Tribeca 2025 may have already opened with Billy Joel: And So It Goes by Susan Lacy and Jessica Levin, but the doc component kicks off in earnest June 6 with the 10-film Documentary Competition, running to June 11 and all of which are world premieres. The feature docs are largely US, with the exceptions of the Danish The End of Quiet and An Eye for an Eye (co-produced with Iran and US); the Peruvian Ruma Simi, and the US/UK Underland.
Additionally, 27 feature docs (21 of which are world prems) are selected for the festival’s Spotlight Documentary section. The mainly US selection features filmd on the late, great US comedian Andy Kaufman; the journalist Barbara Walters; UK band Culture Club; Barbara Jordan, the first Southern Black woman to join Congress, and US track star Alysson Felix. Meanwhile The Last Guest Of The Holloway Motel tells the strange tale of former Norwich City defender Tony Powell who disappeared from public view, only to reappear decades later in a West Hollywood motel.
Richard Ladkani’s feature doc Yanuni, about the fearless female Indigenous chief Juma Xipaia (Brazil), closes the festival on June 14.
DOCUMENTARY COMPETITION (all world premieres)
- Backside by Raúl O. Paz Pastrana (United States | 85 MINUTES | English, Spanish | English subtitles)
- The End of Quiet by Kasper Bisgaard and Mikael Lypinski (Denmark | 83 MINUTES | English | English subtitles)
- An Eye for an Eye by Tanaz Eshaghian and Farzad Jafari (Denmark, Iran, United States | 84 MINUTES | Farsi | English subtitles)
- For Venida, For Kalief by Sisa Bueno (United States | 93 MINUTES | Arabic, English, Spanish | English subtitles)
- The Last Dive by Cody Sheehy (United States | 88 MINUTES | English | English subtitles)
- Maintenance Artist by Toby Perl Freilich (United States | 95 MINUTES | English, Japanese | English subtitles)
- Natchez by by Suzannah Herbert (United States | 86 MINUTES | English)
- Runa Simi by Augusto Zegarra (Peru | 81 MINUTES | English, Quechua, Spanish | English subtitles)
- Sun Ra: Do The Impossible by Christine Turner 9 United States | 84 MINUTES | English | English subtitles)
- Underland by Robert Petit (United States, UK | 79 MINUTES | English, Spanish | English subtitles)
SPOTLIGHT DOCUMENTARY
- Andy Kaufman Is Me by Clay Tweel (United States | 101 MINUTES | English | English subtitles)
- Barbara Walters Tell Me Everything by Jackie Jesko (United States | 95 MINUTES | English
- BLUE SCUTI: Tetris Crasher by Chris Moukarbel (United States, France | 76 MINUTES | English | English subtitles)
- Bodyguard of Lies by Dan Krauss (United States, Afghanistan | 90 MINUTES | English, Pashto | English subtitles)
- Boy George & Culture Club by Alison Ellwood (United States, UK | 96 MINUTES | English)
- Counting Crows: Have You Seen Me Lately? by Amy Scott (United States | 90 MINUTES | English | English subtitles)
- Dear Ms.: A Revolution in Print by Cecilia Aldarondo, Alice Gu, and Salima Koroma (United States | 110 MINUTES | English | English subtitles)
- Empire Skate by Josh Swade (United States | 80 MINUTES)
- Holding Liat by Brandon Kramer (United States | 97 MINUTES | English, Hebrew | English subtitles)
- The Inquisitor by Angela Lynn Tucker (United States | 98 MINUTES | English | English subtitles)
- It’s Dorothy! by Jeffrey McHale (United States | 97 MINUTES | English)
- I Was Born This Way by Daniel Junge and Sam Pollard (United States | 100 MINUTES | English)
- Jimmy & The Demons by Cindy Meehl (United States | 93 MINUTES | English)
- Just Kids by Gianna Toboni (United States | 93 MINUTES | English)
- Kerouac’s Road: The Beat of a Nation by Ebs Burnough (UK, United States | 89 MINUTES | English | English subtitles)
- The Last Guest of The Holloway Motel by Ramiel Petros and Nicholas Freeman (United States, UK | 94 MINUTES | English)
- Long Live the State by Matthew Perniciaro (United States | 110 MINUTES | English)
- Marlee Matlin: Not Alone Anymore by Shoshannah Stern (United States | 98 MINUTES | American Sign Language, English | English subtitles)
- Mugaritz: No Bread, No Dessert by Paco Plaza (Spain | 95 MINUTES | Spanish | English subtitles)
- My Mom Jayne: A Film by Mariska Hargitay (United States | 105 MINUTES | English)
- Raoul’s, A New York Story by Greg Olliver, Karim Raoul (United States, France | 99 MINUTES | English, French | English subtitles)
- Room to Move by Alexander Hammer (United States | 110 MINUTES | English)
- The Shadow Scholars by Eloise King (UK | 98 MINUTES | English | English subtitles)
- She Runs the World by Perri Peltz and Matthew O’Neill (United States | 85 MINUTES | English)
- Surviving Ohio State by Eva Orner (United States | 108 MINUTES | English | English subtitles)
- Take the Money and Run by Ole Juncker (Denmark, Norway | 81 MINUTES | Danish | English subtitles)
- Titan: The OceanGate Disaster by Mark Monroe (United States | 111 MINUTES | English | English subtitles)
