Convergence: Courage in a Crisis (2021)
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”Activists and volunteers fight for social change during the pandemic's darkest days.”
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"Convergence: Courage in a Crisis" is a documentary about how the Covid-19 pandemic has affected the world, focusing on regions such as Iran, Peru, India, Brazil, and China. The production traces a mosaic of how the disease has been and continues to be brutal, especially in precarious regions. It shows real people dealing with the global outbreak's transformations. The film paints a harsh portrait of inequality and oppression. Through the eyes of doctors, drivers, and immigrants, we follow how everything changed from 2019 to 2020, and we can't even digest what happened. This is a necessary and very important feature film, especially for those who still think the pandemic is a joke.
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Activists and volunteers work through the darkest days of 2020, galvanizing social change amidst chaos as governments start to fail local communities. This epic, globally spanning and deeply passionate documentary serves as a clarion call that great change can be born of crisis.
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