2016 Tribeca Film Festival Guide

On April 13, the Tribeca Film Festival will kick off its 15th anniversary season with a wide variety of films. The festival, which originally set out to revive the Tribeca neighborhood post-9/11, has grown into an international celebration of cinema at ve

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 On April 13, the Tribeca Film Festival will kick off its 15th edition.

 In addition to screening new films, the Beacon Theatre will host a special 40th anniversary showing of director Martin Scorsese&#39;s NYC classic, Taxi Driver.

 Below is a small sampling of the 100-plus features debuting at this year&#39;s fest.

 AWOL&nbsp;
 This world premiere feature from director Deb Shoval stars Lola Kirke (Gone Girl, Mistress America) as a young woman in a Pennsylvania town who, seeking direction in her life, decides to go the local military recruiting station.

 All We Had&nbsp;
 Katie Holmes&#39; feature-length directorial debut is an adaptation of Annie Weatherwax&#39;s 2014 novel about a mother and daughter who move to a new town in their struggle to survive the Great Recession.

 After Spring
 Jon Stewart is the executive producer of this timely doc about life in a Syrian refugee camp located in Jordan.

 The Bansky Job&nbsp;
 Focusing on the relationship between Banksy and another well-known graffiti artist, AK47, this documentary explores the outlaw world of street art by the abduction of one of Banksy&#39;s statues in 2004 while adding more details (and mystery) to the Banksy mystique.

 Don&#39;t Think Twice&nbsp;
 New York standup comic, storyteller and actor Mike Birbiglia (Sleepwalk With Me) returns to Tribeca with his second feature.

 Elvis &amp; Nixon&nbsp;
 On a fateful day in 1970, Elvis Presley stopped by the White House asking to be deputized by Richard Nixon in the president&#39;s war on drugs.

 

 Geezer
 Green Day frontman Billie Joe Armstrong stars in his first movie as&mdash;wait for it&mdash;the former lead singer of a popular punk band.

 A Hologram for the King&nbsp;
 Tom Hanks stars in a story (based on a Dave Eggers novel) about an American in Saudi Arabia selling technology to the titular monarch.

 

 Nerdland
 What happens when Paul Rudd and Patton Oswalt lend their voices to an R-rated animated comedy about show business?

 Obit&nbsp;
 When famous figures and world leaders pass, their New York Times obituary becomes the instant summary of the extraordinary lives they lived.

 

 The Phenom&nbsp;
 Paul Giamatti plays an unorthodox sports psychiatrist treating a major league pitcher going through a severe slump.

 Win!
 Director Justin Webster spent a year following NYC&#39;s newest professional sports team, the New York City Football Club.
