"Ad+astra"
Ad Astra
L’astronaute Roy McBride s’aventure jusqu’aux confins du système solaire à la recherche de son père disparu et pour résoudre un mystère qui menace la survie de notre planète. Lors de son voyage, il sera confronté à des révélations mettant en cause la nature même de l’existence humaine, et notre place dans l’univers.
Ad Astra
An impressive parable where the artist’s creativity is paralyzed by the dull crowd can be seen as a metaphor for a totalitarian system. Cleverly designed animation shows the artist as a tied man whose creativity is hindered by the crowd. A visually attractive film with very interesting editing won an award at the Annecy festival in 1983.
Ad Astra
This film tells the story of the crash of the former Soviet Union "Soyuz One" spacecraft carrying Vladimir Komarov on April 24, 1967. The short film’s stance on this air crash tends to express the hardships of the aerospace industry and praise the greatness of the astronauts, while some artistic processing and adaptation of the protagonist’s mo..
Ad Astra
A visual journey through Norwegian modernist church architecture. A short documentary film that pays tribute to the Norwegian church and post-war postmodernist architects for its daring reform of the 50-70's innovative church building. Raw concrete and cold clean lines in a functionalist style were in line with society's development, but in stark c..
Ad Astra
A life of a teacher and her students in a tiny school lost in a vast world of snow and mountains. A tale of courage, wisdom and humanity and an ode to endurance and stoicism. Beautifully shot and narrated.
Per aspera ad astra
Short movie where a little old man trying to get up from the toilet. He gets a helping hand.
Per aspera ad astra
La journée ordinaire d'une petite poule de ménage besogneuse et pressée, tiraillée entre son travail et sa famille.
Death & Abstraction
A man goes to sleep, and looking out the window he sees that it is death that illuminates the world, not the moon. A short but touching story about the true meaning that death has on our lives, a concrete or abstract life?
To The Stars By Hard Ways
A starship discovers a dead alien space craft. All the humanoid crew are dead except for one woman. When revived, she remembers nothing of the accident which crippled the spacecraft, and is brought back to earth to be studied.
