The last weekend of the Tribeca Film Festival is here, but that doesn’t mean it’s time to pack it in. There is still plenty to see and do at this New York City downtown dweller. From talks and films, to immersive experiences, below you’ll find our picks for what to check out before the final curtain closes Sunday night.

Tribeca Talks: TIME’S UP

The 2018 Tribeca Film Festival will go down in the annuals as the year the festival reached peak womanhood. With a slate that approached a 50/50 male to female director ratio, Tribeca is focused on giving woman voices a platform within a major festival setting. Also, this year they have partnered with TIME’S UP to present a day of talks devoted to the subject of inequality in the workplace. On Saturday, April 28 at Tribeca Festival Hub, stop in to find Amber Tamblyn, Sasheer Zamata, Lupita Nyong’o, Mira Sorvino, Sienna Miller, filmmaker Jennifer Fox and more sharing their stories and discussing ways to solve this deep-seeded systemic issue.

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Tribeca Immersive

A still from The Caretaker.

Tribeca’s Virtual Arcade and Cinema 360 are still very much open for business the final Saturday of the festival. The tools we have to tell stories are evolving and the Tribeca Immersive program exposes you to the work of the pioneers the areas of VR and AR. Among the projects in Tribeca’s Virtual Arcade to seek out include Chris Milk collaboration with OK Go’s Damian Kulash Lambchild Superstar: Making Music in the Menagerie of the Holy Cow(Virtual Arcade) and Angel Manuel Soto’s Dinner Party about the first reported UFO abduction. In Cinema 360, suit up for virtual documentary-series This is Climate Change, and It’s Right Behind You, a program of horror-themed experiences.

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Award Winner Screenings

A still from SMUGGLING HENDRIX. ©AMP Filmworks.

On the last day of the festival, Tribeca hosts screenings of the audience award-winning films as well as those celebrated by the festival’s juries, which this year counted Ray Liotta, Martha Coolidge, Zosia Mamet, Haifaa Al Mansour, and Josh Charles as members. Among the films returning to theaters in the latter category, we recommend Kent Jones’ autobiographical-tinged Diane, which stars Mary Kay Place and a stellar supporting cast that includes Andrea Martin, Estelle Parsons, Deirdre O’Connell, and Joyce Van Patten. Diane picked up several rewards, so it will be screening multiple times, you should have no problem catching it. Other films we’d like to call attention to include the Best International Narrative Feature winner Smuggling Hendrix, which shines a light on the absurd political situation in Cyprus in an accessible and comical way, Dava Whisenant’s charming Bathtubs Over Broadway, and Shawn Snyder’s science-infused To Dust, which stars Matthew Broderick.

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Tribeca TV: The Staircase & Picnic at Hanging Rock

Natalie Dormer as Mrs Appleyard in PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK.

Tribeca offers viewers the chance to take in content created for the small screen in a theater environment accompanied by a discussion with the show’s creators and the cast. So far this festival, standouts among the Tribeca TV slate have included an evening with the creators of Drunk History, and Dawn Porter’s terrific, must-see Netflix series Bobby Kennedy for President. On this final weekend, you can catch events showcasing true-crime phenomenon The Staircase, and the reboot of Peter Weir’s Picnic at Hanging Rock, starring Natalie Dormer.

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Tribeca Directors Talks

Many of the directors of the films screening at Tribeca may have already skipped town, but doesn’t mean there aren’t still opportunities to hear filmmakers talk about their craft. The festival closes out its Director’s Series with conversations between Alexander Payne (Election, About Schmidt, Downsizing) and the legendary Dick Cavett, and Laura Poitras (Citizenfour, My Country My Country) and former HBO Documentary president Sheila Nevins.