Utopia | 2012

The programme name hints at places and societies that do not exist or exist only as ideas so the experience will probably not satisfy the lovers of exact sciences. Each of the six films explores what the world could become in the near future or what it has already become without anyone noticing. Surprisingly, the future does not always involve a ravenous Melancholia, but it is not very bright either.

Planet Z
Momoko Seto, F, 2011

New vegetation springs up on Planet Z and everything seems to live in harmony, until a sticky wicked mushroom takes over and destroys the idyllic world.

Out of Erasers
Erik Rosenlund, S - DK, 2011

A woman on her way home becomes a victim of a strange infection. She soon realizes that an epidemic is spreading and there are larger forces at work. While struggling to find a cure she also discovers that desperate times require hard choices.

Still Birds
Sara Eliassen, N, 2009

In an enclosed world where meaning is about to disappear the only remaining people are children who have lost the ability to use language. A tale that offers a glimmer of utopian hope in a world after a global disaster.

Nuisible(s)
E. Hupin - H. Baldzuhn - P. Nahoum - B. Ode - P. Puech, F, 2010

A young man shares a ramshackle apartment against his will with some small people whose way of life mimics that of insects.

File Under Miscellaneous
Jeff Barnaby, CDN, 2010

A short film set in a dystopian future where Natives undergo gruesome surgery to fit into the dominant white culture.

Rare Exports Inc.
Jalmari Helander, FIN, 2003

Long long time ago Father Christmases roamed free in Lapland. At some point in time, native people found out that these creatures could be caught and trained. In 1793, a group of Laplanders set up a small company to export extremely rare Original Finnish Father Christmas ® all over the World.

The Unliving
Hugo Lilja, S, 2010

Thirty years after a zombie outbreak, people have started taming and using the zombies as cheap workforce. Katrine and Mark struggle with the tedious everyday life of dirty zombie catching, bloody lobotomy experiments and their relationship is on the verge of falling apart.