The Travel Companion
Director(s): Travis Wood, Alex Mallis
Film description: Simon, a struggling documentary filmmaker, enjoys free flights courtesy of his best friend and roommate, Bruce, who works for an airline. However, when Beatrice, a more successful filmmaker, enters the picture and starts dating Bruce, Simon risks flying too close to the sun.
Screening after: Not Today
ERIC SAYS Like the best films of Joe Swanberg and Lynn Shelton, The Travel Companion has a gift for capturing a relationship in a period of critical change—and the surprising way little habits, traits, and incidents can grow into formidable wedges between people. Tristan Turner (of Netflix’s The Residence) and Anthony Oberbeck (of New/Next bangers past and present Dad & Step-Dad and Reveries: The Mind Prison) deliver brilliantly nuanced performances as besties who doubled down and became roomies, but find their lives may now be routed on very different flight plans.
Alex Mallis and Travis Wood’s quietly compassionate dramedy premiered at Tribeca 2025, and is one of those character studies that has the power to keep you wondering how its fictional protagonists are doing long after the lights come up. (Eric Allen Hatch)
Writer(s): Alex Mallis, Travis Wood & Weston Auburn
Producer(s): Weston Auburn, Travis Wood, Alex Mallis
Editor(s): Bryan Chang
Cinematographer(s): Jason Chiu
Country of origin: USA
Principal cast: Tristan Turner, Anthony Oberbeck, Naomi Asa
Language: English
Year: 2025
Duration: 91 min
Premiere status: Maryland Premiere
