12 families, 9 cities, 1 global trauma—your pandemic diary but make it cinema.
Over the past two years, humanity has faced an absolutely new degree of loneliness and fear – a pandemic. Disunity or, conversely, too close contact for a long time, emotional burnout led society to collective trauma. "New World" is the story of 12 families from Moscow, Paris, St. Petersburg, New York, Kiev, Simferopol, Herat, Miami and Dublin. The characters of the film are learning to live in new conditions. We follow their transformation with the help of their own video diaries and special shooting, recording the most intimate and important events that they have lived over the past two years. For all of them, the pandemic is becoming a test of strength. Against the background of a new reality and a new world, we remember the pandemic almost with nostalgia, still feeling its consequences.
Direction
Shabaev orchestrates nine cities into one shared breath.
Editing
Video diaries woven into something unexpectedly cinematic.
Director
Denis Shabaev
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
One of the first feature documentaries shot across Russia, Ukraine, and US during active lockdowns—production itself was a logistical miracle.
The 'nostalgia' framing in the final act was controversial at festival premieres; some critics called it premature, others prescient.
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