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Tribeca Festival · 2026

Tribeca Festival 2026

US Narrative Competition

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12 films

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Airport BLVD

Set in the transforming streets of East Austin, this jazz-infused musical follows Xavier as he watches his community, friendships, and sense of home disappear.

(Country: US; Year: 2026; Director: Alejandro Hendricks; Writer: Alejandro Hendricks; Stars: Jamal Gamble, Toluwani, Kenny Duet, Mor Cohen, Matthew Wagner)

Caity

Every Halloween, 16-year-old Caity runs her family's haunted house alongside her father, whom she idolises. As a new spooky season starts, Caity juggles a new crush Hannah, the arrival of twins Liam and Sean to work at the haunt, and her father's tenuous sobriety.

(Country: US; Year: 2026; Director: Lindsay Calleran; Writer: Lindsay Calleran; Stars: Chiara Aurelia, Morgan Spector, Zach Cherry, Michelle Mao, Jordan Hull, Olivia Rouyre, Emily Shaffer, Christian Lees, Jonah Lees)

Cotton Fever

Inspired by director Daniel Blake Schwartz's real-life experiences, this striking debut feature charts the uneven cycles of addiction and recovery among several interconnected lives in Chelsea, Massachusetts with grit and emotional clarity.

(Country: US; Year: 2026; Director: Daniel Blake Schwartz; Writer: Daniel Blake Schwartz; Stars: Kyle Gallner, Sosie Bacon, Chabely Ponce, Ronald Emile, Ari Mora, Colton Osorio, Sam Quartin, Melvin Douglas)

Ephemera

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

(Country: US, Singapore; Year: 2026; Director: Shan Jiang; Writer: Shan Jiang; Stars: Yvonne Shuyu Zhang, Shu-Yi)

Here I'm Alive

Migrants, sex workers and dreamers hustle New York's digital underbelly in this neo-realist urban epic driven by underground rap and spiritual jazz.

(Country: US; Year: 2026; Director: Joshua Z Weinstein; Writer: Joshua Z Weinstein, Brian Perkins; Stars: Cheyenne Gallagher, Eddie Torrenegra, Caleb Zuzga, Krystaly Figueroa, Emira D'Spain)

Kingston

hree intertwining tales of disillusioned misfits in New York's Kingston College.

(Country: US; Year: 2026; Director: Carlos Key, Kalijah Rowe; Writer: Carlos Key, Kalijah Rowe, Claire Levesque, Jenna Shen; Stars: Rose Badiru, Michael C Liu, Leann Gardner, Nick Snipes)

Lucy Schulman

After a crushing break-up, Lucy moves back in with her eccentric single dad and dives into bad dates, false starts, and growing pains.

(Country: US; Year: 2026; Director: Ellie Sachs; Writer: Ellie Sachs; Stars: Ellie Sachs, David Cross, Thomas Mann, Hasan Minhaj, Annabelle Attanasio, Chelsea Frei, Sandrine Holt, Eisa Davis, Olivia Luccardi, Joanna Arnow, Stephen Adly Guirgis, Will Janowitz, Devon Walker, Kareem Rahma, Tuffy Questell, Henry Hall)

Mother Future Self

Old friends reunite in an experimental dance camp in rural Maine.

(Country: US; Year: 2026; Director: Tori Lancaster; Writer: Tori Lancaster; Stars: Imani Jade Powers, Betsey Brown, Juliet Brett, Ben Groh)

Ponderosa

When the buffet where Zeke's mom works closes down, he's forced to entertain the wild advances of a rich regular who is weirdly and vehemently obsessed with becoming his father.

(Country: US; Year: 2026; Director: Rob Rice; Writer: Rob Rice; Stars: Jack Dylan Grazer, Alexis Bledel, Bill Camp)

She Keeps Me Young

Michelle is floating through life until a surprising connection with a high schooler challenges her friendship with her overbearing best friend.

(Country: US; Year: 2026; Director: Doron Max Hagay; Writer: Blair Beeken, Katy Fullan, Doron Max Hagay; Stars: Patti Harrison, Kate Berlant, John Early, Blair Beeken, Katy Fullan, Shay Rudolph)

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 his entire world upside down.

(Country: US; Year: 2026; Director: Carlitos Ruiz-Ruiz; Writer: Carlitos Ruiz-Ruiz, Marcel Ruiz, Mariana S Belaval; Stars: Marcel Ruiz, Paolo Schoene, Kiki Montilla)

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 West to heal. Along the way, he picks up a wounded coyote and meets enigmatic strangers who offer a different path towards closure.

(Country: US; Year: 2026; Director: Hannah Peterson; Writer: Hannah Peterson; Stars: Young Mazino, MiMi Ryder, Tony Hale, Zoë Winters, Keith Kupferer, Stanley Simons, Carl Clemons-Hopkins, Mamoudou Athie, Jee Young Han)