MARS 2064, Joke Emmers, Boris Van Severen, Daphne Wellens & Birgit Aertgeerts

When a team of four scientists and an arrogant robot, after many years, finally arrive on Mars with the task of restarting human civilization, they receive the message from the last bastion on earth that a better alternative has been found in the meantime and their mission has become meaningless. Four stranded individuals must search for their humanity on Mars. Here they are... An impossible planet fled 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 quartet tries to make the best of it anyway and set up the foundations of a new society. Soon it becomes clear that completely redefining a new society in practice is just a little 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? Can findings from the past really offer wisdom for the future or are we doomed to always make the same mistakes again, regardless of which planet we are on? Four people, a grumpy robot BEL.a, and one contact person on earth who is starting to show an increasing 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. Produced by ZRT (Zebra Rene & Wolf63), based on a screenplay by Jef Hoogmartens and directed by Frank Van Passel.