2BR02B: To Be or Naught to Be (2016)

Directed by

Marco Checa Gracia

Genre

dystopian film

Country

Canada

Runtime

18 min

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A man lives in a future where population control forces a grim trade: to have a child, someone else must volunteer to die. He is a painter and expects his third child soon, so he must find someone to die.

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What happens

2BR02B: To Be or Naught to Be is a 2016 Canadian short science fiction film directed by Marco Checa Garcia and based on the 1962 short story "2 B R 0 2 B" by Kurt Vonnegut. The film was an international collaboration over nearly three years, with additional crew in Sydney, London, Mexico, and the Netherlands. The film features a cameo voice role by veteran actor and The X-Files star William B. Davis. The film's sound was designed by BAFTA-winner Martin Cantwell. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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