Athens International Film Festival
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Above and Below

25/9/2015,11:00,ODEON Οπερα 1 (Δημοσιογραφική Προβολή) 25/9/2015,18:45,ODEON Οπερα 1 1/10/2015,19:00,ODEON Οπερα 2

A couple lives in an underground tunnel in Las Vegas. A man survives in the California desert, using empty bottles to communicate with God. A woman plans her trip to Mars. These are the inhabitants of our own post-apocalyptic civilization. A hybrid sci fi doc that will blow your mind!

Filmmaker and producer in attendance

A couple lives in an underground tunnel in Las Vegas. A man survives in the California desert, using empty bottles to communicate with God. A girl yearns to escape to a faraway place. She dreams of travelling to Mars and simulates space missions with the Utah desert standing in for the Red Planet. People living on the fringe of contemporary American society, looking for meaning in some the most obscure corners of the earth. Romantic heroes in search of truth beyond human limitations, finding poetry in the extremes. Their daily lives couldn't be more different than our own, yet Nicolas Steiner seeks out the beauty in the everyday, connecting the dots that bring us all together as we search for a place in the universe. A documentary that could almost pass for a science fiction adventure, "Above and Below" is the most enchanting paradox of the year.

Filmmaker and producer in attendance


Above and Below/Από τους Υπονόμους στο Διάστημα... from NyxtesPremieras

Σκηνοθεσία / Director
Nicolas Steiner
Σενάριο / Screenwriter
Nicolas Steiner
Φωτογραφία / DoP
Markus Nestroy
Μουσική / Music
Paradox Paradise, Jan Miserre, John Guertler
Μοντάζ / Editor
Kaya Inan
Ηθοποιοί / Principal Cast
Edward Cardenas, Cynthia Goodwin
Richard F. Ethredge

Ελβετία, Γερμανία / Switzerland, Germany
2015
Εγχρωμο / Color
DCP
119’
Αγγλικά / English

 



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