Films

Gala

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

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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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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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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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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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 Last Day

July 4th, New York City: Two mothers navigate the city on different tracks that briefly intertwine before diverging dramaticall...

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The Revisionist

Searching for inspiration for her next novel, Elise subtly manipulates the people closest to her like characters in a book. The...

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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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Whipple's World

Attorney by day and beloved entertainment journalist by night, George Whipple has been a staple on NY1 for three decades, inclu...

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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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Odyssey

This remarkable archival documentary captures America's greatest adventures in space: from the rise of NASA to the gripping res...

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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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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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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.

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Something You Should Know About Me

In this sweet and raunchy trans rom-com, insecure cartoonist Al is faced with his most daunting prompt yet: confess his true fe...

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Matininó

A multi-generational family of outspoken Puerto Rican women takes center stage as they conceive and perform fantastical film vi...

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Human Theories

New York City and its mélange of residents are the stars of this funny and relatable debut film, featuring intertwined vignette...

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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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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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Ephemera

In post-pandemic Shanghai, two women — one leaving, one staying — share a single electric night wandering the city. A tender, b...

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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.

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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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Retrieval

If science allowed you to hold onto a piece of someone you lost, would you? When Christina’s fiancé dies suddenly, she faces th...

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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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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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What Is to Come

After unexpectedly losing her husband, Yehudit has no choice but to start over. In the process, she finds that abrupt and painf...

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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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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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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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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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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

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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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Evolving the Canvas: Bridging Human Creativity and AI with Google Flow

Join filmmaker Keenan MacWilliam and art director Julie Wieland in a discussion on how collaborations between filmmakers and te...

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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: Love Fictionally

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Shorts: Think Fast

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Shorts: Fierce Fashion

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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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