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Tribeca Slams Palestinian “Dog Rape” Joke Made By ‘The Wedding Entertainer’s Elon Gold: “Offensive And Unacceptable”

Tribeca Film Festival has responded after an offensive Palestine joke made by The Wedding Entertainer star Elon Gold at the movie’s Thursday premiere. In a statement, a festival spokesperson condemned the “offensive and unacceptable” joke Gold made to a red carpet influencer about being “raped by two Israeli dogs” while filming there, making light of […]

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Sara Bareilles and Director Josh Alexander on Turning Loss Into Musical Magic in the Tribeca-Premiering Documentary ‘Good Grief’

In writing an album that is largely about loss and calling it “Good Grief,” singer-songwriter Sara Bareilles is clearly playing with the wording of that common phrase, finding a way to make it feel literal, not like an oxymoron. That carries over to the similarly titled documentary, “Sara Bareilles: Good Grief,” that is having its […]

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‘Next Life’ Review: Emilia Clarke Lives Alternate Life-Changing Choices In Drake Doremus’ Rich And Jazzy Rom-Dram – Tribeca Festival

Like it did for many people, the pandemic changed things for writer/director Drake Doremus, whose last film, 2019’s Endings, Beginnings, now seems like a prophetic title for the filmmaker, a true romantic, who has since ended one relationship and then met a woman to begin another as his wife. That chance encounter in Madrid has […]

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‘Mineshaft: The Cruising Murders’ Review: Compelling Documentary Probes the Legacy of William Friedkin’s Infamous Queer Thriller

The legacy of William Friedkin’s 1980 erotic thriller “Cruising” is a complex one. A film long vehemently denounced by the queer community it purported to represent, and more recently reclaimed as a rare mainstream portrait of a vanished social scene, it is many things to many people — and in disentangling its onscreen achievements and […]

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Madonna Hopes ‘Confessions II’ Visualizer Makes Fans “Put Your F*cking Phones Down And Connect”

More than 20 years after releasing Confessions on a Dance Floor, Madonna is taking over New York City to celebrate the sequel. During Friday’s Tribeca Film Festival premiere of the visualizer for her Confessions II album, debuting July 3, the 7x Grammy winner explained that the short is “really about connection,” which she hopes to […]

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First All-Black Everest Team Races Against Time in New Documentary [Exclusive]

The tallest mountain in the world, Mount Everest, has long represented the ultimate goal for mountaineers and human perseverance against nature. Recently, an all-Black climbing team took to the summit of the forbidding peak — and a film crew was there to capture it all. Collider is proud to present an exclusive sneak peek of Full Circle: The First All-Black Everest Ascent, the new documentary about the climb that premieres at this month's Tribeca Film Festival.

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Fatma Al-Ghanim, Former Qatar Women’s Soccer Captain, on Her Tribeca Short About Breaking Taboos in Arab Sports: ‘I Couldn’t Avoid Dealing With This Trauma Anymore’

Fatma Al-Ghanim is a Qatari athlete and filmmaker who is breaking new ground for women in the tiny country and in the Arab world at large. In 2010, she captained Qatar’s first-ever women’s national soccer team. Now, Al-Ghanim is at the Tribeca Film Festival with “Theatre of Dreams,” a powerful short that marks her directorial and […]

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