2438 – Cabrini (2024)

timespace coodinates: late 19th century Italy / New York City

Cabrini is a 2024 American biographical drama film directed by Alejandro Gómez Monteverde. The film depicts the life of Catholic missionary Francesca Cabrini, portrayed by Cristiana Dell’Anna, as she encounters resistance to her charity and business efforts in New York City. Cabrini explores the sexism and anti-Italian bigotry faced by Cabrini and others in New York City in the late 19th century. (wiki)

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2408 – Origin (2023)

timespace coordinates: 2010’s United States, Germany, India

Origin is a 2023 American biographical drama film written and directed by Ava DuVernay. It is based on the life of Isabel Wilkerson, played by Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor, as she writes the book Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents. Over the course of the film, Wilkerson travels throughout Germany, India, and the United States to research the caste systems in each country’s history. (wiki)

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2400 – Poor Things (2023)

timespace coordinates: (retrofuturistic) Victorian London >Lisbon >Alexandria >Paris

Poor Things is a 2023 film directed by Yorgos Lanthimos and written by Tony McNamara. It stars Emma Stone, Mark Ruffalo, Willem Dafoe, Ramy Youssef, Christopher Abbott, and Jerrod Carmichael. Based on the 1992 novel by Alasdair Gray, (wiki)

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2385 – Weathering with You (2019)

timespace coordinates: summer of 2021 in Tokyo

Weathering with You (Japanese: 天気の子, Hepburn: Tenki no Ko, lit. ’Child of Weather’) is a 2019 Japanese animated romantic fantasy film written and directed by Makoto Shinkai, produced by CoMix Wave Films and distributed by Toho.

It follows a 16-year-old high school boy, Hodaka Morishima, who runs away from his troubled rural home to Tokyo, and later befriends Hina Amano, an orphaned girl who has the ability to control the weather. (wiki)

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2326 – Desperation Road (2023)

Southern Noir thriller set in a tough-and-tumble Mississippi town written by Michael Farris Smith, directed by Nadine Crocker and starring Willa Fitzgerald, Garrett Hedlund and Mel Gibson. It is based on the novel of the same name by Smith.

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1940 – Rebelle (2012)

spacetime coordinates: civil war in sub-Saharan Africa

War Witch (French: Rebelle) is a 2012 Canadian dramatic war film written and directed by Kim Nguyen and starring Rachel Mwanza, Alain Lino Mic Eli Bastien and Serge Kanyinda. It is about a child soldier forced into a civil war in Africa, and who is believed to be a witch. The film was primarily shot in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in French and Lingala. (wiki)

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1864 – Shopping (1994)

spacetime coordinates: (near future) 1990’s  London

SHOPPING, Jude Law, Danny Newman, Fraser James, Sadie Frost, 1994, cruising in London

Shopping is a 1994 British action crime drama film written and directed by Paul W. S. Anderson about a group of British teenagers who indulge in joyriding and ramraiding. It was notably the first major leading role for actor Jude Law, who first met his co-star and future wife Sadie Frost on the set of the film. (wiki)

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