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I Origins

Are the eyes really the window of the soul? This is the springboard for a fascinating movie experience and a scientific discovery that could change society as we know it.

The sophisticated science fiction surprise of the year, winner of the Alfred P. Sloan Feature Film Prize at Sundance, directed by 35-year-old Mike Cahill. Are the eyes really the window of the soul? This is the springboard for a fascinating movie experience and a scientific discovery that could change society as we know it.

"I Origins" merges science with fantasy, romance with mystery and emotion with reason in an eclectic puzzle that only offers answers by creating countless new questions. It all starts when a molecular biologist meets a stranger at a party and asks to photograph her eyes. But is there any soul left behind his own? T.Th.


i origins / η ίρις, το παράθυρο της ψυχής... by NyxtesPremieras

Σκηνοθεσία / Director
Mike Cahill

Σενάριο / Screenwriter
Mike Cahill

Φωτογραφία / DoP
Markus Förderer

Μουσική / Music
Will Bates, Phil Mossman

Μοντάζ / Editor
Mike Cahill

Ηθοποιοί / Principal Cast
Michael Pitt, Steven Yeun Astrid Bergès-Frisbey, Brit Marling, Dorien Makhloghi, Charles W. Gray

ΗΠΑ / USA
2014
Εγχρωμο / Color
DCP
107'
Αγγλικά / English



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