BEDROOM CITY.

During a census to determine the effects of water contamination in a remote fishing community, an officer discovers over 7000 suspicious deaths and the dark secret behind Bedroom City.

SHORT SYNOPSIS

In a time when uncontaminated drinking water resources are close to being exhausted, the census officer Finley and his family are being sent to an isolated fishing community.

"Bedroom City", a cooperative of buildings surrounding a water tower, is run by the Administrator, who oversees the rationing of safe water in exchange for the inhabitants' labor.

During his census it becomes obvious to Finley that the locals are holding something back which they are afraid of; something which now threatens his own family.

It is only with the help of the town's undertaker that Finley begins to discover over 7000 mysteriously unaccounted for deaths and the dark secret behind the administration of Bedroom City…

Based on an original story, Bedroom City is a character-driven drama set in the near future in a society facing the growing fear of water contamination.

The story confronts the viewer with the reality that something as simple as water, which our society tends to take for granted, can empower or kill. It also endeavours to awaken the audience's attention to the depletion of natural resources in our time.

The world of Bedroom City is original and strangely unfamiliar. A nocturnal society of people who survive under almost prehistoric rules: the person who is the owner of the most precious resources has the power, and, like God, decides over life and death of these indebted to him.

Bedroom City was selected at the co production Market, Mannheim International Film Festival 2005, received development funding from the Hubert Bals Fund at the Rotterdam International Film Festival in 2003 and was developed into a first draft with an award from INCAA (Argentinean Film council) in 2002.