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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Sara Bareilles: Good Grief
Seven years after her Grammy Award-winning Amidst the Chaos, Sara Bareilles reunites with her closest collaborators to record a...
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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.
Playing POTUS
From Chevy Chase's Gerald Ford to Maya Rudolph’s Kamala Harris, Playing POTUS explores how comedians don't just parody leaders,...
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Frampton
From the arena-shaking triumph of "Frampton Comes Alive!" to a final tour shaped by a degenerative diagnosis, Frampton follows ...
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Miss Representation: Rise Up
Filmmaker Jennifer Siebel Newsom expands on her acclaimed 2011 documentary Miss Representation by examining the rising backlash...
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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.
The Long Haul
Three-time Emmy winner Margo Martindale is CJ, a long-haul trucker who’s been running from a dark truth for decades. When long-...
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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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Happy Hours
Katie Holmes reunites with Joshua Jackson in this NYC romantic drama about two former lovers reunited years after their relatio...
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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.
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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MOUTH FULL OF GOLDS
Discover the story of Famous Eddie, a fashion icon responsible for the meteoric rise of culture-defining grillz. Archival foota...
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Full Circle: The First All Black Everest Ascent
An all-Black team sets out to summit Mount Everest not just to make history, but to redefine what it means to climb and who bel...
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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!
Recluse
After being summoned back to her childhood home to care for her bedridden father, Joan must confront the unearthed demons of he...
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Dante
Responding to an emergency call, a young paramedic unwittingly finds himself thrust into the middle of a war between two crime ...
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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.
Crocodile
In Kaduna, Nigeria, a group of kids turn a backyard into a sci-fi universe using a single phone and boundless imagination. Film...
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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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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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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.
Ponderosa
When the buffet where Zeke's mom works closes down, he's forced to entertain the wild advances of a rich regular who is weirdly...
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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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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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Documentary Competition
Experience the cinema of reality with these remarkable non-fiction premieres sure to make waves in the coming year.
Jean-Michel
A newly intimate look at one of the 20th century’s most celebrated — and imitated — artists, Jean-Michel Basquiat, from the per...
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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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Bang My Box: The Robin Byrd Story
Robin Byrd pioneered NYC public access with her cult sex-positive call-in show. Now the larger-than-life 70-year-old champion ...
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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.
Labrador — Autopsy of Silence
A murder aboard a freighter shatters the calm of a routine voyage. Inuk mechanic Alupa Tulugak falls under suspicion, leading h...
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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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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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Reunions & Retrospectives
One of a kind cinematic experiences, performances, and conversations.
Bridget Jones's Diary with Renée Zellweger and Sharon Maguire
At the start of the New Year, 32-year-old Bridget (Renée Zellweger) decides it's time to take control of her life -- and start ...
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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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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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Special Events
Special events at Tribeca Festival
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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AT&T Untold Stories Pitch Event
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Vital Stories Premiere
Vital Stories, Sponsored by Eli Lilly and Company, is an initiative to empower emerging filmmakers to more accurately and authe...
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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.
Shorts: Where We Belong
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Shorts: Competitive Edge
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Shorts: Whoopi's Wonderful World of Animation
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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.
Virunga
Virunga is Africa’s oldest national park, a UNESCO world heritage site, and the last natural habitat for the endangered mountai...
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Let the Right One In
Based on Lindqvist's bestselling novel, this beautifully touching tale tells of the first romance for bullied 12-year-old Oskar...
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Dior and I
Frédéric Tcheng’s masterful documentary enters the storied world of the House of Christian Dior, with a privileged, behind-the-...
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Shorts
Creative storytelling at its best in narrative, documentary and animated shorts.
"Fingers Crossed" - The Moth & The Flame
A young girl with a terminal illness imagines herself racing away from the hospital, and finds herself racing through all the s...
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Stand Clear ' the Closing Doors
When a woman makes a simple request of a fellow NYC subway passenger, an everyday moment turns into a bizarre battle for space,...
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So, Boom
Sweet Tea has to prepare her younger sister for jail culture through a series of surprising "how to" tutorials before morning c...
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Awards Screenings
Encore screenings of the festival's big winners
Award Screening: Cotton Fever (Founders Award for Best U.S. Narrative Feature)
Cotton Fever Inspired by director Daniel Blake Schwartz's real-life experiences, this striking debut feature charts the uneve...
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Award Screening: Jail Time Records (Best Documentary Feature)
Jail Time Records The rivetingly intimate Jail Time Records profiles the first prison recording studio on the African contine...
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Award Screening: Memorizu (Best New Narrative Director Award)
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...
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