Dir: Davi Pretto | Sci-fi 2025 87′
The future really is orange. Infact, blood orange, but only in a visual sense and only for one man, according to this dystopian near futuristic sci-fi thriller world premiering at this year’s Karlovy Vary film festival in the Proxima strand.
Future Future is a fourth feature for Davi Pretto whose award-winning documentary Castanha (2014) launched him onto the International stage at Edinburgh Film Festival over a decade ago. This latest study in alienation shows how an unnamed city in Brazil is in disarray due to the use of AI that brings with it severe neurological side effects particularly for K, 40, who has totally lost his memory and doesn’t even know where he belongs anymore. Alone and disorientated K finds himself drifting around in a netherworld with hallucinations drenched in orange after he makes use of an AI headset.
Future Future is a bleak, unsettling film that pictures the negative side of AI technology – one we have often suspected – unleashing our worse fears of what might happen in the next few decades based on the current experience of many people who find themselves increasingly isolated from society and at odds with our online, technology-based life. Presented as positive by the large corporations, AI is clearly not at all plain sailing for the individual according to Pretto in his formally impressive, soul-destroying imagining of what could be round the corner. @MeredithTaylor
KARLOVY VARY INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 4 -12 JULY 2025