From 30 July 2020

Proxima Proxima

Alice Winocour / France, Germany / 2019 / 107 min / Russian, German, English, French

Sarah is a French astronaut training at the European Space Agency in Cologne. She is the only woman in the arduous program. She lives alone with Stella, her seven-year-old daughter, and feels guilty that she cannot spend more time with her child. Her love is overpowering, unsettling. When Sarah is chosen to be part of the crew of a year-long space mission called ‘Proxima’, it creates chaos in the mother daughter relationship.

cast Eva Green, Matt Dillon, Zélie Boulant-Lemesle, Aleksei Fateev, Lars Eidinger, Sandra Hüller

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