Before shipping the product to the customer, a manufacturer of androids develops a final quality control test, supervised by a technician, where skills such as learning the customer’s language are improved. This part of the process invariably occurs in a closed environment, usually a house whose key characteristics are similar to those of the customer’s home. Alpha and Beta are an android couple only a few weeks away from being shipped to their future owners in Japan.
A prize-winner at Portugal’s Festival de Cinema Luso-Brasileiro de Santa Maria da Feira, Alpha is a disarmingly beautiful, intriguing first film from director Miguel Fonseca.
Also in this combined programme
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Ottica Zero
About people who refuse to conform to the present and instead choose to live out their own concepts of the future, in the here and now.
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Proposal, for an Unmade Film (Set in the Future)
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Kempinski
The people in Kempinski, filmed in Mali, imagine the future and speak about it in the present tense. Poetic and confusing.
Film details
- Country of production
- Portugal
- Year
- 2008
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2009
- Length
- 28"
- Medium/Format
- 35mm
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