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Short and Sweet: TFF 2012 Shorts Announced

tribecafilm.com - Kristin McCracken, 13/03/2026

The 60 short films in this year’s Tribeca Film Festival are long on drama, comedy, talent, inspiration, and entertainment.

The 2012 Tribeca Film Festival (TFF), presented by founding sponsor American Express, today announced its lineup of 60 short films, 26 of which are world premieres. Drawn from over 2,800 submissions (!), the shorts will screen in nine thematic programs during the Festival—5 narrative, 3 documentary, and 1 experimental—charting a wide range of cultural perspectives and geographic coordinates.

The TFF 2012 roster includes films from 25 countries and territories, including Australia, Canada, Colombia, Croatia, Egypt, France, Germany, Haiti, India, Ireland, Israel, Japan, Mexico, New Zealand, Palestine, Puerto Rico, Qatar, Scotland, Singapore, South Korea, Spain, Thailand, Turkey, the United States, the United Kingdom, and Ukraine.

“With a terrific balance of comedy and drama in the programs, this year’s shorts lineup is sure to take TFF audiences on an amazing ride, twisting between narrative invention, documentary insights, and experimental landscapes,” said Sharon Badal, TFF Head of Shorts Programming. “We’re thrilled to have so many international short films in this year’s selections, particularly from countries whose work may be new to our filmgoers.”

The year’s lineup reflects a particularly wide range of stylistic signatures and storytelling techniques. Highlights include Triptych, a documentary program focusing on art, music and physical beauty, and a decidedly testosterone-heavy edition of our ever-popular New York shorts program (titled Men-Hattan this year in honor of its unusually masculine bent), which will include the world premiere of writer-director (and TFF alum) Neil LaBute’s BFF.

Other returning TFF directors include Julia Bacha, Matthew Bonifacio, Shawn Christensen, David Darg, Sasha-Waters Freyer, Martin Laporte, David B. Levy, Charles Lim, Bryn Mooser, Jay Rosenblatt, and Joel Schlemowitz. The bold-faced names who either perform or are interviewed in the films include terrific character actors and musicians, include Jamie Lee Curtis, Rachel Dratch, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Michael Fassbender, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Rachael Harris, Hugh Masekela, Sting, and Lily Tomlin.

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