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United Kingdom, United States · 2021
1h 53m
Director Orlando von Einsiedel
Starring Wenhua Lin, Sara Khaki, Mohammad Rezi Eyni
Genre Documentary
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While COVID-19 impacts people's lives worldwide, unsung heroes help ease the pain of the pandemic. Activists and volunteers work through the darkest days of 2020, galvanizing social change amidst the chaos as governments fail local communities. This epic, globally spanning, and profoundly passionate documentary shows that significant change can be born of crisis.
The New York Times by Devika Girish
The critical edge of the film feels blunted by platitudes (“Opportunities are born from crises,” says Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the director-general of the World Health Organization), not to mention the exhaustion viewers will likely feel in reliving early memories of the still-ongoing pandemic for nearly two hours.
Wall Street Journal by John Anderson
It’s a humanistic endeavor, essentially, out of which emerge memorable people doing heroic work in inglorious places.
RogerEbert.com by Matt Fagerholm
What Convergence reinforced for me, more than anything, is simply the overwhelming gratitude I have for every essential worker who took my temperature, bagged my groceries and drove me to my desired destination over the past twenty months.
Even in terms of its attempted emotional cross-section of the pandemic, Convergence spreads its net too wide.
Los Angeles Times by Robert Abele
When “Convergence” feels rushed for trying to squeeze in a global snapshot, its impact is diluted.
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