“2073: Ultima chiamata”, an exclusive event release on June 16, 17, and 18
21 May 2025
2073 – the new post-apocalyptic docufilm by Oscar-winning Asif Kapadia, will be in theaters for an exclusive event release on June 16, 17, and 18!
After the international success of acclaimed documentaries such as Amy, which earned him the Oscar, Senna, and Diego Maradona, Asif Kapadia returns to the big screen with 2073, a magnificent and visionary work that will be distributed in Italian theaters by Filmclub Distribuzione, Minerva Pictures, and Rarovideo Channel for an event release on June 16, 17, and 18, 2025.
Presented in official selection at the latest Venice International Film Festival, 2073 looks toward the near future of our planet with a provocative and prophetic gaze, sounding a true alarm. Set in a world not too far from our own, transformed by climate change, social tensions, the widespread rise of authoritarian regimes, and technological evolution, the film intertwines reality and fiction in a powerful and visually sublime narrative.
Filmed in Kapadia’s unmistakable style, 2073 blends a documentary section, constructed with archival material, period footage, media extracts, interviews, data, and satellite images edited with a relentless pace, with a more rarefied, post-apocalyptic and dystopian fiction section.
In the desertified and militarized world of New San Francisco in the future, the solitary Ghost, played by the intense and magnetic Oscar-nominated Samantha Morton, moves clandestinely: a tenacious keeper of the memories of a world forever lost – our present; a courageous Sibyl who urges us to act while we still can and carries the film’s ultimate intent: to invite the audience to reflect on the present through the lens of a future that is already here.
The film will be released in theaters across Italy with the support of Amnesty International, which has decided to endorse the release with the following statement: “This film is a warning about the complete collapse of the human rights protection system, of which we are already partial witnesses: attacks on civilian populations, repression of individual and collective freedoms, autocracies and technocracies, environmental devastation, and the gradual loss of humanity and compassion. 2073 shows a future we cannot and must not reach, but it also tells us that the present we are living is the last call for a necessary collective awareness.”
The theatrical release by Filmclub Distribuzione on June 16-17-18 will be preceded by special previews with director Asif Kapadia in attendance.