Film A Future Begins Enligne

One of six children today live in a war zone. This is a meeting with three of them, where they in simple terms describe their experiences of war and daily life. The film is set in Iraq, but could be set anywhere in the world.

In a short scene a mother explains to her children, Jenny and Billy, why they received war bonds as Christmas presents, even though the mother can afford to give them more expensive gifts. Davis then steps out of character and asks moviegoers to buy war bonds and stamps.

Suspicious goings-on have been happening in the ruins of the Old City, threatening the very foundations of society. Agent Ed Zorax, posing as an estranged painter, is on the case!

Despite rich and varied origins, there is one name which can be credited with single-handedly shaping the way we understand science fiction today as a genre. It was Hugo Gernsback who stuck his hand into the soup of early 20th century pulp literature and fished out science fiction - giving it its name and a clear definition, turning it into a genre that anyone could engage with.

Future Thoughts is an experimental, short film showing a collection of ideas about everyday life and new technologies in the near future.

To coincide with the US elections of 2008 comes this refreshing antidote to the whir of sensationalist spin and scandal, measuring up to the seriousness of the moment without diluting the excitement of campaign politics. After 9/11, after Katrina, Enron and Baghdad, the robustness of American optimism is struggling to reassert itself against the sobering reality of military frustration and domestic anxieties. This is an America grappling with an un-American sense of its own limits. Turning to fascinating moments in American history to understand the present, connecting legendary presences such as Thomas Jefferson, Henry Ford, Mark Twain and General Lucius Clay with contemporary soldiers, businessmen, truckers, schoolteachers and (even) politicians, this series offers a timely and gripping vision of the United States - past and present - facing its moment of truth.

A futuristic b-movie about a post-IKEA-riots society where art and high Modernist design have triumphed and Sunday DIY rituals are an underground cult. Individuals who choose to erect Ikea DIY furniture are thwarted by an omniscient regime that insists on, and forcibly oversees, the appropriation of these materials for use in only “good” modernist sculpture.

A peripheral cult of worshipers fashions its own offerings to their Modernist ancestors in the form of architectural models of their great monuments made of corn husk. These are ritually constructed and burnt against the background of Celtic sites in Cornwall, as the group dons makeshift salad bowl and lampshade helmets, leading up to a choreographed homage to the square, and a short dance routine.

A lone insurgent is pursued by a representative of the state as she tries to assemble the multitude for a post-soviet mass spectacle. Hunted through the concrete cityscape of a multistory carpark and the brutalist architecture of the Barbican complex, she arrives at Edmonton with the motley crew of would be consumer revolutionaries, who come together to perform a choreography derived from footage of the original IKEA riot.

Two sisters - Kim, a student, and Missy, an aspiring WAG - hatch a plan to make money from their insider football knowledge.

"Filmmakers that were selected at Visions du Réel in the past twenty editions celebrate the Festival's anniversary by each making a short movie in which they expose their view of the future." - DAFilms.com

You are the only person who can make decisions about your life. What will you decide?

A look at construction cranes around Nashville as figures trapped by the ambivalent forces of capitalism. The piece continues my interest in the landscape, not as a mere pictorial representation, but instead as a point of perceptual inquiry to examine the outer world in an attempt to understand the inner world.

A life long journey brings a man a peculiar sense of closure at the expense of re-living his past mistakes.

Hammersborg Protecting the City Future is based on a text by Kjetil A. Jakobsen and filmed in the government quarter in Oslo.

Knowing that another world is possible, individuals young and old share their hopes and dreams for the future.

Also titled The 20 Mile Limit, this is a short film that ran on Showtime between feature film showings. It centers on a dystopian government that has created a new present: the Evolutionary Reconstruction. This government has instated a 20 mile limit in the ocean, past which nobody can travel due to deadly radiation. Claire Lucas and Fred Hunter believe that there is more to the story.

A time travel movie that take place in the space between then and now. One man is hired to do a job that makes him question every impulse in his body, until he sees a future he cannot unlearn.

An adventure-filled anime film set in a dystopian future ravaged by the effects of climate change.