Acclaimed filmmakers from around the world channel their creativity during COVID-19 isolation with this diverse, genre-spanning collection of short films.
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A man, who lives in a nursing home, video conferences a former girlfriend from decades ago and professes his never-ending love for her.
Director: Pablo Larraín
Writer: N/A
In Rome, two lonely figures meet, flirt and ponder a lifetime of social distancing. But can romance survive when they butt little plastic heads?
Director: Paolo Sorrentino
Writer: Paolo Sorrentino
One woman's seemingly serene bike ride highlights a hauntingly deserted but eerily captivating Los Angeles during the 2020 lockdown.
Director: Ana Lily Amirpour
Writer: Ana Lily Amirpour
A filmmaker composes a loving, lyrical tone poem to her son and hopes that he'll remember the everyday magic of being 5 during an extraordinary time.
Director: Rachel Morrison
Writer: Rachel Morrison
As a mysterious virus attacks the solar system, one man attempting to survive in solitude struggles to maintain the simple comforts he once knew.
Director: Maggie Gyllenhaal
Writer: Maggie Gyllenhaal
In a loving look at her family's life in lockdown, the director uses the unexpected gift of time to connect with her kids and grieve for loved ones lost.
Director: Gurinder Chadha
Writer: Ronak Chadha Berges, Paul Mayeda Berges, Gurinder Chadha, Kumiko Chadha Berges
A man dealing with the day-to-day monotony of life in lockdown finds unexpected company in this short film that was shot solo over a single weekend.
Director: Sebastian Schipper
Writer: Sebastian Schipper
A woman sings about surviving life in quarantine as she cleans, dances and muses about how the pandemic affects humanity.
Director: Sebastián Lelio
Writer: N/A
Stuck at home. Suffering from insomnia. Taunted by crickets. In an exhausted haze between waking and sleep, a young woman tries to turn off her brain.
Director: Kristen Stewart
Writer: Kristen Stewart
Two sequestered women's sensible caution spikes into full-blown fear after their daughter discovers a mysterious, unconscious stranger at the shore.
Director: Antonio Campos
Writer: Brady Corbet, Mona Fastvold, Antonio Campos
Buzz sends his drone over Montfermeil and captures the contrasts brought about by the lockdown, in a nod to the director's 2019 film "Les Misérables."
Director: Ladj Ly
Writer: Ladj Ly, Al-Hassan Ly
Snapshots of a Glasgow teen's life under lockdown seize on the tedium and strangeness, flights of imagination, and fleeting moments of connection.
Director: David Mackenzie
Writer: N/A
Candid images — and even more candid text messages — capture a couple's crumbling relationship and humorous attempts at connection during lockdown.
Director: Rungano Nyoni
Writer: Gabriel Gauchet, Ndaba Mazibuko, Reto Caffi, Mubanga Kalimamukwento, Susan Eigbefoh, Besa Chisanga, Rungano Nyoni
A young, determined child in isolation tries everything she can to keep herself entertained and occupied at her home.
Director: Natalia Beristáin
Writer: Natalia Beristáin
During Japan's state of emergency, the pandemic spurs a boy to contemplate human life on Earth in an impressionistic film shot in Nara.
Director: Naomi Kawase
Writer: N/A
Trapped in a room together with her toy unicorn, little Mayroun conjures up an imaginary world that gets scarier by the minute.
Director: Nadine Labaki, Khaled Mouzanar
Writer: N/A