Plot

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 13 most representative and creative short films produced, capturing this moment in time that, if humanity is lucky, will never be repeated.

2020 has its place in history as the year that a Coronavirus stopped the entire planet. In its first months, amidst quarantine and growing uncertainty about the future, Fantaspoa Film Festival launched the Fantaspoa At Home platform, with 28 feature films from past editions. Soon, we held a film festival Contest: an online short film contest aiming to stimulate filmmakers from around the world to create fantastic genre short films: their own pandemic-related stories - in their homes, with the resources they had at hand, and only with pets, family member or roommates as cast (video chat contributions were also allowed). This anthology brings together the thirteen most representative and creative short films submitted - capturing this moment in time which, if humanity is lucky, will never be repeated. All films are somewhat related to the subjects of virus, epidemic and confinement. Full list of the 13 short films in The Pandemic Anthology: Endless Quarantine (Fabrício Bittar, Brazil), Baldomero (Martín Blousson, Argentina), The Last Day (Guillermo Carbonell, Uruguay), Psychopompo (Giordano Gio, Brazil), Unearthed (Karl Holt, United Kingdom), Strain Roulette (Andreas Kyriacou, Cyprus), Estupidemic (Junior Larethian, Brazil), Sometimes She Comes Back (Matheus Maltempi, Brazil), Macabre Hide and Seek (Julio Napoli, Brazil), Roach (Emerson Niemchick, USA), Stain on the Wall (Daniel Pires, Brazil), Eclosión (Alejo Rébora, Argentina) and Jérôme: A Christmas Carol (Beatriz Saldanha, Brazil)