The 2025 Tribeca Festival will celebrate the 30th anniversary of Casino and 25th anniversary of Meet the Parents with reunion screenings for both films.
The Casino screening will be followed by a conversation between Robert De Niro and Martin Scorsese, and De Niro will reunite with Ben Stiller and his Tribeca Festival co-founder and producer Jane Rosenthal after the Meet the Parents screening.
“I’m beyond excited to be back with Bob and Ben to celebrate Meet the Parents—a movie that’s been making families laugh (and cringe) for a quarter-century,” Rosenthal said in a statement. “With the fourth installment of the franchise in the works, it feels like the perfect time to revisit some of the moments that made this film an instant classic. Tribeca is all about celebrating the stories that stay with us, and this year’s lineup is full of those fan-favorite reunions and retrospectives that bring us back to the movies we can’t get enough of.”
The festival will also feature anniversary showings of Best in Show, Requiem for a Dream and American Psycho, all celebrating their 25th anniversaries, followed by post-screening conversations with the talent behind those films.
And Tribeca will celebrate the 35th anniversary of seminal documentary Paris Is Burning with a screening and live voguing performance.
For Best in Show, Tribeca will host a live tribute to the mockumentary, including a post-screening conversation with director Christopher Guest and castmembers Jane Lynch, John Michael Higgins, Michael McKean and Parker Posey, moderated by Stephen Colbert. The Requiem for a Dream screening will be followed by a conversation between director Darren Aronofsky and star Ellen Burstyn, while the American Psycho screening will be followed by a conversation with director Mary Harron.
The festival is also hosting a 50th anniversary screening of David Cronenberg’s Shivers, followed by a conversation between the director and author Joe Hill, as well as a 35mm screening of Kundun to mark the Dalai Lama’s 90th birthday.
And fans can celebrate the 60th anniversary of The Doors with a screening of When You’re Strange, followed by a conversation with John Densmore. Tribeca will also premiere a 4K restoration of Japan’s Linda Linda Linda in honor of its 20th anniversary, alongside a live performance from The Linda Lindas, whose name was inspired by the film at Brooklyn Bowl.
In addition to these reunion and retrospective events, Tribeca has revealed its lineup of starry in-depth conversations. This year the festival will feature a conversation between Sean Penn and CNN’s Kaitlan Collins as well as separate talks with Ellen Pompeo, Jim Gaffigan and Mark Ronson.
And the festival will world premiere the Alex Cooper documentary Call Her Alex, followed by a conversation with the Call Her Daddy podcast host.
Finally, Tribeca has announced that this year’s Harry Belafonte Voices for Social Justice Award, recognizing those who use storytelling and the arts to drive positive social change, will be presented to Rep. Jasmine Crockett.
Crockett will be recognized for her passionate advocacy and unwavering commitment to equity, with the award presentation followed by a conversation with Whoopi Goldberg.
The 2025 Tribeca Festival is set to run from June 4-15 in New York.
More information about this year’s talks, reunions and retrospectives is available here.
