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.

11 septembre 2001. Une chaleur étouffante règne dès le lever du jour dans les rues de New York. Will Jimeno, du Port Authority Police Department, se demande s'il ne va pas prendre un jour de congé pour s'adonner à la chasse à l'arc. Il choisit finalement de se rendre au travail et rejoint le sergent John McLoughlin, alors que celui-ci et ses collègues du PAPD commencent leur tournée quotidienne dans les rues de Manhattan. Une journée banale qui commence comme tant d'autres... Sitôt l'alerte donnée, cinq policiers, dont McLoughlin et Jimeno, se rendent au World Trade Center et s'introduisent dans les Tours jumelles. McLoughlin et Jimeno survivent par miracle à l'effondrement des gratte-ciel. Ils se retrouvent piégés sous plusieurs tonnes de béton, de charpentes métalliques tordues, de verre et de gravats...

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.

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.