Films

Gala

These tentpole events are the biggest premieres of the festival including Opening Night and Closing Galas.

Opening Night: Earth, Wind & Fire (To Be Celestial VS That’s the Weight of the World)

Academy Award winner Questlove kicks off the 25th Tribeca Festival with the boisterous, decades-spanning story of this legendar...

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Closing Night: Alicia Keys: Girl From Hell's Kitchen

Multi Grammy Award winner and New York City native Alicia Keys reflects on her childhood growing up in Manhattan's Hell's Kitch...

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Tribeca Festival Awards Night

Join Tribeca Co-Founders Jane Rosenthal and Robert De Niro for one of the festival’s most electric nights as this year’s compet...

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Spotlight+

Tribeca's unique Spolight+ events bring the film experience off the screen with live conversations and performances after each screening.

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Spotlight Narrative

A launching pad for the most buzzworthy new films, Tribeca’s Spotlight section brings audiences anticipated premieres from acclaimed filmmakers and star performers.

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The Accompanist

When 9-year-old Emily is removed from the care of her aging grandfather by a rookie child-welfare agent, she is placed with the...

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The Leader

Tim Blake Nelson and Vera Farmiga star in the unsettling true story of Heaven's Gate, the cult that convinced dozens to abandon...

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Next Life

When Ivy meets a handsome jazz musician on the train one fateful morning, two distinct timelines emerge: one where she falls in...

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Spotlight Documentary

Both onscreen and behind the camera, Spotlight Documentary films represent the biggest names in nonfiction premiering high profile new work.

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Travis Barker: Louder Than Fear

After surviving a devastating plane crash that nearly took his life, legendary and electrifying drummer Travis Barker embarks o...

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March Forth

This documentary is a powerful exploration into the life of Reginald Dwayne Betts, Yale Law School graduate and award-winning a...

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Hanging by a Wire

When a cable car fails over a remote valley in the Himalayas, eight passengers are left suspended in crisis. What follows is a ...

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Escape From Tribeca

The most exciting cult movies from our galaxy: present, past, and future. Far-out premieres and nerve-shredding classics along with giveaways, prizes and fan-focused fun. Escape the ordinary and embrace the psychotronic!

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The Haunting of Pennhurst

Once a notorious institution for people with disabilities, Pennhurst finally closed after decades of abuse in 1987. Now those d...

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Mutter: The Diary of a Mother

Under traumatic circumstances, Gül gives birth to her first child: an inhuman creature. What’s a single mother to do? Protect h...

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Breeder

An eccentric poodle breeder lures a broke college student to her remote ranch with a promise of research funding. But, as he so...

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Viewpoints

Tribeca’s home for distinct points of view and bold directorial visions, Viewpoints discovers the most boundary-pushing, rule-breaking new voices in independent film.

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Human Theories

New York City and its mélange of residents are the stars of this funny and relatable debut film, featuring intertwined vignette...

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Micronations

From backyard kingdoms to full-blown diplomatic summits, the world's self-declared kings, queens and emperors invite you in. A ...

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Something You Should Know About Me

In this sweet and raunchy trans rom-com, insecure cartoonist Al is faced with his most daunting prompt yet: confess his true fe...

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U.S. Narrative Competition

Discover breakout independent voices from around the country as these extraordinary world premieres compete for honors in Tribeca's U.S. Narrative Competition.

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She Keeps Me Young

Michelle is floating through life until a surprising connection with a high schooler challenges her friendship with her overbea...

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Here I'm Alive

One night. One city. Migrants, sex workers and dreamers hustle New York's digital underbelly in this neo-realist urban epic dri...

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Cotton Fever

Inspired by director Daniel Blake Schwartz's real-life experiences, this striking debut feature charts the uneven cycles of add...

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Documentary Competition

Experience the cinema of reality with these remarkable non-fiction premieres sure to make waves in the coming year.

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Time Warp

50 years after “The Rocky Horror Picture Show” electrified audiences, a drag theater company in the once-booming mining town of...

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Jail Time Records

The rivetingly intimate Jail Time Records profiles the first prison recording studio on the African continent and three incarce...

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The Siege of Paradise

The Siege of Paradise cheekily scrutinizes the annual tourist season at Cinque Terre in Italy, "the most beautiful place in the...

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International Narrative Competition

The New-York based Festival breaks its geographical boundaries with the International Narrative Competition, welcoming filmmakers from abroad to join a global platform for contemporary world cinema.

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Sad Girlz

A striking coming-of-age drama seen through the eyes of two best friends whose bond is put to the test when they have drastical...

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Memorizu

After his father-in-law breaks his leg, Yuta travels to a rural town in Kyushu to lend a hand at the photo studio he runs in th...

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I Spy With My Little Eye

After losing their childhood best friend, Yalda and Lou are left to clear out Solveigh’s apartment. In Alisa Kolosova’s bitters...

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Reunions & Retrospectives

One of a kind cinematic experiences, performances, and conversations.

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Daft Punk's Electroma: 4k Remaster and 20th Anniversary

A 2006 avant-garde science fiction film directed by the French electronic music duo Daft Punk (Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel ...

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Taxi Driver

Directed by Martin Scorsese, the film stars Robert De Niro as a mentally unstable veteran who works as a nighttime taxi driver ...

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The Cable Guy with Ben Stiller and Matthew Broderick

It's a time-honored urban ritual: Slip the cable guy $50 and you'll get all the movie channels for free. But when Steven Kovacs...

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Special Events

Special events at Tribeca Festival

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ESPN Deportes, ESPN, & Tribeca Studios Presents: 13.4 Seconds To Nowhere + Shooting Stars

ESPN, ESPN Deportes, and Tribeca Studios have collaborated to greenlight two short documentaries that bring to life compelling ...

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Dreams of Violets

Tehran, January 2026. Dreams of Violets is a 75-minute docudrama feature inspired by real events from 47 years of Iranian civil...

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Op-Docs: Extraordinary Times, Real Lives

From a look into dating in a country with over 30 million more men than women to middle schoolers making sense of the world thr...

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Shorts Programs

Big ideas in small packages: our Shorts Programs boast 86 titles from 93 filmmakers across narrative, documentary, animated, and music video categories.

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Shorts: Competitive Edge

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Shorts: NY Making It Here

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Shorts: Helpline

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Free Outdoor Screenings

Presenting Tribeca at 25: Celebrating the Stories We Share, a series of free outdoor screenings at Hudson Yards revisiting landmark premieres, audience favorites, and breakthrough discoveries that have defined Tribeca.

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