The Future Is Wild

A hamster magician finds there is a direct correlation between past and future.

The Finnish designer Henrik Wahlforss had a flourishing career in industrial design and innovation in the 1970s. In 1980, he decided, however, to leave his career to write a book. Not any book; he wanted to write his prediction about the future, which became for him a life-long project. Combining archive material, interviews, and dramatizations, the film Tidresenären brings the viewer closer to Wahlforss’s fascinating life and predictions.

After the mass distinction in the Anthropocene epoch, the Homo Sapiens Replacement Project (HSRP) is conducted to reserve human beings. The remaining human are assigned to reincarnate into reborns bio-technologically with formatted memories.

In 1970, American futurist Alvin Toffler's iconic work Future Shock was published. One year later, a translation by Zhiwen Publishing House hit the market in Taiwan, thus introducing the writer's theories to readers of Chinese. The premise of the book can be summed up as: “A future that comes too quickly creates more apprehension than that of a foreign land. Future society will be stricken with a plethora of choices, throw-away society, information overload, and unethical technology.”

Being a shepherd in the XXIth century is deciding to belong to a world in movement, and even more to contribute to it. By inviting us to explore the unknown universe of the pastoral world, the author pushes aside conventional ideas and shows us not only men but also women who chose a profoundly current job dealing with major economic and human stakes.

A documentary filmmaker, was awaiting the birth of her first child during the Covid-19 pandemic. Meanwhile, he received a grant from Rekam Pandemi, a form of social safety net for arts workers to create documentaries that record the events and stories regarding the outbreak. Along the way, he met artists and arts exhibition organizers who were planning to hold exhibitions. He was later asked to collaborate on the making of audiovisual products as a strategy of organizing arts activities during the pandemic. Halfway through, his mother, who had been looking forward to having a grandchild for a long time, died of cirrhosis. He tried his best to get through the phases of life, birth, and death, all taking at the same time while he still had work to do.

While at work, Robin, a French immigrant pilot, receives a phone call that sends shock waves through his soul. Unseen by others, turmoil seeps into his inner world and echoes in his daily life. He will have to let this pain in, but not now. An impressionistic depiction of an all-but-ordinary day, The near future takes us to the poetic boundary between droning engines and complete silence, aerial and terrestrial, pastoral and urban, man and machine, life and death.

The heroine can not find her happiness. The girl decides to meet all her ex-boyfriends to remember what she dreamed of. 5 meetings, 5 former, 5 different circumstances. What can a woman do to gain her happiness?

In a powerful future world, everything is perfect but nobody is allowed to talk.

Emily, a child, stays with her bourgeois grandparents during frequent periods when her mother makes films. Isabelle wraps a picture, flies to her childhood home to pick up Emily, and plans to leave for her place in France. Old wounds between Isabelle and her parents open around Isabelle's life style. It's also apparent that Isabelle's mother, Paula, is unhappy - with her husband and with her youthful hopes dashed when she became pregnant with Isabelle. Unbeknownst to Isabelle, the co-star of the film she's just made has followed her, checked into a nearby hotel, and wants to begin an affair, even though he's married. Can Isabelle sort it out? What's best for Emily?

Leo is going through a rough patch. His job as a college professor doesn’t provide him with enough money, and to make matters worse, his partner leaves him. He will look for palliatives during one Buenos Aires evening filled with excess in which the threat of self-destruction is always lurking.

Elong E'nabe is the story of six year old Angela, a black girl with Senegalese roots born in Belgium. The region they in live now is known for it's nationalist right wing supporters. Unaware of the conflict they ended up in, the kids live a carefree life while their mother watches over them. The film paints a picture of what it is like to grow up as a child with a black skin color in Flanders.

An ode to the land in relationship to the dual identity of an urban Indigenous person and their traditional territory.

A sham-married queer woman and queer man live together but have entirely separate lives. Yet, their schedules are linked by a propagandistic program that nudges them toward a single goal.

A man and a woman. A first contact after a long break up.

Nakagawa shot “Coming Future” on the nights of December 24 and 25, 2010 in Shibuya, making it his location for an idealized Bohemia in the heart of Tokyo. Interesting interviews/discussions with Kenji Murakami, Nobuhiro Yamashita, Kenji Onishi, Tetsuaki Matsue and more... By far the most interesting sequence is with Kenji Onishi (“A Burning Star”). Wielding a super-8 camera, Onishi documents his own interview, taking random shots of street-life and buildings. He leavens his monologue with statements bordering between cliché and outré. “A movie that aims to make a message is boring.”