The new crop of films that screened at the Sundance and Berlin film festivals are evidence that the global pandemic is having an impact on the stories filmmakers want to tell: “The pandemic has just exposed and revealed so many issues that were in our society.” The coronavirus pandemic has obviously changed how movies are being made, with the extra costs involved in testing and implementing strict hygienic regimes, and the constant threat hanging over every shoot that a local outbreak or lockdown could shut things down. But what impact has the once-in-a-lifetime, global experience of the Corona crisis had on what stories filmmakers want to tell? The Sundance and Berlin film festivals provided a glimpse at the first crop of films either shot or edited — or both — during the pandemic. While some — such as Nanfu Wang’s Sundance doc In the Same Breath and Ben Wheatley’s viral isolation thriller In the Earth — directly reference the outbreak, all in some ways bear the mark of COVID-19. “We didn’t select any documentaries about the pandemic or any fictional treatments of it, though some were submitted, because we found there wasn’t enough distance between the storytelling and what we… Read full this story
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