Madonna to Premiere ‘Confessions II’ 10-Minute Visual at Tribeca Festival

Madonna is bringing Confessions II to Tribeca Festival before the album even arrives. On Friday, June 5, the Queen of Pop will return to the New York event for the world premiere of a 10-minute cinematic project directed by David Toro and Solomon Chase of TORSO, built around the first six tracks from the new release.

After the screening, Madonna will join the directors in conversation with Jimmy Fallon, giving the festival crowd an early look at the thinking behind the project and the album era it introduces. The timing matters: Confessions II is still a month away, due July 3, but Tribeca attendees will be first in line for the visual side of the rollout.

The project 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’s remembered not for what happened, but for how it felt.” In that framing, Madonna is “ambushed, pursued and ultimately worshipped” by a roaming group of camera-wielding women, moving from the bedroom to the club bathroom, the car, the arena and even nature. The description leans hard into the spaces where music lives and the tensions Madonna has long made part of her persona: privacy and publicity, grief and catharsis, intimacy and communion, fandom and collaboration. It all circles back, naturally, to the dance floor.

Tribeca Festival cofounder Jane Rosenthal called the project “immersive, provocative and completely of the moment,” while pointing to Madonna’s long history of reinvention. “Madonna has spent decades proving that reinvention is its own art form,” she said in the 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.”

This won’t be Madonna’s first time at the festival. She previously appeared at Tribeca in 2008 for the premiere of I Am Because We Are, a documentary about children in Malawi orphaned by AIDS that she executive produced. Rosenthal has also spoken about another reason the festival and Madonna fit together, noting her friendship with Madonna’s manager Guy Oseary and saying, “She’s got an album dropping and it lined up perfectly.”

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

Confessions II reunites Madonna with Confessions on a Dance Floor producer Stuart Price, which only adds to the sense that this era is meant to be read in conversation with one of her most durable dance records. For fans, Tribeca offers the first glimpse of how that reunion is being translated into image and atmosphere, long before the full album lands.