“Hypersleep” directed by Alberto Mascia

Italy, near future. The old congested and violent prisons are just a memory: now the prisoners serve their sentences in a state of deep sleep that makes them harmless. Hypersleep is an economic and efficient system because it has drastically reduced the rate of criminal relapse. But not everything works as it should: one day David Damiani (Stefano Accorsi), prison psychologist, is faced with an aggressive prisoner whose data has been lost. The unexpected incident will trigger a chain of events that will force David himself to confront the ghosts of his past, and a conspiracy that will also involve Viola, the love of his life, and that will lead him to discover that nothing is what it seems.

Genre: Sci-fi, thriller
Year: 2022
Country: Italy
Duration: 100′
Language: Italian with English subtitles

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This program is part of the series Dreamers, Visionaries and Dystopias, dedicated to representations of the future in Italian and international cinema.

Dreamers and visionaries are the protagonists of In Futuro: a survey of possibilities. The 2024 IIC Chicago program reflects on how the Italian artistic, scientific and economic world imagines, represents and, with an historical perspective, has imagined and represented the future, portraying the dreams, fears, uncertainties and hopes of the present, between memory and imagination, standstills and progress, conflicts and sense of community