At Tribeca Pageant 2025, music guidelines on display and on stage. Here is a information to this 12 months’s lineup.

Music is the star attraction on the 2025 Tribeca Pageant, which opens Wednesday night in New York Metropolis. The topic of quite a few documentary and narrative movies, music may also be a dwell function at this significantly festive pageant, with some artists performing mini-concerts along with movie premieres.

This 12 months’s Tribeca, the twenty fourth version of the pageant, showcases almost 120 feature-length narrative and documentary movies — lots of them world or New York premieres — together with shorts, revivals, filmmaker Q&As, immersive artwork installations, video video games, audio storytelling, and music performances. Screenings and occasions might be held at venues throughout Manhattan and on the Brooklyn Bowl.

The pageant’s opening night time function is the documentary “Billy Joel: And So It Goes,” a portrait of the quintessentially New York piano man. Mixing archival footage with new interviews, the movie — which can stream later this 12 months on HBO Max — tracks the profession of the 76-year-old musician and 23-time Grammy Award-winner, who not too long ago suspended his efficiency schedule for well being causes. The movie additionally screens June 5, 11 & 15.

Different music topics embody:

“Depeche Mode: M” (June 5, 6 & 14), which makes use of the British digital band’s Mexico Metropolis live shows because the framework of meditations on mortality. Depeche Mode will take part in a Q&A following the premiere screening. 

“Counting Crows: Have You Seen Me Recently?” (June 5, 7 & 9) traces the turbulent path of the San Francisco indie rock band Counting Crows and its entrance man Adam Duritz. 

“Boy George & Tradition Membership” (June 5, 6, 8 & 12) explores the ’80s British glam rock group.

“One thing Stunning with Miley Cyrus” (June 6) is a pop opera comprised of songs from Cyrus’ album “One thing Stunning.” She’ll chat about it afterwards).

“Billy Idol Ought to Be Useless” (June 10, 12 & 13) is a portrait of the punk rocker, previous and current. Idol will carry out following the premiere.

 “Solar Ra: Do the Unattainable” (June 10, 11, 12 & 14) is a biography of the free-form jazz pioneer, poet and activist.

“Metallica Saved My Life” (June 11, 12 & 14) examines the particular relationship between the heavy steel band and its followers. Director Jonas Åkerlund and members of Metallica will focus on the movie after the premiere.

The documentary “Matter of Time” (June 12, 13, 14 & 15) contains a solo efficiency by Eddie Vedder of Pearl Jam, devoted to elevating analysis funds for Epidermolysis Bullosa. Vedder will play an acoustic set following the premiere.

Mexican star Becky G, the main target of the documentary “Rebecca (a.ok.a. Becky G)” (June 12, 13 & 14), will carry out following the world premiere on the United Palace. 

The South Korean band The Rose is front-and-center of “The Rose: Come Again to Me,” and can make an look on the premiere (June 6, 7, 12 & 15).

“Nonetheless Free TC” (June 13, 14 & 15) follows the divergent paths taken by rapper and producer Ty Dolla $ign, seen throughout the manufacturing of his new album, and his brother, Gabriel, who’s serving a 67-year-sentence for homicide.

“The Sixth Borough” traces the Lengthy Island roots of hip-hop (June 11, 12 & 14), whereas 2025 Sundance entry “Transfer Ya Physique: The Beginning of Home,” about Chicago’s function within the popularization of home music, may have its New York Metropolis premiere (June 13, 14 & 15).

And you do not all the time want devices; “Simply Sing” (June 6, 7, 11 & 13) follows members of the VoCals, a College of Southern California a capella group.

There are additionally fiction movies whose tales are centered within the worlds of Okay-pop (“Okay-Pops!”), indie report labels (“Paradise Data,” directed by Logic), classical music (Isabel Hagen’s “On a String”), and music therapists (Libby Ewing’s “Charliebird”).

And among the many company at this 12 months’s Tribeca Talks is music producer Mark Ronson (June 7).

A world of non-fiction

On June 14 the pageant’s closing night time attraction is the documentary “Yanuni,” by which an Indigenous girl, Juma Xipaia, chief of an Amazonia tribe within the Center Xingu, advanced from an environmental warrior dealing with police tear gasoline to changing into a member of presidency. Directed by Richard Ladkani and produced by Leonardo DiCaprio.

Different documentary topics making their bows at Tribeca embody the world premiere of “Surviving Ohio State” (June 9, 10 & 13). Co-produced by George Clooney and directed by Eve Orner, the long-awaited exposé examines the sexual abuse scandal involving Ohio State athletics physician Richard Strauss and the trauma inflicted upon younger athletes. It can later be streamed on HBO Max.

The comic/efficiency artist Andy Kaufman, whose skyrocketing profession careened from indescribable standup — he claimed to by no means inform jokes — to impersonating unhealthy lounge singers and wrestling girls on stage, till his dying from most cancers in 1984, is captured within the intimate documentary “Andy Kaufman Is Me” (June 6, 7 & 12). Making fulsome use of Kaufman’s private trove of audio and video recordings, interviews and puppetry, it seeks to reply the query: Who actually was Andy Kaufman? We might by no means know. 

“Jimmy & the Demons” (June 8, 10, 13 & 15) profiles graphic artist and sculptor James Grashow as he completes a exceptional, religious-themed fee on mortality — after which faces staging a career-spanning exhibition of his personal life’s work.

“Barbara Walters: Inform Me The whole lot” appears to be like again on the life and work of the trailblazing broadcast journalist, whose stamp on tv spanned greater than seven many years (June 12, 13 & 15). 

“Pricey Ms.: A Revolution in Print” (June 10, 11, 12, 14 & 15) chronicles the historical past and cultural impression of Ms. Journal. 

“The Inquisitor” is a profile of Barbara Jordan, the primary Southern Black girl in Congress (June 8, 13 & 14). 

“State of Firsts” (June 7, 8 & 11) tracks the rise of Delaware’s U.S. Consultant Sarah McBride, the primary transgender particular person to be elected to Congress.

The Netflix documentary “Titan: The OceanGate Catastrophe” profiles Stockton Rush, the OceanGate CEO whose submersible descending to the wreck of the Titanic in 2023 imploded, killing Rush and 4 others on board (June 6, 7, 9 & 12). 

“Bodyguard of Lies” (a CBS Studios/Paramount manufacturing, co-produced by Alex Gibney) is an exposé of presidency deception and lack of accountability over the warfare in Afghanistan (June 8, 10, 11 & 13). 

The antebellum properties of Natchez, Mississippi, are a vacationer magnet, and a supply of civic satisfaction for the city. However as “Natchez” explores, they’re extra than simply fairly buildings — they’re an evocation of a racist previous that some aren’t able to let go of (June 9, 10 & 14).

Choreographer and performer Jenn Freeman, recognized later in life with autism, prepares a solo dance that confronts her life’s challenges in “Room to Transfer” (June 11, 12 & 13). 

Comic and podcaster Marc Maron is the topic of “Are We Good?” (June 14 & 15). 

“Simply Youngsters” (June 7, 8 & 13) follows the challenges dealing with dad and mom searching for gender-affirming care for his or her youngsters in states the place such remedies have been banned. 

“Saturday Evening Dwell” actress Julia Sweeney’s androgynous character Pat is the topic of “We Are Pat” (June 8, 9 & 10), which appears to be like at gender identification and trans visibility.

“Holding Liat” (June 9, 10, 11 & 12) follows the ordeal of the household of Israeli-American Liat Atzili, who was kidnapped from his kibbutz throughout Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023, terror assault. 

“An Eye for an Eye” (June 6, 7, 8 & 9) examines sharia regulation and revenge as an Iranian girl, convicted of murdering her husband, faces potential execution based mostly on the needs of the lifeless man’s household.

Hollywood bombshell Jayne Mansfield, who died tragically at age 34, is the topic of “My Mother Jayne: A Movie by Mariska Hargitay” (June 13, 14 & 15), a private movie by the star of “Legislation & Order: SVU.” 

One of the vital memorable of popular culture icons, Dorothy Gale, the witch-killer from “The Wizard of Oz,” is dissected in “It is Dorothy!” (June 7, 8 & 9). 

Alex Ross Perry’s “Videoheaven” (June 10, 11 & 12) makes its case for the once-ubiquitous video retailer as a significant pillar of movie tradition — one we’re unhappy to see gone.

Should you had been to place the tabloid Weekly World Information and notoriously incompetent filmmaker Ed Wooden in a blender, you would possibly give you Staten Island underground filmmaker Andy Milligan, a ’60s director who reveled in gore, violence and intercourse in exploitation movies like “Gutter Trash.” Properly, Tribeca is just not so stuffy that it would not have fun his oeuvre with the documentary “The Degenerate: The Life and Movies of Andy Milligan” (June 11, 12 & 14).

In lots of locations, one might wrestle to latch onto Wi-Fi or complain about cellphone reception. Within the city of Inexperienced Again, West Virginia, house of the world’s largest radio telescope, Wi-Fi and telephone indicators are usually not allowed. “The Finish of Quiet” (June 7, 8 & 11) explores a lifetime of silence within the so-called “Quiet Zone.”  

Hungry in spite of everything that? “Nobu” is a portrait of sushi chef and restaurateur Nobu Matsuhisa (June 11, 13 & 15). He seems in dialog with Robert De Niro after the movie’s premiere.

Fiction

Many American and worldwide narrative movies are having their world or U.S. debuts previous to their introduced theatrical releases or streaming runs. Amongst them:

Kyra Sedgwick and Kevin Bacon deliver their pure chemistry to “Greatest You Can,” concerning the blossoming friendship between a safety guard and a urologist. With Judd Hirsch and Brittany O’Grady (June 7, 8, 9 & 15). 

Within the comedy-drama “The whole lot’s Going to Be Nice,” Bryan Cranston and Allison Janney star as theater managers whose dire circumstances pressure their household into uncomfortable and messy tensions (June 9, 10, 12 & 15).

Molly Gordon and Logan Lerman are a younger couple on a romantic getaway in a farmhouse within the comedy “Oh, Hello!” (June 13 & 14).

Within the comedy “A Tree Fell within the Woods” (June 8, 9, 10 & 13), two {couples} on a visit to the woods really expertise stated tree. Lies and psychedelic drinks ensue. With Alexandra Daddario, Daveed Diggs, Josh Gad and Ashley Park. 

In “Esta Isla (This Island”) (June 7, 8 & 14), younger lovers in Puerto Rico escape to the mountains to evade a neighborhood drug vendor.  

Nick Offerman (“Civil Battle”) stars as an extremist whose son (performed by Jacob Tremblay, of “Room”) questions his father’s allegiance to the sovereign citizen’s motion, within the based-on-true-events thriller “Sovereign.” Co-starring Dennis Quaid and Martha Plimpton (June 8, 9, 11 & 12). 

In “Rosemead,” Lucy Liu stars as a Chinese language immigrant who fears her son has change into dangerously fixated on mass shootings (June 6, 7, 12 & 14).

Man Pearce (an Oscar-nominee for “The Brutalist”) returns as a long-term prisoner who turns into a mentor for an incarcerated younger man in “Inside” (June 7, 8, 12 & 13). 

Oscar nominees Andrea Riseborough and Brenda Blethyn star in “Dragonfly,” a couple of girl takes upon herself the care of an aged neighbor — presumably with not-entirely-altruistic intentions (June 6, 7, 11 & 13).

In 1996, French filmmaker Sophie Toscan Du Plantier was murdered whereas on trip in Eire. A suspect was tried in abstentia by a French court docket and convicted. What if he had stood trial in Eire? Administrators Jim Sheridan (“My Left Foot”) and David Merriman (“Rock Towards Homelessness”) current “Re-Creation,” a fictitious tackle that potential trial’s jury deliberation, starring Vicky Krieps and Colm Meaney (June 8, 9 & 12).

“Kites” is a magical-realist view of life within the favelas of Rio de Janeiro, by which a younger man’s guardian angel seeks to direct him from a lifetime of crime. From first-time director Walter-Thompson Hernández (June 6, 7 & 13). 

The horror-comedy “Queens of the Useless” solutions the query: what do you get if you combine drag queens with flesh-eating zombies? (June 7, 8, 13 & 15.)

Finn Wittrock (“American Horror Story”) stars as a failed filmmaker who returns to his Lengthy Island hometown to confront the actions of his previous in “Westhampton” (June 7, 8, 11 & 14). 

A struggling filmmaker fears shedding his free-travel perk when his roommate, an airline worker, begins relationship somebody in “The Journey Companion” (June 5, 6, 11, 14 & 15). 

“Honeyjoon” explores issues of grief and a younger girl re-gaining an appreciation of life throughout a visit the Azores (June 7, 8, 12 & 13).

Within the rising custom of live-action remakes of animated movies, Mason Thames performs the younger Viking lad who tames and befriends Toothless, a younger dragon, in “Find out how to Prepare Your Dragon” (June 11, previous to its theatrical launch June 13).

Retrospectives and reunions

Tribeca will host a thirtieth anniversary screening of “On line casino” (June 5), adopted by a chat with star Robert De Niro and director Martin Scorsese. 

There are additionally twenty fifth anniversary screenings of the Christopher Visitor mockumentary “Greatest in Present” (with Visitor and forged members, June 12), “Requiem for a Dream” (with director Darren Aronofsky and actor Ellen Burstyn, June 10), “American Psycho” (June 12), and “Meet the Dad and mom” (with De Niro, stars Ben Stiller and Teri Polo, director Jay Roach and producer Jane Rosenthal, June 7). 

Sen. Cory Booker attends a twentieth anniversary screening of the Oscar-nominated documentary “Road Combat” ( June 13). 

It took 50 years, however the 1975 physique horror flick “Shivers” will play Tribeca, adopted by a chat with director David Cronenberg (June 14). 

And in honor of the Dalai Lama’s ninetieth birthday, Martin Scorsese’s 1997 biography “Kundun” might be screened (June 6). 

A twentieth anniversary 4K remaster of the Japanese musical comedy “Linda Linda Linda,” a cult favourite about an all-girl highschool band, with music by Smashing Pumpkins’ James Iha, unspools on June 8. 

TV

Episodic tv can also be featured, with screenings of recent seasons of the MGM+ sequence “Godfather of Harlem” (June 11), HBO Max’s “The Gilded Age” (June 12), and Paramount+’s “Star Trek: Unusual New Worlds” (June 14). 

Novelist Dennis Lehan is the writer-producer behind “Smoke” (Apple TV+), about an arson investor and detective monitoring serial arsonists (June 12). From Britbox comes “Outrageous,” about six scandalous, aristocratic sisters (June 5). 

Additionally screening are “We Have been Liars,” a Prime Video adaptation of the E. Lockhart bestseller (June 10), and the Hulu documentary “Name Her Alex” about podcaster Alex Cooper (June 8). 

Tribeca Talks

Artist and newsmaker interviews embody talks with Jim Gaffigan and Michael Ian Black (June 5); Sean Penn, interviewed by Kaitlan Collins (June 8); Rep. Jasmine Crockett in dialog with Whoopi Goldberg (June 13); and actress Ellen Pompeo, interviewed by Katie Couric (June 14). There are additionally panel discussions with creatives concerning the business, from storytelling to funding. 

Immersive artwork and video games

The pageant’s immersive storytelling program, titled “In Search of Us,” options 11 initiatives by artists working by way of VR, augmented and blended actuality, and multimedia installations. 

Pier 57, open to the general public June 11-15, will function playable demos of this 12 months’s video games picks, together with the fantasy recreation “Absolum”;  “Cairn,” by which you attempt to survive reaching the summit of Mount Kami; “Mixtape,” a nostalgic look again on highschool; “Take Us North,” with is constructed on the tales of real-life migrants; and the horror video games “Sleep Awake,” by which the participant should evade dying cults, and “Possessor(s),” the place you should escape a flooded metropolis. 

Pageant Information

The pageant runs from June 4-15. For extra details about movies, immersive reveals, particular occasions and ticketing (single tickets and passes), go to the Tribeca Pageant web site.