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Apr 27, 2016 10:14 PM UTC Though the Tribeca Film Festival doesn’t necessarily attract the same all-night bidding wars as [Sundance](http://time.com/4200767/sundance-2016-biggest-movies/) or the ([sometimes controversial](http://time.com/3885706/cannes-film-festival-high-heels/)) high-heeled glamour of Cannes, it remains a reliable showcase for indie movies and documentaries. Though this year’s slate included a number of higher-profile films—the Kevin Spacey-[Michael Shannon](http://time.com/4297636/michael-shannon-on-his-behind-closed-doors-private-version-of-elvis/) historical comedy [_Elvis & Nixon_](http://time.com/4299360/review-spacey-shannon-elvis-nixon/), Tom Hanks-starrer _A Hologram for the King_ and [Susan Sarandon](http://motto.time.com/4299486/susan-sarandon-feminism/) vehicle _The Meddler_ (all released April 22), as well as Jason Bateman’s sophomore directorial feature _The Family Fang_ (April 29) and the Tom Hiddleston black comedy _High-Rise_ (May 13)—it also delivered on directorial debuts, fresh voices and documentaries ranging from the deeply personal to the caustically political. Of the more than 150 films that screened at this year’s festival, here are the standouts you can expect to be hearing about. ### _Dean_  Demetri Martin and Gillian Jacobs from "Dean" pose at the Tribeca Film Festival Getty Images Studio on April 16, 2016 in New York City. Larry Busacca—2016 Getty Images Comedian Demetri Martin’s directorial debut won the festival’s award for Best Narrative Feature in the U.S. Narrative Competition with its tale of an illustrator struggling to emerge from the cloud of grief that’s trailed him since his mother’s death. The film sketches out two parallel romantic narratives—one focusing on Martin’s character and a new love interest played by Gillian Jacobs and the other, more backgrounded, on his father (Kevin Kline) and his real estate agent (Mary Steenburgen)—and has drawn comparisons to _Annie Hall_ and _Garden State_. _Dean_ will be distributed by CBS Films, though no release date has been announced. ### _Little Boxes_  Melanie Lynskey and Armani Jackson from "Little Boxes" pose at the Tribeca Film Festival Getty Images Studio on April 16, 2016 in New York City. Larry Busacca —2016 Getty Images Netflix snatched up this dramedy from director Rob Meyer, no doubt for its nuanced look at the ways in which questions of class and race affect an interracial family relocating from Brooklyn to small-town Washington. The couple (Melanie Lynskey and Nelsan Ellis) and their adolescent son (Armani Jackson) find themselves the targets of subtle (and sometimes not so subtle) racism while also confronting their own privileged, and sometimes just as ignorant, views about their new neighbors. ### _Don’t Think Twice_  Keegan-Michael Key and Mike Birbiglia from "Don't Think Twice" pose at the Tribeca Film Festival Getty Images Studio on April 18, 2016 in New York City. Larry Busacca —2016 Getty Images Comedian Mike Birbiglia’s sophomore directorial feature explores what it’s like when someone with whom you’ve logged years in the trenches—in this case, New York City’s improv scene—makes it really, really big. _Key and Peele_‘s Keegan-Michael Key plays the big shot here, landing on a _Saturday Night Live-_like sketch show while the rest of his troupe takes a hard, and often brutally funny, look at why they’re stuck handing out hummus samples as their former comrade goes to glamorous after-parties he can’t even get them into. _Don’t Think Twice_ is slated for release on July 22. ### _Equals_  Nicholas Hoult and director Drake Doremus from "Equals" pose at the Tribeca Film Festival Getty Images Studio on April 18, 2016 in New York City. Larry Busacca —2016 Getty Images Drake Doremus’ dystopian sci-fi flick finds its protagonists, brought to life by Nicholas Hoult and Kristen Stewart, living in a future in which human emotion is not only verboten but actually prevented by genetic programming. When they both experience a malfunction that allows them to experience love, they’re thrust into a forbidden affair, the discovery of which could spell an untimely death for both. Though its premise about the need for human connection is hardly unexplored, Hoult and Stewart deliver passionate performances, and the stark, monochromatic visuals offer an aesthetically pleasing, if frightfully cold, picture of the future. _Equals_ opens in theaters theaters July 15. ### _The Phenom_  Ethan Hawke, Johnny Simmons and Paul Giamatti attend "The Phenom" Premiere during the 2016 Tribeca Film Festival on April 17, 2016 in New York City. Cindy Ord —2016 Getty Images _The Phenom_ is about a baseball player, and that’s about all it has in common with any baseball movie you’ve ever seen. That much is clear from the opening credits, written in a scrawling cursive script over dainty floral wallpaper to the sound of an aristocratic classical score. Johnny Simmons stars as the phenom in question, a high school great who cracks under pressure in the Major Leagues, thanks in part to complex daddy issues (Ethan Hawke plays his beer-guzzling excuse for a father). Paul Giamatti plays his new mental coach, who knows the problem runs much deeper than the mechanics of his wind-up. _The Phenom_ will be released on June 24. ### _Hunt for the Wilderpeople_  Julian Dennison and writer/director Taika Waititi from the film 'Hunt for the Wilderpeople' pose for a portrait on January 22, 2016 in Park City, Utah. Jeff Vespa —2016 Jeff Vespa/Getty Images Writer-director Taika Waititi boasts an impressive background in his home country of New Zealand, where his 2010 film _Boy_ remains the top-grossing Kiwi movie, and a bright future with his big-ticket gig helming next year’s Marvel flick _Thor: Ragnarok_. But this year, first at Sundance and again at Tribeca, he’s in the spotlight for his tale of a tough foster kid teaming up with a 60-something grouch to survive in the bush. An adaptation of Barry Crumps’s novel _Wild Pork and Watercress_, _Hunt for the_ _Wilderpeople_hits theaters June 24. ### _All We Had_  Katie Holmes from "All We Had" poses at the Tribeca Film Festival Getty Images Studio on April 16, 2016 in New York City. Larry Busacca —2016 Getty Images Katie Holmes makes her directorial debut with this adaptation of Annie Weatherwax’s 2014 novel about a struggling mother and her teenage daughter trying to make a home for themselves after bouncing around from lousy boyfriend to lousy boyfriend. With a gentle turn by Luke Wilson and the introduction of promising newcomers Eve Lindley and Stefania Owen, _All We Had_ is an intimate look at the effects of the Great Recession on this family of two. Though some of its meditations on female resilience are spelled out more plainly than they need to be, it’s an impressive first outing behind the camera accompanied by an affecting performance by Holmes. ### _Life, Animated_  Director Roger Ross Williams and Owen Suskind attend "Life, Animated" Premiere during the 2016 Tribeca Film Festivalon April 23, 2016 in New York City. Ilya S. Savenok —2016 Getty Images Owen Suskind’s obsession with Disney movies was not your typical childhood fondness for fairy godmothers and talking toys. Suskind, now in his early 20s, is autistic, and was for many years unable to communicate—until he and his family developed a language rooted in the dialogue and songs of Disney movies. Based on a book written by Suskind’s father, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Ron Suskind, Oscar-winning director Roger Ross Williams tells the Suskind family’s story in _Life, Animated_, which will be released on July 8. ### _Southwest of Salem: The Story of the San Antonio Four_  Film subjects Elizabeth Ramirez, Cassandra Rivera, Anna Vasquez and Kristie Mayhugh attend the 'Southwest of Salem: The Story of the San Antonio Four' premiere on April 15, 2016 in New York City. Robin Marchant—2016 Getty Images _Southwest of Salem_ has an immediate leg up due to the immense popularity of recent are-they-or-aren’t-they-guilty true crime series like _Serial_ and _Making a Murderer_. But this documentary by Deborah S. Esquinazi focuses not on the ambiguity of the accusations against four women charged with gang-raping two children, but on the toxically homophobic environment that led to their wrongful convictions in 1994\. The film goes beyond the usual trappings of a true crime story to examine yet another way in which the criminal justice system can be derailed by unfounded fear and prejudiced groupthink. ### _My Blind Brother_  Charlie Hewson, Jenny Slate, Sophie Goodhart, Nick Kroll and Zoe Kazan attend the "My Blind Brother" premiere during the 2016 SXSW Festival on March 12, 2016 in Austin, Texas. Neilson Barnard--Getty Images for SXSW Adam Scott, Nick Kroll and Jenny Slate are a joy to watch in Sophie Goodhart’s film about an unconventional love triangle and a brotherhood strained by guilt and obligation. Kroll’s Bill is a constant companion to his blind brother Robbie (Scott), but Robbie is a cocky attention junkie who never expresses appreciation for his brother’s dedication (the opening scene finds both men having completed a marathon, Bill as guide to Robbie, with the latter receiving a hero’s welcome as his brother is all but ignored). When they both fall for Rose (Slate), things get complicated. Everyone here is flawed and human—the trick is finding a way to become a little less blind to their own flawed humanity. ### _Women Who Kill_  Actress Sheila Vand, actress Ann Carr, and director Ingrid Jungermann from 'Women Who Kill' pose at the Tribeca Film Festival Getty Images Studio on April 15, 2016 in New York City. Larry Busacca—2016 Getty Images Brooklyn-based filmmaker Ingrid Jungermann won an award for Best Screenplay at this year’s festival for _Women Who Kill_, which Indiewire [described](http://www.indiewire.com/article/women-who-kill-review-ingrid-jungermann-tribeca-film-festival-f-to-the-7th-slope-webseries) as the “best lesbian horror-comedy ever.” There may not be a wealth of competition in that genre, but the film delivers nonetheless, at once a caustically funny and anxiety-inducing feature debut for the creator of the popular web series “[The Slope](https://vimeo.com/user7692596)” and “[F to 7th](http://www.fto7th.com/).” The movie centers on the hosts of a podcast about female serial killers, one of whom (played by Jungermann) begins to fear that her new girlfriend (Sheila Vand of _A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night_) may be a serial killer herself. We’ll be seeing more from Jungermann soon, as she’s currently adapting “F to 7th” for a comedy series at Showtime. ### _Adult Life Skills_  Director Rachel Tunnard attends the "Adult Life Skills" Premiere during the 2016 Tribeca Film Festival on April 17, 2016 in New York City. Ben Gabbe--Getty Images for Tribeca Film Fe British filmmaker Rachel Tunnard won the 2016 Nora Ephron Prize for her feature debut about a woman who has lost her way in life following the death of her twin brother. Anna (Jodie Whittaker) is about to turn 30, and though her mother would prefer she move out of the toolshed she calls home and find a boyfriend, she spends most of her time making videos that feature her thumbs, with drawn-on faces, navigating a tin-foil spaceship toward the sun. The film is remarkable enough for its endearingly oddball point of view—Anna sees faces in flashing traffic lights and microwaves her clothes dry when she’s running late for work—but it’s Tunnard’s gentle exploration of grief that wins hearts here. ### _Always Shine_  Actress Caitlin FitzGerald, director Sophia Takal, and actress Mackenzie Davis pose at the Tribeca Film Festival Getty Images Studio on April 15, 2016 in New York City. Larry Busacca--Getty Images for the 2016 Tribec There’s standard-issue jealousy, and then there’s the kind of deep-seated resentment that tears people apart, slowly at first and then suddenly, violently, irreversibly. It’s this intense boil of emotion that drives Sophia Takal’s psychological thriller _Always Shine_, which finds two actor friends, played by Caitlin FitzGerald (_Masters of Sex_) and Mackenzie Davis (_Halt and Catch Fire_), working through their damage in a secluded Big Sur cabin. 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