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Screens with The End
Lesley Pinder, Australia, 2024, 13:37mins
In a not-too-distant future ravaged by our inaction on climate change, capitalist structures crumble, giving way to an unstable society. Amidst the end of the world, five adult women rehearse for a ballet performance in a scout hall.
The women are trapped inside by a government mandated shelter-in-place order to ration our finite fuel reserves. But after three days stuck together the cracks are starting to show. Petty squabbles escalate to fierce confrontations; they soon discover it’s not only the outside world they must survive, but each other.