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The Tribeca Film Festival has announced the winners of its audience and jury prizes for the 24th installment. Charliebird, the story of a bond between a music therapist at a children's hospital and one of her patients from director Libby Ewing, took the top honor in the U.S. Narrative Feature competition.

Also taking top prizes were the winner of Best International Narrative Feature, Happy Birthday, from Egypt, and winner of Best Documentary Feature, Natchez, from director Suzannah Herbert.

Natchez focuses on the American South and the region's relationship to its Antebellum history through the lens of one town in Mississippi.

An examination of childhood and class in Egypt, Happy Birthday follows an 8-year-old maid as she tries to ensure that her employer's daughter has a perfect birthday celebration.

You can find a complete list of the winners from the 24th Tribeca Film Festival below.

U.S. Narrative Competition

Founders Award for Best U.

Charliebird, Happy Birthday and Natchez took top honors Thursday in the U.S. Narrative, International Narrative and Documentary competitions, respectively, at the 24th annual Tribeca Festival.

Andrea Riseborough and Brenda Blethyn shared the Performance Award for international narrative feature Dragonfly, leading a strong showing by women across the majority of categories at the ceremony held today at Racket NYC. Winners also highlighted first-time feature directors and a notable presence of Latin American cinema throughout the competition.

The festival wraps on June 15 in NYC.

“Every year at Tribeca we set out to spotlight the most exciting new voices from around the world,” said fest director and SVP 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.”

All winning films in the U.S. Narrative category are first-time directors including Libby Ewing for Charliebird; Cristian Carretero...

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.

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,...

The 2025 Tribeca Festival has announced its jury winners. Libby Ewing’s “Charliebird” leads the awards, taking the top honor in the U.S. Narrative section. “Happy Birthday” and “Natchez” were both recognized in the respective International Narrative and Documentary competitions, with Andrea Riseborough and Brenda Blethyn sharing the Performance Award for “Dragonfly.”

“Every year at Tribeca we set out to spotlight the most exciting new voices from around the world,” Tribeca Festival director and SVP of programming Cara Cusumano said. “We are thrilled our jury honored this mission with winners that brilliantly represent the vibrancy and diversity of global independent storytelling today.”

The Tribeca 2025 awards championed first-time directors such as Ewing (“Charliebird”), Cristian Carretero and Lorraine Jones Molina (“Esta Isla”) with the Best New Narrative Director Award, Isabel Hagen (“On a String”) with the Best Screenplay in a U.S. Narrative Feature award, Walter Thompson-Hernandez (“Kites”) with the Viewpoints Award,...

The Tribeca Festival 2025 has announced the complete list of winners for each of its competition categories. Libby Ewing’s “Charliebird” won the Founders Award for Best U.S. narrative feature, Sarah Goher’s “Happy Birthday” won best international narrative feature and Suzannah Herbert’s “Natchez” won for best documentary feature.

Awards were given out for the following categories: U.S. narrative, international narrative, documentary, viewpoints, the Albery Maysles award, the Nora Ephron award, short film, best new directors, storytelling, games, AT&T untold stories and Tribeca X.

“Every year at Tribeca, we set out to spotlight the most exciting new voices from around the world,” Cara Cusumano, Tribeca Festival Director and SVP of Programming said in a statement. “We are thrilled our jury honored this mission with winners that brilliantly represent the vibrancy and diversity of global independent storytelling today.”

The winners of the audience award, which are determined by audience votes throughout the festival,...