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WHO’S IN IT?

Michael Pitt (Boardwalk Empire), Brit Marling (The East), Àstrid Bergès-Frisbey (Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides), Steven Yeun (The Walking Dead), Archie Panjabi (The Good Wife), Cara Seymour (An Education), William Mapother (Lost)

WHO’S BEHIND THE CAMERA?

Mike Cahill (Another Earth), director, writer, producer, editor; Hunter Gray (Momma’s Man) and Alex Orlovsky (The Place Beyond The Pines), producers; Will Bates (Lola Versus) and Phil Mossman (We Are What We Are), composers; Markus Förderer (Finsterworld), cinematographer

WHAT’S IT ABOUT?

Ian Gray (Pitt) is a PhD student studying molecular biology with a specialty in eye evolution, and meets a woman at a party named Sofi (Bergès-Frisbey) who has an unmistakable pattern in her eyes. They soon fall in love with each other, but tragic consequences set the path for a discovery that could change the scientific order as we know it…

IN ONE SENTENCE, WHY SHOULD YOU BE EXCITED?

Mike Cahill, the filmmaker whose debut film Another Earth captivated the indie crowd with its unique take on science-fiction, returns with a more intimate film which pushes the boundaries on what we perceive as science even further than before.

WHEN’S IT OUT?

FRIDAY 26TH SEPTEMBER 2014

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