76 Days(HKAFF 2020)

On 23 January 2020, the city of Wuhan – the source of the COVID-19 outbreak that has crippled the globe – went into a city-wide lockdown for 76 days. This eye-opening documentary, made guerilla-style without government approval by US-based director Hao Wu and two reporters that he’s never met in person, thrusts audiences right into the eye of the storm, revealing how brave medical workers and patients in four different hospitals struggled to fight this mysterious disease. Putting a human face to the grave statistics that have become part of the daily news cycle, this is a vital document of an event that will redefine our lives for years to come.