Tendaberry

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Tendaberry

2024,

1h 59m,

Drama/

Romance

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When her boyfriend goes back to Ukraine to be with his ailing father, 23-year-old Dakota anxiously navigates her precarious new reality, surviving on her own in New York City.

Peter Bradshaw

Guardian

Apr 24, 2025

3/5

There are some terrific scenes shot guerrilla-style in the city with real people providing sensational cameo roles.

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Carlos Aguilar

Variety

Jan 31, 2024

A ravishingly lyrical portrait of both a single young life and a centuries-old locale converging in the present.

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Drew Gregory

Autostraddle

Jan 23, 2024

Part neorealist drama, part multimedia fantasia, Haley Elizabeth Anderson’s striking debut is a character study cracked open by its protagonist’s curiosity.

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André Didyme-Dôme

Rolling Stone en Español

Oct 1, 2026

Tendaberry is a silent manifesto on the importance of inhabiting the present, of recording it, and of naming it. [Full review in Spanish]

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Marya E. Gates

Cool People Have Feelings, Too. (Substack)

Jun 14, 2025

The impressionistic world Anderson creates, along with her DP Matthew Ballard and editor Stephania Dulowski, results in a film that asks the audience to rethink their own conceptions of temporality.

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Daniel Allen

In Review Online

May 3, 2025

There have been hundreds of films about The City That Never Sleeps, but few are as unique, as freeform, and as completely alive in spirit as Tendaberry.

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Haley Elizabeth Anderson

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Kota Johan

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Yuri Pleskun

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Haley Elizabeth Anderson

Screenwriter

Carlos Zozaya

Producer

Matthew Petock

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Synopsis

When her boyfriend goes back to Ukraine to be with his ailing father, 23-year-old Dakota anxiously navigates her precarious new reality, surviving on her own in New York City.

Director: Haley Elizabeth Anderson
Producer: Carlos Zozaya, Matthew Petock, Zachary Shedd, Hannah Dweck, Theodore Schaefer, Daniel Patrick Carbone, Haley Elizabeth Anderson
Screenwriter: Haley Elizabeth Anderson
Production Co: Flies Collective, Dweck Productions, Neon Heart Productions, Spark Features
Genre: Drama, Romance
Original Language: English
Runtime: 1h 59m

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