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IDFA 2015

The Visit

Michael Madsen
Denmark, Norway, Finland, Ireland, Austria
2015
85 min
n.a.
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We’ve been fantasizing about an extraterrestrial visit for decades, but what would happen if it actually took place? How would we cope? Should we be afraid? These and many other questions are addressed in this philosophical film about a hypothetical initial contact with aliens. Scientists and space affairs specialists at the UN and NASA and in the British government cooperate in this cinematic simulation of the undoubtedly exciting meeting between extraterrestrial life and humanity. The interviewees speak directly to the unknown entities as if they’ve already arrived. From their own fields – politics, theology, sociology, biology or space science – they ask probing questions. What are you doing here? Do you have a sense of right and wrong? Do you carry bacteria that could make us sick? Are we hazardous to your immune system? Information specialists in the British government show how a first summit in this situation could go. How do you inform the public? Will countries work together? Is there a danger involved? Above all, the alien visit raises questions about the relation between our own history of exploration, colonization and warfare, and the expectations with which we approach the unknown.
Credits
World Sales
    Autlook Filmsales
    Autlook Filmsales
Screening copy
    Cinemien
    Cinemien
Distribution for the Netherlands
    Cinemien
    Cinemien
Co-production
    Indie Film,
    Mouka Filmi,
    Venom Film,
    Nikolaus Geyrhalter Filmproduktion GmbH
    Indie Film,
    Mouka Filmi,
    Venom Film,
    Nikolaus Geyrhalter Filmproduktion GmbH
Involved TV Channel
    DR Sales,
    SVT,
    YLE,
    VPRO
    DR Sales,
    SVT,
    YLE,
    VPRO