Lara Everly’s RECONSTRUCTING CHARLIE arrives at the 2026 Tribeca Festival with the kind of emotional honesty that feels both deeply personal and universally recognisable. Inspired by Everly’s own experience navigating divorce and breast cancer, the short refuses to frame illness solely through tragedy. Instead, it finds something far more human in the chaos, humour, rebellion, vulnerability, and…
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CAFUNÈ: A Tour de Force of Animation and Humanity
There are films that entertain, and then there are films that change you. CAFUNÈ is one of those rare cinematic experiences that does both, capturing the heart and soul of its audience in ways that are both emotionally profound and visually spectacular. Directed by Carlos F. de Vigo and Lorena Ares, CAFUNÈ is a masterclass in animation, one that…
Al-Sit, a beautiful Oscar contender that touches on arranged marriage and women’s empowerment
Nafisa (Mihad Murtada), a 15 year old girl in a Sudanese cotton-farming village is facing an arranged marriage. However, her grandmother Al-Sit, the powerful matriarch, has her own plans for Nafisa’s future. Can Nafisa choose her own future? Suzannah Mirghani is a mixed-race (Sudanese and Russian) Writer, Director and Producer who is interested in exploring…
LOOK AT ME Director Nika Fehmiu “a generation that appears apathetic and even more disconnected”
We caught up with Director Nika Fehmiu to talk about her latest film LOOK AT ME. Nika Fehmiu’s Tribeca selected film ”Look at Me” prompts us to question our disconnect with society Starring Hadley Robinson (Little Women), John Gargan (Homicide City) and introduces Connor Vasile alongside Juliette Alice Gobi On a New York City winter…
Alejandra Jenni’s WORTH is a brilliant film that allows for a more open discussion on a long-overplayed stigma
Worth takes a look at the life of the woman behind the curtain as it were. The reality that unites all of the fairer sex is intimately portrayed in Alejandra Jenni’s honest fictional short film about the uncomfortable taboo topic of, periods. Jenni’s film is an in your face declaration, abiding by societal norms to…
Pendulum: The end of the world but not as you know it
Pendulum Trailer from Lauren Cooney on Vimeo. Another Big Bang, maybe an implosion, what about a total apocalypse? There are numerous theories about how and when the world is going to end. We might never know how it’s going to happen as when it happens, our existence is over. However, the award-winning director Lauren Cooney…
A Line Birds Cannot See: Visual stunning, emotional and immensely relevant short film
“It’s about the journey, not the destination”. Pretty sure, we’ve all heard that tagline or something similar more than once. Most of the times, it’s being used to look at things on the bright side and as a motivation to be happy with what you have. But what if that journey might have been the…
FILM – Farnoosh Samadi and Ali Asgari’s ‘The Silence’ wins multiple Oscar qualifying Film Festival Awards
Joint directors Farnoosh Samadi and Ali Asgari’s must-see live action short film The Silence has been selected for over 400 film festivals around the world and won many prestigious film awards, including Oscar-qualifying awards at Leeds International Film Festival and Hamptons International Film Festival. The film stars Fatma Alakus, Cahide Ozel and Valentina Carnelutti (Medici: Masters of Florence) and shares a strong…
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