We Are One: A Global Film Festival Explained
We Are One: A Global Film Festival is an international online film festival which took place in 2020.[1] Organized by 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,[3] [4] as well as a new film by 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]
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
- — Franz Osten
- Sisterhood — Tracy Choi
- Ticket of No Return — Ulrike Ottinger
- Tremble All You Want — 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
- Throat Singing in Kangirsuk — Eva Kaukai, 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
Television
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
Cinema Cafe with Jackie Chan
Diego Luna, The Life After
In conversation with Guillermo del Toro
Notes and 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.
- https://www.bfi.org.uk/news/line-announced-we-are-one-global-film-festival "Line-up announced for We Are One: A Global Film Festival"
- David Morgan, "'We Are One' presents a free global film festival online". CBS News, May 28, 2020.
- Web site: The Hurdles Of Online Festivals . Ikon London Magazine . 30 May 2020 . Tamara . Orlova-Alvarez. 30 May 2020 .
- Dave McNary, "YouTube, Tribeca Unveil Lineup for Free ‘We Are One: A Global Film Festival’". Variety, May 26, 2020.
- Jeremy Kay, "We Are One global film festival announces line-up". Screen Daily, 27 May 2020.
