“A dazzling documentary about the menacing nature of modern times and the fundamental beauty of cutting-edge progress.” INDIEWIRE (Critics Pick)
“Bracing, poetic, painterly...Users looks and sounds stunning.” THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER
“Truly moving and mind-blowing.” ROLLING STONE
“A science fiction of our time, Natalia Almada’s documentary is a standout piece of stunning nonfiction cinema."" SIGHT AND SOUND, Sophie Brown
"A science fiction film about the future of our children."
"Cinema at its most powerful"
LE MONDE
“Natalia Almada is brilliant... This is a film that picks up where Chris Marker left off at the end of his life in relation to what will the future look like." Amy Taubin
UPCOMING FESTIVALS
Los Cabos International Film Festival
Ambulante
Hawaii International Film Festival
IDFA
PAST FESTIVALS
Wexner Center for the Arts, Unorthodocs
La Roche Sur Yon
Bergen International Film festival
BFI London Film Festival
Jerusalem International Film Festival
SANFIC, Chile
Sundance Asia in Jakarta
Morelia International Film Festival
Sitges Film Festival
Chicago Doc 10 2021
Thessoloniki documentary film festival, Greece 2021
Visions du Reel, Switzerland 2021
HotDocs
CPH-DOCX 2021
True/False, USA 2021
Sundance 2021 *Documentary Director Award
A mother wonders, will my children love their perfect machines more than they love me, their imperfect mother? She switches on a smart-crib lulling her crying baby to sleep. This perfect mother is everywhere. She watches over us, she takes care of us. We listen to her. We trust her.
PRODUCER/WRITER/DIRECTOR: Natalia Almada
PRODUCER: Josh Penn
PRODUCER: Elizabeth Lodge Stepp
CO-PRODUCER: Daniela Alatorre
CO-PRODUCER: Elivia Shaw
ASSOCIATE PRODUCER: Charlotte Uzu, Les Films d'Ici 2
ASSOCIATE PRODUCER: Laurence Ansquer, Tita Productions
DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY: Bennett Cerf
EDITOR: Natalia Almada
MUSIC AND SOUND: Dave Cerf
SOUND MIXER: Alejandro de Icaza
Natalia Almada, Producer/Director
Altamura Films
natalia@altamurafilms.com
+52 55 5207 4401 Mexico
+1 347 228 8368 USA
Josh Penn, Producer
Department of Motion Pictures
josh@thedofmp.com
Elizabeth Lodge Stepp, Producer
Department of Motion Pictures
elizabeth@thedofmp.com
Charlotte Uzu, French Co-producer
Les Films d'Içi 2
charlotte.uzu@lesfilmsdici.fr
Tel : +33 1 44 52 23 29