Writer/director Lucia Garibaldi follows up her acclaimed debut The Sharks with A Bright Future. The film is set in a near future where an environmental catastrophe has ravaged the global South, leaving only a small part of the North fertile. Newcomer Martina Passeggi plays Elisa, a teenager selected to join an expedition to the North, but Elisa prefers to stay and make a life in the part of the world she's always called home.
The film also stars Soledad Pelayo, Sofia Gala Castiglione and Alfonso Tort.
A Bright Future will receive its world premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival on June 5th.
Check out the trailer below.
The official synopsis reads:
A boundary-pushing and visually arresting sci-fi drama, A Bright Future unfolds in a bleak, out-of-time South American neighborhood where large-scale fumigations are routine. It’s there that 18-year-old Elisa (newcomer Martina Passeggi in a breakthrough performance) is selected for a prestigious journey to the mysterious "North"—a distant promised land no one has ever returned from, including her older sister.The most promising young people are sent to this mythical North, "history is being rewritten without mistakes." Elisa, the last young person in her community, is selected to go. Her mother, a devoted believer in the North, works double shifts to win a coveted travel auction. Elisa's older sister was sent there before, and now their mother dreams of reuniting the three of them.Yet, the arrival of Leonor, an enigmatic nurse with a prosthetic leg, disrupts the routine: Elisa discovers that her youth is a highly desired commodity, and new developments plant seeds of doubt in her. Refusing to become just another piece of the new order—even if her resistance makes her the most coveted of all—Elisa begins to question whether the North is truly salvation. But soon, she realizes she doesn’t want to leave—and that simply saying so is not enough.