Tribeca Competition has prolonged its partnership with Impresa Group to stage Tribeca Competition Lisboa in Lisbon, Portugal for one more three years to 2028.
Tribeca’s Portuguese indie movie showcase, in its third version set to run Dec. 9 to 13, 2026, can even see a transfer from Lisbon’s Beato Innovation District to the Avenida da Liberdade, town’s tree-lined Champs-Elysees. That will get the Tribeca collaboration with Portugal’s media gamers and filmmakers into the guts of Lisbon and filling motion pictures theaters and cultural venues like Cinema São Jorge, Teatro Tivoli and Capitólio.
The deal extension with Impresa additionally expands Tribeca’s efforts to bridge a transatlantic rift between the U.S. and Europe with a mixture of indie and native Portuguese movie titles to take cinema in new instructions in Lisbon.
Piper Perabo and husband and director Stephen Kay in dialogue at Tribeca Competition Lisboa 2025.
Tribeca Competition Lisboa
“At a time when the world can feel increasingly divided, storytelling remains one of the most powerful ways to connect people across cultures and experiences,” Jane Rosenthal, co-founder of the Tribeca Competition — presently celebrating its twenty fifth anniversary — and co-chair of Tribeca Enterprises mentioned in a press release on Friday. “Tribeca Festival Lisboa was created to deepen those connections — bringing together filmmakers, artists, and audiences from around the world in one of Europe’s great cultural capitals. We’re proud to continue building that future in Lisbon alongside our partners at Impresa.”
Tribeca Competition Lisboa additionally brings alternatives from the New York Metropolis-based Tribeca Competition for European and Portuguese premieres. Rosenthal and Tribeca co-founder Robert De Niro unveiled the three yr extension for the Portugal version together with Tribeca Enterprises CEO Rebecca Glashow and Francisco Pedro Balsemão, chairman and CEO of Impresa Group, throughout a Tribeca Competition press convention on Friday.
“Impresa is proud of the renewal of our partnership with Tribeca Enterprises because it represents not only the continuation of a successful project, but also our ambition to grow, innovate, and achieve even greater international visibility, with Portugal and Lisbon acting as a creative platform,” Balsemão mentioned in his personal assertion.
Julian Schnabel introducing screening of In The Hand of Dante at Tribeca Competition Lisboa 2025.
Tribeca Competition Lisboa
New programming for the 2026 version will embody extra public occasions like “Tribeca Night Live,” a night sequence that includes music, performances and appearances by Portuguese and worldwide artists. Lisbon mayor Carlos Moedas additionally lauded the Tribeca Competition Lisboa extension as he seemed to the primary two years of the native occasion to spice up Portuguese filmmaking, commerce and tourism.
“Tribeca Festival Lisboa brings unique opportunities for our artists to showcase their talent and work on an international stage. This is the festival that confirms Lisbon as a global reference point for culture,” Moedas added in a press release.
