Having their World Premieres at the 2024 edition of the Tribeca Film Festival are two movies about queer women you will not want to miss. First comes RIPE from directing duo Kerry Furrh and Olivia Mitchell, set in rural Spain, it follows a tumultuous summer romance between an American and a Catalan teen.
The film’s young protagonists Sophie (Raina Landolfi) and Gloria (Rita Roca) face a heated fallout on a football pitch. Yet, despite their differences, they cannot help returning to one another. As things come to a head, the duo’s blossoming chemistry hangs on a tense trade-off: “Cook me dinner and I will forgive you”. In what begins as an awkward meal, the two reconnect over Sophie’s cooking and start to open up to one another. Together, Sophie and Gloria uncover shared feelings and bittersweet emotions in this coming of age-of-age queer short.
Ripe’s producers called upon pro-athlete Kelley O’Hara, who had spent her early days t Stanford playing football, to help bring the sports love story to life. She told them that her time on and off the pitch , was shaped by the woman she was surrounded by : ” there was something innately powerful about being in a team, a collective that fought for the win and each other”
“Soccer provides a setting for these girls to get to know each other and work through certain emotions but the storyline isn’t all based on the sport,” she continues. “I love that it provides this landscape to their shared tensions. It’s sweet but there’s also some roughness to their love story. I feel lucky that I got brought in to do this.
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The second World Premiere at TRIBECA that is on Queerguru”s ‘not-to-be-missed is ‘Melissa Etheridge: I’m Not BroKen’. Its such an inspiring story that shows another side to the multi-award winning queer singer/songwriter that many of us do not know about. It starts ahen five female residents from the Topeka Correctional Facility write letters to Etheridge, and she uses their letters as inspiration to create and perform an original song for them.
.Having recently lost her son to opioids, Etheridge works to understand and interrupt the cycle of addiction while connecting with these women who, so often, are forgotten by society. With female incarceration rates up 700 percent since 1980, Etheridge bonds with the women through the conduit of music as an act of empathy, understanding, and hope. Yoy may need a big box of tissues for this one.
Directed by Brian Morrow, and Amy Scott, and after TRIBECA It will debut on Paramount+ later this year.
2024 Tribeca Film Festival Location: New York Dates: Wed, Jun 5, 2024 – Sun, Jun 16, 2024
Labels: 2024, Im Not Broken, lesbian, Melissa Etheridge, Ripe, Tribeca, World Premieres
