Sunday Sunset

It is impossible to ignore the increasingly common anxieties that young people feel about the future. Doom and gloom are all that we are exposed to, and it is difficult for many of us to ever take our minds off war, climate change, extremism, class divides, poor economic opportunities, and so on. Every conversation young people have about wanting children shifts into an ethical debate about how just it is to introduce life into a world that is not worth living in. Doomsday is always visible up ahead, too far away to allow one to forget about one's daily routines, responsibilities, and commitments, but too close to ignore.

I wrote and directed Sunday Sunset because I wanted to examine the different ways in which young people deal with these feelings. Faced with the end of the world, some blame authority figures for their failures, whether those are politicians, scientists, or God Himself while others place all their trust in these authorities, praying that help will come from above. Some people shut everything out and try to ignore their problems while others obsessively collect information to gain some sense of control. Each character in the film represents a different way of dealing with the anxieties that we are all now faced with.