ANIARA is the story of one of the many spaceships used for transporting Earth's population to their new home-planet Mars. But just as Aniara leaves the ruined Earth, she collides with an asteroid and is knocked off her course. Aniara's passengers slowly realise that they'll never be able to return; they will continue onwards through an empty and cold universe forever.

Direction: Hugo Lilja, Pella Kågerman

Script: Pella Kågerman, Hugo Lilja

Production: Annika Rogell

Cinematography: Sophie Winqvist Loggins

Editing: Pella Kågerman, Björn Kessler, Michal Leszczylowski

Production Design: Linnéa Petterson, Maja-Stina Åsberg

Costume Design: Ellen Utterström

Make-Up: Tuija Valén

Sound: Calle Wachtmeister

Original Score: Alexander Berg

Visual Effects: Per Jonsson, Arild Andersson, Andreas Wicklund

Cast: Emelie Jonsson, Arvin Kananian, Bianca Cruzeiro, Anneli Martini, Jennie Silfverhjelm, Peter Carlberg, Emma Broomé, Dakota Trancher Wiliams, David Nzinga, Leon Jiber

Original Title: ANIARA

Original Language: Swedish

Film Production Countries: Sweden, Denmark

Website: https://www.aniarafilm.com/

Social Media: https://www.facebook.com/AniaraFilm/

Statement of the Director/s
The Swedish Nobel prize winner Harry Martinsson wrote "Aniara" in 1956. The novel has been translated into a number of different languages, including Danish, Finnish, English, Russian, Czech, Arabic, Japanese and most recently Chinese. It has been staged as an opera and several theatrical productions, but has never before been filmed. In Aniara's inexorable journey towards destruction there is a warning that cannot be emphasised enough. There's only one Earth. We have only one life. So, we have to take responsibility for our actions and constantly guard our environment and our humanity. If we don't, Earth will soon be a ...

Biography of the Director/s
Pella Kågerman, educated at the Royal Institute of Art, and Hugo Lilja, educated at the National College of Film & Television, have collaborated since 2009 and together they have made Hugo’s graduation film THE UNLIVING (2010), which demonstrated their unique ability to make arthouse sci-fi on a small budget, thus attracting huge interest from Hollywood, British Film4 and European arthouse producers who developped it into a feature. The film won numerous awards world-wide - amongst other places - Berlinale, Stockholm and Clermont-Ferrand.

Filmography of the Director/s
Selected filmography:

2014 - STORMAKSTIDEN, short
2014 - VÄKTARE. short
2011 - SUPPORTERN, short
2010 - EN DAG PÅ LANDET, short
2010 - THE UNLIVING, short
2009 - ALTONA. short
2009 - BODY CONTACT, short
2008 - HOME SERVICE, short

Awards Won
Best Actress Prize, Cineuropa Award, Press Prize, Young Jury Prize - Les Arcs European Film Festival, 2018

Production Company:
Meta Film Stockholm
Christine Linnea Andersen
BOX 36, Höganäs, Sweden
Stockholm, 263 21, Sweden
E-Mail: [email protected]
Phone: +45 251 50 648

World Sales:
Film Constellation
Fabien Westerhoff
1 Green Bank
London, E1W 2PA, United Kingdom
E-Mail: [email protected]
Phone: +33 153 103 399

Press:
Meta Film Rights ApS
Christine Linnea Andersen
Lille Strandstræde 20C, 2. Floor
København K, 1254, Denmark
E-Mail: [email protected]
Phone: +45 251 50 648