Afronauts
A rag-tag group is trying to launch a moon rocket to beat the American Apollo 11. The astronaut is a 17-year-old girl who has to be the first to set foot on the moon along with her two cats.
14'
USA
IFFR 2017
A sombre future in which sunlight has become rare. The sun’s rays are so damaging that the government only allows citizens a limited amount of daylight every day. Even outside, there are strict rules with which people must comply. A naughty little black girl ignores the rules and that’s how she discovers the truth.
All Short films at IFFR 2017
Also in this combined programme
The Golden Chain
Yetunde is the only crew aboard the Nigerian space station Eko and witnesses the recreation of the origins of the universe. A futuristic reinterpretation of the Yoruba story of creation.
14'
USA
IFFR 2017
Graft and Ash for a Three Monitor Workstation
Self-portrait of Sondra Perry's avatar investigating its own identity. A problematic software process that leads to a fatal error mode: the blue screen of death.
7'
USA
IFFR 2017
Remigration
A future San Francisco is inhabited only by affluent people. The authorities lure others into the city to do manual labour in exchange for free education.
19'
USA
IFFR 2017
- Director
- Terence Nance
- Premiere
- International premiere
- Country of production
- USA
- Production Year
- 2016
- Festival Edition
- IFFR 2017
- Length
- 16'
- Medium
- DCP
- Language
- English
- Producers
- Ana Souza, Kady Kamakate, Giulia Caruso
- Production Company
- Film Independent
- Sales
- Film Independent
- Screenplay
- Eugene Ramos
- Cinematography
- Andressa Cor
- Editor
- Aleshka Ferraro
- Music
- Amrithra Vaz
- Cast
- Rylee Khkol, Jontille Gerard
- Website
- www.facebook.com/theychargeforthesun
Programme IFFR 2017
Black Rebels
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A web series about the loves and challenges faced by a group of black, queer, polyamorous women in Brooklyn.
45'
USA
IFFR 2017
Afronauts
A rag-tag group is trying to launch a moon rocket to beat the American Apollo 11. The astronaut is a 17-year-old girl who has to be the first to set foot on the moon along with her two cats.
14'
USA
IFFR 2017
Atlanta
Earn (Donald Glover) is the inexperienced manager of his cousin, rapper Paper Boi. All they have in common is their struggle for a better life and earning more money. This hilarious, intelligent series, also aired by television channel FOX, offers an idiosyncratic, experimental narrative style but also a critical glimpse of the spirit of our times.
300'
USA
IFFR 2017