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.
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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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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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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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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Finnegan’s Foursome
This comedy sees two Irish American brothers and their children, all highly competitive golfers, returning to their ancestral h...
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Gail Daughtry and the Celebrity Sex Pass
After her fiancé takes advantage of their “celebrity sex pass,” Midwestern hair stylist Gail Daughtry sets off on a zany, epic ...
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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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House of Criticism
Roberta Smith and Jerry Saltz are both rockstars in the world of art criticism. They’re also madly in love. Reflecting on their...
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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!.jpg)
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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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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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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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 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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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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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.
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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Cotton Fever
Inspired by director Daniel Blake Schwartz's real-life experiences, this striking debut feature charts the uneven cycles of add...
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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.
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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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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The Gymnasts of Fisherman Colony
The birth of a gymnastics team in Pakistan provides an inspiring spark of light for a small group of girls on the margins. The ...
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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.
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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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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Against the Flow
Dayao and his pregnant wife, Tiantian, live in the countryside but work themselves to the bone in the city. Tiantian prefers th...
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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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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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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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Special Events
Special events at Tribeca Festival
AT&T Untold Stories Pitch Event
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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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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: NY Making It Here
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Shorts: Music Videos
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Shorts: The Dark Web
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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.
Best of Tribeca Shorts
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The Short History of the Long Road
For teenage Nola (Sabrina Carpenter), home is the open road with her self-reliant father and their trusty van, two nomads again...
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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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Shorts
Creative storytelling at its best in narrative, documentary and animated shorts.
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A clueless single father is told his teen daughter needs a bra. His attempt at shopping for her first one turns painfully awkward.
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Born to Kill
From the Vietnam War to the New York streets, Vietnamese refugees built the infamous 80s gang Born to Kill, bound by brotherhoo...
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Verse
Seventeen year-old Adam is forced to confront where his virtual persona ends and his real self begins when he decides to finall...
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Awards Screenings
Encore screenings of the festival's big winners
Award Screening: One Woman One Bra (Audience Award - Narrative First Place)
One Woman One BraAfter spotting her childhood photo on the cover of a book, Star seeks to learn about her past. Set in a pastor...
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Award Screening: Skateboarding Is Not for Girls (The Nora Ephron Award)
Skateboarding Is Not for Girls In this enthralling portrait of a new generation of young women coming of age amidst two world...
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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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