Airdate: The World Beyond Silence

Pandemic documentary The World Beyond Silence paints a picture about the resilience of humanity.

Directed by Manuel Fenn, Takumã Kuikuro, Victor Magrath, 12 stories were captured across 12 months in Bolivia, Brazil, Germany, Great Britain, Iran, Israel, Italy, Kenya, Malaysia, Russia, and the USA.

iwonder CEO, James Bridges, says of the films: “Everyone will carry their own, unique memories of when the COVID-19 crisis took us to rock bottom in 2020 and 2021, and the deep scars it has left on continents, cultures and communities around the world. The World Beyond Silence is the most wide-reaching and ambitious attempt to reveal the personal perspectives of individuals affected by the pandemic in all corners of the world, as well as offering a sobering reminder of the need to remain ever vigilant against continuing COVID-19 incursions.”

On July 7th, 2020, the USA announced it had passed three million cases of COVID-19, as the virus continued to spiral rapidly out of control around the world. Marking one of many watershed moments in the global battle to confront, contain, and recover from the global pandemic, new to iwonder this July 7th comes ‘The World Beyond Silence’, featuring twelve intimate portraits from people across the globe coming to terms with a world changing right before their eyes.

Spring 2020: suddenly the world stands still. On every continent, people find themselves in an unprecedented lockdown. The world as we know it is has suddenly changed. What will come next is uncertain.

Filmed over a year in twelve different locations, from the Amazon to Kuala Lumpur, Nairobi to New York, The World Beyond Silence profiles the year when everything changed. Through twelve diverse perspectives, stories are revealed of hope and despair, empathy and ignorance, resilience, and a feeling that everyone has had to face – the sense of our own mortality.

Among them are the residents of an indigenous village in the Amazon, who seal themselves away and construct a building for the infected. A mother sees her baby taking its first steps and longs for her family. A married couple, on the brink of separating, are forced to isolate together. A homeless pizza delivery man tries to find a place to live while navigating COVID controls. A young woman returns to the world of her ultra-orthodox childhood. A nurse buries an old woman in a foreign country.

Thursday on iwonder.