Will We All Be Blind Tomorrow?

Will We All Be Blind Tomorrow? (2018) blends Documentary elements. Top cast includes Valérie Bettencourt, Éric Chantelauze, and Olivier Angèle. The narrative builds around escalating stakes, urgent decisions, and action-driven momentum.

Actor: Valérie Bettencourt

Short-sightedness is reaching epidemic proportions. Some scientists think they have found a reason why. East Asia has been gripped by an unprecedented rise in myopia. Today, up to 90% of Chinese teenagers and young adults are short-sighted. Other parts of the world have also seen a dramatic increase in the condition, which now affects around half of young adults in the USA and Europe. By some estimates, the world may count nearly half a billion of blind people in 2050. In severe cases, the deformation of the eyeball increases the risk of retinal detachment, cataracts, glaucoma and even blindness. About one-fifth of university-aged people in East Asia now have this extreme form of myopia, and half of them are expected to develop irreversible vision loss. This threat has prompted a rise in research to try to understand the causes of the disorder — and scientists are beginning to find answers…