Foresight Filmfestival N° 2

FORESIGHT FILMFESTIVAL N° 2

Game Changers - A Promising Future

Foresight is a type of strategic projection. In its latest Foresight discussion (www.bmbf-foresight.de), the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) examined the potential for scientific and technological development over the next ten to fifteen years from two sides: the technological possibilities (“technology push”) on the one hand and the needs of the society (“demand pull”) on the other hand. Foresight serves in particular as a contemporary instrument of dialogue because, after all, nobody can tell the future.

In light of the nature of exponential, technological development (keywords: digital revolution, second modernity, industry 4.0) and its effect on all areas of life, it is becoming clear that many questions still remain unanswered and that it requires the continual understanding of society to know where it should all lead. It is not enough for science and society to brainstorm together, it is imperative that they communicate.

This is the purpose of Foresight Filmfestival. Researchers, scientists, and project developers can take the opportunity to advertise their work and discuss their interests; not, however, without the corrective assistance of film makers and media representatives to lend this project more focus on the perspective of the greater societal interest. Creative minds will be offered a platform for sharing their vision of how technology should develop and affect our lives in the next ten to twenty years; not, of course, without scientifically substantiating this vision in eager four-minute video clips.

… Science-Vision, Not Science-Fiction

The Foresight Filmfestival is not a science-fiction but a science-vision film festival that combines all of the following elements: watching enjoyment, excitement, and entertainment, as well as fruitful discussion, debate, and contact. It can all be summarized in one following motto: science meets vision.

The competing contributions to be judged before a large audience and our jury on June 30, 2016, could not be more novel: They are about the future. They are about breath-taking, technological advances and societal changes, as well as the resulting interactions, chances, and risks. The contributors are people who seek to know more: researchers, journalists, film makers, and all those who do not want to leave the future to chance. They will be meeting where science and society intersect, extrapolating the possibilities of tomorrow from the feasibilities of today. How do we want to live? How will we live?