Duane Street native Lily Weisberg has directed a short film that will have its premiere tomorrow, June 5, at the Tribeca Festival. “Rare Birds” is about 12-year-old Candice, who is hellbent on getting her former camp counselor, Jerry, fired from his job at the local antique store so that he’ll have more to shoot hoops with her. Get tickets here.

“New York is very much in the DNA of the film,” Lily said. The star is Tony Macht, an actor who is a member of the original off-Broadway cast of “Oh, Mary!” and still stars in that role on Broadway today. The film co-stars Zoe Zielger (who was the lead in A24’s “Janet Planet”) and Joseph R. Sicari, a legendary New York television and theater actor, who has been in “Seinfeld” and “The Sopranos.”

Lily, who is 26, went to Washington Market School, PS 234 and then Friends Seminary; she’s been making films since she graduated from Yale in 2021.

She was awarded the Best Student Director Award at the Mystic Film Festival and the Special Jury Prize in Acting at the Yale Film Festival for her 2021 film “Studio 210.” Her previous film, “Working Summer,” premiered in competition at the 2024 Montclair Film Festival and internationally at the Raindance Film Festival. And alongside Michael Bloom, Lily is the co-founder of Modern Silent Shorts, an initiative that commissions works of contemporary silent films — often screened with live original music.

In this story, Candice is lonely and foul-mouthed and convinced that she and Jerry are best friends. Jerry is a failure-to-launch young adult who insists that children and adults cannot be friends, but Candice doesn’t buy it. Observing their standoff is the 90-year-old antique store owner, Henry, who is in the midst of a crisis of his own as he contemplates his own mortality.

“Throughout my childhood, I was much like Candice, certain that I was engaged in full-fledged mutual friendships with adults who turned out to be my babysitters, camp counselors, cousins, and teachers,” Lily says in her director’s statement. “As a filmmaker, I’m drawn to intergenerational and unlikely relationships. In my favorite films, characters at different stages of life find solace, similarity, and mutual recognition in one another.”