Our Story
Reverie Cineclub is a curatorial passion project created by National Film and Television School MA graduate, Nathasha Orlando Kappler. Its aim is to showcase spellbinding films to young audiences that are diverse in style, language, and form. From hypnotic silent era animation, to awe-inspiring fantasy adventures, Reverie Cineclub hopes to break away from mainstream programming for children and family audiences, and inspire an appreciation for the hidden gems of cinema history.
In November 2024, Reverie Cineclub launched its first ever film season at the Rio Cinema in London. Titled ‘Reverie Cineclub: Fairytales From Around The World’, the season featured family screenings of three world cinema classics: The Cassandra Cat (1963, Vojtěch Jasný), The Adventures of Prince Achmed (1926, Lotte Reiniger) and The Tale of Tsar Saltan (1967, Aleksandr Ptushko). In addition to this, the season offered a free direct-animation workshop for parents and children, hosted by moving image artist and film educator Lydia Beilby.
In 2026, Reverie Cineclub will return with new family film screenings, workshops, as well as offer engaging features and interviews celebrating the voices shaping the future of children’s cinema.
About The Curator
Nathasha Orlando Kappler is a Mexican-German film programmer, writer, and video editor with a Master’s Degree in Film Studies, Programming, and Curation at the National Film and Television School, where she specialised in researching the archival and restoration work of Mexico's Golden Age of Cinema.
She currently serves as a short film programmer for Cambridge Film Festival and Irish Film Festival London. Nathasha has previously worked as a curator and guest speaker for Edinburgh International Film Festival, Slow Film Festival, Garden Cinema, Deptford Cinema, and Berlin Film Society. As a writer, she has contributed to publications Sight and Sound Magazine and Photogénie.
Having worked with children and young adults in Berlin as a school workshop facilitator and ESL educator, Nathasha is deeply passionate about engaging young people in subversive, international and repertory cinema and analogue filmmaking practices.
For more information on Nathasha’s work in film, you can find her on LinkedIn and the NFTS Alumni directory.
Personal E-Mail: nathashakappler@gmail.com