The eagerly awaited and somewhat controversial film United 93 has been chosen to open this years Tribeca Film Festival, the Festival created to help revitalize lower Manhattan after the September 11th attacks.

"The festival was basically created eight months after September 11 and it was to give our neighborhood something to look forward to and to help the renewal, and to do that you need to laugh," the festival's co-founder Jane Rosenthal told Reuters.

"We found ourselves for several years saying we need a comedy. In year five, we need to remember,"... "A lot has happened in the world and as a country we seem to have a short term memory loss,"

The film will have a premiere on April 25th and some of the relatives of those who died aboard that plane are expected to attend what promises to be an emotional screening.

From Yahoo:

"It is never easy to relive the events of 9/11, yet I support 'United 93' as a tribute to the heroism of my brother and the 39 other passengers and crew who collectively chose to say 'no' on that fateful day," Gordon Felt, who lost his brother Edward on September 11, said in a statement.

I think it's a fitting time and place for the premiere.