Overview
- The Tribeca Festival has opened its 25th-anniversary edition, a multiweek event that runs through June 14, 2026.
- Robert De Niro and Jane Rosenthal remind audiences that the festival began in 2002 to revive Lower Manhattan after 9/11 and that it has since grown into a major city tradition.
- Organizers programmed more than 100 feature films along with TV, podcasts, documentaries, games, immersive works and live music to broaden the festival beyond film alone.
- High-profile highlights this year include an opening-night Earth, Wind & Fire documentary followed by a performance, a 50th-anniversary Taxi Driver screening and conversation with De Niro, Martin Scorsese and Jodie Foster, and a closing-night Alicia Keys documentary with Keys appearing after the screening.
- Tribeca’s leaders point to more than $1 billion in cumulative economic impact and say the festival’s shift from a one-time recovery effort to a large cultural platform has driven business for local venues and kept star-driven programming at the center of New York’s summer arts season.