'' 2030 '' ( ) is a 2014 Vietnamese science fiction romance drama film written and directed by Nghiem-Minh Nguyen-Vo . The film was in selected as the opening night film in the Panorama section at the 64th Berlin International Film Festival in February 2014 . It was awarded the Tribeca Sloan Filmmaker Award from the Tribeca Film Institute and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation . In the year 2030 , water levels have risen due to global climate change . Southern Vietnam is one of the regions worst affected by climate change , which causes as much as half the farmland to be swallowed by water . To subsist , people have to live on houseboats and rely solely on fishing with a depleting supply . Huge multinational conglomerates compete to build floating farms equipped with desalination and solar power plants floating along the coastline to produce the needed vegetables that have become highly priced commodities . A young woman is on a journey to find out the truth about the murder of her husband whom she suspects has been killed by the people of a floating farm . In the process , she discovers the secret of that floating farm ; it employs genetic engineering technology to cultivate vegetables that can be grown using salt water thus can be produced much cheaper . This untested technology can have dangerous health consequences for the consumers that the farm wants to keep as a secret . It turns out that the chief scientist of the floating farm in question ; the main suspect of her husband 's death was her ex-lover . She ends up finding out different versions of the “ truth ” about her husband 's death and has to make a dramatic decision without knowing the absolute truth
64th Berlin International Film Festival
64th Berlin International Film Festival
2030 (film)