★★★★

Acclaimed director Nanfu Wang’s third film is a damning indictment on two governments handling of the rapidly advancing COVID-19 outbreak in 2020. With personal connection to her homeland of China, and a life developing with her family in New York City, Wang walks viewers through a devastating timeline of the ways in which cover-ups and misinformation lead to the deaths of, as of this writing, three million people worldwide. Powerful, personal, important must-see filmmaking.

In the Same Breath was screened virtually as part of the 47th Seattle International Film Festival. The film is scheduled for release later this year by HBO Documentary Films.