PODCAST | Chiara Nicoletti interviews Tibor Bánóczki and Sarolta Szabó, directors of the film White Plastic Sky.
With their first feature animation film, White Plastic Sky, at the 73rd Berlinale in the Encounters section, Hungarian filmmaker duo Sarolta Szabó and Tibor Bánóczki talk about a dystopian future where the human race is trying to survive. As our world has changed during the years the duo worked on the film project, the directors talk about how close to our Poly-Crisis reality the film feels.
White Plastic Sky: 2123. Faced with diminishing resources, the human race can only survive through a trade-off: at the age of 50, every citizen is gradually turned into a tree. When Stefan discovers that his beloved wife Nora has voluntarily signed up for donating her own body before her time, he sets out on an adventurous journey to save her at all costs.
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