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Proxima
Filmed inside real-life European Space Agency facilities, writer-director Alice Winocour's intimate human drama explores the pressures on one mother who must juggle responsibilities to her young daughter as she prepares for an out-of-this-world expedition. Sarah (Eva Green) is the only woman chosen for a year-long space mission code-named Proxima alongside fellow astronauts Mike Shannon (Matt Dillon) and Anton Ochievski (Aleksey Fateev). Training begins in Cologne, where Sarah lives with her precocious young daughter Stella (Zelie Boulant-Lemesle), close to her astrophysicist ex-husband Thomas (Lars Eidinger). The physical and psychological impact of the training regime weighs heavily on Sarah, straining the relationship with her only child. As preparations for the mission move to Russia and Kazakhstan, Sarah prepares to blast off into space and leave behind the person she loves the most.
