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If you grew up in the era of Britney Spears fever and thought a schoolgirl uniform was the height of sexiness and cool then Hilary Eden’s evocative debut short Bellybutton will bring you right back to those supposedly young carefree Y2K years. Eden took a core memory from her youth, wrote it into a short story and then after a gentle nudge, launched into the making of her film with a relentless fervour. Bellybutton recounts a foundational moment in time with throbbing nostalgia thanks to meticulous research into those glory days and its use of poignant 16mm cinematography. Alongside her timeless and dreamy visuals, there’s a deeper relatability to Bellybutton which also invites us to look inwards and examine the powerful and all-consuming commercial and cultural forces which have such a formative claim on coming-of-age experiences, both positive and negative. As her film premieres online on Dn...

The 2023 Tribeca Festival, presented by Okx, today announced its lineup of short narrative, documentary, and animated films, as well as music videos. The festival takes place June 7-18 and showcases 12 short film programs of diverse and creative storytelling. It’s also notable for showcasing a film by Francesca Scorsese, Martin Scorsese’s daughter, at a festival started, in part, by her father’s longtime collaborator Robert DeNiro.

The 2023 shorts lineup includes 76 total selections – 62 shorts in competition, eight music videos, and six special screening shorts – from 91 filmmakers across 25 countries. The lineup includes 48 world premieres, three international premieres, two North American premieres, one U.S. premiere, and 22 New York premieres.

Premieres include “Last Call,” about a desperate mother needing to reconnect with her son, directed by Harry Holland and starring brother Tom Holland; “Shadow Brother Sunday,” “Solo” star Alden Ehrenreich’s directorial debut (he plays “a down-on-his-luck musician returning home on the...