Asif Kapadia. the Academy Award winning director of ‘Amy’ returns with ‘2073’, a new film blending reality with fiction. Set in a dystopian future, the film stars Samantha Morton as a survivor haunted by visions of the past. The film is inspired by the 1962 French featurette ‘La Jetée’ by Chris Marker, which inspired the 1995 sci-fi film ’12 Monkeys’.
Release Date
Directed by Asif Kapadia, ‘2073’ world premieres at the 81st Venice International Film Festival on September 3, 2024.
Synopsis
It’s the year 2073, and the worst fears of modern life have been realized. Surveillance drones fill the burnt orange skies and militarized police roam the wrecked streets, while survivors hide away underground, struggling to remember a free and hopeful existence. In this ingenious mixture of visionary science fiction and speculative nonfiction, Academy Award®-winning filmmaker Asif Kapadia (Amy) transports us to a future foreshadowed by the terrifying realities of our present moment. Two-time Academy Award® nominee Samantha Morton (In America, Sweet and Lowdown, Minority Report) plays a survivor besieged by nightmare visions of the past—a past that happens to be our present, visualized 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.
Official Trailer
Watch the official trailer for ‘2073’.