Uptown and downtown collide at this year's Tribeca fest

"The First Monday in May" delves into Met curator Andrew Bolton's mounting of a mammoth exhibit of influential Chinese fashion, an undertaking that coincides with Anna Wintour's annual Met Gala, the fashion extravaganza that benefits the Met's Costume Institute.

The festival will close with a 55-minute documentary called "the bomb," which will be staged with screens surrounding the audience and scored live by a band.

[...] expansions and experimentation are common on the festival circuit, but they receive more prominence and promotion at Tribeca, where the film slate — a mixture of solid documentary programming, emerging independent voices and celebrity-led curiosities — has sometimes struggled to capture the city's attention.

Events this year span from the uptown Beacon Theatre (owned by the Madison Square Garden Company, which purchased a 50 percent stake in Tribeca Enterprises in 2014) to the downtown Whitney Art Museum.

Nothing captures the festival's spirit more than Turner and Bill Ross' "Contemporary Color," a unique concert film of David Byrne's 2015 color guard show in Brooklyn.

Byrne staged music acts together with the flag-twirling acrobatics of color guard troupes in a mesmerizing swirl of music, imagery and dance.

The heartfelt Susan Sarandon-starring mother-daughter dramedy "The Meddler" will screen ahead of its theatrical release, as will Hanks' "A Hologram for the King," director Tom Tykwer's adaptation of the Dave Eggers novel.