Festival Film Lineup 2026: Movies & Premieres

Gala

These tentpole events are the biggest premieres of the festival including Opening Night and Closing Galas.

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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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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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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Rain Reign

Rose is a 12-year-old, neurodivergent girl cared for by her struggling single dad and well-meaning uncle. When her beloved dog ...

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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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That Friend

A trip to Palm Springs, meant to be refreshing for Henry and his girlfriend Penny, escalates to cackling shenanigans when his b...

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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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MOUTH FULL OF GOLDS

Discover the story of Famous Eddie, a fashion icon responsible for the meteoric rise of culture-defining grillz. Archival foota...

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4000 Days

4000 Days chronicles the agonizing public struggle of three families whose personal tragedies become part of a nationwide movem...

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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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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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Dante

Responding to an emergency call, a young paramedic unwittingly finds himself thrust into the middle of a war between two crime ...

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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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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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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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Árru

When a proposed copper mine threatens the land and livelihood of reindeer herder Maia and her Sámi community, the arrival of 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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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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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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Summer of Three

Returning home to his native Puerto Rico after years away, 17-year-old Javi meets Luife and Kiki, two social misfits who flip h...

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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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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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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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Time Warp

50 years after “The Rocky Horror Picture Show” electrified audiences, a drag theater company in the once-booming mining town of...

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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.

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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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Stand Up

Vera is a fun-loving 23-year-old until her entire life is upended after an accident leaves her in a wheelchair. Struggling to c...

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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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Reunions & Retrospectives

One of a kind cinematic experiences, performances, and conversations.

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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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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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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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Special Events

Special events at Tribeca Festival

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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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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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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.

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Shorts: Whoopi's Wonderful World of Animation

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Shorts: Power to the People

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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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