2020 has its place in history as the year a virus stopped the entire planet. In its first months, amid quarantine and growing uncertainty about the future, Fantaspoa Film Festival launched a contest for filmmakers from around the world to create their pandemic-related stories—in their homes, with the resources they had at hand. This anthology brings together the 15 most representative and creative short films produced, capturing this moment in time that, if humanity is lucky, will never be repeated.

A young man inherits a broken down estate at the edge of the Peruvian desert, with no explanation about the former owners or what had become of the once thriving house.

When Apollo and Selene met in a star lit room, they would have never guessed how they would face the struggles of love and humanity. Through dramatic twists and turns, the universe creates them, confusion awaits them.

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Unable to travel home across closed borders after her mother's sudden and isolated death in China, a middle-aged immigrant named Mei grasps for consolation and connection while living alone in COVID-era New York until one afternoon, she encounters a familiar stranger on the streets nearby.

After his loved ones refuse to kill him, a terminally ill young man is pushed to believe that he can distance himself from the world by hurting strangers.

What does the looming A.I. revolution mean for us as individuals and as a society?

A man traps himself in a space suit to cope with an odd and debilitating condition.

A dying student rekindles a relationship with an old friend and tries to turn their life around for the better.

Portrait of a Smile tells the story of a man coping with the suicide of his girlfriend. As his reality crumbles, he sifts through the pieces of his memories that he now must reinterpret.

Navigating an emotionally intense, but out-of-sync relationship, Connell and Jesse fall prey to an entity that feeds on their detachment.