Top image: Still, Brokeback Mountain, 2005, whose director Ang Lee will be in conversation

From Cannes to Shanghai, SXSW and Comic-con, film festivals across the world have felt the sting of coronavirus as much as any other industry. Many have chosen to postpone or rearrange while others have cancelled completely. Manhattan-based Tribeca festival is bucking that trend by teaming up with YouTube to deliver a selection of cherry-picked films from festivals that were unable to go ahead.

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We Are One festival requires no accreditation and is free for anyone to stream. Over the course of ten days films from Cannes, London Film Festival, the Berlinale and many others (21 to be exact) are scheduled for specific slots, and while the film line-up may be light on star power, there’s plenty of gems to unearth.

Equally exciting is the talks programme that will see colossal names from film and art in conversation with one another. From Steven Soderbergh swapping stories with Francis Ford Coppola to Bong Joon-ho discussing decades of his work with frequent collaborator Song Kang-ho (the dad from Parasite to you), Alejandro González Iñárritu head-to-head with Maria Abramović and Vigo Mortensen alongside David Cronenberg, you can expect plenty of interesting chit-chat.

Other highlights include The Iron Hammer, a documentary by Joan Chen that tells the story of Chinese volleyball icon Lang Ping who became the sport’s trailblazing figure, Ricky Powell: The Individualist on the extraordinary life of the New York photographer and his journey with the Beastie Boys and Wake Up: Stories From the Frontlines of Suicide Prevention, a crowdfounded documentary on America’s growing suicide pandemic.

Explore the full program and time slots here.