76 Days

With footage pooled by three film-makers - Hao Wu, Weixi Chen and an anonymous third - 76 Days combines stories from Day 1 of the Covid-19 outbreak in January 2020. Extraordinary access to four hospitals maps the front line of a public health crisis. Selflessness, panic and a lack of sleep drive the narrative as patients look for the exit. If you didn't know better, you'd think Steven Soderbergh, director of Contagion, had made it. Frightened locals are corralled while anonymous heroes are gaffer-taped into hazmat suits. But pockets of calm emerge: a manga face drawn on a gown, a lone ambulance on a bridge, or a nurse comforting a patient, saying, "We are your family now."