Title: Exterritorial (2025)
Genre: Sci-Fi Political Thriller / Philosophical Drama / Dystopian Mystery
Country: United States / France / United Arab Emirates
Duration: 2h 19min
Director: Jonathan Glazer
Screenplay: Charlie Kaufman
Music: Mica Levi
Starring: Tilda Swinton, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Léa Seydoux, Ciarán Hinds, Dev Patel
In the year 2046, the world's most powerful corporations have established independent “exterritorial zones”—borderless city-states immune to national law. Governed by privatized ethics and AI-augmented tribunals, these Zones promise peace, freedom, and innovation—but at a cost.
Exterritorial follows Mara Ellison (Tilda Swinton), a philosopher turned legal archivist, as she is summoned to investigate a Zone’s first internal murder in decades. The victim: a whistleblowing neuroscientist. The accused: a non-citizen asylum seeker (Yahya Abdul-Mateen II) whose presence in the Zone is legally impossible.