‘The Moment’ Trailer: Charli XCX Skewers Brat Summer and Jokes About Cocaine in Sundance-Bound Satire

The feature directorial debut of Aidan Zamiri stars the pop icon as herself.

A24 has dropped the first full trailer for “The Moment,” the Charli XCX–starring satirical drama set to turn the pop icon’s already self-mythologizing persona into a darker, more cinematic experience on January 30 next year. Newly announced as a Sundance 2026 premiere, and based on an idea from the 33-year-old pop musician herself, filmmaker Aidan Zamiri’s feature directorial debut isn’t your typical victim-of-fame melodrama. 

If anything, the teaser underlines its star’s unyielding grasp on her own personal and public narratives — a magnetic force that’s helped her sell-out stadiums and, for better or worse, transformed the national meme stage during the 2024 presidential election. “The Moment” marks the next step in Charli XCX‘s ongoing image evolution, blurring persona and performance through a meta-portrait and buzzy reflection on the art scene amid digital disconnect. 

With a cast that includes Hollywood heavyweights from Rachel Sennott to Alexander Skarsgård, the trailer combines concert footage with scripted scenes that feel ripped “The Idol” — or maybe, a demonic musical “The Studio.” The caricature at its center has been self-described as Charli’s “Hell version,” and she’s at once sympathetic and terrifyingly self-aware in the preview. 

“Don’t you just think the whole, like, ‘Keep having a Brat Summer!’ thing is a bit cringe?” she jokes in the first of several comedic beats that make her look impossibly cool. (Of course, she knows that too, quipping “Everyone’s so desperate for me to be fucking innovative all the time — and fucking cool!” later in the trailer.) 

Using “Brat,” both the album and the international event, as cinematic fuel, the upcoming project recalls A24 at its most cutting-edge. Perhaps the script will comment on the lifespan of the indie film studio, too, and if we’re lucky, use Charli’s reputation as a cinephile to say something of substance about the industry in the age of Letterboxd. 

The cast also includes Rosanna Arquette, Kate Berlant, Jamie Demetriou, Arielle Dombasle, Hailey Benton Gates, Kylie Jenner, Trew Mullen, Mel Ottenberg, Richard Perez, Isaac Powell, Rish Shah, Tish Weinstock, Michael Workéyè, Shygirl, and A. G. Cook.

Cook also wrote music for the film, having produced several Charli XCX tracks. Director Zamiri previously helmed Charli’s “360” music video as well as music videos for Billie Eilish, Yung Lean, and FKA Twigs. Zamiri co-wrote the script with Bertie Brandes.

Opening in theaters on January 30, 2026, watch the trailer for A24’s “The Moment” below: