Uruguayan filmmaker Lucía Garibaldi’s second feature film, A Bright Future (Un futuro brillante) will have its world premiere in the Viewpoints section of the 2025 Tribeca Festival, running June 4 – 14 in New York City.

Starring in the movie are Soledad Pelayo (The Freshly Cut Grass), Sofía Gala Castiglione (Alanis), and Alfonso Tort (The Freshly Cut Grass),.

Described as a boundary-pushing and visually arresting sci-fi drama, A Bright Future unfolds in a bleak, out-of-time South American neighborhood where large-scale fumigations are routine. It’s there that 18-year-old Elisa (newcomer Martina Passeggi in a breakthrough performance) is selected for a prestigious journey to the mysterious “North” – a distant promised land no one has ever returned from, including her older sister.

The most promising young people are sent to this mythical North, “history is being rewritten without mistakes.” Elisa, the last young person in her community, is selected to go. Her mother, a devoted believer in the North, works double shifts to win a coveted travel auction. Elisa’s older sister was sent there before, and now their mother dreams of reuniting the three of them.

Yet, the arrival of Leonor, an enigmatic nurse with a prosthetic leg, disrupts the routine: Elisa discovers that her youth is a highly desired commodity, and new developments plant seeds of doubt in her. Refusing to become just another piece of the new order – even if her resistance makes her the most coveted of all – Elisa begins to question whether the North is truly salvation. But soon, she realizes she doesn’t want to leave – and that simply saying so is not enough.

Lucía Garibaldi made her debut in 2019 with The Sharks which won the World Cinema Dramatic for Best Director Award at Sundance Film Festival.

Watch the first official trailer for A Bright Future.