Film Screening with Director Christian Tod attending
Join Goethe Pop Up Kansas City and the UMKC Economics Club, the Departments of Communication Studies, Economics, and Foreign Languages as we present a screening of:
Free Lunch Society - Come Come Basic Income
Austria, Germany | 2017 | 95 Min
Director & Screenplay Christian Tod
In German and English with English subtitles
Followed by a discussion with filmmaker Christian Tod.
Just a few years ago, an unconditional basic income was considered a pipe dream. Today, this utopia is more imaginable than ever before – intense discussions are taking place in all political and scientific camps. 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.
Free Lunch Society provides background information about this idea and searches for explanations, possibilities and experiences regarding its implementation. From Alaska‘s oil fields to the Canadian prairie, from Washington‘s think tanks to the Namibian steppes, the film takes us on a grand journey and shows us what the driverless car has to do with the ideas of a German billionaire and a Swiss referendum.
Free Lunch Society, the first international film in cinemas about basic income, is dedicated to one of the most crucial questions of our times.
© Maximilian Rosenberg
Christian Tod is a filmmaker and economist. He 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 in 2017 in Copenhagen at the CPH:DOX Film Festival, was theatrically released in numerous countries and has participated in over 50 film festivals.
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