Utopia

About Utopia

Utopia is a 2015 Afghan drama film directed by Hassan Nazer and produced by Chris Robb. The film was selected as the Afghan entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 88th Academy Awards but it was not nominated. However, it was disqualified a few days prior to its Academy screening for having too much dialogue in English. The Afghan filmmakers union tried to appeal, citing the language breakdown by minutes, but the appeal was unsuccessful.

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Malalai Zikria as Janan

Hannah Spearritt as Lucy

Homayoun Ershadi as Najib

Bhasker Patel as Spiritual Man

Andrew Shaver as William

Saahil Chadha as Rajnesh

Arun Bali as Rajendra

Alec Westwood as UK Doctor

Chris Robb as William's friend

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“Heaven is home. Utopia is here. Nirvana is now.”
— Edward Abbey, in Abbey's Road (1979)
“Whether it is to be Utopia or Oblivion will be a touch-and-go relay race right up to the final moment. . . . Humanity is in "final exam" as to whether or not it qualifies for continuance in Universe.”
— Buckminster Fuller, in Critical Path (1981)
“Critics of utopianism have argued that utopian ends inevitably are used to legitimize violent means, whether against the scapegoated opponents of a utopian project or against innocent bystanders who must pay a price for the greater good of society.”
— William H. Katerberg, Future West: Utopia and Apocalypse in Frontier Science Fiction (2008), University Press of Kansas, , p. 83
“Certainly we ought to be discontented, we ought not simply to find out ways of making the best of a bad job, and yet if we kill all pleasure in the actual process of life, what sort of future are we preparing for ourselves? If a man cannot enjoy the return of spring, why should he be happy in a labour-saving Utopia? What will he do with the leisure that the machine will give him?”
— George Orwell, in "Some Thoughts on the Common Toad", The Tribune (12 April 1946)
“No one can be perfectly free till all are free; no one can be perfectly moral till all are moral; no one can be perfectly happy till all are happy.”
— Herbert Spencer, Social Statics (1851)
“Utopias are invented to be realized, and as long as there is no demand for an improvement of living conditions, changing things is impossible.”
— Milly Witkop, What Does the Syndicalist Women’s Union Want?. “Was will der syndikalistische Frauenbund.” Berlin: Verl. Der Syndikalist, Fritz Kater, 1922. Translated by Jesse Cohn.

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