The Future

2013 · Movie · 99 min. · Italy

Drama

When her parents die in a car accident, adolescent Bianca’s universe is upended. Staying alone in the family’s Rome apartment and entrusted with the care of her younger brother, Tomas, she struggles to hold it together as her place in her surreal new world becomes blurry. Bianca starts to smoke and Tomas is still a virgin. The orphans explore the dangerous streets of adulthood until Bianca finds Maciste, a retired Mr. Universe, and enters his dark mansion in search of a future.

Direction Alicia Scherson

Cast Manuela Martelli · Rutger Hauer · Luigi Ciardo · Nicolas Vaporidis · Alessandro Giallocosta

Soundtrack Eduardo Henríquez · Caroline Chaspoul

Screenplay Alicia Scherson · Roberto Bolaño

Cinematography Ricardo de Angelis

Original title Il futuro (The Future)