# Cate Blanchett’s Displacement Film Fund Partners With the New Yorker to Release Five Short Films (EXCLUSIVE)

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/cate-blanchetts-displacement-film-fund-partners-with-the-new-yorker-to-release-five-short-films-exclusive/
- Published: 2026-10-23T15:00:00+00:00
- Updated: 2026-10-23T15:30:33+00:00
- Original publisher: Variety
- Original article: https://variety.com/2026/film/news/cate-blanchett-displacement-film-fund-new-yorker-1236922000/
- Topics: Art, Culture, Entertainment, Film

## Key points

- The New Yorker will release five displacement-themed short films weekly.
- Each inaugural film received a €100,000 production grant.
- A second cohort will premiere at Rotterdam in January.

## Summary

Cate Blanchett’s Displacement Film Fund is partnering with The New Yorker to release five short films about displacement, exile, identity and belonging. The partnership will bring work by filmmakers with experience of displacement to a wider audience, using stories about loss of home and the search for belonging to prompt discussion and connection.

The films by Mohammad Rasoulof, Shahrbanoo Sadat, Mo Harawe, Maryna Er Gorbach and Hasan Kattan premiered at the 2026 International Film Festival Rotterdam. They will be released weekly on The New Yorker’s website and YouTube, starting with Kattan’s documentary “Allies in Exile”; Film Forum in New York will screen the collection on 11 November. Each project received a €100,000 production grant, and the fund has also selected a second cohort whose films are due to premiere at Rotterdam in January.

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