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Ten days before the millennium, Hope, a single mother, arrives in London with her two infants, clutching only the clothes on their backs. Escaping a haunted past, she seeks refuge in a city gripped by Y2K paranoia. A charismatic stranger offers sanctuary, but as Hope navigates an uncertain future in unfamiliar streets, she uncovers his chilling motives. The threat to her family dwarfs the feared technological collapse. In a pulse-pounding race against time, Hope must protect her children at any cost, no matter the personal sacrifice.
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Revisiting Jean Baudrillard’s provocative claim that “The Gulf War did not take place,” the film reactivates archival material 30 years later, uncovering a chaotic and human reality behind the media spectacle.
In a post-agricultural landscape reclaimed by nature, a lone figure wanders through echoes of a fading world, and among another that is newly emerging.
In 1995, as France returned to nuclear testing in Polynesia, Tahitian protests ignited beneath a global fantasy of turquoise waters and effortless escape. The radiant image of paradise fractured, revealing the radioactive truth that had shaped the islands for decades.