Five Canadian shorts and two features have been booked into the 2013 Tribeca Film Festival, taking place Apr. 17 to 28 in New York City.

Whitewash, directed by Emanuel Hoss-Desmarais, will have its world bow at the festival. The dark comedy starring Thomas Haden Church and set in Northern Quebec is produced by micro_scope’s Luc Dery and Kim McCraw, the producers behind Monsieur Lazhar. Hoss-Desmarais and Marc Tulin wrote the script.

And A Single Shot, directed by David M. Rosenthal, is a Canadian-U.K-U.S. copro shot in Vancouver. Starring Sam Rockwell and William H. Macy, the crime drama is backed by Canadian prodcos Bron studios and Media House Capital.

The Canadian short selections are part of a total of 60 short films that will be presented across eight programs at the festival.

In the Skin Deep narrative sidebar, which features films that explore issues of self-image and self-discovery, Ina Litovski, from Inch’Allah director Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette and Incendies cinematographer André Turpin, will have its U.S. premiere. Turpin and Barbeau-Lavalette also wrote the script.

In the Worst Day Ever narrative sidebar, which is self-explanatory, Life Doesn’t Frighten Me, written and directed by Stephen Dunn will have its New York premiere.

And in the experimental sidebar, Let There Be Light: Cycles of Life, Parallel North (Parallèle Nord) written and directed by Félix Dufour-Laperrière will have its world premiere, while Depart, directed by Blake Williams, gets its U.S. premiere in this program, and Sight, directed by Thirza Cuthand, will have its U.S. premiere. The experimental program features films  that showcase the artistic influence of light.

Other shorts programs at Tribeca include the History Lessons and Character Witness documentary short programs, and the narrative programs The End is Near, Unlimited Ride (New York shorts) and Deadbolt (vampire and werewolf-genre specific).