Joke Emmers, Daphne Wellens, Birgit Aertgeerts and Boris Van Severen - Mars 2064

When due to war, warming, rebellious AI, and gender mislabeling, living conditions on earth become increasingly impossible, it was decided in 2060 to build a settlement-space station on Mars. Four years later, a team of scientists (along with a thousand fertilized eggs) is sent to Mars to rebuild human civilization there. When the four arrive on Mars and wake up from their freezer cell, they receive the message from earth that a better planet has been found in the meantime. But their trip to Mars was a one-way ticket. Here they are. Fled an impossible planet for … a meaningless existence. Waiting for Godot, but unless Godot has a spaceship, they are going to have to wait a very long time. The four try to make the best of it anyway and set up the basic principles of a new society. It soon becomes clear that completely redefining a new society in practice is just a bit less evident than they thought in theory. Do they base themselves on the past, do they really try something new? Is a utopia a utopia? Four people, a grumpy robot, and one contact person on earth who is starting to show an increasingly greater lack of interest in the five. Four individuals unable to form a group, let alone a society. Mars 2064 is a tragicomic search for what it means to be human.