‘Charliebird,' ‘Happy Birthday,' ‘Natchez' Top Tribeca Festival Award Winners
The 2025 Tribeca Festival has announced this year's award winners.
Charliebird, Happy Birthday and Natchez took the top awards in the U.S. narrative, international narrative and documentary competitions, respectively.
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Happy Birthday won three awards in total including best screenplay in an international narrative feature and the Nora Ephron award for first-time director Sara Goher.
Natchez also received special jury mentions for cinematography and editing. And Esta Isla won two awards — best new narrative director for Cristian Carretero and Lorraine Jones Molina and best cinematography in a U.S. narrative feature — and received a special jury mention for best U.S. narrative feature.
In addition to the Founders Award for best U.S. narrative feature, Charliebird's Gabriela Ochoa Perez won best performance in a U.S. narrative feature.
Andrea Riseborough and Brenda Blethyn shared the performance award for Dragonfly. All winning films in the U.S. narrative category were from first-time directors, including Charliebird's Libby Ewing and On a String's Isabel Hagen.
Other first-time directors among this year's award winners include best new documentary director winners Augusto Zegarra (Runa Simi) and Rowan Haber (We Are Pat) and Viewpoints winner Walter Thompson-Hernandez (Kites).
Select category winners received a Tribeca Festival art award from a selection of artists led by curator Zoe Lukov.
'Every year at Tribeca we set out to spotlight the most exciting new voices from around the world,' said Tribeca Festival director and senior vp, programming Cara Cusumano. 'We are thrilled our jury honored this mission with winners that brilliantly represent the vibrancy and diversity of global independent storytelling today.'
The 2025 Tribeca Festival runs through June 15.
A complete list of this year's winners and special jury mentions, including jury statements for each project honored, as selected by the 2025 festival jury follows.
This year's audience award winners, determined by filmgoers' votes throughout the festival, will be announced later.
U.S. NARRATIVE COMPETITION
Founders Award for Best U.S. Narrative Feature: Charliebird, director Libby Ewing (United States) – World Premiere. Jury Statement: 'A deeply affecting portrait featuring grounded and complex performances, this film is an assured and well-crafted debut.' This award is presented by OKX.
Special Jury Mention for Best U.S. Narrative Feature: Esta Isla (This Island), directors Cristian Carretero and Lorraine Jones Molina (Puerto Rico) – World Premiere. Jury statement: 'A compelling depiction of a place, this film is a lush and stunningly realized reckoning with class, love and history.'
Best Performance in a U.S. Narrative Feature: Gabriela Ochoa Perez for Charliebird (United States) – World Premiere. Jury statement: 'This actor delivers a fresh performance that is at once ferocious and vulnerable. She grounds a young woman's painful journey in humanity and truth.'
Best Screenplay in a U.S. Narrative Feature: Isabel Hagen for On a String (United States) – World Premiere. Jury statement: 'A nimble, witty and accomplished story that chronicles the ups and downs of a young woman who has to face the music.'
Best Cinematography in a U.S. Narrative Feature: Cedric Cheung-Lau for Esta Isla (This Island) (Puerto Rico) – World Premiere. Jury statement: 'Beautifully lensed, this film is full of unforgettable and evocative imagery. Lovingly rendered, it is equally adept at capturing the intimate details and grandest vistas.'
INTERNATIONAL NARRATIVE COMPETITION
Best International Narrative Feature: Happy Birthday, director Sarah Goher (Egypt) – World Premiere. Jury statement: 'For its authentic and complex portrayal of class, motherhood, and loss of innocence, along with outstanding performances – especially by its young star – and its brilliant nuanced writing.'
Best Performance in an International Narrative Feature: Andrea Riseborough and Brenda Blethyn for Dragonfly (United Kingdom) – World Premiere. 'For an audience, there is nothing as exciting as watching actors bravely and fully immerse themselves in characters who leave us filled with both empathy and dread – and so for their daring and electrifying turns, we are thrilled to present Best Performance in and International Film to Andrea Riseborough and Brenda Blethyn.'
Best Screenplay in an International Narrative Feature: Mohamed Diab and Sarah Goher for Happy Birthday (Egypt) – World Premiere. Jury statement: 'For its profound and yet economical storytelling, compelling characters, and wonderfully crafted dialogue.'
Best Cinematography in an International Narrative Feature: Lev Predan Kowarski for Little Trouble Girls (Slovenia, Italy, Croatia, Serbia) – North American Premiere. Jury statement: 'For its evocative tone and rich sensual texture, which conjured the fragility of a singular summer.'
DOCUMENTARY COMPETITION
Best Documentary Feature: Natchez, director Suzannah Herbert (United States) – World Premiere. Jury statement: 'Who tells America's story? In a country where the rewriting and abject erasure of African American history threatens a truthful understanding of who we are, the jury applauds this film's focus on a southern town, once one of America's largest slave markets, whose economic mainstay is now historic tours. The film's incisive, razor-sharp craft, its deft navigation of myriad participants without ever losing clarity, its timeliness, its humor, its confrontation of naked racism, yet its refusal to flatten its Mississippian storytellers—however flawed—into easy villains, for being artful, honest, and deeply compassionate, the jury—unanimously and unequivocally—awards a film that brings us hope not for an America that can agree, but one that might understand each other.'
Special Jury Mention for Documentary Feature: An Eye for an Eye, directors Tanaz Eshaghian and Farzad Jafari (Denmark, Iran, United States) – World Premiere. Jury statement: 'At a time when women's rights are eroding globally, the jury would be remiss if we did not recognize the courageous, unflinching, gut wrenching, verité virtuosity of a film set in a society that severely limits women's rights, even those of victims of extreme domestic violence. The story unfolds in real time with life and death hanging in the balance, leaving the audience breathlessly invested in the outcome.'
Best Cinematography in a Documentary Feature: Chance Falkner and Johnny Friday for The Last Dive (United States) – World Premiere. Jury statement: 'After a passionate debate, we award a film which immersed us in a natural world where the meeting between man and animal literally changes the course of preservation history, and the redemption of a broken soul. For its sweeping aerial and underwater footage, shocking archival witness, and intimate portrait of a person confronting morality.'
Special Jury Mention for Cinematography in a Documentary Feature: Noah Collier for Natchez (United States) – World Premiere. Jury statement: 'For its idiosyncratic visual storytelling, masterfully timed and restrained camerawork, and photography as close, wide and open as the film's curious heart.'
Best Editing in a Documentary Feature: 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 a moral crucible without relief, and for weaving a multigenerational, deeply personal story that gives equal weight to all participants with searing emotional impact, and for the clarity and courage of its storytelling. Not one frame feels gratuitous as the film barrels relentlessly towards its conclusion.'
Special Jury Mention for Editing in a Documentary Feature: Pablo Proenza for Natchez (United States) – World Premiere. Jury statement: 'The editing seamlessly balances all the elements of an extremely complicated story, and delivers a powerful impact that resonates long after the film concludes.'
VIEWPOINTS AWARD
A Bright Future, director Lucia Garibaldi (Uruguay, Argentina, Germany) – World Premiere. Jury statement: 'This year's Viewpoints award goes to a film driven by an original, inventive voice. The filmmaker creates a seamless world that is captivating, thought-provoking, fresh and increasingly relevant. Weaving themes of the fetishization of youth, the timeless pursuit of dreams, and what makes us human, and anchored by a pitch perfect performance from their lead actress, we are pleased to award this year's Viewpoint prize to A Bright Future. We believe Lucia Garibaldi has a very bright future.'
Special Jury Mention for Viewpoints: Kites, director Walter Thompson-Hernandez (Brazil) – World Premiere. Jury statement: 'Special Jury Prize goes to a film with astounding cinematography that balances verite with magical realism and upends conventional story structure. The love the filmmaker has for his characters and their community writ large was infectious. We all think we have time but the angels let us know we have to hurry and become the people who want to be.'
BEST NEW NARRATIVE DIRECTOR AWARD
Lorraine Jones Molina and Cristian Carretero for Esta Isla (This Island) – World Premiere. Jury statement: 'The award for Best New Narrative Director goes to a film that straddles crime fiction and ethnography; it balances poetic imagery, lush landscapes, and cinematic tension; it takes audiences deep into the crisis of survival of a young man on an island that's both a paradise and a prison.' This award is presented by Canva.
ALBERT MAYSLES AWARD FOR BEST NEW DOCUMENTARY DIRECTOR
Augusto Zegarra for Runa Simi (Peru) – World Premiere. Jury statement: 'This award goes to a film that takes us on a seemingly lighthearted journey while tackling an essential question: why storytelling matters. From the casting, to the frame, to the editorial pacing, this director creates the total cinematic package, revealing one man's fight to preserve his people's culture.'
Special Jury Mention for New Documentary Director: Rowan Haber for We Are Pat (United States) – World Premiere. Jury statement: 'This award goes to a film that tackles a morally urgent issue with a fresh and unique directorial vision that made us think, cry, and most unexpectedly laugh. For powerfully centering the voices of the community it represents, inventive visual approach, and for helping us see a complex pop cultural figure in a new way.'
NORA EPHRON AWARD The Nora Ephron Award will honor an exceptional female filmmaker who represents the spirit and vision of the legendary filmmaker and writer.
Sara Goher for Happy Birthday (Egypt) – World Premiere. Jury statement: 'This film was not only compelling as an audience experience, but like all great works of art, it did not confine itself to the story, and was resonant on a larger canvas. It explored the intersection of innocence and class from the eyes of a child longing for a birthday party and reluctantly understanding her place in society, being on the outside, and longing to be invited to the inside.'
SHORTS COMPETITION
Best Narrative Short: Beyond Silence, director Marnie Blok (Netherlands) – International Premiere. Jury statement: 'Covering an enormous subject with beautiful minimalism, brilliant performances combine with a skillful script to give new meaning to 'finding your voice.' Raw and devastating. Impressive and emotional.'
Special Jury Mention for Narrative Short: Chasing the Party, director Jessie Komitor (United States) – World Premiere. Jury statement: 'With a compelling combination of character and world, this nostalgic look at young hope on a wild night is filled with surprises of fantasy and nightmare. We'll be thinking of this fresh, provocative film for a long time and cannot wait to see what this director does next.'
Best Documentary Short: I hope this email finds you well, director Asia Zughaiar (Palestine) – World Premiere. Jury Statement: 'Our choice for the Best Short Documentary Award poses the question: what even is a documentary? A documentary can be anything that allows the viewer to connect with what the filmmaker has experienced. We believe this film helps us not only see, but feel.'
Special Jury Mention for Documentary Short: Natasha, directors Mark Franchetti and Andrew Meier (Italy, Russia) – World Premiere. Jury Statement: 'In times like these, it's important to honor those who came before us, those who fought to make the world a more just and livable place. Our Special Jury choice reflects on one such hidden figure, whose legacy left an outsized impact on the world we live in today.'
Best Animated Short: Playing God, director Matteo Burani (Italy, France) – New York Premiere. Jury statement: 'Visceral and experimental, using the form to its greatest abilities — this beautiful exploration of existential turmoil is at the heart of cinema — why are we here, how did we get here, what would it be like to have the thumb of god in your hand, and what is the price when one yearns to be free?'
Special Jury Mention for Animated Short: Petra and the Sun, directors Malu Furche and Stefania Malacchini (Chile) – North American Premiere. Jury statement: 'The attention to detail, the specificity of longing and loneliness, and the immersive quality of this stop-motion character study created a moving experience. The texture and visible traces of the human hand brought a delicate realism in this story about an unusual and unforgettable chance encounter.'
Best Music Video: 'Rock The Bells' – LL COOL J, director Gregory Brunkalla (United Stated). Jury statement: 'To honor our first-ever Music Video Jury Competition winner, we found it only fitting to celebrate the great city of New York—with a music video that captures the style, swag, and sound of Tribeca's hometown.'
Student Visionary Award: Manya Glassman for How I Learned to Die (United States) – World Premiere. Jury statement: 'Our choice for the Student Visionary Award manages to make a capital-M Movie out of a short student film. We, the jury, believe this film is filled with ambition, hope, and personality—paired with complex, emotional subject matter that touches on something we will all experience: death.
Special Jury Mention for Student Visionary: Jiayi Li for āyí (United States) – World Premiere. Jury statement: 'Sometimes, the people who are the fabric of our lives are the ones most often forgotten. With this film, we catch a glimpse of what it feels like to be overlooked—but not erased. We would like to give a Special Jury Mention.'
TRIBECA GAMES AWARD Cairn (France) – New York Premiere. Jury Statement: 'All the nominated games represent a wide, healthy range of what games can aspire to be, and how games can tell stories through both traditional elements but more importantly through gameplay interactions. The chosen winner among this amazing group of nominees was compelling, immersive, and reminds us that every choice we make is meaningful. The jury loved the dedication to simulation, the cohesion of the project, and the ambition. This game is bigger than climbing done right; it is imbued with substance beyond the physical act.'
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TRIBECA X AWARD COMPETITION
Best Feature: Abnormal Beauty Company from The Ordinary, directed by Aref Mahabadi
Best Short: First Speech by Reporters without Borders, directed by Giordano Maestrelli
Best Commercial: Century of Cravings from Uber Eats, directed by Jim Jenkins Best Episodic: A New York Minute from Mejuri, directed by Gia Coppola
Best Content Creator/Influencer: A Robot's Guide to Happiness from Brilliant Labs, directed by Lucas Rizzotto
Best Games/Immersive: WICKED RP: The Official Experience on Roblox from Wicked & NBCU, creative directed by Ben Caro
Best Audio/Podcast: Dragon Age: Vows & Vengeance from Electronic Arts, BioWare, directed by Matt Sav
Social Impact Award: Daniel Really Suits You from Human Rights Campaign, directed by Karimah Zakia Issa
Environmental Impact Award: A Vital Sun from Fordham University, directed by Alison Bartlett
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