The 2025 Tribeca Pageant has introduced its jury winners. Libby Ewing’s “Charliebird” leads the awards, taking the highest honor within the U.S. Narrative part. “Comfortable Birthday” and “Natchez” had been each acknowledged within the respective Worldwide Narrative and Documentary competitions, with Andrea Riseborough and Brenda Blethyn sharing the Efficiency Award for “Dragonfly.”
“Yearly at Tribeca we got down to highlight essentially the most thrilling new voices from all over the world,” Tribeca Pageant director and SVP of programming Cara Cusumano stated. “We’re thrilled our jury honored this mission with winners that brilliantly symbolize the vibrancy and variety of worldwide impartial storytelling at this time.”
The Tribeca 2025 awards championed first-time administrators equivalent to Ewing (“Charliebird“), Cristian Carretero and Lorraine Jones Molina (“Esta Isla”) with the Greatest New Narrative Director Award, Isabel Hagen (“On a String”) with the Greatest Screenplay in a U.S. Narrative Characteristic award, Walter Thompson-Hernandez (“Kites”) with the Viewpoints Award, Sarah Goher (“Comfortable Birthday”) with Greatest Worldwide Narrative Characteristic, Greatest Screenplay in an Worldwide Narrative Characteristic, and the celebrated Nora Ephron Award, and Rowan Haber (“We Are Pat”) and Augusto Zegarra (“Runa Simi”) with the Albert Maysles Award for Greatest New Documentary Director honors.
Winners of the Viewers Award, that are decided by viewers votes all through the pageant, will likely be introduced at a later date. The pageant concludes on Sunday, June 15.
The complete 2025 Tribeca winners and Particular Jury mentions are beneath.
U.S. NARRATIVE COMPETITION
Founders Award for Greatest U.S. Narrative Characteristic: “Charliebird,” director Libby Ewing (United States) – World Premiere. Jury Assertion: “A deeply affecting portrait that includes grounded and sophisticated performances, this movie is an assured and well-crafted debut.“ This award is offered by OKX.
Particular Jury Point out for Greatest U.S. Narrative Characteristic: “Esta Isla (This Island),” administrators Cristian Carretero and Lorraine Jones Molina (Puerto Rico) – World Premiere. Jury assertion: “A compelling depiction of a spot, this movie is a lush and stunningly realized reckoning with class, love and historical past.”
Greatest Efficiency in a U.S. Narrative Characteristic: Gabriela Ochoa Perez for “Charliebird” (United States) – World Premiere. Jury assertion: “This actor delivers a recent efficiency that’s directly ferocious and weak. She grounds a younger girl’s painful journey in humanity and reality.”
Greatest Screenplay in a U.S. Narrative Characteristic: Isabel Hagen for “On a String” (United States) – World Premiere. Jury assertion: “A nimble, witty and completed story that chronicles the ups and downs of a younger girl who has to face the music.”
Greatest Cinematography in a U.S. Narrative Characteristic: Cedric Cheung-Lau for “Esta Isla (This Island)” (Puerto Rico) – World Premiere. Jury assertion: “Superbly lensed, this movie is stuffed with unforgettable and evocative imagery. Lovingly rendered, it’s equally adept at capturing the intimate particulars and grandest vistas.”
INTERNATIONAL NARRATIVE COMPETITION
Greatest Worldwide Narrative Characteristic: “Comfortable Birthday,” director Sarah Goher (Egypt) – World Premiere. Jury assertion: “For its genuine and sophisticated portrayal of sophistication, motherhood, and lack of innocence, together with excellent performances – particularly by its younger star – and its good nuanced writing.”
Particular Jury Point out for Worldwide Narrative Characteristic: “Cuerpo Celeste,” director Nayra Ilic García (Chile, Italy) – World Premiere. Jury assertion: “For its implausible central efficiency, arresting visuals, and refined storytelling that touches on each a altering political panorama and the aftermath of grief.”
Greatest Efficiency in an Worldwide Narrative Characteristic: Andrea Riseborough and Brenda Blethyn for
“Dragonfly” (United Kingdom) – World Premiere. “For an viewers, there may be nothing as thrilling as watching actors bravely and totally immerse themselves in characters who depart us full of each empathy and dread – and so for his or her daring and electrifying turns, we’re thrilled to current Greatest Efficiency in and Worldwide Movie to Andrea Riseborough and Brenda Blethyn.”
Greatest Screenplay in an Worldwide Narrative Characteristic: Mohamed Diab and Sarah Goher for “Comfortable Birthday” (Egypt) – World Premiere. Jury assertion: “For its profound and but economical storytelling, compelling characters, and splendidly crafted dialogue.”
Greatest Cinematography in an Worldwide Narrative Characteristic: Lev Predan Kowarski for “Little Hassle Ladies” (Slovenia, Italy, Croatia, Serbia) – North American Premiere. Jury assertion: “For its evocative tone and wealthy sensual texture, which conjured the fragility of a singular summer season.”
DOCUMENTARY COMPETITION
Greatest Documentary Characteristic: “Natchez,” director Suzannah Herbert (United States) – World Premiere. Jury assertion: “Who tells America’s story? In a rustic the place the rewriting and abject erasure of African American historical past threatens a truthful understanding of who we’re, the jury applauds this movie’s give attention to a southern city, as soon as certainly one of America’s largest slave markets, whose financial mainstay is now historic excursions. The movie’s incisive, razor-sharp craft, its deft navigation of myriad members with out ever dropping readability, its timeliness, its humor, its confrontation of bare racism, but its refusal to flatten its Mississippian storytellers—nonetheless flawed—into simple villains, for being clever, trustworthy, and deeply compassionate, the jury—unanimously and unequivocally—awards a movie that brings us hope not for an America that may agree, however one which may perceive one another.”
Particular Jury Point out for Documentary Characteristic: “An Eye for an Eye,” administrators Tanaz Eshaghian and Farzad Jafari (Denmark, Iran, United States) – World Premiere. Jury assertion: “At a time when ladies’s rights are eroding globally, the jury can be remiss if we didn’t acknowledge the brave, unflinching, intestine wrenching, verité virtuosity of a movie set in a society that severely limits ladies’s rights, even these of victims of utmost home violence. The story unfolds in actual time with life and dying hanging within the steadiness, leaving the viewers breathlessly invested within the consequence.”
Greatest Cinematography in a Documentary Characteristic: Likelihood Falkner and Johnny Friday for “The Final Dive” (United States) – World Premiere. Jury assertion: “After a passionate debate, we award a movie which immersed us in a pure world the place the assembly between man and animal actually modifications the course of preservation historical past, and the redemption of a damaged soul. For its sweeping aerial and underwater footage, stunning archival witness, and intimate portrait of an individual confronting morality.”
Particular Jury Point out for Cinematography in a Documentary Characteristic: Noah Collier for “Natchez” (United States) – World Premiere. Jury assertion: “For its idiosyncratic visible storytelling, masterfully timed and restrained camerawork, and pictures as shut, broad and open because the movie’s curious coronary heart.”
Greatest Modifying in a Documentary Characteristic: Soren B. Ebbe and Hayedeh Safiyari for “An Eye for an Eye” (Denmark, Iran, United States) – World Premiere. “For its narrative precision, for locking us inside an ethical crucible with out reduction, and for weaving a multigenerational, deeply private story that provides equal weight to all members with searing emotional affect, and for the readability and braveness of its storytelling. Not one body feels gratuitous because the movie barrels relentlessly in the direction of its conclusion.”
Particular Jury Point out for Modifying in a Documentary Characteristic: Pablo Proenza for “Natchez” (United States) – World Premiere. Jury assertion: “The enhancing seamlessly balances all the weather of an especially difficult story, and delivers a strong affect that resonates lengthy after the movie concludes.”
VIEWPOINTS AWARD
“A Vibrant Future,” director Lucia Garibaldi (Uruguay, Argentina, Germany) – World Premiere. Jury assertion: “This 12 months’s Viewpoints award goes to a movie pushed by an authentic, creative voice. The filmmaker creates a seamless world that’s charming, thought-provoking, recent and more and more related. Weaving themes of the fetishization of youth, the timeless pursuit of goals, and what makes us human, and anchored by a pitch excellent efficiency from their lead actress, we’re happy to award this 12 months’s Viewpoint prize to A Vibrant Future. We consider Lucia Garibaldi has a really vibrant future.”
Particular Jury Point out for Viewpoints: “Kites,” director Walter Thompson-Hernandez (Brazil) – World Premiere. Jury assertion: “Particular Jury Prize goes to a movie with astounding cinematography that balances verite with magical realism and upends standard story construction. The love the filmmaker has for his characters and their group writ massive was infectious. All of us suppose we’ve time however the angels tell us we’ve to rush and grow to be the individuals who wish to be.”
BEST NEW NARRATIVE DIRECTOR AWARD
Lorraine Jones Molina and Cristian Carretero for “Esta Isla (This Island)” – World Premiere. Jury assertion: “The award for Greatest New Narrative Director goes to a movie that straddles crime fiction and ethnography; it balances poetic imagery, lush landscapes, and cinematic stress; it takes audiences deep into the disaster of survival of a younger man on an island that’s each a paradise and a jail.” This award is offered by Canva.
ALBERT MAYSLES AWARD FOR BEST NEW DOCUMENTARY DIRECTOR
Augusto Zegarra for “Runa Simi” (Peru) – World Premiere. Jury assertion: “This award goes to a movie that takes us on a seemingly lighthearted journey whereas tackling an important query: why storytelling issues. From the casting, to the body, to the editorial pacing, this director creates the full cinematic package deal, revealing one man’s combat to protect his individuals’s tradition.”
Particular Jury Point out for New Documentary Director: Rowan Haber for “We Are Pat” (United States) – World Premiere. Jury assertion: “This award goes to a movie that tackles a morally pressing subject with a recent and distinctive directorial imaginative and prescient that made us suppose, cry, and most unexpectedly chortle. For powerfully centering the voices of the group it represents, creative visible method, and for serving to us see a fancy pop cultural determine in a brand new means.”
NORA EPHRON AWARD
The Nora Ephron Award will honor an distinctive feminine filmmaker who represents the spirit and imaginative and prescient of the legendary filmmaker and author.
Sara Goher for “Comfortable Birthday” (Egypt) – World Premiere. Jury assertion: “This movie was not solely compelling as an viewers expertise, however like all nice artistic endeavors, it didn’t confine itself to the story, and was resonant on a bigger canvas. It explored the intersection of innocence and sophistication from the eyes of a kid eager for a birthday celebration and reluctantly understanding her place in society, being on the skin, and longing to be invited to the within.”
SHORTS COMPETITION
Greatest Narrative Quick: “Past Silence,” director Marnie Blok (Netherlands) – Worldwide Premiere. Jury assertion: “Overlaying an infinite topic with lovely minimalism, good performances mix with a skillful script to present new that means to ‘discovering your voice.’ Uncooked and devastating. Spectacular and emotional.”
Particular Jury Point out for Narrative Quick: “Chasing the Social gathering,” director Jessie Komitor (United States) – World Premiere. Jury assertion: “With a compelling mixture of character and world, this nostalgic have a look at younger hope on a wild evening is full of surprises of fantasy and nightmare. We’ll be pondering of this recent, provocative movie for a very long time and can’t wait to see what this director does subsequent.”
Greatest Documentary Quick: “I hope this electronic mail finds you nicely,” director Asia Zughaiar (Palestine) – World Premiere. Jury Assertion: “Our selection for the Greatest Quick Documentary Award poses the query: what even is a documentary? A documentary might be something that permits the viewer to attach with what the filmmaker has skilled. We consider this movie helps us not solely see, however really feel.”
Particular Jury Point out for Documentary Quick: “Natasha,” administrators Mark Franchetti and Andrew Meier (Italy, Russia) – World Premiere. Jury Assertion: “In instances like these, it’s necessary to honor those that got here earlier than us, those that fought to make the world a extra simply and livable place. Our Particular Jury selection displays on one such hidden determine, whose legacy left an outsized affect on the world we dwell in at this time.”
Greatest Animated Quick: “Enjoying God,” director Matteo Burani (Italy, France) – New York Premiere. Jury assertion: “Visceral and experimental, utilizing the shape to its best skills — this lovely exploration of existential turmoil is on the coronary heart of cinema — why are we right here, how did we get right here, what would it not be wish to have the thumb of god in your hand, and what’s the worth when one yearns to be free?”
Particular Jury Point out for Animated Quick: “Petra and the Solar,” administrators Malu Furche and Stefania Malacchini(Chile) – North American Premiere. Jury assertion: “The eye to element, the specificity of longing and loneliness, and the immersive high quality of this stop-motion character examine created a transferring expertise. The feel and visual traces of the human hand introduced a fragile realism on this story about an uncommon and unforgettable likelihood encounter.”
Greatest Music Video: “Rock The Bells” – LL COOL J, director Gregory Brunkalla (United Said). Jury assertion: “To honor our first-ever Music Video Jury Competitors winner, we discovered it solely becoming to have fun the nice metropolis of New York—with a music video that captures the model, swag, and sound of Tribeca’s hometown.”
Pupil Visionary Award: Manya Glassman for “How I Discovered to Die” (United States) – World Premiere. Jury assertion: “Our selection for the Pupil Visionary Award manages to make a capital-M Film out of a brief scholar movie. We, the jury, consider this movie is full of ambition, hope, and character—paired with advanced, emotional subject material that touches on one thing we are going to all expertise: dying.
Particular Jury Point out for Pupil Visionary: Jiayi Li for “āyí” (United States) – World Premiere. Jury assertion: “Generally, the people who find themselves the material of our lives are those most frequently forgotten. With this movie, we catch a glimpse of what it feels wish to be neglected—however not erased. We wish to give a Particular Jury Point out.”
