Overview

• The film centers on Sonny, a Zürich programmer who covertly trains a sealed, self-learning system on a simulated island in hopes of saving his gravely ill infant son.
• Reviews describe a dark, provocative sci-fi drama that probes the value of life, technological power and human responsibility.
• Critics from Neues Deutschland and junge Welt praise the atmosphere and visual design while faulting thin character work and a story that loses focus.
• Directed and written by Simon Jaquemet and starring Elliott Crosset Hove, Rila Fukushima and Sandra Guldberg Kampp, the 118-minute Swiss-German-Dutch co-production opens in German theaters on 21 August.
• One review reports that Jaquemet allegedly acknowledged using AI assistance in the creative process after the Locarno premiere, a claim not widely corroborated.