“Nigerian Prince”
Director: Faraday Okoro
Cast: Antonio J Bell, Chinaza Uche, Tina Mba
Synopsis: Two characters; Eze, a stubborn, first-generation Nigerian-American teenager and his cousin, Pius, who is a notorious scammer. Eze is sent back to Nigeria by his mother, but Pius, in a desperate attempt, hatches a plan to scam unsuspecting foreigners in order to earn enough money to bring his brother back to America.
“Zoe”
Director: Drake Doremus
Cast: Lea Seydoux, Ewan McGregor, Christina Aguilera
Synopsis: In the not-too-distant future, the most cutting-edge technology has honed romantic relationships down to a science: A computerized test can determine the likelihood of successful partnership between two individuals, and androids—known as “synthetics”—have been designed as the ideal partners, ones who will never leave.
“Diane”
Director: Kent Jones
Cast: Mary Kay Place, Estelle Parsons, Andrea Martin, Deirdre O’Connell
Synopsis: In his narrative film debut, Kent Jones brings us the story of Diane, a widowed, altruistic septuagenarian whose life is dictated by the needs of others. She fills her days serving food to the homeless, visiting ailing friends in the last years of their lives, and, most centrally, desperately attempting to reach her drug-addicted son, despite his repeated efforts to push her away. But as these pieces of her existence begin to wither and fade, she finds herself forced to look at her own identity—and memories she’d sooner forget than face.
“Phantom Cowboys”
Director: Daniel Patrick Carbone
Cast: Larry Young, Nick Reyes, Tyler Carpenter
Synopsis: Director Daniel Patrick Carbone returns to Tribeca, three years after “Hide Your Smiling Faces,” his celebrated narrative about boys forced to grow up too fast, with a searing new documentary on the transition from boyhood to adulthood in places where opportunity is a forgotten word.
