The first teaser for the Charli XCX movie, A24’s The Moment, dropped today, blurring the line between documentary and fiction in ways that’ll leave you questioning what’s real.
The ‘Brat’ hitmaker takes centre stage in a mockumentary that promises to peel back the glossy veneer of pop stardom.
Director Aidan Zamiri, who’s helmed videos for Charli’s ‘360’ and Billie Eilish’s ‘Birds of a Feather’, crafts something that feels deliberately disorienting.
The Charli XCX movie trailer splices together genuine footage from last year’s Sweat and Brat tours with scripted sequences, creating a deliberately unstable viewing experience.
Clips of Charli on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert sit alongside backstage moments and crowd interactions, all bathed in strobing lights that mirror the sensory overload of fame itself.
The origin story adds another layer to proceedings. During September 2024’s Sweat tour, Charli sent Zamiri what he described as ‘word vomit’, essentially a diary entry about standing on the precipice of everything she’d wanted and the strange vertigo that came with it.
That raw message became the skeleton for The Moment Charli XCX envisioned, which Zamiri and co-writer Bertie Brandes fleshed out in just months with her input.
Speaking to Vanity Fair recently, Charli called the film “the realest depiction of the music industry that I’ve ever seen” whilst simultaneously insisting it’s fiction.
She labels it a ‘2024 period piece’ and describes her character as a ‘hell version’ of herself. The contradiction feels intentional, a knowing wink at how pop stars construct personas that become more real than reality.
The cast reads like a who’s who of zeitgeist-y talent. Rachel Sennott brings her trademark deadpan energy, whilst Alexander Skarsgård reportedly plays one of the film’s antagonists, described as a ‘fashionable European creative’.
Kylie Jenner, Kate Berlant, Jamie Demetriou, and Rosanna Arquette (as a record label boss) round out the ensemble.
A.G. Cook, Charli’s longtime production partner and the sonic architect behind Brat, provides the score, ensuring the film’s soundscape matches its visual ambition.
The project marks the inaugural release from Charli’s production company Studio365, signalling her serious pivot into filmmaking.
The Moment A24 release arrives as she’s already shot seven films this year, including 100 Nights of Hero (due December 5th), Gregg Araki’s I Want Your Sex, and Emerald Fennell’s Wuthering Heights, for which she’s written an entire companion album dropping February 2026.
Charli admitted the seed for The Moment sprouted from being pressured to make a conventional tour documentary.
Rather than comply, she subverted the expectation entirely, creating something that satirises the very pressure that spawned it. ‘It’s not a tour documentary or a concert film in any way,’ she clarified.
The teaser hints at menace beneath the party-girl surface. An unseen threat promises to turn the tour into ‘a f***ing disaster’, visualised by a Charli mannequin plummeting from arena rafters and shattering on impact.
Whether this symbolises the fragility of fame, the self-destruction inherent in chasing success, or just makes for a striking visual remains to be seen.
What’s clear is that Charli continues refusing to colour inside the lines. From her viral Letterboxd reviews (she’s watched over 200 films this year) to handing her Coachella spotlight to indie film directors, she’s building a creative identity that transcends simple pop star categorisation.
The Moment feels like the logical next step for an artist who’s always been more interested in interrogating culture than simply participating in it.
The Moment hits cinemas January 30th, 2026 via A24.