danger fueling the making of Fitzcarraldo.

Cynthia Ellis, 03.23.2011

What makes the film fascinating is the way it, with almost laser precision, cuts to the core of someone who is famous for what lies on her surface.

Marshall Fine, 03.23.2011

Author and film critic, hollywoodandfine.com

Neil Jordan and Colin Farrell, in New York for the screening of their film Ondine at the Tribeca Film Festival in late April, make an amusingly mismat...

Tucker Hassler, 03.23.2011

Freelance Writer/Creative Director

This heartwarming docu-comedy follows two friends who play on the most northern and third lousiest rugby team in the world - The Oulu RFC, an amateur club team in northern Finland.

Joseph Smigelski, 03.23.2011

College English Instructor in Northern California

The 17-minute film, Out of Infamy: Michi Nishiura Weglyn, reveals a dark and shocking chapter of American history: the detention in concentration camps of over 110,000 people of Japanese descent during World War II.

Jeff Reichert, 03.23.2011

Writer and Director of the documentary film Gerrymandering

We hope that by November endgerrymandering.com will be a clearinghouse for redistricting news and information from around the country as well as a place to meet up and plan reform activity.

Linda Hassler, 03.23.2011

Only rarely can a documentary match feature films for gripping human drama, but this one, The Two Escobars, has more than done that.

Regina Weinreich, 03.23.2011

Co-producer/director, 'Paul Bowles: The Complete Outsider'

The more Jane Rosenthal quipped, they had renamed the Tribeca Film Festival for the Oscar winning documentarian Alex Gibney, the less her words felt l...

Cynthia Ellis, 03.23.2011

The inspiration behind Zonad comes from the Irish tradition of great story-telling, a kind of "never let the truth get in the way of a good story" mentality.

Ashley Wren Collins, 03.23.2011

actor/writer

"I am so confused about who I am in my life now, it's not even funny!" This joyful lament is that of the tall, dark drink of water that is actor Alexander Siddig, star of Cairo Time.

Cynthia Ellis, 03.23.2011

Hope Davis is instantly recognizable to New Yorkers. As soon as we are in the elevator heading downstairs to the coffee shop, we are besieged by an immaculately dressed couple.

Abe Gurko, 03.23.2011

Writer

At the recent Tribeca Film Festival, Juliette Lewis sat down to talk about Metropia and three other new film projects.