Back to the Future

Emily Beecham won Best Actress at Cannes as Alice, who has bred a flower guaranteed to make you happy, as long as you talk to it and keep it well watered. Against company rules she takes one home, and slowly the price of all that happiness starts to show. — At the corporation where she breeds new plant species, Alice Woodard has named her latest creation after her son. Keep it at the right temperature, feed it properly and talk to it often, and it will make its owner happy. Against company regulations she takes one home to Joe, then starts to look closely at everyone who has spent time near it. — Best Actress Award (Emily Beecham) | Cannes Film Festival | 2019

How would you manage your life if someone told you it had to stand still for 2 years? Nobel-winning author Harry Martinson’s poem is turned into a modern and impressively timely (although filmed before the pandemic) existential science fiction film. — A spaceship transporting people from Earth to Mars, full of amenities for its voracious consumer passengers, goes off course causing a temporary disruption in everyone's lives. Managing the disruption will force them to reflect on their existence and their place in the universe. — Official Selection | Toronto Film Festival | 2018 Cineuropa Award | Les Arcs European Film Festival | 2018 Best Actress (Emelie Garbers) | Les Arcs European Film Festival | 2018

The Greek short film that Moonlight's Barry Jenkins publicly praised, is a rare for our country contact with science fiction cinema, through a brilliant invention - the tender wink at the genre's history and its connection with current affairs. — Earth has been abandoned for a long time now and the human race has found refuge in outer space. Three archeologists return to Earth to investigate where a mysterious five tone signal is coming from. — Official Selection - Critics' Week | Cannes Film Festival | 2018