Four producers with documentaries premiering at Tribeca Film Festival this year share insight into how the challenges of funding a film help to shape the filmmaking process. How did they reconcile the pressures of the film marketplace and all too ...

Join Honeyjoon writer/director Lilian T. Mehrel, producer Andreia Nunes, and Tribeca Studios' Michelle Hamada for an inside look at the journey of making the debut feature. This panel unpacks the creative challenges, essential support systems, and...

Unscripted storytelling has grown in reach and impact. This panel will look at the ways it has changed over the years and what the future looks like for the medium.

What happens when a tree falls in the woods and someone does hear it? Two couples are forced to deal with such a question — and their lives in general — when a New Year's Eve trip to the woods unearths simmering feelings and the secrets they carry...

Terry Kennedy has lived several colorful lives, including a stint as a Hell’s Angel – but, most memorably, as the unlikely friend to a giant manta ray named Willy. Now in his 80s, Terry mounts one last diving expedition to a remote island in searc...

Paco Plaza’s immersive documentary opens the doors to Mugaritz, the exclusive avant garde fine dining restaurant in San Sebastian, during its off-season. Plaza’s lens observes the radical culinary staff as they design innovative, sensory dishes an...

In this charming and profound portrait of artistic devotion, celebrated sculptor James Grashow embarks, at age 79, on a four year odyssey to complete his magnum opus: a gigantic, intricate wooden sculpture dubbed "The Cathedral."

In 1972, Congresswoman Barbara Jordan became the first Southern Black woman to join Congress, one of many firsts in her career as a trailblazing political leader. Looking at her life both in and out of the limelight, this insightful documentary ex...

Cynthia Rand (Kyra Sedgwick) is a buttoned-up New York urologist married to a brilliant professor 25 years her senior. She begins feeling the effects of her husband’s advancing age on their relationship, just as her world is turned upside down by ...

With incredible access, State of Firsts follows Sarah McBride’s history-making campaign as the first transgender person ever to be elected to Congress during this time of heated political opposition to the trans community. After the Premiere: A co...

Years after leaving Westhampton, Long Island to chase his dream as a filmmaker, a damaged director (Finn Wittrock) returns to the hometown that inspired his breakout film — where he’s forced to confront buried secrets, broken relationships, and th...

Sometimes a chance meeting in a bathroom is all it takes. Two women are forever changed when they decide to take a road trip together from Spain to Portugal, where what begins as an otherworldly escapade quickly reveals secrets and truths that wil...

The World Premiere of the 4K remaster, directed by Nobuhiro Yamashita, is a cult favorite and a hidden gem of Japanese cinema that follows a high school girls’ band preparing to perform at a school festival. Featuring music by James Iha (The Smash...

Sofia (Ana de la Reguera) is 40, childless, with a neglectful marriage, and spiraling into chaos as her life unravels. With striking imagery and a raw central performance, the film is a haunting character study trapped in a social nightmare.

A hearing-impaired American (Agathe Rousselle) and a free-spirited tourist (Alex Lawther) form an unlikely friendship amid the buzz of Paris during the Olympic games in this charming tale of human connection.

Oxford professor Patricia Kingori uncovers Kenya's hidden essay mills where highly educated yet underemployed writers produce academic papers for wealthy Western students.

In this stunningly animated romantic drama, a young Swedish diplomat and North Korean traffic officer fall in illicit love, but as his posting to the Embassy in Pyongyang draws to a close, they must make an impossible decision.

These short docs take a stand.