Amid the quarantine restrictions and the cancellation of many artistic events, YouTube presented the first experience of a virtual world art festival to support art and the continuation of its activities, where the "We Are One" festival, a free and exclusive festival on YouTube, was born, the idea born of trying to find solutions An alternative to international art festivals and the Diaspora collection under any condition.
The festival will feature more than 100 films from 35 countries, sponsored by more than 21 international festivals, including the Cannes, Turin, Venice, Berlin, London and Rebecca festivals. It will also present 13 international shows and 31 shows, broadcast for the first time on the Internet.
The festival program consists of a variety of old and new films, short and long, special offers and exclusive interviews for directors who have already received international awards for their films, such as Wong Jun Ho, Francis Ford Coppola, and Alejandro Inareto Gonzales and others.
Air Conditioner
The movie "Air Conditioner" from the International Film Festival "Rotterdam", set in a hot day in the Angolan capital of Luanda, when the air conditioning system collapsed due to a mysterious. Security guard Macedo (Jose Kitticolo) is sent to bring an alternative system, so he takes us with him on a fun surreal journey accompanied by jazz and rap music in the city streets.
Grab seizure
The documentary film "Takeover" from the "Sun Day" festival provides a look at a traditional celebration called "The Day of Capture" in the life of the "Laguna Pueblo" tribe, as they annually throw water and food from the roofs to the people standing under their porches. It is a 300-year-old tradition that integrates the traditional "Pueblo" celebration with the religious traditions of the Catholic Church by exchanging goods with society in exchange for prayers next year.
Nutag-Homeland
This short film describes the case that approximately 120,000 Kalmyk residents were deported by the Soviet Union during World War II, by hand-drawn poetic animation. The film exposes the concepts of alienation and homeland through the tragic mass deportations.
Forever I will start tonight
The short movie, "Forever I Will Begin Tonight" from the New York Film Festival, is about a 17-year-old Russian immigrant who suffers from indoor phobia, and lives in Brighton Beach in an apartment in Brooklyn with her father and their cats. The father is threatened with eviction from the apartment, and Sonia is forced to make an unimaginable decision to protect herself and her elderly father.
The Brat
A short film from the Mumbai Film Festival, revolves around an Indian mother trying to teach her 9-year-old son the virtue through bedtime stories, and he proudly tells her about something horrific he committed at school.
The "We Are All One" festival not only seeks to support art and artists, nor does it aim to merely facilitate the mechanism of exhibition and entertainment for the public, but also collects donations to relief the people affected by the Corona epidemic, in cooperation with international organizations, including UNICEF and UNHCR.