Acclaimed filmmakers from around the world channel their creativity during COVID-19 isolation with this diverse, genre-spanning collection of short films.
Homemade (Season 1)
Ladj Ly (Episode 1) 10.0
Writer: Ladj Ly
Air date: 2020-06-30
Runtime: 8 min
Overview: Buzz sends his drone over Montfermeil and captures the contrasts brought about by the lockdown, in a nod to the director's 2019 film "Les Misérables."
Paolo Sorrentino (Episode 2)
Writer: Paolo Sorrentino
Air date: 2020-06-30
Runtime: 8 min
Overview: In Rome, two lonely figures meet, flirt and ponder a lifetime of social distancing. But can romance survive when they butt little plastic heads?
Rachel Morrison (Episode 3)
Writer: Rachel Morrison
Air date: 2020-06-30
Runtime: 8 min
Overview: A filmmaker composes a loving, lyrical tone poem to her son and hopes that he'll remember the everyday magic of being 5 during an extraordinary time.
Pablo Larraín (Episode 4)
Air date: 2020-06-30
Runtime: 8 min
Overview: A man, who lives in a nursing home, video conferences a former girlfriend from decades ago and professes his never-ending love for her.
Rungano Nyoni (Episode 5)
Writer: Susan Eigbefoh
Air date: 2020-06-30
Runtime: 8 min
Overview: Candid images — and even more candid text messages — capture a couple's crumbling relationship and humorous attempts at connection during lockdown.
Natalia Beristain (Episode 6)
Writer: Natalia Beristáin
Air date: 2020-06-30
Runtime: 8 min
Overview: A young, determined child in isolation tries everything she can to keep herself entertained and occupied at her home.
Sebastian Schipper (Episode 7)
Writer: Sebastian Schipper
Air date: 2020-06-30
Runtime: 8 min
Overview: A man dealing with the day-to-day monotony of life in lockdown finds unexpected company in this short film that was shot solo over a single weekend.
Naomi Kawase (Episode 8)
Air date: 2020-06-30
Runtime: 8 min
Overview: During Japan's state of emergency, the pandemic spurs a boy to contemplate human life on Earth in an impressionistic film shot in Nara.
David Mackenzie (Episode 9)
Air date: 2020-06-30
Runtime: 8 min
Overview: Snapshots of a Glasgow teen's life under lockdown seize on the tedium and strangeness, flights of imagination, and fleeting moments of connection.
Maggie Gyllenhaal (Episode 10) 7.0
Writer: Maggie Gyllenhaal
Air date: 2020-06-30
Runtime: 8 min
Overview: As a mysterious virus attacks the solar system, one man attempting to survive in solitude struggles to maintain the simple comforts he once knew.
Nadine Labaki and Khaled Mouzanar (Episode 11)
Air date: 2020-06-30
Runtime: 8 min
Overview: Trapped in a room together with her toy unicorn, little Mayroun conjures up an imaginary world that gets scarier by the minute.
Antonio Campos (Episode 12)
Writer: Antonio Campos
Air date: 2020-06-30
Runtime: 8 min
Overview: Two sequestered women's sensible caution spikes into full-blown fear after their daughter discovers a mysterious, unconscious stranger at the shore.
Johnny Ma (Episode 13)
Writer: Johnny Ma
Air date: 2020-06-30
Runtime: 8 min
Overview: A man shares a glimpse of life during isolation in Mexico and makes dumplings in a heartfelt video letter to his mom, who might never watch it.
Kristen Stewart (Episode 14) 7.0
Writer: Kristen Stewart
Air date: 2020-06-30
Runtime: 8 min
Overview: Stuck at home. Suffering from insomnia. Taunted by crickets. In an exhausted haze between waking and sleep, a young woman tries to turn off her brain.
Gurinder Chadha (Episode 15)
Writer: Paul Mayeda Berges
Air date: 2020-06-30
Runtime: 8 min
Overview: In a loving look at her family's life in lockdown, the director uses the unexpected gift of time to connect with her kids and grieve for loved ones lost.
Sebastián Lelio (Episode 16)
Air date: 2020-06-30
Runtime: 8 min
Overview: A woman sings about surviving life in quarantine as she cleans, dances and muses about how the pandemic affects humanity.
Ana Lily Amirpour (Episode 17)
Writer: Ana Lily Amirpour
Air date: 2020-06-30
Runtime: 8 min
Overview: One woman's seemingly serene bike ride highlights a hauntingly deserted but eerily captivating Los Angeles during the 2020 lockdown.

Seasons

Episodes 17