It sounds like some form of Event Sourcing? I didn't get much technical details from the page, and the (otherwise excellent) movie.

It can be, but doesn't need to be. It's highly compatible with cqrs and event driven in general, usually done with sowmthing like a pubsub event bus (NATS is most often used). Whether you want to go all the way to event sourcing is up to you - it's completely agnostic as to how you do your backend.