Tribeca 2026 overflows with greatness

TRIBECA 2026

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Every year, just as summer creeps around the corner, New York City is buzzing with fresh storytelling ideas, and at Tribeca 2026, a whopping 103 World Premieres are taking place. One of the best aspects about the festival, which celebrates its 25th anniversary this year, is the reminder that cinephiles, both serious and casual, can mix and mingle and claim bragging rights to having seen “the” film everyone will be talking about all year. You might find yourself scoring a rush ticket, and accidentally ride the escalators alongside your favorite star or filmmaker. It really is that special and unexpected. Without exception, the fest boasts something for every moviegoer, and Tribeca 2026 promises to deliver the thrills, chills, laughs, tears, gasps, and gaffaws. Here are some of the films we are saving a seat for.

NARRATIVE FEATURES

Act One

large_Act_One-Clean-16x9-01 Tribeca 2026In this rhythmic psychological thriller, a lonely aspiring teen actress finds herself drawn to an acting teacher who pulls her into a web of desire and control, blurring the lines of seduction and obsession.


What Is To Come Tribeca 2026

what is to come tribeca 2026After backing out of a suicide pact that leaves her husband dead, a sheltered farmer’s wife flees the shame and hidden debts that destroyed their life together and disappears into the port city of Eilat, where an unexpected bond with migrants, refugees, and a compassionate hotel manager forces her to rebuild herself from nothing and discover a life beyond the one she was told to live.


Lucy Schulman

Tribeca 2026 Lucy_Schulman-Clean-16x9-01After a crushing breakup, Lucy moves back in with her eccentric single dad and dives into bad dates, false starts, and growing pains. Big-hearted and sharply funny, Lucy Schulman is a charming comedic coming-of-age story from multihyphenate Tribeca alum Ellie Sachs.


Ponderosa

Ponderosa-16x9-01 Tribeca 2026Synopsis: 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.


Deepfake

large_Deepfake-Clean-16x9-01 Tribeca 2026After a breakup, rudderless millennial Jane hires a team of Gen-Z consultants to reinvent her life. But what begins as a makeover soon spirals into a sharp social media satire about image, app culture, and the cost of becoming someone else.


DOCUMENTARY Tribeca 2026


Sara Bareilles: Good Grief

Tribeca 2026 Sarah_Bareilles_-_Good_Grief-Clean-16x9-01.jpgSeven years after her Grammy Award-winning Amidst the Chaos, Sara Bareilles reunites with her closest collaborators to record a new album. What emerges is an intimate, cinematic process that lays bare the musician’s deep connections and inspirations in Tribeca alum Josh Alexander’s moving music documentary.

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‘SCURRY’ (2025) Super satisfying creature-feature available this Friday

SCURRY

Scurry poster

Luke Sparke‘s apocalyptic sci-fi creature feature SCURRY opens in theaters and on VOD this Friday. The film follows two strangers trapped in a series of pitch black tunnels. They search for an escape route while being stalked by the lifeforms wreaking havoc above ground.

scurry main stillFew films have been able to pull off the one-shot feat. SCURRY owns it. Here is a team that has total trust, impeccable timing, and chemistry between the cast and crew, leading to cinematic magic. The element of enveloping darkness, a small, unpredictable light source, and the blurry infrared of a camcorder create relentless dread.

scurry stillJamie Costa and Emalia (The Dog) are spectacular, balancing caution, fear, desperation, audacity, and unrelenting determination. Screenwriter Tom Evans has Mark and Kate simultaneously butting heads while also needing to collaborate. Emalia’s physical performance encapsulates real-life panic attacks. Costa’s emotionally fraught turn has you rooting for him. If you’re like me, you may find yourself yelling at the screen.

Scurry has elements of CLOVERFIELD, THE DESCENT, and Stephen King‘s THE MIST. It is a tense and entertaining watch from beginning to end.


Scurry Trailer:

Luke Sparke’s One-Shot Horror Sci-Fi Scurry
Starring Jamie Costa & Emalia
Streaming on Digital HD October 3


When an unthinkable attack devastates their city, two strangers find themselves trapped beneath the chaos, wounded and disoriented. As they fight to survive in a narrowing underground tunnel, their injuries worsen, and their chances of escape dwindle. But the collapsing passageways aren’t their only threat—something else is lurking in the darkness, something relentless and hungry. Shot in real-time using a single continuous take, Scurry delivers a gripping, claustrophobic horror experience that will keep audiences on edge until the very last moment.

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