A brand new rotoscoped tackle local weather disaster sci-fi is able to confront audiences on the Berlin Worldwide Movie Competition (February 16-26), which can current the World Premiere of hand-drawn Hungarian-Slovak characteristic White Plastic Sky (Műanyag Égbolt). The movie marks the animated characteristic debut of multi-award-winning writer-director duo Tibor Bánóczki and Sarolta Szabó (Les Conquérants, Leftover).
White Plastic Sky is about within the not-too-distant future, in a world with out animals or vegetation the place the worth of human survival is excessive. On this bleak twenty second century Budapest, one younger man breaks each rule to save lots of his spouse.
The filmmakers shared with Deadline that the alarming penalties imagined within the film grew to become increasingly materials as they labored to convey White Plastic Sky to screens over seven years:
“We didn’t dare think about that we’d be making a post-apocalyptic film throughout days of an precise actual ‘apocalypse,’” Bánóczki and Szabó advised the outlet. “Local weather disaster, local weather refugees, pandemic, conflict, power disaster. The ‘Poly-Disaster’ has develop into a part of our lives now. Science fiction is all the time about imagining a doable future. But White Plastic Sky appears to match what is going on proper right here, proper now.”
The characteristic is produced by Orsolya Sipos and József Fülöp at SALTO Movies (Hungary) and Juraj Krasnohorsky at Artichoke (Slovakia), in co-production with Hungary’s Proton Cinema and Radio & Tv Slovakia (RTVS), supported by Nationwide Movie Institute Hungary, Slovak Audiovisual Fund and Eurimages.
White Plastic Sky will premiere within the Berlinale’s Encounters competitors. Movie Boutique is dealing with worldwide gross sales.
See the whole Berlinale 2023 program at berlinale.de and observe the movie by way of whiteplasticsky.com.
[Source: Deadline]
