![]() Against this backdrop of complex realities, the director offers an ode to life, friendship and, above all, hope, describing his film as “a surrealistic, funny, emotional and bittersweet space voyage, which attempts to blast off from a harsh, harrowing reality and head towards a more life-affirming, optimistic proposition where, despite all the difficulties, life is worth living”.įor his part, Karra Elejalde admits that he was captivated by the moving and original script, and by the performative challenge represented by stepping into the shoes of a character who lives his life teetering between lucidity and madness. A chance encounter between the two will blossom into a special relationship in which they will find out more about one another and help each other, embarking on a surreal and emotional rescue mission to save one another, protecting them from the trials and tribulations of life.īecause here, Suárez uses an original aesthetic approach to explore the scars left by the most recent financial crisis, through the main adult character, a kind of Don Quixote who thinks he is involved in an interplanetary mission, and a girl who is stuck living with her legal guardian. ![]() The plot introduces us to Zaida (played by Daniela Pezzoti), a solitary girl who lives with her step-father in a modest neighbourhood, and her neighbour Jonás (Karra Elejalde), an older loner who spends his days taking refuge in his imaginary world, believing his flat to be a spaceship, the Orion, on the strange, distant planet of Kepler, and he himself to be a NASA astronaut. The autonomous community of Valencia is the setting for this movie, the shoot for which will take place over five weeks on location in Castellón, Vall d'Uixó, Valencia and Torrent. The cast is rounded off by first-timer Daniela Pezzoti, Jorge Bosch (who pops up in the new series Rapa and You Shall Not Lie), Vicente Vergara ( Once Upon a Time in Euskadi ) and Pablo Molinero (who both acts in and co-wrote the screenplay for Ultrainnocence, a film that premiered recently at the Slamdance Film Festival). ![]() Series profile], and who will appear imminently in Llegaron de noche by Imanol Uribe, set to be released in Spain on 25 March) heads up the cast of this social fable that melds science-fiction and comedy. Talented actor Karra Elejalde (whom we saw not long ago in Alejandro Amenábar’s series La Fortuna [ + see also: The end of January saw the start of the shoot for Kepler Sexto B by Alejandro Suárez Lozano, who, on the heels of his successful shorts The Fisherman, Carpinteros-Wood Work and Hidden Soldier, has jumped head first into directing his first feature-length fiction film. ![]() ![]() Director Alejandro Suárez, actress Daniela Pezzoti and actor Karra Elejalde on the set of Kepler Sexto B (© Natxo Martínez) ![]()
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