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Mr. Zimit teaches philosophy at an international school in Jakarta, where his class of twenty graduating seniors has spent the term on thought exercises for their futures. When the school year ends, he sets one last exercise: an atomic apocalypse is coming. A bunker could keep ten people alive for a year, and the students must decide which ten of them should go in. Petra, the top student, refuses to play along until Zimit threatens the academic score of her boyfriend, James. Each of them is handed a card giving a profession inside the scenario: James is an organic farmer, Petra an engineer. The class argues and votes, admitting the students whose skills look useful and turning away the others, among them Beatrice, a fashion designer. Zimit joins in as well, keeping his own card hidden.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about After the Dark (2013)
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- Filming ran for seven weeks across Indonesia from 25 June 2011, taking in Belitung Island, Sumatra, Bromo in East Java and the Prambanan and Sewu temples in Klaten Regency, before ending in Jakarta on 18 August 2011.
- Director John Huddles said at the film's press conference that multiculturalism was a major theme in a story about rebooting humanity after a nuclear apocalypse, and that the students would come from Turkey, Iran, Australia, Africa, Canada, the United States and the United Kingdom.
- The film was nominated for Best Motion Picture in 2013 at the Sitges Film Festival, the Festival Internacional de Cinema Fantàstic de Catalunya, the world's top fantasy film festival.
