Tribeca Exclusive: Clip & Poster For The 'Safe'-Like Documentary 'The Sensitives'

The Tribeca Film Festival is still in full swing (it’s long!), and one film that’s worth keeping an eye on is the documentary “The Sensitives,” which screens tonight. Directed by cinematographer-turned-helmer Drew Xanthopoulos, it might remind you of a real-life version of Todd Haynes’ “Safe” in that it focuses on a group of people who have become near-allergic to the outside world, and the woman who tries to help them.

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Ahead of the film’s screening tonight, we’ve got an exclusive clip and poster from it to debut here, which you can find below. Take a look, along with the full synopsis.

For the increasing number of people who are suffering from environmental illnesses, the world around them is full of unseen threats. What the average person would never notice can render their bodies painfully seized and their minds dulled for days.  Pesticides, perfumes, cell phones—any of these can send the afflicted into a debilitating downward spiral. In Drew Xanthopoulos’s stunningly cinematic feature debut,  The Sensitives, we meet three families struggling with these conditions. Joe, too sick to care for himself, puts his relationship with his supportive, but increasingly exhausted wife at risk. Twin brothers Sam and Nathan live with their mother, Karen, inside of a sterilized safe home they haven’t left in years and dream of performing the country music they write together. And Susie, who decamped from San Francisco for a remote Arizona homestead decades ago, has found an uneasy equilibrium, but grows frustrated at the lack of attention paid to her condition in medical discourse. This painfully intimate documentary portrait follows the trials of these three groups grappling with a crippling illness for which there is as yet no agreed upon diagnosis or treatment. Isolation, companionship and hope are common bonds these people have, hope for their families and future.

The Sensitives Poster