Captain Nova

English release: Captain Nova

by Lotte Tabbers and Maurice Trouwborst, directed by Maurice Trouwborst

Release: 13 October 2021
Format: Feature Film
Genre: Science Fiction
Audience: YA and Up
Content: Definite Time Travel
Original Language: Dutch

Captain Nova Kester travels back from a devastated future to warn an energy mogel about the impending climate cataclysm, but only young Nas takes her seriously. That happens when time travel causes you to revert to 12 years old.

— Michael Main

Luister, jongedame: De mensen denken al eeuwen dat ze leven in het einde der tijden. Het zou handig ziln als je jezelf ietsje minderbelangrijk maakt.

Listen, young lady: People have thought for centuries that the end of time is drawing near. It would help everyone if you showed just a little less. . . self-importance.

English

DEBUT

Captain Nova (Cinekid Film Festival, 13 October 2021).

VARIANTS

1 Dutch variant

TRANSLATIONS

4 translations, including English

PRIOR WORKS

TAGS(SPOILERS!)

Time Periods

Circa AD 2000 to 2099: The bulk of the story takes place in 2025. Should could have come from 2050 (because she was 37 and is now 12) or from 2045 (because that year is explictly mentioned).

Timeline Models

Into a Changed Timeline with Just One You: On return, Nova melds into the changed timeline.
Multiple Naive Timelines: The timeline is changed at least twice, but with little explanation of an underlying model of time.
Remembering Different Timelines: When Nova first returns, she remembers only her first timeline, without Nas or their child.

Time Travel Methods

FTL Time Travel: The wormhole is caused by FTL travel of the ship.
Time Rifts: The ship generates a wormhole: You should be able to see the wormhole now.
Time Ships

Themes

Altered Metabolic Rates: He’s just been put on pause for a couple hours.
Fix the Future!
Time Corps: Whatever Nova belongs to in the future.
Unusual Aging: When Nova travels back in time, she reverse ages; when she travels forward again, she reverts.

Real-World Tags

Robots: ADD

Fictional Tags

Dystopian World

TIME TRAVEL ITINERARY (SPOILERS!)

From somewhere above Lichtenberg, Netherlands, circa 2050 ⋙ to the same airspace, 2025. Multiple round trips. Note: Nova and ADD’s two trips.