Film A Future Begins Vo

After the years of pointless and exhausting wars USSR fell into the deep economic and humanitarian catastrophe. The environmental pollution forced people to move into one mega-city and soon it was decided to develop and implement the AI analog of the government with a fully automated workflow. The transition into the cybercommunism has begun. Unfortunately, this technology has not justified itself and soon The Central Computing Machine slowly started to create its own army of obedient sitizens. As a result of repressions and general barrenness the biological population of country has reduced by two thirds during the last 50 years and is expected to be instinct by the end of this century. At the same time country is on the brink of war waiting to spread the ideas of cybercommunism around the world. But not everyone is willing to fight this war.

It narrates, through the stories of Edgardo, Gabriel, Graciela, Verónica, Walter and Carlos, the new worlds of externalization, the possibilities of life outside the neuropsychiatric hospitals, the power of the community networks they support. The community construction, the professional look, the State that accompanies. How the corridors of mental hospitals become streets and neighborhoods and those close pasts of confinement in psychiatric hospitals, become fears and obstacles to transit life outside of them. The future of those existences, relegated and isolated, once lives of confinement left behind. The future of all existences

Once, when he was looking out over his farm and fields in the South Limburg village of Ransdaal, Jos Soogelee’s father said: ‘Just look, this is my own piece of heaven’. After some deliberation, Jos took over the farm and converted it to suit his own ‘heavenly’ design: a few dozen beef cows and an ecological nursery of Christmas trees. It’s important for him to produce only as much as he can sell. He sells direct to customers.

An essayistic film exploring the legacies of cinema in New Order Indonesia and what it means to be inheritors of its filmic language.

Some years ago, director Ina Pillat discovered the story of an early synthesizer from East Berlin. She is herself from the DDR, but lives in Norway. This early electronic sound generator was far ahead of its time. She gets curious, what is the story behind this unique invention?

In a boarding school, legend has it that a time capsule has been hidden in the walls. They say it could change the world. Today, the new students fall in love, play cards, dream and laugh in their rooms, which in turn become their own time capsules, like snapshots of a generation at 20 years old.

A documentary film about Erkki Kurenniemi (b. 1941), whose career represents a surprisingly natural blend of music, film, computers, robotics, science and art.

This documentary presents film clips showing a past future.

3-D printing is raising immense hopes in many fields, whether in the aeronautical, space or medical industry. Nicolas, amputated of his right hand, goes to the Fab Lab in Berlin to print at reasonible cost, the prosthesis with 5 articulated fingers he needs.

This film is based on incidents that took place in the country within the last 20 years and the impact they caused on the lives of people. It also focuses on the wide-ranging problems faced by the youth of this country.The youth focused on are two young hired assassins, Lionel and Dhammika, who are hiding out while their deed is on every television. The same television also shows them John Travolta's violence in Pulp Fiction--strictly amateur stuff! While they are hiding in Colombo, Bandarawela and Ahatuwewa drink, try on hip-hop clothes, befriend an upper class girl. It's only a matter of time until their acts catch up to them. Will they escape once again?

A woman writes increasingly passionate love letters without answer. Her passion and frustration are interwoven with a sense of impending doom, a vision of the coming Mexican apocalypse. A single personal tragedy mirrors the struggle of an entire country trying, in the midst of increasing chaos, to find itself. Shot during months on the backroads of Mexico, director Rodrigo Reyes has crafted an idiosyncratic and visceral x-ray of his homeland.

Nick, a jobless cook, falls in love with Anna, a film student. Some time after their adventurous first night she leaves him. Then time starts to run backwards - for everybody but Nick. He finds himself in a backwards world, everybody talks, runs, eats backwards. He accepts the situation, realizing that Anna is bound to return to him this way. He wants them to live together, him forwards, her backwards...

Choi Eun-hee’s directorial debut The Girl Raised as a Future Daughter-In-Law is the story of ups and downs of a future daughter-in-law who, due to poverty, married an infant rich groom. A ruined widow’s daughter Jum-soon has no time to rest, as her mother-in-law treats her like a maid, leaving her with all the kitchen chores, house cleaning, grinding grain, and sewing, while the mother-in-law smokes a pipe and nitpicks on her. What allows Jum-soon to endure is her ‘duty as a woman’ taught to her since young and her child husband’s lovable yammering.

It is a co-production between Chile and Brazil. Angela Mendes narrates the letter she writes to her father, Chico Mendes. The environmentalist tells how she met her father, through mosaics of reports. Angela invites the viewer to participate in the letter with their imagination. Her voice narrates in thought to the beyond, a beyond that is close to us, as Angela and Chico's reality is our everyday reality.

Short animated film by Ryo Hirano.

A conversation with Vladimir Mayakovsky about the future - from this very future.

Director Arnaud de Pallières presents an experimental three-part film designed to stimulate the intellect and inspire reflection on the past. The first part tells the story of the last living Holocaust survivor, who is nearing the end of life and regrets not leaving behind an official record of the horrors he witnessed during the dark years of World War II. Later, a young historian researching a concentration camp in Drancy is shocked to discover that the site now houses an unwelcoming housing project called La Muette (the Silent). The trilogy winds to a close with the story of a ship's captain who recalls the time he ventured up an uncharted river towards an undiscovered civilization.

When the pandemic first struck, Argentinian filmmaker Virna Molina was working on a documentary about the struggle for equal rights for female workers at the Buenos Aires subway. The project came to a standstill, but then Molina decided to go ahead with her film after all—however, it turned out very differently from the original plan.