We Are One: A Global Film Festival
We Are One: A Global Film Festival is an international
Tribeca Enterprises in conjunction with YouTube as a response to the cancellation of many traditional film festivals during the COVID-19 pandemic, the festival screened a selection of films for free on YouTube between May 29 and June 7.[2]
The festival featured a mix of premieres of new films that had been slated to premiere at a film festival that was cancelled due to the pandemic, and older films which the partner festivals chose to highlight as deserving of wider attention,Kōji Fukada that was created specifically for We Are One.[5] In addition, the festival screened a number of virtual reality projects and some international television and web series episodes, selected panel discussions with filmmakers, and a live DJ set by Questlove.[6]
Films were screened for free, although links were available to encourage voluntary donations to international COVID-19 relief funds.[6]
Partners
The event featured programming curated by various international partner festivals:[5]
- Annecy International Animation Film Festival
- Berlin International Film Festival
- BFI London Film Festival
- Cannes Film Festival
- Guadalajara International Film Festival
- Macau International Movie Festival
- Rotterdam International Film Festival
- Jerusalem Film Festival
- Mumbai Film Festival
- Karlovy Vary International Film Festival
- Locarno Film Festival
- Marrakech International Film Festival
- New York Film Festival
- San Sebastian International Film Festival
- Sarajevo Film Festival
- Sundance Film Festival
- Sydney Film Festival
- Tokyo International Film Festival
- Toronto International Film Festival
- Tribeca Film Festival
- Venice Film Festival
Films
Feature films
- 45 Days in Harvar — César Aréchiga
- Adela Has Not Had Supper Yet — Oldřich Lipský
- Air Conditioner — Fradique
- Amreeka — Cherien Dabis
- Beautiful Things — Giorgio Ferrero
- Beyond the Mountain — David R. Romay
- Bridges of Sarajevo — Aida Begić, Leonardo Di Costanzo, Jean-Luc Godard, Kamen Kalev, Isild Le Besco, Sergei Loznitsa, Vincenzo Marra, Ursula Meier, Vladimir Perišić, Cristi Puiu, Marc Recha, Angela Schanelec, Teresa Villaverde
- A City Called Macau — Li Shaohong
- Copwatch — Camilla Hall
- Crazy World — Isaac Nabwana
- Dantza — Telmo Esnal
- Eeb Allay Ooo! — Prateek Vats
- Electric Swan — Konstantina Kotzamani
- The Epic of Everest — John Baptist Lucius Noel
- Grab — Billy Luther
- Ice Cream and the Sound of Raindrops — Daigo Matsui
- The Iron Hammer — Joan Chen
- Kmêdeus — Nuno Miranda
- Late Marriage — Dover Kosashvili
- Los Pasos Dobles — Isaki Lacuesta
- Love Chapter 2 — Sharon Eyal
- Mary Is Happy, Mary Is Happy — Nawapol Thamrongrattanarit
- Mugaritz Bso — Juantxo Sardón, Felipe Ugarte
- Mystery Road - Ivan Sen
- Nasir — Arun Karthick
- Ricky Powell: The Individualist — Josh Swade
- Rudeboy: The Story of Trojan Records — Nicolas Jack Davies
- SEE Factory Sarajevo mon amour — Dusan Kasalica, Neven Samardzic, Masa Sarovic, Urška Djukić, Eleonora Veninova, Sharon Engelhart, Teodora Ana Mihai, Gabriel Tzafka, Carolina Markowicz, Yona Rozenkier
- Shiraz: A Romance of India — Franz Osten
- Sisterhood — Tracy Choi
- Ticket of No Return — Ulrike Ottinger
- Akiko Ohku
- Volubilis — Faouzi Bensaïdi
- Wake Up: Stories From the Frontlines of Suicide Prevention — Nate Townsend
- Wrath of Silence — Yukun Xin
Short films
- 24 Frames per Century — Athina Rachel Tsangari
- 32-RBIT — Victor Orozco Ramírez
- And Then the Bear — Agnès Patron
- Anna — Dekel Berenson
- Atlantiques — Mati Diop
- Awake — Atul Mongia
- The Battle of San Romano — Georges Schwizgebel
- Bilby — Liron Topaz, Pierre Perifel, JP Sans
- Bird Karma — William Salazar
- Black Barbie — Comfort Arthur
- Blood Rider — Jon Kasbe
- Bonifacio in Summertime — Pierre-Luc Granjon, Antoine Lanciaux
- The Brat — Shaan Vyas
- Butterflies — Yona Rozenkier
- The Cats — Alejandro Ríos
- Cerulia — Sofía Carrillo
- Circus Person — Britt Lower
- Cru — David Oesch
- Dew Line — Joanna Priestley
- Dirty Laundry — Maxim Bessmertny
- The Distance Between Us and the Sky — Vasilis Kekatos
- Dramatic Relationships — Dustin Guy Defa
- East of Jefferson — Koji Fukada
- Egg — Michael J. Goldberg
- Fainting Spells — Sky Hopinka
- Forever's Gonna Start Tonight — Eliza Hittman
- Genius Party: Happy Machine — Masaaki Yuasa
- A Hand in Two Ways (Fisted) — Dani and Sheilah ReStack
- Inabe — Koji Fukada
- Indefinite Pitch — James N. Kienitz Wilkins
- The Jump — Vanessa Dumont, Nicolas Davenel
- Leon in Wintertime — Pierre-Luc Granjon, Pascal Le Nôtre
- The Light Side — Ryan Ebner
- Live to Live — Laida Lertxundi
- Lonely Encounter — Jenny Wan
- Mad Ladders — Michael Robinson
- Marooned — Andrew Erekson
- Masterpiece — Runyararo Mapfumo
- Molly in Springtime — Pierre-Luc Granjon
- Monster God — Agustina San Martin
- Motorcycle Drive By — David Wexler
- Mud — Shaandiin Tome
- My Father's Tools — Heather Condo
- Natkhat — Shaan Vyas
- The Nap — Federico Luis Tachella
- No More Wings — Abraham Adeyemi
- No One Left Behind — Guillermo Arriaga
- Nutag-Homeland — Alisi Telengut
- Occidente — Ana Vaz
- The One-Minute Memoir — Joan C. Gratz
- Over — Jörn Threlfall
- Parsi — Eduardo Williams, Mariano Blatt
- Pelourinho: They Don't Really Care About Us — Akosua Adoma Owusu
- Poppety in the Fall — Pierre-Luc Granjon, Antoine Lanciaux
- The Procession (Le Cortège) — Pascal Blanchet, Rodolphe Saint-Gelais
- Rosalinda — Matías Piñeiro
- Route-3 — Thanasis Neofotistos
- Service of the Goods — Jean-Paul Kelly
- Shannon Amen — Chris Dainty
- Stories of Destroyed Cities: Şhengal — Şêro Hindê
- Toto — Marco Baldonado
- Tapi! — Jim Chuchu
- The Tear's Thing — Clémence Poésy
- Manon Chamberland
- Untitled (Letter to Serra) — Lisandro Alonso
- The Van — Erenik Beqiri
- Vertical Shapes in a Horizontal Landscape — Mark Jenkin
- Violettina — Alice Rohrwacher
- When I Write It — Nico Opper, Shannon St. Aubin
- White Echo — Chloë Sevigny
- Who Talks — Elin Övergaard
- The Yalta Conference Online — Koji Fukada
360 VR
- Alteration — Jérôme Blanquet
- Bloodless — Gina Kim
- Crow: The Legend — Eric Darnell
- Daughters of Chibok — Joel Kachi Benson
- Extravaganza — Ethan Shaftel
- Ghost Fleet VR — Lucas Gath and Shannon Service
- Isle of the Dead — Benjamin Nuel
- Ivory Burn — Nicholas de Pencier, Jennifer Baichwal and Edward Burtynsky
- Minotaur — Munro Ferguson
- My Africa — David Allen
- On/Off — Isabelle Foucrier and Camille Duvelleroy
- Passenger — Isobel Knowles and Van Sowerwine
- Step to the Line — Ricardo Laganaro
- Traveling While Black — Roger Ross Williams
- The Waiting Room — Victoria Mapplebeck
Television
- And She Could Be Next — Grace Lee, Marjan Safinia
- Losing Alice — Sigal Avin
- Mabo — Rachel Perkins
- Na plovarne — Marek Eben
Web series
- Jaws: Assembling a Top-Tier Team — Michael Tucker, Tricia Aurand, Brian Bitner, Alex Calleros, Vince Major
- The Stories That Prepared Us — Jack Nugent, Andrew Fernandez
- Sébastien Tellier on Paris’ Rooftop: A Take Away Show — Élie Girard
Panels
- Sundance Film Festival: Cinema Cafe with Jackie Chan
- Sundance Film Festival: Cinema Cafe with Tessa Thompson and Jane Campion
- Guadalajara International Film Festival: Diego Luna, The Life After
- Rotterdam International Film FestivalFreedom Lecture: Rojava Film Commune
- Marrakech International Film Festival: In conversation with Guillermo del Toro
- Locarno International Film Festival 2019 Excellence Award Conversation: Song Kang-ho and Bong Joon-ho
- Locarno International Film Festival 2019 Pardo d'onore to John Waters
- Jerusalem Film Festival Masterclass with Nadav Lapid
- Kore-eda Hirokazu
- Berlin International Film Festival On Transmission: Claire Denis in Conversation with Olivier Assayas
- Cannes Film Festival Rendez-vous with Alain Delon
- Cannes Film Festival Rendez-vous with Zhang Ziyi
- Toronto International Film Festival Talks: Tantoo Cardinal Master Class
- Toronto International Film Festival Talks: Viggo Mortensen and David Cronenberg on Crash
- Alejandro Iñárritu with Marina Abramović
- Tribeca Film Festival Talks: Francis Ford Coppola and Steven Soderbergh
References
- ^ Eric Kohn, Kate Erbland, David Ehrlich, Zack Sharf and Chris Lindahl, "We Are One: 10 Films and Events Worth Your Time at YouTube’s Global Online Film Festival". IndieWire, May 27, 2020.
- ^ "Line-up announced for We Are One: A Global Film Festival". British Film Institute, May 27, 2020.
- ^ David Morgan, "'We Are One' presents a free global film festival online". CBS News, May 28, 2020.
- ^ Orlova-Alvarez, Tamara (30 May 2020). "The Hurdles Of Online Festivals". Ikon London Magazine. Retrieved 30 May 2020.
- ^ a b Dave McNary, "YouTube, Tribeca Unveil Lineup for Free ‘We Are One: A Global Film Festival’". Variety, May 26, 2020.
- ^ Screen Daily, 27 May 2020.
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