The 2023 Tribeca Festival will coincide with Pride Month, and the festival will feature several films that demonstrate the resilience of the community as LGBTQ rights come under renewed attack.
This year’s event, which runs Wednesday through June 18, will feature 109 films, including 93 world premieres. (For more information, please refer to the following site) tribecafilm.com. )
From that robust list, these five movies are worth a closer look.
“Chasing Chasing Amy”
Director: Sav Rogers
Documentary writer Sabu Rogers examines the significance of writer-director Kevin Smith’s 1997 comedy through multiple lenses. Rogers sees the film, about a young cartoonist who is attracted to lesbians, as a turning point in Smith’s career and an inspiration for debates about sexual identity. Most importantly, Rogers struggles with the role the film played in his own discovery.
Every aspect of Rock Hudson’s fame is put under a microscope in this documentary about the screen idol known for his Douglas Sirk soap operas and Doris Day sex comedies. Film director Steven Kijak has uncovered Hudson’s personal life, contrasting the version of Hudson known to moviegoers with the gay version outside of the film in an attempt to reconcile the two versions of himself. It depicts his struggle to
‘lesson’
Director: Alice Troughton
An ambitious aspiring novelist (Daryl McCormack) begins tutoring the son of an acclaimed author (Richard E. Grant). It’s a tense psychological drama about an elderly gatekeeper struggling to finish his book. Mixed with egos and generational grudges, this tale of authorship, homoerotic conflict, and power feels bitterly familiar.
Exploring the lives of three intersex people, “Every Body” seeks to educate viewers about an underappreciated group. The film’s engaging and engaging subject matter demystifies the issue of intersex identity while opposing medical interventions that have harmed intersex people.
‘transition’
Director: Jordan Brion, Monica Villamizar
After Kabul fell to the Taliban, filmmaker and journalist Jordan Brion was invited to shoot a film in Afghanistan for The New York Times, reconciling the intensity of world affairs with his gender transition. Produced with a sense of immediacy and interactive geopolitical and gender contexts, Transitions is a fascinating document of fluid changes in national and personal identities.
