Madonna to Premiere ‘Confessions II’ 10-Minute Film at Tribeca Festival Before Album Release

Madonna is taking her new era to Tribeca before Confessions II even lands. On Friday, June 5, the pop icon will return to the New York festival for the world premiere of a 10-minute cinematic piece directed by David Toro and Solomon Chase of TORSO, built around the first six tracks from the upcoming album.

The screening arrives a month ahead of Confessions II‘s release on July 3, giving festivalgoers an early look at a project that already reaches beyond the usual rollout. The film includes “I Feel So Free” and the Sabrina Carpenter collaboration “Bring Your Love,” and according to the press release, it plays like “a transcendent journey” through “a f–ked-up night out” that is remembered less for what happened than for how it felt. Madonna is “ambushed, pursued and ultimately worshipped” by a roaming group of camera-wielding femmes as the story moves from bedroom to club bathroom to car to arena and into nature, tracing the places where music takes hold. The release frames the piece around the familiar tensions that have run through Madonna’s career for decades: privacy and publicity, grief and catharsis, intimacy and communion, fandom and collaboration, all of it circling back to the dance floor.

After the premiere, Madonna and the directors will join Jimmy Fallon for a conversation about the creative process behind the project. It is another reminder that even now, Madonna understands rollout as part of the artwork, not just the marketing around it.

Tribeca cofounder Jane Rosenthal called the project “immersive, provocative and completely of the moment,” while also placing it in the larger mythology Madonna has built around nightlife and reinvention. “Madonna has spent decades proving that reinvention is its own art form,” Rosenthal said in the press release. “Confessions II feels immersive, provocative and completely of the moment, while still channeling the kind of nightlife mythology only she could create. We are thrilled to welcome Madonna back to Tribeca.” Madonna last appeared at the festival in 2008 for the premiere of I Am Because We Are, the documentary about children in Malawi orphaned by AIDS that she executive produced.

Rosenthal previously told Billboard that Madonna’s return to Tribeca also reflects a more personal connection. “I’m really good friends with her manager, Guy Oseary, who has been with her almost as long as I’ve been with Bob,” she said, referring to her Tribeca Fest cofounder Robert De Niro. “She’s got an album dropping and it lined up perfectly.” The timing has the neatness of something engineered, but with Madonna, that kind of precision has usually been part of the point.

Madonna at The 2026 Met Gala Celebrating “Costume Art” held at The Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 04, 2026 in New York, New York. Lexie Moreland/WWD