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IDFA 2024

Ancestors

Steye Hallema
Netherlands
2025
70 min
World Premiere
IDFA DocLab Program & Competition, IDFA DocLab Competition for Digital Storytelling
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What kind of world will we leave for future generations? Thinking about the future tends to feel abstract and remote. Until you’ve taken part in Ancestors, that is.

In this interactive experience you embark on a thrilling, collective journey six generations into the future. Using your smartphone and AI, connections are created between you and others in the room. Together you’ll explore the challenges of tomorrow, discovering how collaboration is key to shaping a better world.

Participants will be immersed in a fun and thought-provoking adventure that brings people together in an entirely new way.

Before joining Ancestors, we kindly request that guests bring fully charged phones. It will be part of the experience. Additionally, in joining Ancestors, guests are required to take and share a selfie as part of the show.

Credits
Director
Created by
    The Smartphone Orchestra
    The Smartphone Orchestra
Production
    Lauren Maxwell
    Lauren Maxwell
Executive producer
    Shea Elmore for Stichting WildVreemd
    Shea Elmore for Stichting WildVreemd
Sound Design
    Wannes Salomé,
    Nicholas Thayer
    Wannes Salomé,
    Nicholas Thayer
Screenplay
Narrator
    Shana Bossmann
    Shana Bossmann
World Sales
    Esther van Kalken for The Smartphone Orchestra
    Esther van Kalken for The Smartphone Orchestra
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