Tribeca 2025 – World Premiere of OUR HERO, BALTHAZAR, Starring Jaeden Martell, Asa Butterfield, Noah Centineo and Jennifer Ehle

2025 Tribeca Film Festival Screenings

World Premiere:

Sunday, June 8 - 8:00 PM @ Village East by Angelika

Press Screening:

Monday, June 9 - 9:00 AM @ AMC 19th St. East 6

Public Screenings:

Tuesday, June 10 - 9:00 PM @ Village East by Angelika

Thursday, June 12 - 9:15 PM @ AMC 19th St. East 6

Sunday, June 15 - 5:45 PM @ Village East by Angelika

EMBARGO DETAILS: No reviews, reactions or social sentiment can be published prior to the ending of the world premiere at the 2025 Tribeca Film Festival, on

Sunday, June 8 at 9:31PM ET / 6:31PM PT

From first-time feature filmmaker Oscar Boyson comes a thoroughly audacious coming-of-age story that fearlessly explores the impact of social media and American gun culture on modern adolescence through an incisive yet blackly comic lens. 

Hoping to impress an activist classmate, wealthy New York City teenager Balthazar “Balthy” Malone (Jaeden Martell, It, Knives Out) begins posting emotional videos on social media, pleading for stricter gun laws. But his tearful clips soon attract the attention of an online troll who claims he is planning a school shooting. Acting on impulse, Balthy heads to Texas to try to prevent the tragedy by befriending the potential shooter “IRL”—a term his crush used and Balthy misunderstood.

But the misguided teen’s journey to the south takes a turn for the surreal once he meets fellow lost soul Solomon (Asa Butterfield, Sex Education, Hugo) IRL. Together, the two boys from vastly different worlds must navigate a confusing and combustible set of misunderstandings, both absurd and terrifying. Even though they find genuine moments of connection, their path nevertheless moves them ever closer toward an all-too-preventable fate.

A masterful marriage of dark comedy and bracing, nuanced character drama, Our Hero, Balthazar stars Jaeden Martell, Asa Butterfield, Chris Bauer, Jennifer Ehle, Anna Baryshnikov, Noah Centineo, Becky Ann Baker, Avan Jogia and Pippa Knowles. Co-written by Boyson and Ricky Camilleri, the film is also produced by Boyson and Camilleri, as well as Jon Wroblewski, David Duque-Estrada, Miles Skinner, Alex Hughes and Jaeden Martell.

Cast: Jaeden Martell, Asa Butterfield, Noah Centineo, Jennifer Ehle, Becky Ann Baker, Chris Bauer, Pippa Knowles, Avan Jogia, Anna Baryshnikov

Written by: Ricky Camilleri & Oscar Boyson

Produced by: Oscar Boyson, Ricky Camilleri, Jon Wroblewski, David Duque-Estrada, Alex Hughes, Jaeden Martell, Miles Skinner

Director of Photography: Christopher Messina

Executive Producers: Noah Centineo, Enzo Marc, Halsey, Anthony Li, Scott Aharoni, Sinan Eczacibasi, Alihan Yalcindag, Riccardo Maddalosso, Eugene Kotlyarenko, Alex Black, Nathan Wing, Grace Zander, Del Eswar, DJ Jiang, Nicholas Erickson, Anna-nora Berstein, Zak Williams, Christian Sosa, Peter Gold, Blaine Kern III, Pir Granoff