Section: Youth Film U18 Competition

Youth Topia

Youth Topia

Dennis Stormer and Marisa Meier
Switzerland, Germany, 2021, 85 Min

The algorithm calculates who you are and what you are allowed to do in this trendy, experimental coming-of-age film captured in rose-coloured tones. A group of high-tech hippies prefer to check their likes rather than grow up. That is until Vanya is assigned a job as an architect by the algorithm, inclusive of an apartment and a car, and suddenly asks herself: Have we wasted our lives?

Life is full of colour. Vanya doesn't want to grow up. Instead she and her friends, on a drug-fuelled rampage, wander the streets and stream the whole thing on the Internet. They live a life of freedom in a barn, where they run riot whilst the rest of society is monitored by an algorithm. The group feels invincible, until the moment when Vanya is classified online as an adult and allocated a job. A place to herself, her own car and all the while the AI hums in the background, repeating: "You now have the chance to grow up." It's not that easy however, since life suddenly starts to get serious and Vanya consequently regrets the time she has wasted and will now never get back in this enthralling experiment with style that alternates between modish Super 8 footage, infrared film, livestream and CinemaScope aesthetics, in the process conveying the life philosophy, allure and perhaps futility of modern party cultures, lived out by a generation that finds itself drowning in existential indifference.

Filmformat
1:2.35 [Cinemascope]
Drehbuch
Dennis Stormer, Marisa Meier
Kamera
Jonas Schneider
Ton
5.1 Digital
Schnitt
Noemi Preiswerk
Ausstattung
Linda Rotenbühler, Julia Halbfas
Musik
diverse
Darsteller
Lia von Blarer, Elsa Langnäse, Saladin Dellers, Jürg Plüss, Lou Haltinner
Produzent
Marisa Meier
Produktion
tellfilm GmbH
Co-Produktion
Intuition Club & sehstern
Kontakt
tellfilm GmbH
Marisa Meier
meier@tellfilm.ch

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