Un ticchettio di un orologio segna il tempo. Tutto a New York si muove, lavora, sorride, vive. D'improvviso un suono sordo, muto. Inizia l'inferno. JJ Mc Loughlin (Nicholas Cage), a capo di alcuni agenti di polizia portuale, entra nelle torri per salvare le migliaia di persone intrappolate nel World Trade Center. I minuti corrono inesorabili. Inaspettato, un fragore terrificante li scuote. Collassa la prima torre. Dopo alcuni minuti la seconda. Mc Loughlin e l'agente Jimeno rimangono intrappolati sotto le macerie, senza via di scampo. Questa è la vera storia del loro 11 settembre 2001.

Jiro Sawada is a sophomore in high school when a false accusation drives him out his hometown: a small village in Fukushima Prefecture. The entire village is abandoned after the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami, but Jiro returns there to live. Before long, members of his family come and join him.

Six Māori Battalion soldiers camped in Italian ruins wait for night to fall. In the silence, the bros-in-arms distract themselves with jokes. A tohu (sign) brings them back to reality, and they gather to say a karakia before returning to the fray. Director Taika Waititi describes the soldiers as young men with "a special bond, strengthened by their character, their culture and each other." Shot in the rubble of the old Wellington Hospital, Tama Tū won international acclaim. Invited to over 40 international festivals, its many awards included honourable mentions at Sundance and Berlin.

Martha Bieder is the last rubble-woman in Berlin Rummelsburg. Every day, rain or shine, she stands at the conveyor belt - as she has for decades - sorting through rubble. After a retirement party thrown for her by her male colleagues, she tells her story of being a rubble-woman in post-war Germany.