Filmmaker Christian Tod in person
Director: Christian Tod, color, 95 min., 2017
The unconditional basic income means money for everyone - as a human right without consideration! Visionary reform project, neoliberal axe at the roots of the welfare state or socially romantic leftist utopia? The basic income shows very different ideological faces, depending on the type and scope of income. The basic income is undisputedly a powerful idea: land, water and air are gifts of nature. They differ from private property that individual people generate. But if we draw wealth from nature, from common resources, this wealth belongs to all of us to the same extent. From Alaska's oil fields to the Canadian prairie, Washington's thought factories and the Namibian steppe, the film takes us on a great journey and shows us what the leaderless car has to do with the ideas of a German billionaire and a Swiss people's initiative.
Free Lunch Society, the world's first feature film about basic income, is dedicated to one of the most crucial questions of our time.
© Christian Tod
Christian Tod, born 1977 in Linz, Austria, is a filmmaker, economist and public speaker. His debut film, FATSY – THE LAST COWBOY OF AUSTRIA (Documentary, 54min, 2007) received an honorable mention at Crossing Europe Film Festival Linz in 2007. Christian Tod's first feature length documentary ES MUSS WAS GEBEN (104min, 2010) was the opening movie at Crossing Europe's 2010 edition. Being both a scientist and a filmmaker, Christian Tod began working on FREE LUNCH SOCIETY, combining his expertise in both fields for a project he considers utterly important for the future of mankind: Unconditional Basic Income. FREE LUNCH SOCIETY premiered 2017 in Copenhagen at the CPH:DOX film festival, was theatrically released in numerous countries and participated in over 50 film festivals.
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