Futurestates
Stagione 1
Imagining tomorrow's America today, "Futurestates" is a series of independent mini-features--short narrative films created by established filmmakers and emerging talents transforming today's complex social issues into visions about what life in America will be like in decades to come.
Dove guardare Futurestates • Stagione 1
11 Episodi
- Tia and Marco
E4Tia and MarcoThe year is 2025. All American citizens in good health are now required to serve one year in a government job, including on the now treacherous U.S./Mexico border. Tia Moran is a pregnant border patrol agent finishing her last day of service, and when she discovers an illegal immigrant teen hiding in her home, is forced to question her loyalty to a system of exclusion. - Tent City
E5Tent CitySet in the near future of economic hard times, Tent City tells the story of Matthew Ochoa, who has been forced to abandon his career as an artist and take a job evicting people from their foreclosed homes. At home, he and his son Ivan relieve the dreariness by engaging in Trapezoid, their favorite storytelling game, through which they weave an elaborate science-fiction saga. - Silver Sling
E6Silver SlingIn the polarized economy of the near future, corporations offer subsidies to their high-ranking female employees to pay for chemically accelerated surrogate births. Lydia, a two-time surrogate trying to pay for her brother to come to the US, must decide whether or not to undergo her third surrogate pregnancy, thus giving up her last chance to have a child of her own. - PIA
E9PIASan Francisco, 2063. In everyday service jobs, humans have been replaced by PIA androids-machines powered by human organs. After her partner Rakesh dies suddenly, Syama donates his organs to scientific research. Two years later, one of these androids mysteriously appears in her apartment, carrying fragments of Rakesh's memory. PIA is a futuristic love story that challenges our understanding of humanity and what it means to truly connect.
