The only people living in the future in San Francisco are affluent citizens and there are too few labourers to do the necessary manual work. Using a remigration programme, the government is luring former working-class inhabitants back into the city; the same people who were once chased out. Can they trust the government? Real inhabitants play themselves here.
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Film details
- Country of production
- USA
- Year
- 2011
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2017
- Length
- 19'
- Medium/Format
- File
