NEW YORK (AP) — The 2025 Tribeca Festival will feature a medley of music stars, including Billy Joel, Miley Cyrus and Eddie Vedder, as its 24th edition gets underway Wednesday.
The annual New York festival, which runs June 4 to June 15, kicks off with the premiere of “Billy Joel: And So It Goes,” Susan Lacy and Jessica Levin’s two-part HBO documentary on the 76-year-old singer, who revealed last month he’s fighting a very rare brain disorder. It's unclear if he'll attend the premiere.
1010 WINS editor and producer Kyle McMorrow sat down with Tribeca Festival co-founders Robert De Niro and Jane Rosenthal ahead of the opening. Watch here:
Also premiering at Tribeca will be Cyrus ’ visual album “Something Beautiful,” which she co-directed; “Matter of Time,” a documentary of a benefit performance by Vedder; “Billy Idol Should Be Dead,” with a performance to follow from Idol; “Depeche Mode: M,” a concert film of the band’s 2023 Mexico City performance; and “Move Ya Body: The Birth of House,” by “The Inspection” filmmaker Elegance Bratton.
Fiction film highlights include “Tow,” starring Rose Byrne as a homeless woman whose car is towed; the Kevin Bacon and Kyra Sedgwick-starring “The Best You Can,” about a New Yorker married to a much older professor; and “One Spoon of Chocolate,” a thriller written and directed by RZA about a formerly incarcerated military veteran who has to take justice into his own hands in a small town.
The festival’s closing night gala will be the premiere of “Yanuni,” a Leonardo DiCaprio -produced film about the Indigenous Brazilian Amazon activist and chief Juma Xipaia who faced multiple assassination attempts in trying to defend her people’s land.
1010 WINS contributed to this report.