Ode to the Spring (2022)

Grey Elephant

Follows two couples meeting together for the first time after months of being on lockdown due to the coronavirus pandemic.

Chinese Doctors

Based on real-life events, the film recounts the efforts of the Wuhan medical staff as they attempt to deal with the rising cases of Covid-19.

The Falls

After having to quarantine together during COVID-19, a mother and daughter are forced to confront their personal obstacles and relationship tensions.

Communist Pacha Adhava Appa

An exploration of a small rural community and the effects that COVID-19 restrictions have on their daily lives.

Together

A husband and wife are forced to re-evaluate themselves and their relationship through the reality of the Covid-19 lockdown.

The Vaccine War

Faced with the catastrophic challenge of fighting a global crisis like no other, Indian scientists take on the mantle of producing vaccine despite not having enough resources and infrastructure to save the nation's sixteen million citizens.

O Silêncio Que Você Faz

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The Myth of Manila

Since the pandemic hit in the spring of 2020, Metro Manila has been subjected to intermittent lockdowns with demeaning punishments. Despite the danger, Sandra, a single middle-aged reporter living there, continues to search for stories, even after waking up with symptoms one day. As a public service, she turns the camera on herself for the first time in her career, documenting her condition and recording the sights and sounds of the afflicted city on her way to the hospital. Unfortunately, every place she reaches has a long queue. With her remaining strength, she brings herself to Quiapo Church, the site frequented by many pilgrims in dire situations.

Covid Love

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The Road Ahead (Where do we go from here?) Director's cut

Leo gets abducted and carried around in the trunk of a car. The man who is holding him captive has a sinister plan. He gets Leo to bury corpses for him. In the process, Leo gets to speak with his ego and gets glimpses of his higher self. Will Leo get out of this alive?

Sandwich

A newly wed couple invites a woman for threesome. Unknown to them someone is watching their sexcapade. When the threesome becomes foursome, that's when chaos begins.

The Paramedic

Unable to face his new reality in a wheelchair, Ángel develops a deadly obsession with the woman who left him and unleashes a sinister revenge plot.

Guermantes

Paris, sum­mer 2020. Actors from “la Comédie-Française”, France’s most pres­ti­gious the­ater, rehearse Christophe Hon­oré’s new play, an adap­ta­tion of Mar­cel Proust’s “The Guer­mantes Way”. When the show is sud­den­ly can­celed, the dra­ma group decides to go ahead with it any­way, in the name of art and for the joy of act­ing together.

Andragogy

A schoolteacher's reputation is at risk when a video of her speaking up against injustice goes viral on the internet and is misinterpreted.

Perfect Storm

On the wild west coast of Auckland in New Zealand we follow one man's enforced isolation. Pacing the beach, he wonders if those dear to him will ever be seen again.

What If Shogun Ieyasu Tokugawa Was to Become the Prime Minister

In the year 2020, when Covid-19 is rapidly spreading around the world, chaos ensues and people's daily lives are completely upended. A virus outbreak suddenly occurs at the prime minister's office in Japan. This leads to the prime minister's sudden death. The Japanese government then puts in place an unprecedented plan, which is to bring back the greatest leaders from Japan's past through AI holograms and form a super cabinet with them. These famous individuals include Ieyasu Tokugawa, Ryoma Sakamoto, Nobunaga Oda, and Hideyoshi Toyotomi. People are stunned and at the same time go crazy over the endless execution of policies by this new legendary cabinet. Risa Nishimura wants to become an announcer and currently works as a TV reporter for a broadcasting station. She approaches a government spokesperson, Ryoma Sakamoto, for an exclusive scoop. Due to an unexpected case, she realizes that something is going on behind this cabinet.

Die Welt steht still

When the pictures from Bergamo in Italy go around the world in spring 2020, even non-medical people know what the word pandemic means. The previously unknown Coronavirus is spreading rapidly across the planet. Four days later, exit and contact restrictions also apply in Germany. Since then, the life of the Konstanz intensive care physician Dr. Carolin Mellau and her family on their heads. The female doctor becomes a member of the crisis team and is on duty around the clock to prepare the clinic for the impending emergency. As an anesthesiologist intubating those infected with COVID-19, she herself carries a high risk of infection. Meanwhile, her husband Stefan has to cancel his concerts as a musician, is no longer allowed to teach his music students and is suddenly sitting at home without an income. Teenage daughter Luzy is not allowed to see her Swiss boyfriend because the border is closed. She and brother Tim cannot go to school. But the worst case for the family is yet to come.

Hermann

Every night, at eight o'clock, Hermann appears alone on stage to give a short violin concert, but his audience is not exactly that he believes it is. (Inspired by the real story of Hermann Schreiber, Vigo, Spain, 2020.)

Islands in the City

Like ghosts, the temporarily shut down cruise ships lie in the port of Hamburg. A young man comes into town and is stranded on the riverbank, waiting for a message. He watches couples strolling along in the sunset and gets himself some sweets. In a moment of collective pause, ISLANDS IN THE CITY captures a fragile romance. There is a departure in the air, the destination of which no one seems to know.

Due to Unforeseen Circumstances...

A doomer discovers freedom through despair over the course of a fateful night in self-isolation during the COVID-19 crisis. Shot with zero budget entirely in quarantine.

Sick

Covid-19 quarantine in spring 2020. She’s isolated in her flat in L.A. He’s isolated in his flat in Athens. They’re both killing time on the internet, doing silly things lovers do. Their internment into their flats becomes a psychedelic space spinning round and round and round. A punk romance in the heart of the pandemic lockdown.

Not So Friendly Neighborhood Affair

Set in Sarajevo in May 2021, the city's famous Old Town tries to recover after a difficult pandemic year. When a visitor from Zagreb comes looking for the best kebabs in town, a harmless gesture causes the disintegration of the business and private lives of several people.

The Middle Ages

A comedy during confinement? Probably so. A portrait of a little girl and her family during confinement? Apparently so. An absurd, Beckettian musical shot during confinement? Exactly, yes.

Lockdown

Featuring Soham Chakraborty, Srabanti Chatterjee, Om Sahani, Adrit Roy, Manali Manisha Dey and Rajnandini Paul, the slice-of-a-life drama has three parallel stories that meet at the climax. The COVID-19 pandemic-induced lockdown affects each of the protagonists.

Gombal From Home

Unemployed and lonely due to the pandemic, Eka created a profile on a dating app using fake photos and descriptions.

Haami 2

In the world of Haami, there's no anger, rivalry, talking bad, feeling low; there's only joy uninterrupted. The sequel focuses on reality television shows which often create undue pressure on children.

From the other side

During the 2020 lockdown in Anzio, Jacopo plays the piano while sipping coffee. From his balcony, he notices Greta arguing on the phone: her relationship has ended. To comfort her, Jacopo plays for her, but Greta shuts herself inside, destroying the memories of her ex. Discouraged, he gradually stops playing. One day, while hanging out the laundry, Greta comes outside: they exchange a timid greeting. Struck by his smile, Greta begins to return to the balcony more and more often, hoping to see him again and hear his music.

Bheed

8 hours, complete lockdown in the whole of India, movement shut and state borders sealed. Thousands of migrants without food, water and mode of transport were forced to return to their homes. A crisis that shook the whole nation, a time when borders of disparity divided the people and one man stood for humanity.

Covid-19: Imbavagliati

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A Land With No Ceremony

During 2020, when the pandemic policy loosened, a violinist went back to hometown in mainland China to meet his parents and his friends. A sudden accident happened, everything changed, and a ceremony is no longer a "ceremony".

Miss Informed

Despite the rising stakes between losing healthcare workers and insufficient wage, a female nurse is determined to aid the victims of COVID-19 until she reaches her breaking point when a survivor is disillusioned about the recent news headlines.

Il Complottista

Mirko, a no-vax, flat earther, right-wing young man lives alone in the suburb of Milan, Italy. He will experience the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic, and the lockdown will force him to change his view on reality and on his own political beliefs.

Ligação Interrompida

With the COVID-19 pandemic and social distancing, three friends struggle to maintain their friendship through phone calls, but a change in behavior has them questioning the true impact of the virus.

The World is Made Up of 3

Tells the story of three young people living in the after corona and wis corona worlds. When a lost salaried worker, Mochizuki Yuto, who had lived all over the world, wanted to quit his job, an emergency declaration was issued due to the spread of the new coronavirus infection. The work environment of Yuto, such as telework and online meetings, has changed completely. Then, one day after the declaration was lifted, the eldest brother, Taito and his younger brother, Mitsuo, who had been thinking about him, visited Yuto.

Who Said Macbeth

Although the past two years have been challenging for the Theatre industry, they also showed its incredible strength and resilience. Through interviews with West End performers and creatives, this documentary outlines the difficulties presented to our industry over the course of the pandemic, as well as highlighting changes - both positive and negative - that have come from it. An emotional reflection on a battle it was worth fighting for. All profits will be going to 'Acting for Others', an organisation that provides support to all theatre workers through 14 member charities. We hope these stories full of passion for Theatre inspire you just as much as they inspired us!

Valkyries

It is the year 2020 and the Corona pandemic has Germany firmly in its grip. Thus, the red-light business must also close its doors and the sex workers are driven onto the unsafe streets, where the situation is shamelessly exploited.

Most Flew South

A devastating plague has wiped out half the population of New York City, leaving it in a perpetual state of emergency. After years of lockdown, a young man, Paul, puts on his hazmat suit and ventures into the abandoned streets to meet Justine - a woman with whom he has developed a romance online, but never met. Paul has dreamed about this day, but doing this in reality is something else entirely. Will they be able to overcome their anxieties - and is it worth the risk?

February 2022

Wah and Yee are two young strangers who live next to each other in subdivided units. In February 2022, at the peak of the pandemic, they first become aware of each other’s existence when both are tested positive for COVID-19 and are required to self-isolate at home. The two soon form a bond through music, rekindling their passion for life. Like the partition between the two units is no barrier against the flow of music, social isolation does not bar the growing affection between them. But when the quarantine ends, they become hesitant: Will the magic survive beyond the protective/restrictive wall? A pandemic and local version of Begin Again (2013), the two characters bare their hearts as they chase their dreams amid struggles through music and lyrics.

Suspended Time

A film director returns to his childhood home in provincial France with his brother and his girlfriend and discovers isolation to be an artistic curative.

Maaf Kamu Terlalu 'New Normal' Buat Aku

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Stars at Noon

In present-day Nicaragua, a headstrong American journalist and a mysterious English businessman strike up a romance as they become embroiled in a dangerous labyrinth of lies and conspiracies and are forced to try and escape the country.

#Stayhome

The world out there is halted by a pandemic, and during lockdown, an apartment in Rome becomes the same as one in Milan, Naples, Paris, and New York. Each one lives a story identical to all the others, yet unique and personal. Four young people under thirty have been sharing an apartment for some time and, stopped by the infection, find themselves facing shadows bigger than living there. The opportunity to make some easy money at the expense of their shady landlord will lead to a crescendo of tension and delirium. The young people's choices and actions will become increasingly ambiguous as the consequences upend their dreams and hopes, fears and loves, until the unexpected ending.

El juego

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Family Squares

The Worth Family has been divided for years but when the matriarch, Grandma Mabel, dies suddenly, the family has to come together. The story of Family Squares takes the Worth Family on a journey discovering that not only did Grandma Mabel keep some secrets, so did everyone else. They find their way back to each other and realize that while you can’t choose your family, you can choose to be friends with them.

El Viaje

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Gracious Night

The three men enjoy the evening at a bar whose fate is threatened by pandemic restrictions. Bartender Heikki offers discussion help to his friend Risto, who works in the first line of healthcare, and who has just finished a difficult shift. The evening gets a new twist when a stranger looking for a mobile phone charger pops in and refuses to leave.

Latitude

José comes back to his family house to take care of his father, Gonzalo. Old memories and unresolved conflicts will arise, in a moment where uncertainty and fear will act as a catalyst.

Liminal Girl

Amidst the pandemic, a woman embarks on a treacherous journey through the wilderness to reach her brother while grappling with her mental state.

The New Normal

In times of coronavirus, Ana, pregnant, has the need to leave home.