Ahead of its premiere at the in-play Venice film festival, a trailer has dropped for Asia Kapadia’s next film, 2073. Samantha Morton leads the cast of the film which is described as a ‘mixture of visionary science fiction and speculative nonfiction. You can watch the 2073 trailer in full below.
According to the film’s page on the Venice festival website, Kapadia (Senna, Amy, Diego Maradona) started work on the film after seeing ‘Brexit happen through lies and corruption in the UK.
With an 83 minute running time, 2073 also features Naomi Ackie, Hector Hewer – Maria Ressa, Carole Cadwalladr, Rana Ayyub Ben Rhodes, Rahima Mahmut, Silkie Carlo, Cori Crider, George Monbiot, Nina Schick, Chris Smalls, Douglass Rushkof, Carmody Grey, Tristan Harris, James O’Brien, Anne Applebaum, and Antony Lowenstein.
Ahead of the 2073 trailer, here’s the official wording.
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.
“My aim was to connect the dots between many complex issues and countries in a single cinematic film,” Kapadia was quote in saying in the Venice festival blurb, the film set to premiere there on 3rd September.
No word on a release date but we’ll keep you posted.
Watch the 2073 trailer below.
