The French language film tells the story of three lifelong girlfriends, Charlotte (Marguerite Bouchard), Megane (Romane Denis) and Aube (Rose Adam), who take jobs at the “Toy Depot” where a plethora of teenage boys work alongside them.

After producing multiple shorts, documentaries and experimental films, Meredith Danluck is the latest director to explore these ideas with her feature-narrative debut State Like Sleep.

Netizen is one of the most timely documentaries screened at the 2018 Tribeca Film Festival, tackling sexual harassment as it occurs on the internet.

Ilhan Omar was the first Somali-American elected to legislation. The Somali immigrant has served as a community organizer in Minneapolis for years before deciding to run for the House of Representatives, a journey captured by director Norah Shapiro for her documentary Time for Ilhan.

Woman Walks Ahead, directed by Susanna White and written by Steven Knight, stars Jessica Chastain and Sam Rockwell in a Western like no other. Set in the Dakotas in the late 1800s, Brooklyn-born artist Catherine Weldon (Chastain) ventures out to the West to paint Sitting Bull’s (Michael Greyeyes) portrait.  

Discussing her debut film during the festival Forrest touches on everything from the powerful influences of Cyndi Lauper and Pedro Almodóvar, the benefits of directing your ex, and why you shouldn’t get up until the very end of her movie.

Directors Betsy West and Julie Cohen have done just that with their new documentary RBG.  Their subject certainly has a lot to do with all of these qualities as it is the “Notorious” Ruth Bader Ginsburg.  

Director Ondi Timoner has made a career telling stories of artists driven to the edge by their creative pursuits…often to the detriment of their personal lives.

Starring Tessa Thompson and Lily James as sisters living in a North Dakota oil town which happens to be the further point on a map where a woman can obtain an abortion.

Directing her new film Egg, written by Risa Mickenberg, is much the same; the story of two art school friends now married and expecting children but following very different paths.

The new film from Israeli born director Hagar Ben-Asher, her first English language/American made film, tells the agonizing final moments (some days, some literally minutes) of life for women on death row.

Emmy winner Madeleine Sackler, however, has the rare opportunity of screening two of her films at Tribeca this year: her latest documentary, It’s a Hard Truth, Ain’t It and her first narrative feature, O.G.