Into Eternity: A Film for the Future

Into Eternity: A Film for the Future

2010 · 75 min · EN · 7.2 (86 votes)
Dir. Michael Madsen · Starring Carl Reinhold Bråkenhjelm, Michael Madsen, Wendla Paile, Esko Roukola, Mikael Jensen, Berit Lundqvist

“This hiding place should never be disturbed.”

Documentary

Every day, the world over, large amounts of high-level radioactive waste created by nuclear power plants is placed in interim storage, which is vulnerable to natural disasters, man-made disasters, and to societal changes. In Finland the world’s first permanent repository is being hewn out of solid rock – a huge system of underground tunnels - that must last 100,000 years as this is how long the waste remains hazardous.

VIBE

This documentary feels like a profound, unsettling meditation on humanity's enduring impact. It's a stark, quiet contemplation of our deepest, most dangerous legacy, rendered with a sense of immense scale and geological time.

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