LOCKDOWN '2O(2020)

Lockdown(en)

A man stuck inside his house during a worldwide lockdown starts to lose not just his friends, but also his sanity.

Run Away - Polayon(en)

On the day of the pandemic of corona virus in Bangladesh , the story of the movie revolves around a Bangladeshi garments worker. At home, she has a mother, a younger sister and a restless father. Can a garments worker go to her mother who lives in village ? Can she buy red clothes and shoes for her sister? Or not.

Favorite Daughter(en)

A grandmother, mother, and daughter quarantine together in a Tribeca apartment as they laugh about life over wine.

Stille Sommer(de)

Escape from everyday life in freedom and community and live utopias - for many organizers and artists, the secret of the music festivals that make culturally weak Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania a place of pilgrimage for tens of thousands of people every summer. But instead of freedom, community and utopia, there was one thing above all in the festival summers of 2020 and 2021: silence.

2020: A Very Particular Year(de)

At the beginning of the year 2020, a relentless plague sweeps the planet and, as a consequence, a global lockdown is gradually decreed: how did people from very different latitudes, living necessarily very different situations, experience this shared solitude? How did people adapt to the restriction by decree of their personal freedoms and the transformation of many bustling metropolises into ghost cities?

Cloverfield(en)

Five young New Yorkers throw their friend a going-away party the night that a monster the size of a skyscraper descends upon the city. Told from the point of view of their video camera, the film is a document of their attempt to survive the most surreal, horrifying event of their lives.

Never Better(en)

Terese is a young woman with Cystic Fibrosis stuck in the time loop of quarantine. She fights her boredom with beer, weed, and an unstoppable internal dialogue. When her self-interested roommate returns and fails to practice safe social distancing, she finds that boredom may be the least of her worries.

COVID-19: The System(nl)

COVID-19. The whole world is in Lock Down. There is panic in society. What is going on? Is this actually about our public health?

Menschen eingesperrt, Tiere befreit(de)

Day of the Dead(en)

When a small Colorado town is overrun by the flesh hungry dead, a small group of survivors try to escape in a last ditch effort to stay alive.

Silence(en)

In lockdown isolation, a young man decides to stay in contact with the outside world through the vocal messages of his friends and lovers. But those voices, which initially seemed to fill the silence and keep him company, become increasingly full of suffering.

The Manggis in Ah Gong's Hands 阿公手里的莽吉柿(en)

A bigoted Chinese grandfather having to look after his biracial grandson at the onset of a global pandemic lockdown

Anu(hi)

When a recent widow moves to New Zealand from India, she's forced to confront her grief by completing an ordinary ritual in an extraordinary circumstance: quarantine.

Doomsday(en)

The lethal Reaper virus spreads throughout Britain—infecting millions and killing hundreds of thousands. Authorities brutally and successfully quarantine the country but, three decades later, the virus resurfaces in a major city. An elite group of specialists is urgently dispatched into the still-quarantined country to retrieve a cure by any means necessary. Shut off from the rest of the world, the unit must battle through a landscape that has become a waking nightmare.

The First Wave(en)

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

The Crazies(en)

Citizens of a small town are infected by a biological weapon that causes its victims to become violently insane. As uninfected citizens struggle to survive, the military readies its own response.

The Exterminating Angel(es)

A formal dinner party starts out normally enough, but after the bourgeois group retire to the host’s music room, they inexplicably find themselves unable to leave.

Contagion(en)

As an epidemic of a lethal airborne virus - that kills within days - rapidly grows, the worldwide medical community races to find a cure and control the panic that spreads faster than the virus itself.

Memórias de Parede(pt)

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.

One Year(en)

One year in the life of a woman living through 2020 and the COVID-19 pandemic.