Untact

Amid a crisis that has forced everyone into quarantine, Rick Baldwin is seeking sanity – and maybe even…. love?

Four stories collide over one Friday night in Manhattan in this lyrical snapshot and celebration of the manic, intoxicating diversity of New York City.

Génération Covid

Strangers June and Charlie wind up double-booked in the same upstate New York Airbnb during the start of COVID-19. Exasperating the situation, the lockdown forces them both to stay and confront the unexpected feelings that develop between them.

A woman picks up her ex from the airport during the pandemic. Then their masks come off.

An outspoken cashier and laidback grocery bagger navigate the path to being happy despite the challenges of their blue-collared living in a world where nothing comes for free.

Paris, sum­mer 2020. Actors from “la Comédie-Française”, France’s most pres­ti­gious the­ater, rehearse Christophe Hon­oré’s new play, an adap­ta­tion of Mar­cel Proust’s “The Guer­mantes Way”. When the show is sud­den­ly can­celed, the dra­ma group decides to go ahead with it any­way, in the name of art and for the joy of act­ing together.

We are always in a hurry and we are often with the head on the clouds. Then, it happens that a virus makes us look up. In this little story we can see how, even in the harder times, there's always a chance to catch on the fly - A little really contagious crush.

Eddie and Byron began their relationship just before COVID-19, but quarantine forces them to face distance, work stress, and the big question: will living together work? A tender and honest LGBTQ+ story, perfect for those who believe in love... even in the toughest times.

In March 2020, an Argentine woman flees New York with her Peruvian husband for his family’s empty beach house outside of Lima, whereupon an unplanned pregnancy precipitates the destruction of her marriage. In the present, she rips the moments of this narrative from their context, and reconstructs her story to reckon with her profound feeling of loneliness and the experience of time in which it has trapped her.

Covid-19 quarantine in spring 2020. She’s isolated in her flat in L.A. He’s isolated in his flat in Athens. They’re both killing time on the internet, doing silly things lovers do. Their internment into their flats becomes a psychedelic space spinning round and round and round. A punk romance in the heart of the pandemic lockdown.

Ju-Won visits Eun Ha's house, worried about Eun Ha, a college classmate who has lost contact with her for a week. It is now Seoul in February 2021. It was a time when eating and drinking was prohibited due to Corona 2.5. In the end, the two decide to have an unfinished story at Eun Ha's house.

5 residents meet regularly on the roof of their house to escape the monotony of the lockdown.

Vitor and Gustavo decided, in January 2020, to start a long-distance relationship, and were planning to meet again in a few months. Until COVID stopped them. This is the story of how they overcame the difficulties of time and distance through a lot of love and through Whatsapp audio messages.

Danny didn't plan to fall for Ana. He didn't plan to get stranded in Madrid either. Now he's six thousand miles away, living with his dad, buried in bureaucracy, and holding a relationship together across an ocean on nothing but Wi-Fi and the help of a crazy lot of friends and family. Love is, actually, very inconvenient. But this one might just be worth it.

A devastating plague has wiped out half the population of New York City, leaving it in a perpetual state of emergency. After years of lockdown, a young man, Paul, puts on his hazmat suit and ventures into the abandoned streets to meet Justine - a woman with whom he has developed a romance online, but never met. Paul has dreamed about this day, but doing this in reality is something else entirely. Will they be able to overcome their anxieties - and is it worth the risk?

Maaf Kamu Terlalu 'New Normal' Buat Aku

While isolated at a remote rental house early in the pandemic, a recently canceled man grows dangerously paranoid about his portrayal in his partner's documentary on their failing relationship and installs hidden cameras to spy on her.

During the 2020 lockdown in Anzio, Jacopo plays the piano while sipping coffee. From his balcony, he notices Greta arguing on the phone: her relationship has ended. To comfort her, Jacopo plays for her, but Greta shuts herself inside, destroying the memories of her ex. Discouraged, he gradually stops playing. One day, while hanging out the laundry, Greta comes outside: they exchange a timid greeting. Struck by his smile, Greta begins to return to the balcony more and more often, hoping to see him again and hear his music.

Loris and Flavia are forced to live together for two long months. An impossible love story will be born and the national lockdown will oblige them to face it.