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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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.

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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 Last Day

July 4th, New York City: Two mothers navigate the city on different tracks that briefly intertwine before diverging dramaticall...

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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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Take Me Home

Anna, a 38-year-old Korean adoptee with a cognitive disability, cares for her aging parents in a fragile balance of meeting one...

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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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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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Bob and David Climb Machu Picchu

Comedy legends Bob Odenkirk and David Cross tackle one of the world's toughest hikes — and each other — in this high-altitude, ...

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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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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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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.

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The Wedding Entertainer (The Tale of Moishe Badhan)

To get the funds to marry off his own child, a disgraced Hasidic wedding-comedian must fight to reclaim his former glory in Gid...

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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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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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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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Caity

Every Halloween, 16-year-old Caity runs her family's haunted house alongside her father who she idolizes. As a new spooky seaso...

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Via Negativa

Facing a crisis of faith after the death of an old friend, a young priest abandons all he knows and sets off on a road trip out...

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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.

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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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American Zoo

The Catskill Game Farm was America's first ever private zoo, fostering beloved childhood memories for a generation before falli...

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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.

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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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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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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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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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Special Events

Special events at Tribeca Festival

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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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Fueled by the Future

The premiere of two new short films that expand the possibilities of filmmaking, while centering bold, personal and poignant na...

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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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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: NY Making It Here

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Shorts: Love Fictionally

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Shorts: Think Fast

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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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