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Celebrated filmmakers show their lives during quarantine in new Netflix film collection

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Maggie Gyllenhaal.
Maggie Gyllenhaal.
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  • Netflix released the trailer for Homemade, a collection of short films created by filmmakers around the world.
  • The short films are personal, moving stories that capture the shared experience of life in quarantine.
  • Filmmakers include Paolo Sorrentino, Rachel Morrison, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Kristen Stewart and Anna Lily Amirpour.
  • The anthology will be available on Netflix Friday, 30 June. 


Netflix said Tuesday that it challenged some of the world's hottest directors to make a short film when they were cooped up at home during the coronavirus lockdown.

The results, made with whatever equipment and family members were close at hand, will be streamed next week.

Hollywood stars Kristen Stewart and Maggie Gyllenhaal were among 17 of those who rose to the challenge, with Stewart shooting hers in Los Angeles while Gyllenhaal sheltered in Vermont.

Jackie director Pablo Larrain made his film at home in Santiago, Chile - which had been battered by months of civil unrest before the virus struck - while French-Malian filmmaker Ladj Ly shot around the tough Paris suburb where his Oscar-nominated movie Les Miserables is set.

David Mackenzie of Hell or High Water fame got to grips with his hometown Glasgow, while Nadine Labaki used the backdrop of Beirut, which also featured in her 2018 hit Capernaum.

Larrain said it was "an extraordinary chance to keep working... in days (that were) so confusing and unique".

The shorts will be streamed on Netflix from 30 June, with the US giant saying a donation is being made to its hardship fund for cast and crew who have lost their jobs in the crisis.

WATCH THE TRAILER HERE:

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