“How to make sense of the Tribeca Film Festival” was the altogether appropriate headline of the New York Times previewof the Tribeca Film Festival. Even as the festival is only a third of the size of most larger festivals — statistic courtesy of Festival Director GennaTerranovaat yesterday’s Robert DeNiro and Jane Rosenthal-hosted press lunch — it still unveils itself with a dizzying shock and awe. There are films, but also talks with people you don’t want to miss, from Patti Smith to Emmanuel Lubezki, as well as master classes by filmmakers like Catherine Hardwick. As with most festivals today, cinema’s diminishing cultural clout is compensated for by a kind of programmatic future-proofing that leads to even more film-competing events. Said Rosenthal at yesterday’s event, “We keep our eye — and our AI — on tomorrow.”

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