The Cove

Under Our Skin

As awards season shifts into high gear, the Tribeca Film Institute‘s Gucci Tribeca Documentary Fund—that second “Tribeca” could totally go—is giving cinephiles (and anyone who wants to win his/her Oscar pool) an opportunity to watch six of the fifteen documentaries that have made the Academy Awards shortlist. The films in question are The Cove (which is about dolphins in captivity), Food, Inc. (the industrialization of what we eat), Living in Emergency (Doctors Without Borders), Soundtrack for a Revolution (music and the American civil rights movement), Under Our Skin (Lyme disease), and Which Way Home (children trying to immigrate from Mexico). They’ll be screened January 8 and 9 at Tribeca Cinemas. (The blog post that announced the series also pointed out that Tribeca Cinemas has a bar—you might need a drink, given the subject matter.) For more information on the films—and to buy tickets, which cost $10 and go on sale today—visit tribecafilm.com/docseries.