the opportunity to showcase their work. we ll be covering different aspects of the festival, asking if co founder robert de niro s strident anti trump rhetoric interfered with tribeca s celebration of cinema. he wants to do everything possible to mess things up. we ll also be seeing how activist or political films were making an impact, and films from around the world, including the story of a young somali girl who became an olympic athlete. and we sit down with one of america s great independent film makers, richard linklater. it s not hard coming up with the films you want to make. it s hard to get them financed sometimes, but people are going to make films somehow, some way. since 2002, lower manhattan has hosted the tribeca festival. among those instrumental in bringing it into being was the legendary actor robert de niro and his producing partner, jane rosenthal. originally, it was more of a civic restoration project designed to bring life back to the devastated tribeca
but at dawn today, on the beaches of normandy, they remembered. making their own 80th anniversary normandy landing, a group of royal marines, wading ashore as those before them had done in 1944. but these are now peaceful waters, thanks to the sacrifices made on d day. archive: this is it, | they re on the beach. few truly understood the onslaught they d face. young men, thrust into the brutality of war. 80 years on, those who survived and grew old honoured lost friends. it is all because of gummy s quick thinking, his desire to help those around him, that i can stand before you today. i wish i could tell him i have never taken his sacrifice for granted. and we ll always remember him and ourfriends. so, gummy, thank you, my old friend. a tribute, from the one who made it home. at the british normandy memorial, the service of commemoration put the veterans centre stage. relegated to the back rows, the king and queen, and president macron. watching the service wasjoe mines. he
features, as well as other storytelling endeavours to the city. some films will reflect the polarised views, conflicts and politics of the world today. tribeca has politics in its dna, more overtly in the documentaries. for example, this year there s a documentary called cranes call. people and units. ..which is a documentary about george clooney s foundation forjustice and people there working to prosecute war crimes against a russian general that they re trying to track down who s committed war crimes in ukraine. only a few films from the middle east will be shown at tribeca this year. come closer, a drama, is the sole israeli film in the line up. since the israel gaza war, israeli film makers have found many international film festivals reluctant to show their ware. flyers from the israeli film festival? but israel film center festival in new york, running at the same time as tribeca, will be screening several israeli movies and holding a panel