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Aniara (2019)

Aniara poster
Directed by
Hugo Lilja, Pella Kågerman
Genre
drama film, science fiction film
Country
Sweden
Runtime
1h 46m
Rated
R
Rating
6.1 of 10 from 439 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

In a future where Earth is no longer livable, a spaceship carrying people to Mars gets knocked off course. The stranded passengers must figure out how to survive and find meaning in their new reality.

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What happens

Aniara is a 2018 Swedish-Danish science fiction film directed and written by Pella Kågerman and Hugo Lilja. The film is an adaptation of the 1956 Swedish epic poem of the same name by Harry Martinson. The film is set in a dystopian future where Earth has been rendered uninhabitable, prompting mass migration from Earth to Mars. When one such routine trip veers off course, the passengers of the Aniara struggle to cope with their new lives. The film premiered at the 2018 Toronto International Film Festival and was given a theatrical release in 2019 by Magnolia Pictures. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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