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The 2023 Tribeca Festival, presented by Okx, today announced its lineup of short narrative, documentary, and animated films, as well as music videos. The festival takes place June 7-18 and showcases 12 short film programs of diverse and creative storytelling. It’s also notable for showcasing a film by Francesca Scorsese, Martin Scorsese’s daughter, at a festival started, in part, by her father’s longtime collaborator Robert DeNiro.

The 2023 shorts lineup includes 76 total selections – 62 shorts in competition, eight music videos, and six special screening shorts – from 91 filmmakers across 25 countries. The lineup includes 48 world premieres, three international premieres, two North American premieres, one U.S. premiere, and 22 New York premieres.

Premieres include “Last Call,” about a desperate mother needing to reconnect with her son, directed by Harry Holland and starring brother Tom Holland; “Shadow Brother Sunday,” “Solo” star Alden Ehrenreich’s directorial debut (he plays “a down-on-his-luck musician returning home on the...

The 2023 Tribeca short films lineup has been unveiled and features a slew of talent.

Ranging from short narrative, documentary, and animated films, as well as music videos, the 2023 shorts lineup includes 76 total selections, with 62 shorts in competition, eight music videos, and six special screening shorts, from 91 filmmakers across 25 countries. There will also be 48 world premieres, three international premieres, two North American premieres, one U.S. premiere, and 22 New York premieres.

The lineup’s four categories — narrative shorts, documentary shorts, animated shorts, and music videos — are curated across 12 thematic programs highlighting love, family relationships, LGBTQ+ stories, “Expressions of Black Freedom,” Latin America, resilience, and more.

Presented by Okx, the 2023 Tribeca Festival takes place June 7 through 18. This year’s festival had a record-breaking 8,096 total submissions.

Programming highlights include “Last Call,” which is about a desperate mother needing to reconnect with her son, played by Tom Holland. The short is directed by his brother,...

The Tribeca Festival on Tuesday announced its lineup of short narrative, documentary and animated films, as well as music videos, across 12 programs.

Today’s lineup for the festival, taking place this year from June 7-18, includes 62 shorts in competition, eight music videos and six special screening shorts, from a total of 91 filmmakers across 25 countries. The program, which was curated this year from a record-breaking 8,096 total submissions, includes 48 world premieres, three international premieres, two North American premieres, one U.S. premiere, and 22 New York premieres, with six alumni of festivals past to return this time around. Themes highlighted across the lineup include love, family relationships, LGBTQ+ stories, “Expressions of Black Freedom,” Latin America and resilience, to name a few.

Notable shorts to look out for include the Harry Holland-directed Last Call, starring Tom Holland; Alden Ehrenreich’s directorial debut, Shadow Brother Sunday; writer-director Alex Lawther’s For people in trouble,...