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Meet Pella Kgerman, the co-director of ANIARA

One of the more unique titles at this years Toronto International Film Festival is the science-fiction epic ANIARA, co-directed by Pella Kgerman and Hugo Lilja. Made with modest means and a surplus of ingenuity, ANIARA is based on a 1956 epic poem by Swedish Nobel Prize winner Harry Martinson and details what happens after we destroy our planet and seek refuge elsewhere. Harrowing and sobering in its portrait of what human beings are capable of, ANIARA constantly surprises. Its part of a string of intelligent, off-genre pictures from Sweden such as Ali Abbasis Cannes hit Border, also screening at this years Festival which are built around issues and which ask probing, disturbing questions.

by Trans World Features August 25, 2018