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REELING is a part of The FOFIF’s
THREE FILMS, FIVE CITIES Project

An urgent response to the moment: a flexible, collaborative, and rotating distribution plan under The Future of Film is Female Distribution featuring three independent films in independent cinemas over the course of one month. This project uses The FOFIF brand to support independent films by women and nonbinary filmmakers in a timely manner to ensure they reach audiences in cinemas instead of disappearing or heading straight to streaming platforms.

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REELING

Directed by YANA ALLIATA
Written Amy Miner and Alliata

Release: 2025
Runtime: 76
Country: U.S.
Language: English
Director: Yana Alliata
Cast: Ryan Wuestewald, Hans Christopher, Nikki DeParis, Fabrizio Alliata, Makena Miller, Nyah Juliano, Michael Carter
Executive Produced by: Werner Herzog, Thomas Kosasa, Nicole MacNaughton, Giovanni Alliata

After a life altering accident, Ryan struggles to fit in with old friends and family at a birthday luau on his family’s homestead.

REELING, the striking debut feature by Yana Alliata, is a lyrical and emotionally charged exploration of memory, trauma, and belonging set against the idyllic family property on Oahu’s windward side. After a life-altering accident, Ryan returns to his family’s homestead for a birthday luau, attempting to reconnect with old friends and relatives who now feel like strangers. As the pig roasts slowly in the imu pit and the atmosphere turns festive, buried tensions simmer beneath the surface. Amid laughter, music, and the glow of torches, Ryan finds himself increasingly unmoored—until a fragmented memory resurfaces, revealing the moment when everything in his life changed. As celebration gives way to confrontation, REELING peels back the layers of familial expectation, masculine vulnerability, and the cultural pressures of homecoming. With poetic visuals and a haunting emotional core, Alliata’s film is a poignant portrait of a young man struggling to make sense of who he was—and who he might become.  

REELING is executive produced by the singular Werner Herzog.