The World Beyond Silence Premieres Thurs 7 July on iwonder

As the COVID-19 virus continued to spread rapidly and out of control throughout the world, the USA announced on July 7th, 2020, that it had passed three million cases. The World Beyond Silence, a brand-new documentary coming to iwonder on July 7th, features twelve intimate portraits of people from all over the world coming to terms with a world that is changing in front of their very eyes. This documentary represents one of many watershed moments in the global fight to confront, contain, and recover from the global pandemic.

Spring 2020: suddenly the world stands still. On every continent, people find themselves in an unprecedented lockdown. The world as we know it is has suddenly changed. What will come next is uncertain.

Filmed over a year in twelve different locations, from the Amazon to Kuala Lumpur, Nairobi to New York, The World Beyond Silence profiles the year when everything changed. Through twelve diverse perspectives, stories are revealed of hope and despair, empathy and ignorance, resilience, and a feeling that everyone has had to face – the sense of our own mortality.

Among them are the residents of an indigenous village in the Amazon, who seal themselves away and construct a building for the infected. A mother sees her baby taking its first steps and longs for her family. A married couple, on the brink of separating, are forced to isolate together. A homeless pizza delivery man tries to find a place to live while navigating COVID controls. A young woman returns to the world of her ultra-orthodox childhood. A nurse buries an old woman in a foreign country.

Airdate: Thursday 7 July 2022 on iwonder.