Future of Hope
Director Henry Bateman
Countries United Kingdom, Iceland
Duration 75 min
Synopsis
Everything bubbles to the surface in its purest form: lava, spouting geysers and the untouched hilly landscape that stretches out as far as the eye can see. The banking crisis hit IS hard, but not everyone here considers it to have been a disaster: of all people, it is a bankrupted entrepreneur who says, "It's the best thing that could happen to the soul of IS. We had lost ourselves in greed." So keep your spirits up: in the words of Vala Ragnarsdottir from the University of IS, her country is "the best place to be when the energy crisis hits." The opportunities for sustainable development are boundless. All that is required is a shift in mentality, a shift from importing nearly all the population's food to installing greenhouses on a volcano. Director Henry Bateman of Future of Hope presents ISers who are leading their compatriots in a new way of thinking, images of the spectacular is landscape are intercut with interviews that strike a hopeful chord.
Everything bubbles to the surface in its purest form: lava, spouting geysers and the untouched hilly landscape that stretches out as far as the eye can see. The banking crisis hit IS hard, but not everyone here considers it to have been a disaster: of all people, it is a bankrupted entrepreneur who says, "It's the best thing that could happen to the soul of IS. We had lost ourselves in greed." So keep your spirits up: in the words of Vala Ragnarsdottir from the University of IS, her country is "the best place to be when the energy crisis hits." The opportunities for sustainable development are boundless. All that is required is a shift in mentality, a shift from importing nearly all the population's food to installing greenhouses on a volcano. Director Henry Bateman of Future of Hope presents ISers who are leading their compatriots in a new way of thinking, images of the spectacular is landscape are intercut with interviews that strike a hopeful chord.