The Tribeca Film Festival is a very New York thing, for now. The Robert De Niro-helmed film festival has been on the rise ever since its start more than a decade ago. It is slowly, but surely inching its way towards being in the same league as Sundance and SXSW, in other words, a premier spot to debut American indie films. That won’t be happening anytime soon, but that’s the endgame it seems for De Niro and the selection committee.
Today, Tribeca announced the festivals full lineup of feature films and the highlights seem to stem from other festivals, including the TIFF premiered “Bad Education,” Judd Apatow’s SXSW title, “The King of Staten Island,” and Josephine Decker’s Sundance hit “Shirley.”
Altogether, the features program will include 115 films from 124 directors from 33 different countries. This includes 95 world premieres, and 4 U.S. Premieres, plus one sneak preview. Many of the films premiering at the festival will likely never see the light of day in theaters, so this is a fest that compensates its attendees by premiering films that may never be viewed again.
The 2020 Tribeca Film Festival begins on April 15th and runs until April 26th.