White Plastic Sky

In this marvel of a rotoscoped animated film set after the apocalypse, Budapest’s citizens circa 2123 live underground until they turn 50, at which point they must become food themselves. But when Norah decides to sacrifice herself 12 years early, her therapist husband travels across the barren wasteland to save her.WHITE PLASTIC SKY blends a love story with climate crisis concerns in a powerful piece of science fiction animation. The film imagines life in Budapest existing under a dome 100 years in the future. There humanity’s compromise for its lasting survival is to offer ourselves up to the government when we become 50 years old, with our bodies turned into plant life. When his wife Nora opts to sacrifice herself early, Stefan sets off on a race to intervene and save her and their remaining years together, daring to enter the world outside the safety of the city. Utilizing rotoscope animation for a uniquely transfixing visual experience, WHITE PLASTIC SKY is a genre-blending and existential glimpse into a dark future. —C.F.