Science on Screen®: THE POD GENERATION – Who owns the future of reproduction?
THE POD GENERATION by Sophie Barthes with special guest speaker TBA Part of the SCIENCE ON SCREEN ® Series An initiative of the Coolidge Corner Theater in partnership with the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation THE POD GENERATION 2023, USA/France, Sci-fi comedy/satire, 110 minutes Alfred P. Sloan Feature Film Prize at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival In Sophie Barthes’ witty, unsettling The Pod Generation , a New York couple (Emilia Clarke, Chiwetel Ejiofor) is offered a tantalizing new possibility: instead of pregnancy, they can grow their baby in a detachable artificial womb, or “pod”, provided by a powerful tech company. For Rachel, a rising executive, it promises freedom and convenience. For Alvy, a botanist who believes in the messy, organic rhythms of nature, it represents something much hard