White Plastic Sky

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64th TIFF: Greek Premiere

In the near future, there are no more animals or plants on Earth and the remaining humans are living under a plastic dome. The price for their continuing survival is very high: at the age of 50, they are implanted with a special seed that turns them into a tree which will provide oxygen and food for the community. A young man, Stefan, accepts this system – until the day his wife Nóra decides to give up her life and undergo voluntary implantation. Driven by his love for her, Stefan decides to break the rules of society in order to save her. A dystopian epic developed with contributions from geologists, botanists, and meteorologists is a deeply moving eco-fantasy that deals head-on with the climate apocalypse threatening life on Earth, but is at the same time driven by a keen sense of the world’s beauty.

Screening Schedule

No physical screenings scheduled.

Available at the Agora Market TIFF64.

Direction: Tibor Bánóczki, Sarolta Szabó
Script: Tibor Bánóczki, Sarolta Szabó
Cinematography: Tibor Bánóczki, Sarolta Szabó
Editing: Judit Czakó
Sound: Stefan Smith
Actors: Tamás Keresztes, Zsófia Szamosi, Géza Hegedűs D., Judit Schell
Production: SALTO Films, Artichoke
Producers: Orsolya Sipos, József Fülöp, Juraj Krasnohorsky
Co-production: Proton Cinema, RTVS – Radio and Television Slovakia
Co-producers: Viktória Petrányi​
Production Design: Tibor Bánóczki, Sarolta Szabó
Format: DCP
Color: Color
Production Country: Hungary, Slovakia
Production Year: 2023
Duration: 111'
Contact: Films Boutique

Animation

Tibor Bánóczki

Tibor Bánóczki and Sarolta Szabó, the multi-award-winning writer and director duo known for their mysterious and often bizarre worlds. They have created critically successful animated shorts such as Les Conquérants, which was part of the official program of Sundance Film Festival’s “New Frontier” in 2012 and was competing at the 2013 César Awards for Best Animated Film. Their animated short, Leftover, won the ACSE Equality and Diversity Award at Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival in 2015, and was nominated for Best Animated Film at the César Awards in 2016, and has since been presented at over 40 festivals around the world. White Plastic Sky is their animated feature debut.

Filmography

2001 Dead Water (short)
2007 Milk Teeth (short)
2011 Les Conquérants (short, co-direction)
2014 Leftover (short, co-direction)
2023 White Plastic Sky (co-direction)

Sarolta Szabó

Tibor Bánóczki and Sarolta Szabó, the multi-award-winning writer and director duo known for their mysterious and often bizarre worlds. They have created critically successful animated shorts such as Les Conquérants, which was part of the official program of Sundance Film Festival’s “New Frontier” in 2012 and was competing at the 2013 César Awards for Best Animated Film. Their animated short, Leftover, won the ACSE Equality and Diversity Award at Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival in 2015, and was nominated for Best Animated Film at the César Awards in 2016, and has since been presented at over 40 festivals around the world. White Plastic Sky is their animated feature debut.

Filmography

2011 Les Conquérants (short, co-direction)
2014 Leftover (short, co-direction)
2023 White Plastic Sky (co-direction)