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ATTAGIRL! | OBSCURAE at TriBeCa
In what can only be described as the most colourful, explosive and beautifully kitchy Short I have had the pleasure to see this year, Klimovski rampages.
TriBeCa 2025
Our coverage of TriBeCa Film Festival 2025.
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I Was Born This Way | OBSCURAE at TriBeCa
A star-studded deep dive into Carl Bean - the highly influential Singer, Activist and Clergyman, proud, and ahead of his time.
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OH, HI! | OBSCURAE at TriBeCa
Tied Up Tight and Toxic, OH, HI! is a Heartstruck Misery for the Situationship Generation.
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Ride Or Die | OBSCURAE at TriBeCa
With Ride Or Die, Josalynn Smith transfuses grungy 90s dissatisfaction into the chassis of a beautifully shot modern feature, painted red, peeling to blue, then blossoming to a pale lilac.
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Twelve Moons | OBSCURAE at TriBeCa
A gripping portrait of the depths you can sink to when you're grief stricken and your husband truly hates you.
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Fior Di Latte | OBSCURAE at TriBeCa
Fiore Di Latte punctures wacky with doses of real, and Charlotte Ercoli uses the madness like an easel to paint a woefully accurate portrait of addiction.
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Twinless | OBSCURAE at TriBeCa
Twinless is slightly sorta like Vertigo, on poppers, running on the energy of an off the walls 2000s movie laced with the spirit of a Hitchcockian thriller.
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Esta Isla is A Grueling Love Letter to Puerto Rico | OBSCURAE at TriBeCa
Esta Isla films in the dialect of Tropical Realism, austere and surreal, a bit verité: it makes no attempts at hiding because it holds itself plain to see.
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Paradise Records | OBSCURAE at TriBeCa
Paradise Records is of a lost artifact type, when punky, punchy storytelling was the rage. It's tone more flaccid in spaces, its pace bogged, trips on jokes better off left on the cutting room floor, yet the heart is there and the ride lively.
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The Scout | OBSCURAE at TriBeCa
Paula Gonzalez-Nasser brings her background as a professional location scout for a metatextual meditation on the arrangements we make of the places that we live in. Her camera stoic, purposeful, and never once without a point to what it's capturing.
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Birthright | OBSCURAE at TriBeCa
Inheritances Writ in Mud and Chlorine - Birthright is a Thrilling Battle of the Generations.
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Preview: TriBeCa Festival 2025
Our top picks so far, and our most anticipated going forward