
Love in the Time of Corona
Comedy · Romance · Drama
Overview
The movie follows Kurdistan during the Covid-19 crisis in 2019, and how it ruined relationships between loved ones.
Top Cast


Mahir Hasan
Mahir Hasan
Karwan
Mahir Hasan
Karwan


Ahmad Jola
Ahmad Jola
Sirwan
Ahmad Jola
Sirwan


Reshan Hemo
Reshan Hemo
Hama Freshta
Reshan Hemo
Hama Freshta


Zhalla Rasul
Zhalla Rasul
Najla
Zhalla Rasul
Najla


Srusht Kamaran
Srusht Kamaran
Kwestan
Srusht Kamaran
Kwestan


Sirwan Jamal
Sirwan Jamal
Nabaz
Sirwan Jamal
Nabaz


Mustafa Ahmad
Mustafa Ahmad
Zuber
Mustafa Ahmad
Zuber


Shwan Kareem
Shwan Kareem
Mokhtar
Shwan Kareem
Mokhtar


Dashni Morad
Dashni Morad
Herself
Dashni Morad
Herself
Zahir Ali
Zahir Ali
Zahir Ali
Similar Movies

The year is 2020, the middle of the corona crisis. Art student Itsuka has her graduation exhibition canceled and must take home the piece which she had been working on for a year. In a whirlpool of emotions she clashes with her worried parents, her little sister overreacts to the virus and even her usually calm friend Hirai starts to build up frustration. In the middle of all that, she re-unites with Tanaka, who gave her the opportunity to absorb herself in painting, clashes with Hirai over their true feelings and tries to face her own future.

This film tells five independent and intertwined stories, presenting the anti-epidemic life with laughter and tears from the point of view of doctors, patients, volunteers in Hubei, grassroots staff and ordinary people. They pay tribute to the "ordinary heroes" in the epidemic and pass on the endless force of "spring".

In a strange place where daily broadcasts require everyone to “keep the silence”, the long-isolated residents of Edifice 129, trapped in their apartments and by distant memories, creep forwards, day by day. / Edifice 129 is a particular collaborative project, created by filmmakers across three countries. In the midst of the COVID-19 lock-downs, Linda Gasser — director of the Arc Film Festival in Mainz, Germany — invited filmmakers to join her Creatives Across Borders initiative. The aim was to meet via Zoom, support each other, and talk film, but talking film soon turned into developing a film. Meeting regularly, sometimes weekly, four writer/directors and a digital 3D artist created short films designed to work both as standalone projects and, when inter-cut, as one cohesive story, despite being filmed in Germany, the UK and Malta, and with the filmmakers never having met in person until after the films were finished.
In early 2020, when the COVID-19 outbreak struck Wuhan, doctors Yuan Chuchu and Shen Yun joined forces with medical workers nationwide who answered the national call, rushing to the city to collaborate with local healthcare teams in tirelessly treating patients, ultimately containing the pandemic through the country's precise prevention measures and united efforts, composing a heroic anthem of this anti-virus battle.

In the heart of a botanical garden in a medieval university town in Germany stands a majestic ginkgo tree. This silent witness has observed over a century the quiet rhythms of transformation across three human lives. At three distinct moments across the 20th and 21st centuries, these people — each carrying their own questions and inner struggles — inevitably find themselves drawn into the presence of this tree, full of mystery and meaning.
















