Making movies is the opposite of isolating yourself. NOTHING I WANTED TO SAY is a feature film shot indoors during the confinement of the 2020 pandemic. While they are involved in making a film about isolation, two brothers, 21 and 19, exercise their gaze towards what is near. Four months confined in a 60 m2 apartment, where they share the loneliness, anticipation and anguish of this strange time. A reflection on isolation during the Covid-19 quarantine and on reconnecting with one's inner self.
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In a time marked by longing and uncertainty, at the beginning of a social isolation, two friends disappear. The pandemic becomes a backdrop for the loss of innocence and the rescue of long-lost things. Ingenuous is like a farewell gift from the only link that united these two missing figures; two strangers who get lost, or maybe, just maybe, just met.
A grandmother, mother, and daughter quarantine together in a Tribeca apartment as they laugh about life over wine.
It's war. War against an invisible enemy that is not as deadly as we are told. The world is changing rapidly. Disproportionate measures are taken worldwide that disrupt society as a whole. A dichotomy in society forced vaccinations and restrictions on freedom. Have we had the worst? Or is there something more disturbing to awaiting us.
Peels back the curtain on the two-week, claustrophobic nightmare when passengers and crew members boarded the luxury Diamond Princess cruise ship in January of 2020, they had no idea that the deadly novel coronavirus boarded the ship with them, turning the floating paradise into their worst nightmare.
From a search for the history of his unnoted, suburban neighborhood, Luca realizes that the place where he grew up was always the same. In times of quarantine, he faces another space that has also never changed: his home. Luca finds himself trapped in a place that carries countless painful memories etched into itself. It is impossible for him to see himself beyond those memories, and, at the same time, he feels different in a place that prevents him from being so.
A short film of the first weeks of strict national lockdown, filmed in Barcelona on a classic home video camera Hi8. Narrates the story of three women who share a flat and who create a microworld not only to survive the global pandemic but also to survive themselves.
When Covid-19 hit New York City in 2020, filmmaker Matthew Heineman gained unique access to one of New York’s hardest-hit hospital systems. The resulting film focuses on the doctors, nurses, and patients on the frontlines during the “first wave” from March to June 2020. Their distinct storylines each serve as a microcosm to understand how the city persevered through the worst pandemic in a century
After being stuck at home for two months, she finally goes out for a walk. In a short form documentary, she photographically explores this deserted Lisbon, never ever seen, through a passionate look. The city breathes, stripped of human beings.
A short documentary about a homeless couple who face the ban on being on the street during 2020 quarantine. Just through their eyes, the two protagonists show us a different Milan, silent and suspended.
Footage of Wuhan, China, during the coronavirus quarantine.
Beijing, China, 2020. Empty streets, mandatory masks, checkpoints, the entire state apparatus used to impose severe restrictions on population movements. An entire country quarantined to fight a fierce epidemic…
Shot entirely from an apartment window during the first month of New York City’s “Shelter in Place” directive, this film is a winding conversation about the fears, anxieties, and hopes of the residents of Claremont Avenue, in Manhattan.
Director Martin Scorsese talks about life in isolation.
A special behind-the-scenes look at the making of the audiobook edition of "d'ILLUSION: The Houdini Musical" and how it did its part in helping keep theater and the arts alive during the COVID-19 pandemic.
On the morning of 10 March 2020 all Italians woke up in quarantine. Io Resto a Casa ("I Stay Home") depicts the filmmaker's first 14 days of the Italian lockdown, without ever leaving the house, made entirely on the web through the stories of five Youtubers and dozens of videos and photographs made and shared all over Italy. Fourteen days of fears, hopes, enthusiasm, boredom, normality and extraordinariness. Fourteen days that we will always remember.
Amateur filmmakers from around the world filmed their beloved cats during COVID-19 stay-at-home orders. This compilation reel brings together the cutest, funniest, bravest and most loving of these videos, exclusively filmed during the pandemic.
Beaches are closed during the COVID-19 pandemic. Nevertheless, the middle class must survive the tropicals.
Teenagers from Belgium, Turkey, and the U.S. talk about their experiences during quarantine, share their opinions on the COVID-19 pandemic and explain how people in their countries cope with the situation.
In early 2020, this would have been a documentary about freshman initiation rituals, but a pandemic and three months confined at home end up changing the author and the direction of this project.