Festival Film Lineup 2026: Movies & Premieres

Gala

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

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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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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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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Act One

In this rhythmic psychological thriller, a lonely aspiring teen actress finds herself drawn to an acting teacher who pulls her ...

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They Fight

Recently released from prison, coach Walt Mangian joins a local youth gym to help a ragtag team of adolescent boxers aspiring t...

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Rain Reign

Rose is a 12-year-old, neurodivergent girl cared for by her struggling single dad and well-meaning uncle. When her beloved dog ...

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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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Just Look Up

This propulsive documentary follows Climate Defiance and founder Michael Greenberg’s unabashedly disruptive protests, expressin...

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Born Melo

This new, official documentary takes an intimate look into the life and legacy of Carmelo Anthony as he is inducted into the Ha...

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TikTok Never Dies

When TikTok faces a nationwide ban, three influencers fight for their livelihoods, their voices, and the First Amendment. As th...

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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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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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Turn It Up!

An indie rock band struggling to make its mark finds a possible meal ticket in an infectious new guitar riff. Unfortunately, it...

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Death Boom

Eighty years ago, the “Baby Boom” led to a massive uptick in births. Now, we’re seeing the inevitable end of that surge as thos...

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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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The Keeper of the Camphor Tree

The inspiring animated feature The Keeper of the Camphor Tree follows the personal metamorphosis of young Naoi who is offered a...

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Vanishing Tracks

Under the Zagros Mountains outside Shiraz, a family of Iranian nomads and their reticent sons investigate the disappearance of ...

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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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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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Lucy Schulman

After a crushing breakup, Lucy moves back in with her eccentric single dad and dives into bad dates, false starts, and growing ...

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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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Mother Future Self

An experimental dance camp in rural Maine sure sounds like a great place to have a long-awaited reunion, no? Sofi and Jordan re...

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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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Mexicanamerican

Expertly merging old VHS home movies with new family interviews, filmmaker Eddie Sánchez traces his parents' journey from Mexic...

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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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Retrieval

If science allowed you to hold onto a piece of someone you lost, would you? When Christina’s fiancé dies suddenly, she faces th...

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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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The Tropic Sun and His Eyes

Traveling on foot, a young man returns to Haiti to reconnect with his estranged father. When a persistent street kid won’t stop...

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Summer War

Chile, 1989: the Pinochet regime is on the decline and tabletop wargame champion Udo Berger is vacationing with his girlfriend ...

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Skateboarding Is Not for Girls

In this enthralling portrait of a new generation of young women coming of age amidst two worlds, the antiquated patriarchal cus...

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Reunions & Retrospectives

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

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Small Town Gay Bar

Executive Produced by Kevin Smith, this groundbreaking documentary centers on the struggle for community and expression in the ...

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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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Bound: 30th Anniversary

In association with Anarchists United, the Tribeca Festival brings audiences the 1996 American neo-noir erotic crime thriller f...

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Special Events

Special events at Tribeca Festival

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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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DEAR UPSTAIRS NEIGHBORS: Exploring Artist-Driven, AI-Assisted Expressionistic Animation

Join the team behind the animated short film Dear Upstairs Neighbors to learn how they transformed hand-crafted art into “livin...

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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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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: Love Fictionally

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Shorts: Animated Shorts curated by Whoopi G

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Shorts: Fierce Fashion

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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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