Songbird

Songbird (2020) is a near-future pandemic thriller from director Adam Mason, ready to watch online on iFILM. It's 2024, four years into the COVID-23 outbreak. Lockdown is absolute, the infected are dragged off to quarantine camps, and the city is run on fear.

Nico, played by KJ Apa, is a courier with rare immunity, which lets him move freely through streets everyone else has fled. His girlfriend Sara, played by Sofia Carson, lives sealed in her apartment, and the two have only ever met through a screen. When Sara is flagged as infected, sanitation troops are sent to take her away, leaving Nico just hours to reach her first. The cast also includes Demi Moore, Alexandra Daddario, Peter Stormare and Paul Walter Hauser.

The real hook is its origin: this was one of the first features shot during the actual 2020 lockdown, and it sells you back the dread of that exact year. The result is divisive, yet as a time capsule it grips harder than you'd expect. Stream Songbird (2020) online on iFILM.