A sombre future in which sunlight has become rare. The sun’s rays are so damaging that the government only allows citizens a limited amount of daylight every day. Even outside, there are strict rules with which people must comply. A naughty little black girl ignores the rules and that’s how she discovers the truth.
All Short films at IFFR 2017
The other films shown within Afro Future
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Afronauts
IFFR 2017 14′A rag-tag group is trying to launch a moon rocket to beat the American Apollo 11. The astronaut is a 17-year-old girl who has to be the first to set foot on the moon along with her two cats.
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Graft and Ash for a Three Monitor Workstation
Sondra Perry IFFR 2017 7′Self-portrait of Sondra Perry's avatar investigating its own identity. A problematic software process that leads to a fatal error mode: the blue screen of death.
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Remigration
Barry Jenkins IFFR 2017 19′A future San Francisco is inhabited only by affluent people. The authorities lure others into the city to do manual labour in exchange for free education.
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The Golden Chain
Ezra Claytan Daniels, Adebukola Bodunrin IFFR 2017 14′Yetunde is the only crew aboard the Nigerian space station Eko and witnesses the recreation of the origins of the universe. A futuristic reinterpretation of the Yoruba story of creation.
- Filmmaker
- Terence Nance
- Premiere
- International premiere
- Country
- USA
- Year
- 2016
- Medium
- DCP
- Length
- 16’
- Language
- English
- Producer
- Ana Souza, Kady Kamakate, Giulia Caruso
- Production Company
- Film Independent
- Sales
- Film Independent
- Writer
- Eugene Ramos
- Cinematography
- Andressa Cor
- Editor
- Aleshka Ferraro
- Music
- Amrithra Vaz
- Cast
- Rylee Khkol, Jontille Gerard
- Website
- www.facebook.com/theychargeforthesun
