The Research Training Group GRK 2833 “East Asian Futures” is pleased to invite you to their public outreach event “Visions of the Future in East Asian Cinema.” Across two afternoons in March, they will explore cinematic visions of the future from Japan, Taiwan, South Korea, and China. The selected films engage with questions of technology, society, apocalypse, memory, and imagination. Each screening will be introduced and contextualised by their PhD researchers and Qualifying Fellows, followed by a discussion. The event is open to everyone, and admission is free of charge. All four movies will be screened in their original language with English subtitles.

On March 5, 2026, 4–9 PM, they will screen the Japanese anime film Metropolis (2001) and the Taiwanese genre-bending comedy Marry My Dead Body (2022). This screening takes place in cooperation with the Studienkreis Film (SKF) at Ruhr University Bochum in lecture hall HZO 20.

On March 18, 2026, 4–9 PM, they will present the South Korean science fiction anthology Doomsday Book (2012) and the Chinese sci-fi comedy Moon Man (2022). This second event is organised in cooperation with the local cinema Endstation Kino (Wallbaumweg 108, 44894 Bochum).

We warmly invite all students, colleagues, and members of the public who are interested in East Asian cinema, future imaginaries, and cultural perspectives on societal change to join us for one or both afternoons. Please find further information on the four movies to be screened on the RTG’s website linked below.