6TH EDITION ★ MARCH 2025 ★ GHENT
Hao Wu, Weixi Chen
Documentary
76 Days
2020
On January 23rd, 2020, China locked down Wuhan, a city of 11 million, to combat the emerging COVID-19 outbreak. Set deep inside the frontlines of the crisis in four hospitals, '76 Days' tells indelible human stories at the center of this pandemic—from a woman begging in vain to bid a final farewell to her father, a grandpa with dementia searching for his way home, a couple anxious to meet their newborn, to a nurse determined to return personal items to families of the deceased. These raw and intimate stories bear witness to the death and rebirth of a city under a 76-day lockdown, and to the human resilience that persists in times of profound tragedy.
93 min
Mandarin
About the Directors
Hao Wu
Wu’s previous feature documentary, 'People’s Republic of Desire', about China’s live-streaming phenomenon, won the Grand Jury Award at the 2018 SXSW festival, among many other awards. His latest short, 'All in My Family, is a Netflix Original Documentary and launched globally in May 2019. Born and raised in China, Wu now travels between the US and China.
Anonymous
This local reporter in Wuhan wishes to remain anonymous to protect his identity. On assignment to shoot photos for his employer at different Wuhan hospitals during the lockdown, he started shooting videos for the first time, for himself.
Weixi Chen
Chen is a video reporter for Esquire China. His documentary shorts have been supported by Tencent News and First Documentary Lab, and have won awards at Hong Kong International Documentary Festival and Caixin Media Awards.