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Escape From the 21st Century

Year of production
2024
Duration
98 min.
European premiere
Genres
Fiction

Synopsis

After falling into an unknown chemical material, three teenagers discover that they can travel twenty years into the future by sneezing. There, they occupy their adult bodies and observe what has changed over two decades. What seems like a harmless way to pass the time turns out to have unforeseen consequences, which escalate the situation to apocalyptic proportions. An astounding sci-fi coming-of-age movie.

Director

Li Yang

Li Yang

Award-winning Chinese filmmaker, co-director together with Frant Gwo of the feature film Lee's Adventures (2011).

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Escape From the 21st Century
Section
Oficial Fantàstic Competició
Director
Yang Li
Writer
Yang Li
Cinematography
Saba Mazloum
Editor
Shang Huang
With
Ruoyun Zhang, Elane Zhong, Yanmanzi Zhu
Production countries
China
Languages
Cantonese
Subtitle languages
Spanish, English

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