Fanny Liatard and Jérémy Trouilh direct a cast led by Alseni Bathily, Lyna Khoudri and Jamil McCraven.
In 2015, Fanny Liatard and Jérémy Trouilh made a series of short reports on the inhabitants of Gagarine, a housing project located in Ivry-sur-Seine, on the outskirts of Paris, which was facing imminent demolition. In love with the found stories, and absorbed before the forced disappearance of the home of all its inhabitantshave transferred their first fiction to that liminal space in which reality tried to demolish dreams.
There we meet Youri, a 16-year-old boy who dreams of being like his idol, cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, while he improvises all kinds of arrangements in the condemned building to try to pass the review that will certify the end of the once noisy block. As if he were the last MIT engineer, his reforms allow him to extend his stay in the only space he has known while he delights the viewer with a dreamlike proposal beyond. A delicious tale that serves as testament and legend, a short story that dreams of a better universe within ours, perhaps the most daring journey that we can allow ourselves.
For those who look for stars no matter how gray the sky gets.
DATA SHEET
Direction: Fanny Liatard, Jérémy Trouilh Distribution: Alseni Bathily, Lyna Khoudri, Jamil McCraven, Finnegan Oldfield Original title: Gagarin Country: France Year: 2020 Release date: 04-13-2022 Gender: Drama Film script: Jérémy Trouilh, Benjamin Charbit, Fanny Liatard Duration: 95 minutes
Synopsis: Yuri, 16, has spent his entire life in the Gagarin Towers, a housing project on the outskirts of Paris, and dreams of being an astronaut. When the demolition of the Towers is raised, Yuri joins the resistance. With his friends Diana and Houssam, he embarks on a mission to save his home.
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