{"id":12031,"date":"2025-10-22T14:46:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T14:46:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/12031\/"},"modified":"2025-10-22T14:46:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T14:46:07","slug":"from-nyc-lisbon-tribeca-fest-mission-bridge-transatlantic-divide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/12031\/","title":{"rendered":"From NYC Lisbon Tribeca Fest Mission Bridge Transatlantic Divide"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tThe Tribeca<\/a> Film Festival, originally an effort to unite New York City after the 9\/11 attacks, is bringing its healing ways \u2014 and select indie movies from its 2025 festival \u2014 to Tribeca Festival Lisboa\u2019s second edition amid a widening transatlantic rift between the U.S. and Europe.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI was thinking how can we in the spirit of collaboration \u2014 which this festival came out of, where we\u2019re shaking hands between Tribeca, New York and Lisbon \u2014 represent that collaboration.\u201d Cara Cusumano, Festival Director and senior vp of programming at Tribeca, tells The Hollywood Reporter ahead of the Tribeca Festival Lisboa\u2019s second edition getting underway for an Oct. 29 to Nov. 1 run in Lisbon, Portugal<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe result is a mission of partnership between American and Portuguese artists and filmmakers taking cinema in new directions to build bridges between indie film on both sides of the Atlantic.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cFilm is a way, and increasingly feels like the only way, you can truly empathize with a different points of view or experience the world in a different way you have experienced it. Some of these films are doing that very explicitly,\u201d Cusumano insists.<\/p>\n

\n\tThis year\u2019s Tribeca Festival Lisboa\u2019s movie slate includes American film ambassadors having made films in Europe, or tackled European stories or history, as with Julian Schnabel\u2019s In the Hand of Dante, which is based on a novel centered around Dante\u2019s Divine Comedy, or James Vanderbilt\u2019s Nuremberg, a film about post-war Germany shot in Hungary.<\/p>\n

\n\tSchnabel, whose latest film will open the 2025 Tribeca Festival Lisboa, in a statement to THR talked up Tribeca using prestige cinemas as a cultural outreach: \u201cIt\u2019s vital that we share art and ideas across cultures and countries, which is why I\u2019m especially pleased that my film will play to a Portuguese audience and that in turn this festival will provide a spotlight for the best of Portuguese cinema.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThen there\u2019s European directors having made movies in the U.S., like Yorgo Lanthimos\u2019 genre-bending Bugonia, \u201cwhich is really grappling with this moment we find ourselves in here,\u201d she adds. And there\u2019s a hybrid with Lilian T. Mehrel\u2019s Honeyjoon, a U.S.-Portugal co-production by an American director shot and set in the Azores.<\/p>\n

\n\tHer dark comedy about a mother and daughter\u2019s grief journey bowed at Tribeca in June 2025 after a year earlier earning the 2024 Untold Stories Award at the script stage, and will now make its Portuguese premiere at Tribeca Lisboa. \u201c(Honeyjoon) just tells a really beautiful story about how America and Portugal, New York and Lisbon, can work in partnership to make these films and get them seen by the widest audience possible,\u201d Cusumano adds.<\/p>\n

\n\tTribeca Festival Lisboa will also follow the lead of the inaugural edition last year in bringing selections from the 2025 Tribeca Festival for European premieres.<\/p>\n

\n\tThat includes Libby Ewing\u2019s Charliebird, which earned the best U.S. narrative feature at Tribeca; Alberto Arvelo\u2019s All We Cannot See; Michael J. Weithorn\u2019s dramedy The Best You Can; and Steven Feinartz\u2019s feature documentary Are We Good?, about the highs and lows of Marc Maron<\/a>\u2019s comedy career and working through his grief over the unexpected death of longtime romantic partner Lynn Shelton.<\/p>\n

\n\tFeinartz tells THR he hopes his documentary screening in Lisbon brings a higher profile for Europe for Maron, an established comedic talent less known outside the U.S.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI just think grief is a universal concept and something we all deal with. Marc Maron may not be as known over Europe. So this is a character study of somebody who brings a different angle to the idea of grief and mourning. And I think that will help other people, Europeans as well as everybody around the world,\u201d Feinartz argues.<\/p>\n

\n\tAnd in the spirit of cultural exchange and collaboration, Cusumano points to Tribeca Festival Lisboa\u2019s picks for local Portuguese cinema, including Duarte Neves\u2019 feature debut, Match, about an ageing actor seeking refuge in Lisbon\u2019s dating scene via Tinder; Antonio Ferreira\u2019s A Memoria do Cheiro das Coisas, an intimate drama about a colonial war veteran drama and his black caregiver; and Fernando Vendrell\u2019s Al\u00e9m do Horizonte \u2013 A Travessia, a drama about pioneering Portuguese aviators.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cIt wouldn\u2019t feel organic if it\u2019s just us coming into another country and bringing films from Tribeca and popping up. It has to feel like it\u2019s coming from the artistic community and the filmmaking community that is living and working and attending movies there too,\u201d Cusumano explains.<\/p>\n

\n\tTo that end, panels at Tribeca Festival Lisboa will feature American and Portuguese participants in conversation on the same stage, as with Portuguese actor Albano Jer\u00f3nimo talking about bringing characters to life on screen alongside Hollywood veterans Edie Falco and Giancarlo Esposito.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cOur hope for the dialogue is we can do all these things together and put some of the talent we\u2019re bringing literally in conversation on stage with some of their contemporaries in Portugal, and see what interesting things come out of that,\u201d Cusumano says.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Tribeca Talks series in Lisbon will also feature Kim Cattrall, Meg Ryan and Piper Perabo alongside Portuguese artists and filmmakers like Ricardo Ara\u00fajo Pereira, Claudia Vieira and Augusto Fraga.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cAt a time when the world can feel increasingly divided, storytelling has the power to connect us across cultures, geographies and generations. Tribeca Festival Lisboa is more than a showcase of films \u2014 it\u2019s an act of cultural diplomacy, a celebration of how art can foster dialogue and deepen our understanding of one another,\u201d Jane Rosenthal, co-founder and CEO of Tribeca Enterprises, added in a statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Tribeca Film Festival, originally an effort to unite New York City after the 9\/11 attacks, is bringing…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12032,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[4883,9557,9,56,63,65,64,9558,6071],"class_list":["post-12031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-international","tag-marc-maron","tag-new-york","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news","tag-portugal","tag-tribeca"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12031\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}