At Tribeca Festival 2025, music rules on screen and on stage. Here's a guide to this year's lineup.

Music is the star attraction at the 2025 Tribeca Festival, which opens Wednesday evening in New York City.The subject of numerous documentary and narrative films, music will also be a live feature at this particularly festive festival, with some artists performing mini-concerts in conjunction with film premieres.

This year's Tribeca, the 24th edition of the festival, showcases nearly 120 feature-length narrative and documentary films — many of them world or New York premieres — along with shorts, revivals, filmmaker Q&As, immersive art installations, video games, audio storytelling, and music performances.Screenings and events will be held at venues across Manhattan and at the Brooklyn Bowl.

The festival's opening night feature is the documentary "Billy Joel: And So It Goes," a portrait of the quintessentially New York piano man.Blending archival footage with new interviews, the film — which will stream later this year on HBO Max — tracks the career of the 76-year-old musician and 23-time Grammy Award-winner, who recently suspended his performance schedule for health reasons.

The film also screens June 5, 11 & 15.Other music subjects include: "Depeche Mode: M" (June 5, 6 & 14), which uses the British electronic band's Mexico City concerts as the framework of meditations on mortality.

Depeche Mode will participate in a Q&A following the premiere screening.  "Counting Crows: Have You Seen Me Lately?" (June 5, 7 & 9) traces the turbulent path of the San Francisco indie rock band Counting Crows and its front man Adam Duritz. "Boy George & Culture Club" (June 5, 6, 8 & 12) explores the '80s British glam rock group."Something Beautiful with Miley Cyrus" (June 6) is a pop opera comprised of songs from Cyrus' album "Something Beautiful." She'll chat about it afterwards)."Billy Idol Should Be Dead" (June 10, 12 & 13) is a portrait of the punk rocker, past and present.Idol will perform following the premiere.

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