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. “Completely satisfied 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 probably the most thrilling new voices from around the globe,” 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 world unbiased storytelling in the present day.”
The Tribeca 2025 awards championed first-time administrators akin 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 Function award, Walter Thompson-Hernandez (“Kites”) with the Viewpoints Award, Sarah Goher (“Completely satisfied Birthday”) with Greatest Worldwide Narrative Function, Greatest Screenplay in an Worldwide Narrative Function, and the distinguished 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, might 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 Function: “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 Function: “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 Function: Gabriela Ochoa Perez for “Charliebird” (United States) – World Premiere. Jury assertion: “This actor delivers a recent efficiency that’s without delay ferocious and susceptible. She grounds a younger lady’s painful journey in humanity and reality.”
Greatest Screenplay in a U.S. Narrative Function: Isabel Hagen for “On a String” (United States) – World Premiere. Jury assertion: “A nimble, witty and achieved story that chronicles the ups and downs of a younger lady who has to face the music.”
Greatest Cinematography in a U.S. Narrative Function: Cedric Cheung-Lau for “Esta Isla (This Island)” (Puerto Rico) – World Premiere. Jury assertion: “Fantastically lensed, this movie is filled 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 Function: “Completely satisfied 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 Function: “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 Function: 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 go away 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 Function: Mohamed Diab and Sarah Goher for “Completely satisfied 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 Function: Lev Predan Kowarski for “Little Bother 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 Function: “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 considered 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 individuals with out ever shedding 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 suave, sincere, and deeply compassionate, the jury—unanimously and unequivocally—awards a movie that brings us hope not for an America that may agree, however one that may perceive one another.”
Particular Jury Point out for Documentary Function: “An Eye for an Eye,” administrators Tanaz Eshaghian and Farzad Jafari (Denmark, Iran, United States) – World Premiere. Jury assertion: “At a time when girls’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 girls’s rights, even these of victims of maximum home violence. The story unfolds in actual time with life and demise hanging within the steadiness, leaving the viewers breathlessly invested within the consequence.”
Greatest Cinematography in a Documentary Function: 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, surprising archival witness, and intimate portrait of an individual confronting morality.”
Particular Jury Point out for Cinematography in a Documentary Function: Noah Collier for “Natchez” (United States) – World Premiere. Jury assertion: “For its idiosyncratic visible storytelling, masterfully timed and restrained camerawork, and pictures as shut, vast and open because the movie’s curious coronary heart.”
Greatest Modifying in a Documentary Function: 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 individuals 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 Function: 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 robust 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, ingenious 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 vivid 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 neighborhood writ massive was infectious. All of us assume we now have time however the angels tell us we now have to rush and develop into 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 a necessary query: why storytelling issues. From the casting, to the body, to the editorial pacing, this director creates the whole cinematic package deal, revealing one man’s struggle 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 situation with a recent and distinctive directorial imaginative and prescient that made us assume, cry, and most unexpectedly giggle. For powerfully centering the voices of the neighborhood it represents, ingenious visible strategy, and for serving to us see a fancy pop cultural determine in a brand new approach.”
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 “Completely satisfied Birthday” (Egypt) – World Premiere. Jury assertion: “This movie was not solely compelling as an viewers expertise, however like all nice artworks, 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 Brief: “Past Silence,” director Marnie Blok (Netherlands) – Worldwide Premiere. Jury assertion: “Protecting an unlimited topic with lovely minimalism, good performances mix with a skillful script to provide new that means to ‘discovering your voice.’ Uncooked and devastating. Spectacular and emotional.”
Particular Jury Point out for Narrative Brief: “Chasing the Occasion,” 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 Brief: “I hope this e-mail finds you nicely,” director Asia Zughaiar (Palestine) – World Premiere. Jury Assertion: “Our selection for the Greatest Brief Documentary Award poses the query: what even is a documentary? A documentary may be something that enables 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 Brief: “Natasha,” administrators Mark Franchetti and Andrew Meier (Italy, Russia) – World Premiere. Jury Assertion: “In occasions like these, it’s vital 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 in the present day.”
Greatest Animated Brief: “Enjoying God,” director Matteo Burani (Italy, France) – New York Premiere. Jury assertion: “Visceral and experimental, utilizing the shape to its biggest talents — 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 Brief: “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 research created a shifting 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 Acknowledged). 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 pupil movie. We, the jury, consider this movie is full of ambition, hope, and persona—paired with complicated, emotional subject material that touches on one thing we are going to all expertise: demise.
Particular Jury Point out for Pupil Visionary: Jiayi Li for “āyí” (United States) – World Premiere. Jury assertion: “Typically, 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.”