Swiss-Kenyan filmmaker Damien Hauser ( After the Long Rains , Blind Love ) is bringing something very different to Venice this year. Memory of Princess Mumbi , his fourth feature, is an improvised sci-fi romance mockumentary that explores such themes as how to find meaning in a tragic world, loss, and memory. The movie also uses AI and explores what AI means for the future of filmmaking.

“In 2094, aspiring director Kuve (Abraham Joseph) films a documentary on the Great War of the 2070s, which erased modern technology and revived kingdoms,” reads a synopsis for the fable, shot in Kenya. “Expecting to find despair in Umata, the heart of the war’s aftermath, he instead discovers a village that has found peace. There, he meets Mumbi (Shandra Apondi), who shows him the beauty in ever

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