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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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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Spotlight+
Tribeca's unique Spolight+ events bring the film experience off the screen with live conversations and performances after each screening.
The Symphony of Dance
In Jason Bergh’s intimate documentary, a behind-the-scenes glimpse at a marathon of performances by Dancing with the Stars’ Der...
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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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Mumford & Sons: The House Band
Mumford & Sons invite the camera onto the train for one of the most purely pleasurable concert docs in years. Featuring Noah Ka...
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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.
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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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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Unidentified
Award-winning writer-director Haifaa Al Mansour returns with a suspenseful crime thriller, following one woman's journey for ju...
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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.
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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The Lorraine
Renowned documentarian Sam Pollard tells the astonishing, inspiring story of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee, site of ...
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threeASFOUR: Full Circle
threeASFOUR: Full Circle follows avant-garde NYC designers Gabi Asfour, Angela Donhauser, and Adi Gil and their singular "coutu...
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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!
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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Hallowarrior
Pumpkin, a Halloween-obsessed post-apocalypse survivor, thinks she’s the last person alive. But when a vicious band of scavenge...
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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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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.
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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Deepfake
After a breakup, rudderless millennial Jane hires a team of Gen-Z consultants to reinvent her life. But what begins as a makeov...
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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.
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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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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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.
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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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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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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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.
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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Funk
A determined young woman makes a name for herself in the colorful world of Brazilian funk music in this electrifying musical dr...
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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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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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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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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
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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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.
Shorts: Whoopi's Wonderful World of Animation
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Shorts: Whatever It Takes
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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.
Little Woods
In this dramatic thriller set in the fracking boomtown of Little Woods, North Dakota, two estranged sisters are driven to extre...
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Jiro Dreams of Sushi
An appetizing documentary in every sense, Jiro Dreams of Sushi follows 85-year-old master sushi chef Jiro Ono, paying lushly ph...
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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.
Paving The Way
Set against the sweeping landscapes of the Flathead Indian Reservation, Indigenous youth transform new skateparks into sanctuar...
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She's Nonbinary
Nonbinary Max and their straight, cis boyfriend, Jake, spiral into a cataclysmic identity crisis when Max reveals they're off t...
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Imprint
In a near-future where knowledge can be traded for citizenship, a desperate mother buys an immigrant’s expertise to give her da...
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Awards Screenings
Encore screenings of the festival's big winners
Award Screening: Jail Time Records (The Albert Maysles Award - Best New Documentary Director)
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: 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: 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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