Sinopsis
Fiction. Aniara is the story of one of the many spaceships used for transporting Earth’s fleeing population to their new home-planet Mars. But just as the ship leaves the destroyed Earth, she collides with space junk and is thrown off her course. The passengers slowly realize that they’ll never be able to return. The protagonist, MR, runs a room where a sentient computer allows humans to experience near-spiritual memories of the Earth. As the ship drifts further into the endless void more and more passengers are in need of MRs services. Pressure builds on MR as she is the only one who can keep the growing insanity and lethal depression at bay. In Aniara’s inexorable journey towards destruction, there is a warning that cannot be emphasized enough. There’s only one Earth. It’s time to take responsibility for our actions.
Pella Kågerman is educated at the Royal Institute of Art and Hugo Lilja at the National College of Film & Television, both in Stockholm Sweden. They have collaborated since 2009. In the UK they are represented by ITG and in the US by WME. Together they created The Unliving, a philosophical zombie short, that won prizes at Berlinale, Sitges, Clermont-Ferrand, and other film festivals. Aniara is their first feature film based on a 1956 epic poem from the Swedish Nobel laureate Harry Martinson.
November, 12th 2020. 9 pm
Cineteca Madrid. Sala Plató
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Section: Swedish Contemporary Directors
Year of Production: 2018
Running Time: 106’
Countries: Sweden and Denmark
Language: Swedish
Director: Pella Kågerman and Hugo Lilja
Cast: Emelie Jonsson, Arvin Kananian, Bianca Cruzeiro, Anneli Martini, Jennie Silfverhjelm, Peter Carlberg and Emma Broomé
Producer: Annika Rogell
Production Company: Meta Film Stockholm Production
International Sales: Film Constellation
Main Festivals and awards: Special Mention from the young jury-prize, Special Mention from the press prize, Cineuropa award, and Best Actress prize at Les Arcs European Film Festival. Asteroid Award for Best International Science Fiction Film at Trieste Science+Fiction Festival. Best Director prize at Uruguay Film Festival
