Chilling. This Is A Warning screams out over the mix of documentary footage and storytelling in this trailer for 2073, weaving both to highlight where we’re globally going, and what could always happen, if we’re not paying attention.

And Altitude are set to release this visionary documentary from the excellent, and awar/e/d-winning, director Asif Kapadia in UK and Irish cinemas on 1 and 2 January 2025, with a theatrically exclusive Q&A between Kapadia and author and journalist, Carole Cadwalladr. 

The film blends archive footage and commentary, with sci-fi drama, in this vital cinematic warning from a dystopian future to tackle the biggest challenges endangering our present day and the existence of humanity….

“It’s the year 2073 where the worst fears of modern life have been realised.  Surveillance drones fill the burnt orange skies and militarised police roam the wrecked streets, while humans hide away underground, struggling to remember a free and hopeful existence. In this ingenious mixture of visionary science fiction and nonfiction, Kapadia transports us to a future foreshadowed by the terrifying realities of our present. “

The superb Samantha Morton plays a survivor besieged by nightmare visions of the past—a past that happens to be our present, visualised through contemporary footage interconnecting today’s global crises of authoritarianism, unchecked big tech, inequality, and our global climate crisis.

 

2073 feels like an urgent, unshakable vision of a dystopic future – NEON will be releasing 2073 in US cinemas from 27 December, it’s released on the UK and Ireland from 1/2 January 2025