If only summarizing our queer programming was as simple as whipping up a jammy snack with John Early and Alison Roman . We've got everything from a steamy neo-noir retrospective (The Wachowski's Bound ), to a surprising piece of gay history (Mineshaft: The Cruising Murders ), to a sweet and raunchy trans rom-com about an insecure cartoonist (Something You Should Know About Me ). You've got at least a whole Pride Month's worth of watches packed into 12 days.
Time Warp
Documentary Competition
50 years after The Rocky Horror Picture Show electrified audiences, a drag theater company in the once-booming mining town of Rock Springs, Wyoming, stages a shadow cast of the cult classic. Led by the charismatic 25-year-old performer Kenny Starling, the determined troupe spotlights the ongoing fight for queer visibility and acceptance in their community.
Directed by Allison Berg | Featuring Kenny Starling, Kaley Sikora, Gabriel Garcia, Dejanae Westbrook, Tim Robinson, Devin Manfull, Valerie McCoy, Tasha Seppie, Hana Tanaka, and Em O'Lexey
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Something You Should Know About Me
Viewpoints/Feature Narrative
In this sweet and raunchy trans rom-com, insecure cartoonist Al is faced with his most daunting prompt yet: confess his true feelings for his best friend or risk losing him to a handsome nemesis.
Directed by Andy Fidoten | Featuring EJ Marcus, Morgan Sullivan, and Sydney Diaz
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His House, Home
Shorts/Narrative
A young man caring for his father with MS feels displaced by a compassionate queer carer, forcing him to face his identity and ultimately come out, finding unexpected acceptance.
Directed by Aisling O'Regan Sargent | Featuring Oskar Smith, Rodrigo Ternevoy, and David Layde
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WHALE 52 - Suite For Man, Boy, And Whale
Shorts/Animation
An 80-year-old man, silently grieving the death of his longtime male partner, volunteers at a school where he's assigned to mentor a young boy who hasn't spoken all year.
Directed by Daniel Neiden
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Kaya (ᜃᜌ)
Shorts/Narrative
An outsider in her own culture, half-Filipina Nia secretly trains with queer outcast Malic to join a prestigious Filipino Martial Arts team and prove herself "Filipino enough."
Directed by Isabel Lamers | Featuring Isabel Lamers, EJ Lipana, Kayley Carrigan, and Gaye Piccio
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Caity
US Narrative Competition
Every Halloween, 16-year-old Caity runs her family's haunted house alongside her father who she idolizes. As a new spooky season starts, Caity juggles a new crush Hannah, the arrival of twins Liam and Sean to work at the haunt, and her father's tenuous sobriety.
Directed by Lindsay Calleran | Featuring Chiara Aurelia, Morgan Spector, Zach Cherry, Michelle Mao, Jordan Hull, Olivia Rouyre, Emily Shaffer, Christian Lees, and Jonah Lees
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Switch
TV
It's the classic boy meets girl, except girl meets girl… meets boy, then boy, then boy. Maxine's never been in a relationship. Lena's never been in a relationship with another woman. When Maxine asks her to be her girlfriend, Lena's all in with one concern: She doesn't see herself having sex with one person for the rest of her life. So they make a pact to find a man to have a threesome with. It'll be easy, right?
Directed by Isabelle Platt, Sofya Levitsky-Weitz, Jean Liu, and Jaki Bradley | Featuring Pauline Chalamet, Coral Peña, Adam Shaukat, Benjamin Holtz, and Nikki Snipper
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Unknown Unknowns
Showcase List/Podcast
From the audio magazine Signal Hill , the audio showcase Unknown Unknowns asks the question: how to make a life-changing decision when all you have is the sparse and noisy data of an uncertain world? First, try posting on Lex.
Directed by Signal Hill and Lio Wong
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Kiloran Bay
Shorts/Narrative
A musical short film starring Alan Cumming and Jack Wolfe. After decades away, a gay man returns home to Scotland to attend a traditional wedding and faces a past he spent a lifetime avoiding.
Directed by Michael Bruce | Featuring Alan Cumming, Jack Wolfe, David Hayman, Stuart Thompson, Giles Terera, and David Fynn
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I'm Not Home
Shorts/Narrative
Two lifelong friends, estranged after one night that changed everything, reconnect over a box of old answering-machine tapes as voices from the past awaken the truths they've tried to silence.
Directed by Elena Parasco | Featuring Julian De Niro and Eli Brown
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Small Town Gay Bar
Reunions & Retrospectives/Documentary
Executive produced by Kevin Smith, this groundbreaking documentary centers on the struggle for community and expression in the face of ignorance, hypocrisy and oppression for the denizens of two small town Mississippi gay bars.
After the screening: an extended panel conversation moderated by Peaches Christ with Malcolm Ingram.
Directed by Malcolm Ingram
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Mineshaft: The Cruising Murders
Spotlight Documentary
From a controversial flashpoint to a celebrated classic, Cruising has played many roles in gay culture. But the true story behind the film is the most surprising of them all.
Directed by Jeffrey Schwarz
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She's Nonbinary
Shorts/Narrative
Nonbinary Max and their straight, cis boyfriend, Jake, spiral into a cataclysmic identity crisis when Max reveals they're off the waitlist for top surgery.
Directed by Jess McLeod | Featuring Jess McLeod and Alexander Steele Zonjic
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Ephemera
US Narrative Competition
In post-pandemic Shanghai, two women — one leaving, one staying — share a single electric night wandering the city. A tender, breezy queer love story where chemistry, connection and bittersweet goodbyes feel thrillingly alive.
Directed by Shan Jiang | Featuring Yvonne Shuyu and Zhang Shu-Yi
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Kevin's Series of Unfortunate Events
TV
Dating in the digital world feels nearly impossible and for Kevin, it truly is. Kevin is a hopelessly earnest romantic whose optimism far outweighs his self-awareness. By day, he works as a school's Online Safety Salamander. By night, he subjects himself to a relentless series of disastrous dates, convinced that persistence alone will eventually lead to love.
Directed by Rex Glensy | Featuring Ryan Sampson, Jake Watkins, Cecilia Noble, and Fiona Allen
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John Early and Alison Roman Make Something Simple
Vulture Festival at Tribeca Festival
Comedian-actor (and now writer-director) John Early and cook-author Alison Roman are inviting you over for a conversation about Maddie's Secret , Early's new feature-film satire of food-content-creator culture. They're going to make something to eat but don't want to make a big fuss. It'll be quick and easy — maybe a drink and a very casual snack. Will it be crispy, crunchy, lemony, and jammy? Join them and find out.
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Bound: 30th Anniversary
Reunions & Retrospectives
In association with Anarchists United, Tribeca Festival brings audiences the 1996 American neo-noir erotic crime thriller film written and directed by Lana and Lilly Wachowski in their feature film directorial debut.
Before the screening: New York premiere of Wild Ones , a thrilling narrative short written and directed by Leone DiSantis, executive produced by Lilly Wachowski.
After the screening: A conversation featuring director Lilly Wachowski, Jennifer Tilly, Gina Gershon, and Joe Pantoliano, moderated by Julie Klausner.
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We have over 150 selections to explore at this year's Festival — from films and podcasts to talks and TV and more. Explore the full Festival Program Guide here .