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Ed Meza @edmezavar In Leni Lauritsch’s gritty sci-fi thriller “Rubikon,” the final frontier could well be humankind’s last refuge. The film, which stars Julia Franz Richter, Georg Blagden (“Versailles”) and Mark Ivanir, screens in the Zurich Film Festival’s Focus Competition. Set in a dark future in which a polluted and barely sustainable Earth is plagued by corporate armies battling for depleting resources as the wealthy live in air domes that protect them from the contaminated atmosphere, the story centers on three astronauts aboard the space station Rubikon, where scientists have developed a possible means of survival, a sustainable algae project to provide oxygen and food.

Ever wondered what would happen if humans left Earth? If we abandoned our home to explore space or if we left because Earth was no longer inhabitable? Hollywood’s answer to that is the upcoming sci-fi flick, “Rubikon.” READ MORE: The 100 Most Anticipated Films Of 2022. Directed by Leni Lauritsch, “Rubikon” will be set in the year 2056 when a toxic cloud has swallowed the Earth, killing countless people.