METANOIA


Student World Impact Film Festival 2023 Best Short Film Nominee
Student World Impact Film Festival Laurel Quarter Finalist Nominee 2023

A breakthrough in psychological conditioning has enabled humans to control their worst inner impulses leading to a perfect society. This societal conditioning has come at the expense of dulling the senses of humans. A young woman named Nova (Bailey Hubbs) seeks treatment as she begins to feel her conditioning unravel. Her symptoms reveal glimpses into the spectrum of the human experience that she has never felt before, leaving her terrified and confused but also curious and liberated. Enticed by these glimpses of her inner humanity, Nova is faced with a dangerous dilemma: receive treatment and return to her baseline, conditioned state, or venture alone into the unknown depths of the human psyche.

LOCATION


BERLIN, GERMANY

OCT. 2022

DATE


Poster for Metanoia designed by Giovanna Wolney de Souza.
Still image from Metanoia - A sci-fi Dystopian film created by Aaron Ryan in Berlin. Produced by Aaron Ryan and Giovanna Wolney de Souza.

Metanoia is intended as a cautionary tale, that as we move forward and begin to realise our idealised version of the future, we should aim to avoid division, authoritarian ideologies, pseudoscience, conspiracy theories, and disinformation which offer only false truths and grand visions of perfection. Instead, reflection on our own shortcomings, which reminds us that we live in a world of our own making, should indicate that we have the power to change the world for the better. Metanoia was a quarter-finalist among over 13,000 submissions at the Student World Impact Film Festival. 

Produced by

AARON RYAN &
GIOVANNA WOLNEY DE SOUZA

Writer, Director, DP & Editor

AARON RYAN

Production Design

GIOVANNA WOLNEY DE SOUZA

Talent

BAILEY HUBBS & CAN BAS

Camera, Steadi & Gaffer

JONAS PESCHEL

Still image from Metanoia featuring Bailey Hubbs.

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