The Moment2026

After a brat summer in which Charli XCX dominated Instagram feeds and took over everyone’s AirPods with her album, it turns out that her biggest challenge isn’t the success itself, but maintaining it. In In The Moment, she plays an exaggerated version of herself: a pop star caught up in the expectations of the public, her record label and her own perfectionism. What begins as an ironic look at the machine behind the megastar derails into a claustrophobic nightmare in which the artist, her alter ego and the marketing construct increasingly merge.

With this refreshing take on the concert film, Aidan Zamiri translates Charli’s strobe-lit concert aesthetic into cinematic language. His delightfully unhinged satire on celebrity culture is a game of Russian roulette featuring flashing lights, hyped-up concert footage and a healthy dose of self-mockery. At the same time, this baroque behind-the-scenes look raises the question of how artists manage to stay afloat in an ecosystem that always wants more, until the hype shifts onto something new once again.