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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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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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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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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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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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.
Happy Hours
Katie Holmes reunites with Joshua Jackson in this NYC romantic drama about two former lovers reunited years after their relatio...
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Act One
In this rhythmic psychological thriller, a lonely aspiring teen actress finds herself drawn to an acting teacher who pulls her ...
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In the Hand of Dante
Lives run in parallel in Julian Schnabel’s ode to art and the ineffability of creativity as Oscar Isaac takes on the dual roles...
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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.
Mario
Ronald Reagan’s America sets the stage for Mario Cuomo, the son of Italian immigrants who rose to become Governor of New York 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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IX XI
Twelve unique individuals recount their lives leading up to and during the tragic events of 9/11. As everyday New Yorkers, thei...
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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!
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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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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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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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.
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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Vanishing Tracks
Under the Zagros Mountains outside Shiraz, a family of Iranian nomads and their reticent sons investigate the disappearance of ...
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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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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.
Airport BLVD
Set in the transforming streets of East Austin, this jazz-infused musical follows Xavier as he watches his community, friendshi...
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Mother Future Self
An experimental dance camp in rural Maine sure sounds like a great place to have a long-awaited reunion, no? Sofi and Jordan re...
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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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Documentary Competition
Experience the cinema of reality with these remarkable non-fiction premieres sure to make waves in the coming year.
Mexicanamerican
Expertly merging old VHS home movies with new family interviews, filmmaker Eddie Sánchez traces his parents' journey from Mexic...
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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.
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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Skateboarding Is Not for Girls
In this enthralling portrait of a new generation of young women coming of age amidst two worlds, the antiquated patriarchal cus...
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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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Reunions & Retrospectives
One of a kind cinematic experiences, performances, and conversations.
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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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
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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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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Between Here and Home
Liz and Anna Sargent have a lot of questions about what the future holds for their family: the world beyond their home is not m...
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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: Music Videos
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Shorts: Animated Shorts curated by Whoopi G
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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.
Virunga
Virunga is Africa’s oldest national park, a UNESCO world heritage site, and the last natural habitat for the endangered mountai...
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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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The Last Play at Shea
The intersecting histories of a stadium, a team, and a music legend are examined in a documentary that charts the ups and downs...
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Shorts
Creative storytelling at its best in narrative, documentary and animated shorts.
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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Me, Myself and Mary
Chris O'Dowd and Aisling Bea star in the viral, true story of Séamas O'Reilly, who got his days mixed up and ended up alone wit...
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Last Minute
In the days before the Internet, a single mom must scramble to bail out her 12-year-old son when he waits until the night befor...
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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: 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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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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