
Retrieval still courtesy of Tribeca.
By Jessica Herndon
This year, the Tribeca Festival returns to New York City with another stacked lineup of premieres and can't-miss cinematic moments. Running June 3-14, the festival will bring together bold storytellers and cinephiles eager to share and catch the latest in indie film. And among this year's offerings is a strong showing from the Sundance Institute community.
Eleven Sundance Institute-supported projects will screen during this year's festival, including films like the documentary Retrieval, backed by programs spanning the Documentary Film Program, Catalyst, and Artist Accelerator. Other titles are among those that premiered at the 2026 Sundance Film Festival, like Take Me Home, recipient of the 2026 Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award: U.S. Dramatic, and short film The Baddest Speechwriter of All, which earned the Short Film Grand Jury Prize.
Plus, don't miss some beloved films from the past. This year's lineup also reaches into the Sundance Institute vault with Bound, the feature film directorial debut of Lana and Lilly Wachowski (The Matrix), and Malcolm Ingram's Small Town Gay Bar, bringing a dose of nostalgia into the mix.
Explore the full list of Sundance Institute-supported titles below and add them to your Tribeca schedule. And for more about the programs mentioned in this list, click here.
FEATURES
Caity - Feature Film Program, Catalyst
Tribeca logline: While managing her family's local haunted house with her alcoholic father, Paul, 16-year-old Caity navigates the evaporating space between childhood and adulthood and discovers a fantasy of intimacy in another teenage employee, Hannah.
Colors of White Rock - Documentary Film Program
Tribeca logline: The immersive and deeply cinematic Colors of White Rock follows a determined female truck driver working the mines of Mongolia as she arduously navigates the treacherous Gobi Desert in an endless race to the Chinese border.
Zoey Deutch, John Slattery, Ken Marino, Miles Gutierrez-Riley and Ben Wang appear in Gail Daughtry and the Celebrity Sex Pass by David Wain, an official selection of the 2026 Sundance Film Festival. Courtesy of Sundance Institute.
Gail Daughtry and the Celebrity Sex Pass - 2026 Sundance Film Festival
Midwestern bride-to-be Gail Daughtry has a free celebrity pass agreement with her fianc - who uses it. With her relationship in crisis, Gail sets out on an epic journey through Hollywood to even the scales.
Hanging by a Wire - 2026 Sundance Film Festival
A routine school commute turns terrifying when a cable car's wire snaps, leaving eight passengers - including six schoolboys - dangling 900 feet above a ravine in the remote Himalayan foothills. With 10 hours before the remaining cable is expected to fail, a group of rescuers races to save them.
Matinin - Documentary Film Program
Tribeca logline: A multi-generational family of outspoken Puerto Rican women takes center stage as they conceive and perform fantastical film vignettes as a way to navigate painful pasts in this visually-arresting, kaleidoscopic documentary.
Retrieval - Documentary Film Program
Tribeca logline: If science allowed you to hold onto a piece of someone you lost, would you? When Christina's fianc dies suddenly, she faces the unexpected decision of whether or not to carry on his legacy via postmortem sperm retrieval.
Take Me Home - Artist Accelerator, 2026 Sundance Film Festival (winner of the Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award: US Dramatic)
Anna, a 38-year-old Korean adoptee with a cognitive disability, cares for her aging parents in a fragile balance of meeting one another's needs. When a Florida heat wave shatters their family and Anna's routine, her future is uncertain until she creates a world where she can thrive.
The Best Summer - 2026 Sundance Film Festival
Immersive POV camera footage reveals electric performances, candid interviews, and intimate backstage life with Beastie Boys, Sonic Youth, Foo Fighters, Pavement, Rancid, Beck, The Amps, and Bikini Kill - an all-access view inside an era-defining moment in music.
Dr. Clarence B Jones appears in The Baddest Speechwriter of All by Ben Proudfoot and Stephen Curry, an official selection of the 2026 Sundance Film Festival. Courtesy of Sundance Institute | photo by Brandon Somerhalder.
SHORT FILM
The Baddest Speechwriter of All - 2026 Sundance Film Festival, winner of the Short Film Grand Jury Prize
Now 93, Martin Luther King Jr.'s lawyer and speechwriter reflects on the personal cost and surprising truths of making history, offering an intimate insider's view of the Civil Rights Movement.
FROM THE SUNDANCE INSTITUTE VAULT
Bound: 30th Anniversary - 1996 Sundance Film Festival
Tribeca logline: The film centers on Violet (Jennifer Tilly), a gun moll who longs to escape her relationship with her mobster boyfriend Caesar (Joe Pantoliano), as she enters into a clandestine affair with ex-con Corky (Gina Gershon). The two women hatch a scheme to steal $2 million of Mafia money.
Small Town Gay Bar - 2006 Sundance Film Festival
Tribeca logline: Executive produced by Kevin Smith, this groundbreaking documentary centers on the struggle for community and expression in the face of ignorance, hypocrisy and oppression for the denizens of two small town Mississippi gay bars.
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