DOHA: The Tribeca Film Festival is not just about movie fans going there to personally watch celebrities walking down the aisle on the red carpet because it offers films that are unique and make sense.

Geoff Gilmore (pictured), Chief Creative Officer of Tribeca Enterprises, pointed this out in an interview. He said that the film festival has already drawn a lot of excitement and enthusiasm not because of fans meeting in person their movie idols but the opportunity to see the works and meet the people behind the film industry.

“It is an opportunity to get to meet film-makers and actors, a range of industry executives, press, and the people who make film festival communities so interesting and engaging,” Gilmore said.

Gilmore said moviegoers would appreciate more films that they are not familiar with and don’t know much about with an array of extremely eclectic and broad-ranging list of films, “so there is something for everyone.”

“Experience something like a documentary or an American independent work or, for example, a local filmmaker, as some Arab film-makers don’t get the visibility they deserve and the range of work opens you up to a different perspective,” Gilmore said.

He said that “Capitalism: A Love Story,” “Big River Man” and “The September Issue” wer all fantastic documentaries beig screened during the festival. “Capitalism” is Michael Moore’s highly personal take on the economic crisis. “Big River Man” is about one man’s attempt to swim the world’s rivers, a relentless quest that is absolutely compelling. “The September Issue” makes you marvel at the access director RJ Cutler had to Vogue editor Anna Wintour.

On the new faces on screen in Doha he said: “Carey Mulligan is a young actress whose career has been launched by two films in the festival. Shana Estes’ film “The Greatest” features well-known stars Susan Sarandon and Pierce Brosnan as a couple grieving the death of their teenaged son. Carey plays the son’s girlfriend and she’s magnificent. She is also wonderful in Lone Scherfig’s “An Education,” playing a 16-year-old girl in early-60s London who is romanced by Peter Sarsgaard. She emerged from the UK and is being written about everywhere because she inhabits these roles.

He also recommended 10 Middle Eastern films done by film makers in the Gulf who started to earn a niche in the bigger industry and world-renowned film festivals like the Cannes.

“Overall, the stylistic and tonal diversity of our 10 films from the Mideast is amazing. It shows how fertile this region has become for filmmakers of all stripes,” Gilmore said.

Asked on the narrative films in the festival that he is mos excited about he said: “Bright Star,” from director Jane Campion, has an ethereal romanticism about it. Also not to be missed are “Sin Nombre,” a heartbreaking story about immigration by young independent director Cary Fukunaga; the Coen Bros.’ “A Serious Man”; and Dev Benegal’s “Road, Movie,” which works both as a love story and as a metaphorical depiction of India itself.

“This festival has been such an amazing partnership and the outreach to the community has been part and parcel of this event from the beginning,”he added.