Gala
These tentpole events are the biggest premieres of the festival including Opening Night and Closing Galas.
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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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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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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Spotlight+
Tribeca's unique Spolight+ events bring the film experience off the screen with live conversations and performances after each screening.
Imaginal Disk
A cinematic companion to Magdalena Bay’s eponymous album, Imaginal Disk expands its kaleidoscopic world into a bold, visually d...
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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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Hadestown: The Musical
Anaïs Mitchell’s Tony-winning musical “Hadestown” comes to the silver screen as the five principal members of the original Broa...
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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.
Killing Castro
Political thriller Killing Castro reimagines Fidel Castro’s 1960 Harlem stay as a charged encounter between surveillance and so...
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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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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.
Stealing Magic
Someone is stealing the secrets behind magicians' greatest tricks and selling them on illicit websites. Magician Andi Gladwin l...
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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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The A-Word: The Future of Aging
Modern medicine treats diseases one-by-one, but what if aging itself is the root cause? The A-Word: The Future of Aging follows...
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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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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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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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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.
One Woman One Bra
After spotting her childhood photo on the cover of a book, Star seeks to learn about her past. Set in a pastoral Kenyan village...
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Crooks
Genre chameleon Mickey Keating travels to a timeless Chicago for a pulpy, streetwise crime thriller where everyone’s on the tak...
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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.
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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Kingston
On the illustrious campus of Kingston College, prestige drips off students, faculty and architecture. Amid social turmoil, thre...
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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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Documentary Competition
Experience the cinema of reality with these remarkable non-fiction premieres sure to make waves in the coming year.
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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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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Harvest
An emotionally honest perspective of rural life in today’s America, Harvest is a passionate documentary on the Nelson Brothers ...
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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.
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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Zejtune
To sever ties with her homeland once and for all, Mar must traverse Malta to claim her inheritance. Guided by a charismatic, oc...
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What Is to Come
After unexpectedly losing her husband, Yehudit has no choice but to start over. In the process, she finds that abrupt and painf...
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Reunions & Retrospectives
One of a kind cinematic experiences, performances, and conversations.
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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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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Special Events
Special events at Tribeca Festival
Evolving the Canvas: Bridging Human Creativity and AI with Google Flow
Join filmmaker Keenan MacWilliam and art director Julie Wieland in a discussion on how collaborations between filmmakers and te...
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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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Escape The Internet: Part 1
A massive multiplayer game for movie theaters, you and hundreds of strangers are trapped on a mysterious island and must work t...
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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: Fierce Fashion
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Shorts: Power to the People
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Shorts: Where We Belong
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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.
Ascension
The absorbingly cinematic Ascension explores the pursuit of the “Chinese Dream.” Driven by mesmerizing - and sometimes humorous...
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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.
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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Fault
An elite tennis star’s reunion with her estranged sister explodes into a battle over buried trauma, threatening her career and ...
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One Night
Over the course of one unpredictable night, two college students navigate the awkwardness, vulnerability, and fleeting magic of...
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Awards Screenings
Encore screenings of the festival's big winners
Award Screening: Mexicanamerican (Audience Award - Documentary First Place)
MexicanamericanExpertly merging old VHS home movies with new family interviews, filmmaker Eddie Sánchez traces his parents' jou...
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Award Screening: Crocodile (Viewpoints Winner)
Crocodile In Kaduna, Nigeria, a group of kids turn a backyard into a sci-fi universe using a single phone and boundless imagi...
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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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