Documentary Futurism
How do we document that which has yet to occur? Cinema Politica’s Documentary Futurism project seeks to usher in a new kind of filmmaking that brings actuality into conversation with speculation, and realism with the imaginary. Taking inspiration from Afro-futurism, Indigenous futurism, speculative fiction and non-fiction, these 15 films inaugurate a new genre while deploying filmmaking approaches and contexts associated with documentary in order to imagine, speculate and represent future worlds.
To learn more, visit the official website of the project and watch the programme's trailer below.
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We Might Have Been Heroes
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Directed by Andrés Salas-Parra ∙ 2018 ∙ Canada ∙ 20'
In the year 2020 all untapped minerals in the bowels of the earth were diluted and transformed into poisonous gasses by the Aqua Regia Storm. Expelled through every open pit mine on the planet, the gas leak killed around 80 percent of the tota...
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The Universe According to Dan Buckley
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Directed by Roberto Santaguida • 2018 • Canada • 10'
Dan Buckley parts the veil on the origins and future of the universe. He investigates the disorder and delight that proliferates in between; the worlds and ideas that rub up against each other and, at times, collide.
A reflection on assigning...
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The Ceremony
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Directed by Taina Da Silva & Becca Redden ∙ 2018 ∙ Canada ∙ 16'
Two young warrior siblings, Vim and Hax, are living in a post-apocalyptic world caused by climate change. For 150 years, the air has not been breathable for humans. As such, their whole community lives in high tech homes to keep th...
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Solitudes
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Directed by Marwen Tlili & Quentin Ducados Tayeb Hadji • 2018 • Canada • 18'
Lamine, a Senegalese student in Quebec, decides to film a carsharing ride between Rimouski and Montreal. In the course of his discussions with Rémi, a young filmmaker focusing on ‘minorities’ and Nataly, an Indigeno...
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post_cunt
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Directed by Nicolas Lari Jalbert • 2018 • Canada • 20'
Imagine how bodies will relate to each other in the future, how intimacy will be radically different. Imagine trans and queer bodies having access to ways of mutating organically; reshaping their mortal flesh with their own hands or those of...
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Nova
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Directed by Andréanne Germain • 2018 • Canada • 6'
A teenager’s first taste of independence is thwarted when an in-app purchase is refused. The reason? Her first basic income payment has been withheld. Alone in the woods, she is forced to launch Nova, her personalized AI tutor. Nova seizes the ...
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Lost Alien
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Directed by tobias c. van Veen • 2018 • Canada • 25'
Blending documentary techniques with surrealist and silent filmmaking, LOST ALIEN captures the Afrofuturist cosplay of ZiggZaggerZ the Bastard as a photosensitive black alien stranded on a sunlit planet. Having lost her way from the continuum ...
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Here and Mars
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Directed by Mariam Zaidi • 2018 • Canada • 7'
JK is a 26 year-old astronaut from India selected to go on a mission to Mars in the year 2035. As she gets ready for her momentous day, she reflects on her past and the people who helped her get to where is she is now.
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Couleur du Moment
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Directed by Jeremy Sandor • 2018 • Canada • 15'
Couleur du Moment follows five employees during their last day on the job at a colour forecasting agency. The workers still go about business despite having been replaced by algorithms that design new digital colours to be experienced in the widely...
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Camfranglais
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Directed by Myléne Augustin & Feven Ghebremariam ∙ 2018 ∙ Canada ∙ 12'
Summer 2117 will be revealing for Sam, an 18-year-old Cameroonian girl. Freshly elected to the tribal council that governs her country, she joins the national delegation that is invited to Tiohtià:ke (Montreal). This trip is ...
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Breath Anew
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Directed by Andrew Chiu ∙ 2018 ∙ Canada ∙ 11'
150 years in the future, an American refugee is forced to leave her life behind – seeking a different way of life from the technologically advanced society she has grown up in. As she journeys along this new underground railroad, she reflects on her ...
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Aryana Resurrected
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Directed by Brishkay Ahmed • 2018 • Canada • 10'
The name ARYANA means “holy one”. Many decades ago, the nation of ARYANA was forcefully transitioned into becoming AFGHANISTAN, the land of seven tribes. This period of rule, brought tremendous suffering, especially for the women and girls of the ...
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a's'katikl awti'l
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Directed by Bretten Hannam ∙ 2018 ∙ Canada ∙ 8'
150 years into the future the province of Nova Scotia has mostly been abandoned by settler descendants, leaving behind a legacy of abandoned buildings and homes. As the Mi’kmaw People reclaim their territory and work to remove the toxic technology ...