TIFF 2018: Impressive Space Travel Sci-Fi Film 'Aniara' from Sweden

Space. The final frontier. This is the story of the starship Aniara. If you know me, you know I’m a huge sci-fi geek. Especially when it comes to space travel, and anything involving space and planets and spaceships. I discovered a film at the Toronto Film Festival this year titled Aniara, a Swedish sci-fi film adapted from Harry Martinson’s epic poem of the same name. This astounding sci-fi film is set in the near future and is about a big spaceship taking colonists from Earth to Mars, usually a three week journey for batches of lazy humans. But it gets irreversibly knocked off course, causing the passengers to descend into madness once they begin to accept their fate: drifting into the void of space. This film is AMAZINGLY good, perhaps the best indie sci-fi I’ve seen since Arrival, perfectly executed and invigorating in its rigorous sci-fi storytelling. ›››

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