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2073

Dir: Asif Kapadia
Cast: Samantha Morton, Naomi Ackie, Hector Hewer
85mins   2024   UK | US   15   English   

It's the year 2073, and the worst fears of modern life have been realised. Surveillance drones fill the burnt orange skies and militarised police roam the wrecked streets, while survivors hide away underground, struggling to remember a free and hopeful existence.

This ingenious mixture of visionary science fiction and speculative nonfiction transports us to a future foreshadowed by the terrifying realities of our present moment.

A survivor besieged by nightmare visions of the past--a past that happens to be our present, visualised through contemporary footage interconnecting today's global crises of authoritarianism, unchecked big tech, inequality, and global climate change.

2073 is an urgent, unshakable vision of a dystopic future that could very well be our own.

'Uncompromisingly, unrelentingly furious, as it remorselessly holds to light the countless dystopias we currently live under and tolerate' - Anahit Behrooz, Little White Lies