We’re in 2064, in a post-climate-change world on the verge of destruction. The UN has developed a form of time travel: a person’s memories and their personality along with them can be transmitted to the past, to the person themselves at the moment of their birth. Henrik, a brilliant but narcissistic physicist, has been chosen for a mission to publish the blueprints of the fusion reactor – based on his invention – to the entire world and thus prevent climate change from ever happening. But something goes wrong: Henrik is born in the wrong body and must learn humility while living his new life. 

This is the premise of Finnish filmmaker Arto Halonen’s ambitious new eco-sci-fi feature After Us, the Flood [+lee también:
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After Us, the Flood is being produced by the helmer himself for Finland’s Art Films Production, and co-produced by Aija Bērziņa for Latvia’s Tasse Film. The film received financing from the Finnish Film Foundation, YLE, the Nordisk Film & TV Fond, the Riga Film Fund, LIAA – Investment and Development Agency of Latvia, the city of Tampere and Film Tampere Finland. It will hit Finnish theatres on 5 December 2024. Denmark’s REinvent Studios is selling it worldwide, whilst StoryHill Oy is distributing it in Finland and Scandinavian Film Distribution in the other Nordic countries.

Check out our exclusive trailer below: