now on bbc news a special edition of talking movies from the tribeca festival. hello from new york. i m tom brook, and welcome to talking movies. in this edition, highlights from robert de niro s tribeca festival. lots on offer at tribeca this year and lots to see in talking movies. the opening night film was kiss the future, co produced by matt damon. what i love about this movie is what it says about the role of art and music as an act of defiance. compelling documentaries from ukraine including one showing the power of laughter during war. and female film makers breaking records at tribeca with better representation than ever this year they were very pleased to be here. tribeca! it is the word on every movie director s lips. and the deaf oscar winning actor, troy kotsur, on his moving short film paying tribute to his father. all that and more on this special tribeca edition of talking movies. for the past 12 days, new york city has been hosting the tribeca festival. it
something hamas denies. for more on all this, i spoke with our diplomatic correspondent paul adams, who is injerusalem. thanks forjoining us. these reports coming out of gaza paint a grim picture of the humanitarian situation there. what more can you tell us about how hospitals in gaza are coping? well, with great difficulty. they are all pretty much surrounded in gaza city, because the israelis argue these are places where hamas fighters have based themselves, and consequently there have been intense battles going on around us hospitals. the israelis say they are not targeting hospitals per se, and they are trying to get the civilian populations that are clustered around them to try to leave, and also starting to think about evacuating the hospitals themselves, so that israel can concentrate on dealing with hamas. there is a small development on that front this evening. the israelis said tomorrow they are going to evacuate babies from the shifa hospital to a safer location.
and it s a place ofjoy, imagination. it s where you can just truly escape and dream about what s possible. and i ve been committed to that idea since i was a small child, and i guess it never left me. and we are, of course, going to talk much more about disney. but i d like to just get a sense first of who you are and how you got here. i think you were born on rhode island, in rhode island, and grew up in a single parent family. your mother worked two jobs to support you and your sister. and as i said at the beginning, you ve talked about being bullied. what was it about watching cinderella that helped you cope? oh, i think definitely the part about cinderella that i m most connected with is. she was mistreated by her own family, which is even more upsetting. but she stayed true to herself. she didn t believe them when they treated her like she was less than them. and i think for children, when a child s bullied, they tend to eventually believe the bullies. they think, i am.
the international humanitarian agency, medecins sans frontieres, says 2 million palestinians are still trapped in gaza under shelling and more than 22,000 injured people remain with limited access to health care. our international editorjeremy bowen has more on the border s opening. a warning, his report contains distressing images. at last the gates of the rafah crossing were opened. some foreign citizens were allowed to leave gaza for egypt. for the first time since israel imposed its siege. convoys of aid trucks are moving into gaza, though not nearly as many as the un and aid agencies say are necessary. ambulances went in for the seriously wounded. injabalia, at the opposite end of the gaza strip, more israeli raids. this time they said the target was a command centre. the un said gaza s civilian were being starved, traumatised and bombed to death. on the other side of the border wire, israelis are still in shock over the october 7 attacks. this is nirim kibbutz directly
what does disney mean to you? oh, i mean, i would say disney fights hopelessness with hope. and it s a place ofjoy, imagination. it s where you can just truly escape and dream about what s possible. and i ve been committed to that idea since i was a small child, and i guess it never left me. and we are, of course, going to talk much more about disney. but i d like to just get a sense first of who you are and how you got here. i think you were born on rhode island, in rhode island, and grew up in a single parent family. your mother worked two jobs to support you and your sister. and as i said at the beginning, you ve talked about being bullied. what was it about watching cinderella that helped you cope? oh, i think definitely the part about cinderella that i m most connected with is. she was mistreated by her own family, which is even more upsetting. but she stayed true to herself. she didn t believe them when they treated her like she was less than them. and i think for child