Cinema encompasses the full spectrum of the human experience, and the Brisbane International Film Festival exists to showcase and share only the very best of the films offering a window into our lives, real and imagined. Creating a trailer to encompass the sweep of what the festival shares, whilst still maintaining a narrative arc, a visual language, and a feeling of crescendo using only clips and snippets is a true challenge to the director and the editor. With this trailer, we wove together threads from so many different sources into one throughline evoking the emotion of the festival, the films, and the experience of cinema itself.