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System Update- Rebooting Our Future

System Update isn’t just a film—it’s a rallying call for a better future. It shows how bold changes in political, economic, and social systems can protect people from climate collapse. Most of humanity wants action, yet leaders fail to deliver. Like a computer, society must be rebooted to avoid disaster and create a fairer, more sustainable system. Offering fresh ideas and inspiration, the film invites us to reclaim power, join forces, and shape a world that works for everyone. A wake-up call to act, resist, and rewrite our collective future.

System Update- Rebooting Our Future

NR 2025
IT IS WANTING

A defiant, weird, DIY lament on not keeping calm in toxic times. A 60-year-old woman (the filmmaker) confronts over consumption and AI-fuelled misogynistic ageism with deadpan slapstick, a sculptural costume and an intricate, animated collage of bar-codes. A frenetic performance of striped, coded beings enmeshed in a system that’s of their own making, yet out of their control. Ambiguities and interference patterns are embraced, as is the contradiction of the toxic and the sublime, the comic and apocalyptic. Originally conceived as a live performance, this is a collaboration with composer Matt Rogers and The Something Puffs.

IT IS WANTING

NR 2025
The Xenogender

Kenzo, an immigrant from Japan who lives in New York, loves watching crocodile videos. He gives English accent lessons and works at a bar, but his mother who lives in Japan calls him and tells him to come back to Japan. Kenzo confesses his identity as a crocodile on his first date with Jack, whom he met on a dating app, and Jack seems to accept him, but Kenzo dislikes Jack's attempts to understand him as a Japanese person, and he becomes even more absorbed in crocodile videos.

The Xenogender

NR 2025
Grace Petrie - Butch Ado About Nothing

Folk singer, lesbian and checked-shirt-collector Grace Petrie has been incorrectly called Sir every day of her adult life, and, having finally run out of things to write whiny songs about, she’s putting down the guitar to try and work out why. Finding herself at 35 in an age of incessantly and increasingly fraught gender politics, Grace feels both more exposed and less seen than ever. Join her as she explores what butch identity means in a world moving beyond labels, and tries to work out where it, and she, belong in the new frontline of queer liberation. Sounds funny, right? No stranger to comedy, Grace has appeared on BBC Radio 4’s The Now Show and smash hit podcast The Guilty Feminist, and has long since earned a reputation as the folk scene’s funniest lesbian. Her eagerly-awaited standup debut has been a long time coming – and was a runaway success at 2022’s Edinburgh Festival.

Grace Petrie - Butch Ado About Nothing

NR 2025
Sinkholes

Merging fiction and documentary, Sinkholes is a dystopian vision of a future world in which humanity survives in an environment in which water has become scarce and the sea is slowly receding behind dunes of salt. It tells the story of the inhabitants of a desolate coastline, trapped between a desertified interior and an unnamed coast. Following, the first-person voiceover of its protagonist Lawrence, the story unfolds through a sequence of striking documentary scenes, shot in inland and coastal Israel and Palestine. While the landscapes and sites Russo has gathered are real – places of rusting industry, of abandoned habitation and the bizarre, almost extraterrestrial salt formations of the Dead Sea – the narration transforms these into the ruins of an entire society, doomed to a world in which it has ceased to rain.

Sinkholes

NR 2025
Available Light

The film explores notions of home and belonging in contemporary society. Comprising interviews with workers at the Edo Tokyo Open Air Architecture Museum in Tokyo, and fragments of conversations with renters in that city and London, a productive dialectic opens between the museum’s preserved historical ideal of the domestic and the often unsettling realities of temporary accommodation in modern cities. Combining trademark immersive sound design with impressionistic images and abstractions, Quaintance crafts an austere, oneiric and subtly affecting portrait of residential precarity.

Available Light

NR 2025
Elegy for the Lost

Through a kaleidoscopic collection of archives, found footage, and even AI-generated images, a young woman who has left China recalls her memories and the connections she had in her native country. Her intimate and nostalgic voice-over becomes the backdrop for queer struggles, where an underground theatre troupe, the excitement of clandestine festivals, repression, and social pressure to live in silence intersect. Between personal memory and collective history, the film juxtaposes love, resistance, and exile.

Elegy for the Lost

NR 2025