Filmmaker Asif Kapadia gives a grim view of a dystopian future that awaits human civilisation in the trailer for his new movie 2073 starring Samantha Morton, Naomi Ackie and Hector Hewie.

The trailer was released by the makers on Tuesday ahead of the movie’s world premiere out of competition at the 81st Venice International Film Festival.

Set in the year 2073, the trailer depicts how the worst fears of modern life have been realised. Surveillance drones fill the burnt orange skies and militarised police roam the wrecked streets, while survivors hide away underground, struggling to remember a free and hopeful existence.

According to the official synopsis, 2073 is described as a blend of visionary science fiction and speculative nonfiction. Samantha Morton stars in the movie as “a survivor besieged by nightmare visions of the past — a past that happens to be our present, visualised through contemporary footage interconnecting today’s global crises of authoritarianism, unchecked big tech, inequality and global climate change”.

“2073 is an urgent unshakable vision of a dystopic future that could very well be our own,” the synopsis further adds.

2073 is jointly financed and produced by Neon, Double Agent, and Film4. Kapadia and George Chignell serve as producers, while Davis Guggenheim, Nicole Stott and Jonathan Silberberg executive produce on behalf of Concordia Studio alongside Riz Ahmed’s Left Handed Films.

Asif Kapadia is a critically acclaimed British filmmaker known for his emotionally resonant storytelling, particularly in the documentary genre. He gained international recognition for his Academy Award-winning documentary Amy (2015), which provided an intimate and haunting portrait of the late singer Amy Winehouse. He is also celebrated for Senna (2010), a documentary about Formula 1 driver Ayrton Senna, and Diego Maradona (2019), which delves into the life of the legendary footballer.