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2018 · 6m · España
Directed by Cristian R. Sánchez
Genres: documentary, sci-fi
Tones: contemplative
In the near future, world conditions force humanity to change habits in pursuit of a more sustainable world. Guide Eva Miller leads a journey through time to discover what becomes of humanity.
Picked by Margot
The scouts
A doc-sci-fi hybrid about sustainable futures sounds like the most predictable climate sermon imaginable, so either Sánchez found a genuinely perverse angle here or this is exactly the consensus pablum that puts me to sleep.
Sánchez threads a formal needle between documentary and speculative fiction—the conceit of Eva Miller as temporal guide allows for a considered meditation on genre boundaries and how cinema itself can stage questions about time and responsibility without collapsing into either didacticism or pure speculation.
The decisive move here is treating the guide-through-time device as a structural commitment rather than a narrative gimmick: every transition, every shift in image quality or archival texture becomes the argument itself, letting the editing do the philosophical work.