''Fluidø'' is a 2017 German
science fiction film
Science fiction (or sci-fi) is a film genre that uses Speculative fiction, speculative, fictional science-based depictions of phenomena that are not fully accepted by mainstream science, such as Extraterrestrial life in fiction, extraterrestria ...
directed by
Shu Lea Cheang
Shu Lea Cheang (; born April 13, 1954) is a Taiwanese-American artist and filmmaker who lived and worked in New York City in the 1980s and 1990s, until relocating to Europe in 2000. Since the 1980s, as a multimedia and new-media artist, she has ...
.
It was screened in the Panorama section at the
67th Berlin International Film Festival
The 67th annual Berlin International Film Festival was held from 9 to 18 February 2017 with Dutch filmmaker Paul Verhoeven as president of the jury.
'' Django'', directed by Etienne Comar, opened the festival. The Golden Bear was awarded to the ...
.
Set in the 2060s, the film depicts a world in which
HIV/AIDS
The HIV, human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is a retrovirus that attacks the immune system. Without treatment, it can lead to a spectrum of conditions including acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS). It is a Preventive healthcare, pr ...
has been fully eradicated.
["All Films at the 31st TEDDY AWARD"]
Teddy Awards, January 31, 2017. In some people, however, the virus has mutated into a gene which can be extracted to create a new psychoactive
drug
A drug is any chemical substance other than a nutrient or an essential dietary ingredient, which, when administered to a living organism, produces a biological effect. Consumption of drugs can be via insufflation (medicine), inhalation, drug i ...
, leading to the creation of an extensive underground network of
human trafficking
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to capture the carriers of this mutation in order to manufacture the drug.
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Cast
* Caprice Crawford as Madame X
* William E. Morris as DI for Diva
* Kristina Marlen Kristina is a feminine given name and a variant of Christina. Notable people and characters with the name include:
People
*the Swedish name of Christina of Sweden
* Kristina (born 1987), Slovak singer
* Kristina Adolphson (born 1937), Swedish actr ...
as Eva
References
External links
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2017 films
2017 science fiction films
2017 LGBTQ-related films
Gay-related films
German science fiction films
English-language German films
German LGBTQ-related films
LGBTQ-related science fiction films
HIV/AIDS in German films
2010s English-language films
2010s German films
English-language science fiction films
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