SUPPOSED Is in the NYAFF 2024 Category of “Original films that break away from formalistic and,or narrative conventions. Directed by Thanakorn Pongsuwan, Thailand, 2023 | North American Premiere. This is a must-see film that many will want to see more than once.
This year’s NYAFF features more than 90 new and classic titles from China, South Korea, Japan, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Thailand, Indonesia, Mongolia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Vietnam, and beyond, with nine world premieres, 12 international premieres, and 38 North American premieres.
THE OMICRON KILLER now digitally available on Fandango at Home. A copycat serial killer commits murder on the anniversary of the death of the original killer and decides to stop killing. Why? Who knows!?!?! He is subsequently mugged…
“After a banner year of Tribeca programming, I do not envy our jurors’ task of selecting this year’s winners,” said Tribeca Festival Director and SVP of Programming Cara Cusumano. “I’m delighted to see they’ve chosen to honor a diverse, international, adventurous group of films that truly reflect the Tribeca spirit. We can’t wait to continue to follow and support all these films’ journeys into the world.” –
Article by Gregg W. Morris
BLACK TABLE caught me off guard. I was swept up into the film so fast that I fumbled and stumbled shifting into reviewer mode. It took 30 minutes before I stopped swallowing and gulping scenes down, and a measure of…
The most electrifying and boundary-breaking filmmaking competition of the year has launched. – By Gregg W. Morris
A stellar account about several upstate New Yorkers who say they have had close encounters with UFOs AKA UAPs. They are not portrayed in this polished documentary of Directors Pacho Velez and Daniel Claridge as wacky, or particularly eccentric.
They come across as everyday people though some have experienced a measure here or there of derision for publicly sharing their outer worldly experiences. Believe this reviewer when he says that he was tempted, really temped, to circumvent the Saturday, June 8, 2 p.m. embargo so that he could be the first to shout to the heavens: See this movie! – Gregg W. Morris
MADE IN ETHOPIA was filmed over four years and this reviewer was amazed at the considerable access the filmmakers had with interviewees and their families and the community as a whole. That kind of access occurs because of the incredible filmmaking finesses of filmmakers for dealing with people to tell incredible stories. – Review by Gregg W. Morris
SHE’S CLEAN contains nudity and scenes of a sexual nature and is intended for mature audiences only. Says Star Jenn Harris: “I wanted to explore intimacy, intimate relations and sex on film in a way that I hadn’t seen captured before, with a female character in her sexual prime engaging in intimacy and sex without commenting on it, excusing it, or making fun of it. Intimacy is deeply nuanced and I feel most filmmaking has been afraid of that nuance so they resort to exploitation or silliness.”
– Article by Gregg W. Morris. Review in the works embargoed until June 5
Since 2005, Tribeca and CHANEL have brought together esteemed artists who generously gift an original work to winning filmmakers of the Festival. – Article by Gregg W. Morris