Asparagusby Robby Henson In a regimented greenhouse laboratory, an isolated agricultural engineer named Dekard learns lessons about life and love from a fertilizer delivery agent and a renegade asparagus. FUTURESTATES | |
Children of the Northern Lightsby Andrew MacLean Two astronauts on a prospecting mission to find a new supply of energy crash land on a distant planet, where alien beings offer a chance at a survival — but at a great cost. FUTURESTATES | |
The Digby Bennett Cohen As the world faces environmental collapse, a group of archaeologists venture into a toxic desert wasteland, determined to unearth a lost civilization. Can this ancient disaster help them avert their own ruin? FUTURESTATES | |
Fresh Killby Shu Lea Cheang A cyberpunk narrative set in a post-apocalyptic, not-too-distant future where cats glow in the dark, fish lip sushi is the rage, and an eco-terrorist crisis is imminent. | |
How Is Your Fish Today?by Xiaolu Guo Working on his latest screenplay in Beijing, Hui Rao is suffering from writer’s block when he begins to live as the character he is trying to create. Independent Lens, Global Perspectives Collection | |
Mister Greenby Greg Pak In this parable about change, a jaded government undersecretary becomes the unwitting test subject for an experimental program to curb global warming. FUTURESTATES | |
Plastic Bagby Ramin Bahrani Struggling with its immortality, a discarded plastic bag (voiced by Werner Herzog) ventures through the environmentally barren remains of America as it searches for its maker. FUTURESTATES | |
The Riseby Garret Williams In the radically altered housing market of the future, an older couple must forego their dreams of retirement and adapt to the ever-evolving definition of the American dream. FUTURESTATES | |
The Spring of Sorrowby Suzi Yoonessi Two sisters live a nomadic life, displaced by global warming. Trapped in the desert in the midst of a water shortage, Isabelle tells her younger sister Lily a fairytale that explains how this tragedy came to be. FUTURESTATES | |
That Which Once Wasby Kimi Takesue In 2032, an eight-year-old Caribbean boy, displaced by global warming, fends for himself as an environmental refugee in a hostile Northern metropolis and forms an unexpected friendship with an Inuk ice carver. FUTURESTATES |
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