International Competition

End of the World is an intimate, creative and immensely visual documentary where several stories weave into one narrative during one night. In a big city, many people are joined by a common need – troubled by loneliness they want to talk to someone. Some of them call the emergency number 112, even if it’s not really urgent, while others call the radio. This time the subject of the broadcast is the end of the world as predicted by the Mayan calendar. The speaker asks the listeners what it actually means to each of them. They talk about things that are tragic and painful, and sometimes small and funny. Their need to be heard, to communicate, to share their experience with someone else is evident and moving. The radio is a motif linking this night’s events – we hear it in the ambulance; in a city’s monitoring centre, where we observe the night life of the city presented on dozens of screens. The radio binds the elements of the film together in terms of structure and meaning; it is the source of the most important questions.