With a weekend of the Tribeca Film Festival in the books, frustration has already started to flow through the city’s cinephiles, heard in anxious tones from movie buffs who found their top picks for the festival’s first few days sold out.

Now many have turned to the festival’s second week in a panic, pouring over showtimes and schedules in the hopes of catching their preferred titles before the whole shebang closes shop on May 6. Here’s a list of 12 events from this week’s forthcoming program that are worth adding to your to-do list.

MONDAY

6 p.m. “Chops”
Street Theater 12

Screening as part of the Tribeca/ESPN Sports Film Festival, “Chops” is the story of New York’s Essentially Ellington Festival, hosted yearly by Wynton Marsalis and held at Jazz at Lincoln Center, in which more than 900 high school jazz bands from across the country compete to be among the 15 chosen to play at Lincoln Center. The documentary focuses on the kids in one Florida band who learn that preparation and improvisation apply to life as much as to jazz.

7 p.m. Tribeca Panel: “Cinema 2.0: Me, Myself & iPod”
BMCC TribecaPAC Theater 2

One of this year’s most interesting “Tribeca Talks” panels looks to be tonight’s “Cinema 2.0,” which ponders the “future of creativity.” The program has invited a handful of Web celebrities, such as Jerry Paffendorf from “Second Life,” a “3-D virtual world entirely built and owned by its residents.” The panel will discuss the way technological platforms will alter the creation, distribution, and exhibition of movies and other art forms.

TUESDAY

4 p.m. “The Killing of John Lennon”
AMC 34th Street Theater 11

Andrew Piddington’s script to this story about the final days before Mark David Chapman murdered John Lennon in front of the Dakota lifts lines directly from Chapman’s personal journal, sampling the writings of the man who altered the past and future of popular music on December 8, 1980. Mr. Piddington’s film uses those words in an attempt to offer a closer glimpse of the mind and motives of Chapman (played by newcomer Jonas Ball) as he travels to the overwhelming streets of Manhattan from his home in Hawaii.

4:20 p.m.
Rhett Miller and Glen Hansard at the ASCAP Music Lounge
The Canal Room

The Tribeca/ASCAP Music Lounge will present 19 live performances between Tuesday and Friday, including sets from Donovan, Martha Wainwright and the Slip. Tuesday’s highlights include a solo set by Rhett Miller of the Old 97’s and Glen Hansard of the Irish rock group the Frames. For those who want some variety in their Tribeca diets.

8:30 p.m.
“Black, White and Gray: A Portrait of Sam Wagstaff and Robert Mapplethorpe”
Pace Schimmel Center

This documentary by the writer and curator James Crump examines the influential friendships of the famed curator Sam Wagstaff the photographer Robert Mapplethorpe, and the rocker Patti Smith during the burgeoning New York art movement of the 1970s and ’80s. As the only one of them still living, Ms. Smith, along with such luminaries as Dominick Dunne, Richard Tuttle Eugenia Parry, and Ralph Gibson reminisce about CBGB’s, Studio 54, and the meatpacking district.

WEDNESDAY

7 p.m.
“Still Life”
AMC Village VII Theater 3

This is one of your last chances to catch “Still Life,” Jia Zhang-Ke’s heartbreaking tale of a village on the banks of the Yangtze River that is about to be submerged by the Three Gorges Dam. The story is told through a innovative mix of fictional narrative and a realistic, almost documentary-like back story of traditional Chinese culture being left behind by an advancing, indifferent society. The film took the Golden Lion at last year’s Venice Film Festival.

THURSDAY

7:15 p.m.
“Lillie & Leander: A Legacy of Violence”
AMC 34th Street Theater 12

A product of the “Tribeca All-Access” program, Jeffrey Morgan’s film documents the story of Alice Brewton Hurwitz, who, while investigating the 1908 murder of her great-great-aunt, unearths evidence that her family may have been involved in scores of racially-motivated murders spanning several decades. Resisting pressure from her family and the local community, Ms. Hurwitz begins a search for answers and, hopefully, justice.

Midnight
“The Animated World of John Canemaker”
Tribeca Cinemas Theater 2

One of the festival’s more inspired midnight screenings, “Animated World” continues Tribeca’s tradition of honoring and celebrating the work of a locally based animator. This 100-minute tribute to the work of John Canemaker, who won a 2006 Academy Award for “The Moon and the Son,” an animated short about a dialogue with his father, will look at the artist’s techniques and formats, including cels, line drawings, and cut-out animation.

FRIDAY

5:30 p.m
“The Third Monday in October”
AMC Village VII Theater 2

One of the titles chosen for this year’s “Family Festival,” Vanessa Roth’s “Third Monday” humorously and poignantly documents four different student council elections in middle schools across the country, all playing out against the timely backdrop of the 2004 presidential election.

8:30 p.m.
“Blackout”
AMC Kips Bay Theater 12

The 2003 blackout was widely reported as a peaceful inconvenience — one that brought out New York’s Samaritan streak and showed us how far we’ve come since the crime-marred blackout of 1977. But in “Blackout,” one of the first films to use the subject as a backdrop, director Jerry Lamothe and star Jeffrey Wright focus on one East Flatbush neighborhood that plunged into chaos once the power was lost.

9 p.m.
“DJ Spooky: Rebirth of a Nation”
Winter Garden at the World Financial Center

One of the festival’s most unique events, “Rebirth of a Na tion” is D.J. Spooky’s acclaimed remix and reinterpretation of D.W. Griffith’s 1915 silent classic — widely regarded both as an in strumental building block for fea ture-length cinema and a pro foundly racist work from a by gone era. With “Rebirth,” Spooky aims to reclaim this racist relic for the modern age by mixing samples from the film with those of an original score, performed by the Kronos Quartet, to create an entirely new experience.

SATURDAY

10 a.m. – 6 p.m.
The Family Festival Street Fair/ESPN Sports Film Festival Sports Saturday
Various Locations

Two special events will take over Tribeca on Saturday: The annual Family Festival Street Fair and the first-ever “Sports Saturday,” programmed as part of the Tribeca/ESPN Sports Film Festival.

At the street fair, to be held on Greenwich Street between Hu bert and Duane, families will have the chance to sample local cuisine take in performances from local talent, and participate in a num ber of family-friendly, interactive activities. Meanwhile, at Sports Saturday, which starts at North Moore and Greenwich Streets visitors can play interactive games, watch a BMX stunt show and check out a special street fair “sports zone.”

For more information on all these events, as well as for a complete listing of screenings for the week visit www.tribecafilmfestival.org.