We Are One: A Global Film Festival

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, Urska Djukic, 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
• 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[]

• 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 Festival Freedom 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
• Berlin International Film Festival On Transmission: Ang Lee in Conversation with 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
• Tribeca Film Festival Talks: Alejandro Iñárritu with Marina Abramović
• Tribeca Film Festival Talks: Francis Ford Coppola and Steven Soderbergh

References[]

External links[]

• Official website