Like the flowers protruding from the ground in this warming weather, the spring film-festival season is in full bloom. It was just Thursday when May’s Cannes Film Festival announced its line-up. Now, we’re mere days away from this year’s Tribeca Film Festival, which serves not only as one of NYC’s biggest, most prolific film festivals, but also one of the biggest and most prestigious festivals of the new millennium.

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Founded in 2002 as a response to Tribeca’s loss of vitality shortly after the 9/11 attacks, the lower-Manhattan public-cinema event, co-founded by Robert De Niro, is an annual celebration of the power of documentaries, independent films, studio films and shorts in difficult days, and how worldwide art brings us together, notably through troubled, heartbroken times.

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It’s been a bit of an odd year for Marion Cotillard. On the festival front she failed to connect with “From The Land Of The Moon,” while Xavier Dolan‘s “It’s Only The End Of The World” got a mixed reception from critics at Cannes and still doesn’t have U.S. distribution. Meanwhile, at the multiplex, the WWII spy movie “Allied” flopped and this month’s “Assassin’s Creed” doesn’t look so hot.

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