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Patricia Arquette’s Gonzo Girl starring Willem Dafoe, Camila Morrone, Leila George, Ray Nicholson, and Arquette will have a Tribeca Festival Member Exclusive Event screening.

In the second instalment of my annual conversation with Artistic Director Frédéric Boyer we discuss some more of the highlights in the 24th edition of the Tribeca Festival. In Spotlight Documentary: Jeffrey McHale’s It's Dorothy!; Ole Juncker’s Take The Money And Run, and My Mom Jayne: A Film by Mariska Hargitay (on Jayne Mansfield). Spotlight Narrative: Stephanie Laing’s Tow and Sophie Brooks’s Oh, Hi!.

Frédéric Boyer with Anne-Katrin Titze on the German film What Marielle Knows: “Extraordinary this is. I think it's the revelation of the Berlinale in terms of German cinema.”

In Viewpoints: Frédéric Hambalek’s What Marielle Knows; Lucia Garibaldi’s A Bright Future, and Alex Ross Perry’s Videoheaven. International Narrative Competition: Paul Andrew...

"Has anyone ever thought of not going to the North?" Oh no – don't cause a scene, Elisa. Montelona Cine has unveiled an official promo trailer for the indie sci-fi film titled A Bright Future, the second feature film by Uruguayan filmmaker Lucía Garibaldi. She's bringing this new film to the 2025 Tribeca Film Festival this summer, playing this A Bright Future drama in their Viewpoints section as a world premiere. Starring Martina Passeggi, Soledad Pelayo, Sofia Gala, and Alfonso Tort. Passeggi stars as smart, inquisitive Elisa who lands a job placement "up North." Although it sounds perfect, there's one problem: nobody who goes there ever returns. Elisa is one of the last women chosen to go "North," a kind of promised land where history is being made. Everyone around her, including her beloved Mother, eagerly awaits her departure... But soon Elisa realizes that she does not want to leave and that...

Uruguayan filmmaker Lucía Garibaldi, winner of the World Cinema Dramatic Best Director Award at Sundance for her 2019 debut The Sharks, returns with her highly anticipated second feature, A Bright Future (Un futuro brillante), set to have its world premiere in the Viewpoints section of the 2025 Tribeca Festival, running June 4–14 in New York City.

A boundary-pushing and visually arresting sci-fi drama, A Bright Future unfolds in a bleak, out-of-time South American neighborhood where large-scale fumigations are routine. It’s there that 18-year-old Elisa (newcomer Martina Passeggi in a breakthrough performance) is selected for a prestigious journey to the mysterious “North”—a distant promised land no one has ever returned from, including her older sister.

The most promising young people are sent to this mythical North, “history is being rewritten without mistakes.” Elisa, the last young person in her community, is selected to go. Her mother, a devoted believer in the North,...

After crafting a promising debut with The Sharks, a Best Director winner at Sundance in 2019, Uruguayan filmmaker Lucía Garibaldi is back with her second feature. A Bright Future (Un futuro brillante) will world-premiere on June 5 at the Viewpoints section of the 2025 Tribeca Festival. Ahead of this, we’re pleased to exclusively debut the first trailer for the film starring Martina Paseggi, Soledad Pelayo, Sofia Gala, and Alfonso Tort.

Here’s the synopsis: “Elisa lives with her mother in a housing complex suspended in time, where large-scale fumigations are routine. Pets have disappeared and the population is mostly elderly. The most promising young people are sent to the North, a promised land where ‘history is being rewritten without mistakes.’ Elisa, the last young person in her community, is selected to go. Her mother, a devoted believer in the North, works double shifts to win a coveted travel auction. Elisa’s older sister was sent there before,...

Exclusive: A Bright Future (Un futuro brillante), the second film by Uruguayan director Lucía Garibaldi, has been picked up for world sales by South American-based sales agency Compañía de Cine.

Described as a “boundary-pushing and visually striking South American sci-fi film”, A Bright Future is produced by Isabel García and Pancho Magnou Arnábal of the Uruguayan company Montelona, in co-production with Cimarrón (Argentina) and Achtung Panda! (Germany). The film will have its world premiere in the Viewpoints section of this year’s Tribeca Film Festival.

Garibaldi is best known for her 2019 feature The Sharks (Los tiburones), which debuted at Sundance. Garibaldi won the Best Director Award in the World Cinema Dramatic Competition at Sundance.

Martina Passeggi stars in A Bright Future alongside Soledad Pelayo (The Freshly Cut Grass), Sofía Gala Castiglione (Alanis), and Alfonso Tort (The Freshly Cut Grass). The film’s plot follows Elisa, one of the last young...