Mistaken For Strangers will open the 2013 edition of Tribeca Film Festival Mistaken For Strangers will open the 2013 edition of Tribeca Film Festival

The Tribeca Film Festival was founded by Robert De Niro, Jane Rosenthal and Craig Hatkoff in 2001 following the attacks on the World Trade Center, to spur the economic and cultural revitalisation of the lower Manhattan district through an annual celebration of film, music and culture, the Festival brings the industry and community together around storytelling.

The 12th edition of festival will open on April 17 with Mistaken For Strangers, directed by Tom Berninger, who chronicles his experience on tour with his brother, The National’s frontman Matt Berninger.

The festival will screen 89 feature-length films between April 17 and 28.

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Tribeca Film Festival Latest Reviews

Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me
Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me
Documentary about the broadway legend.
Dark Touch
Dark Touch
A child is haunted by abuse.
Gore Vidal: The United States Of Amnesia
Gore Vidal: The United States Of Amnesia
Documentary about the fearless essayist.
Frankenstein's Army
Frankenstein's Army
Russian soldiers try to track down an evil scientist who is working for the Nazis.
Odayaka
Odayaka
Two women in Tokyo face a wave of anxiety after the south-east Asian tsunami.
Oxyana
Oxyana
Exploration of a small Appalachian town in the grip of drug addiction.
Kiss The Water
Kiss The Water
Portrait of salmon fly-maker Megan Boyd.
Almost Christmas
Almost Christmas
An ex-con and his erstwhile partner bicker and bond as they try to get rich before Christmas.
Taboor
Taboor
In a near-future Iran, a man goes about his solitary life.
Before Midnight
Before Midnight
Jesse and Celine consider their lives together after nine years of living together.
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Tribeca Film Festival Features

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Director Nicholas Wrathall on his Gore documentary.
Fishing for truth
Eric Steel talks about Megan Boyd documentary Kiss The Water
Reaching For The Moon
Bruno Barreto on his poetic tale of love.
Forest of ideas
Michelangelo Frammartino talks about his installation Alberi.
Red Obsession puts a spell on you
Conversations with David Roach and Warwick Ross.
Emanuel Hoss-Desmarais on Whitewash
Cold comfort in Quebec.
Watching Haneke
A conversation with Yves Montmayeur about Michael H Profession: Director.
Dreaming with Frédéric Boyer
Part two of our interview with the Artistic Director of the Tribeca Film Festival.
It's a Whitewash
Thomas Haden Church and Marc Labrèche on muscles, the wilderness, strongly hideous clothes, and what eats at them.
An audience with Stritch
Broadway legend Elaine talks about her life
Crazy talk with Mariel Hemingway and Barbara Kopple
A revealing portrait of an American family in the public eye is exposed in Running From Crazy.
The Nature of Frédéric Boyer
Part one of our interview with the Artistic Director of the Tribeca Film Festival.
Tribeca Film Festival Diary - Passionate Portraits
Documentaries on Gore Vidal, Elaine Stritch and teen origins.
Tribeca Film Festival - Parental problems
Responsibility, relationships and failure are explored in Almost Christmas, The Broken Circle Breakdown, Bluebird, Dark Touch and Before Midnight
Lil Bub on The Tribeca Film Festival Red Carpet
Our correspondent meets the feline star of Lil Bub & Friendz.
An étoile graces the Tribeca Film Festival red carpet
Jérôme Bonnell and Emmanuelle Devos discuss Just A Sigh.
Tribeca Film Festival preview
10 films to look out for in Manhattan this spring.
Cat's entertainment
Andy Capper and Juliette Eisner on internet cats and Lil Bub & Friendz

Tribeca Film Festival News

Tribeca Film Festival announces awards
The Rocket, The Kill Team, Whitewash and Oxyana win top gongs
Tribeca Film Festival announces main slate
Phil Morrison, Neil LaBute and Clark Gregg films among world premieres.
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