The Glass Dome (2025) – When the World Watches, Who Do You Become?

In the Glass Dome, nothing is hidden. Not even who you truly are

The Glass Dome (2025) is a haunting dystopian psychological thriller that interrogates surveillance, control, and the erosion of identity in a world that never looks away. Set in a chillingly plausible near future, the film imagines a society obsessed with transparency—where privacy is criminal, and the truth is just another form of manipulation.

In a state-sponsored social experiment gone viral, twelve strangers are selected to live inside the Glass Dome, a massive, fully transparent structure with no walls, no shadows, and no secrets. Every moment is broadcast live to a global audience. The rules are simple: live together for 100 days without lies, violence, or disobedience. The reward? Total social reintegration and erasure of their criminal records.

But the Dome doesn’t just reflect light. It amplifies pressure.

As days stretch on and the world watches their every move, cracks begin to form—both in the structure and in the psyches of its inhabitants. Beneath the forced smiles and managed narratives, hidden agendas bubble to the surface. Old wounds are reopened, alliances fracture, and the audience begins to choose sides. The experiment becomes a game of survival, not against each other—but against the fear of losing oneself completely under the gaze of millions.

Directed by an up-and-coming visionary known for blending minimalist sci-fi with high-concept dread, The Glass Dome builds slow-burning suspense into explosive catharsis. Echoes of The Truman Show, 1984, and Ex Machina can be felt throughout, but the film carves its own brutal niche by asking a terrifying question: If no one can lie, how do you hide your soul?