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 Breathand 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.
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