1. Madrid, int. (Madrid, int.)
Madrid, Spain, March 2020. As the merciless disease that plagues the world spreads through the increasingly deserted streets of the city, people barricades themselves in their homes and move on with their lives…
It has an average vote of 4.6 on TMDB.
2. The Big Reset (The Big Reset)
(The Big Reset)
It has an average vote of 6 on TMDB.
3. Maria
Maria Lang is my very close filmmaker friend who lives in the southern german countryside. We see her gardening and visiting an exhibition of female impressionist painters.
4. Twenty
Set in a speakeasy in Atlanta, “Twenty” is a feature documentary about fifteen young people making it through 2020. The film is an observational time capsule that lays bare the raw reflections of a group of people surviving a year that will be seared into our generational memory.
5. Igor Levit: No Fear (Igor Levit: No Fear)
Follows the artist over two years as he explores his „life after Beethoven“, as he searches for his next challenge, his identity as an artist.
It has an average vote of 7 on TMDB.
6. Log in Belgium (로그 인 벨지움)
“To me films are an imaginary world where emotion comes into play.” YOO Teo traveled to Belgium to make his movie but he ended up being locked down due to COVID-19. This film is about his 15-days of quarantine in Antwerp Hotel fighting for his movie and loneliness. He also depicted his most personal story. This is the debut film of YOO Teo both as the star and the director.
It has an average vote of 7.9 on TMDB.
7. Clear years (Les années claires)
I wasn’t told. I wasn’t told it would be so difficult to live together. To keep a family together. To maintain love and happiness. I wasn’t told, and if someone had told me I wouldn’t have listened. I chose to live with my camera in my hand, filming the trajectory of feelings, from the golden age to the lost paradise, from being born to being reborn.
8. Sin descanso (Sin descanso)
(Sin descanso)
It has an average vote of 2 on TMDB.
9. Playing with Gods (Jumalten keinussa)
The documentary dives intimately behind the scenes of the Finnish National Opera and sucks the viewer in like the best of thrillers. The three hours fly by, even for those who aren’t necessarily interested in opera as an art form.
10. Stronger Together, Tous Ensemble
Join iconic Canadian artists, activists, actors, and athletes as they share their stories of hope and inspiration in this national salute to our frontline workers and in support of Food Banks Canada’s COVID-19 relief efforts.
It has an average vote of 5.5 on TMDB.
11. Shelter in Place
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.
It has an average vote of 5 on TMDB.
12. Fuori era primavera: Viaggio nell'Italia del lockdown (Fuori era primavera: Viaggio nell'Italia del lockdown)
(Fuori era primavera: Viaggio nell'Italia del lockdown)
It has an average vote of 7.5 on TMDB.
13. Hell of a Cruise
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.
It has an average vote of 5.2 on TMDB.
14. Um Vírus em mim (Um Vírus em mim)
(Um Vírus em mim)
It has an average vote of 10 on TMDB.
15. Tracking Down the Origin of the Wuhan Coronavirus
Investigative journalist Joshua Philipp examines the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic, caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus, covering events from late December 2019 to early April 2020.
It has an average vote of 10 on TMDB.
16. The first wave - Milan in the time of Covid-19 (La prima onda - Milano al tempo del Covid-19)
The choral work of 57 directors and filmmakers who tell stories of Milan at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.
It has an average vote of 6 on TMDB.
17. One World: Together at Home
A global broadcast & digital special organized by Global Citizen and the World Health Organization featuring comedians, musicians, and actors to raise funds in support of front line health workers in the global response to COVID-19.
It has an average vote of 7.4 on TMDB.
18. DesConectados (DesConectados)
(DesConectados)
19. Isolation
A collective documentary film, from five european directors asked to witness the revolutions and dramas caused in their own countries by the pandemic. Among them, “Two Fathers”, directed by Julia von Heinz . After the death of his father, Hans-Michael von Heinz, the director finds out the truth about her parent true sexual identity. In order to know more, she starts emailing persons who got to know him over the last years, among them his closest friend, director Rosa von Praunheim.
20. The Panola Project
Highlighting the heroic efforts of Dorothy Oliver to keep her small town of Panola, Alabama safe from COVID-19, The Panola Project chronicles how an often-overlooked rural Black community came together in creative ways to survive.