Hypermoon

Synopsis

Mia, the director, receives life-altering news and takes a journey through her own history. We follow a child astronaut’s lonely travels through space, and ageing gangster Vincent, who, while moving away from his violent life, makes a find in his basement. An intimate and poetic story about memory and the fragility of existence. This is the third and final independent part of the Belleville trilogy, that started with Belleville Baby (2013 Berlinale Panorama, Best Swedish Documentary at the Swedish Film Awards) and was followed by Lucky One (2019 Eurimages Audentia Award)

Director Biography

Mia Engberg is a film director, producer and teacher. She has made a number of shorts and feature-length documentaries in Sweden, USA and France with her production company Story. The hybrid documentary “Belleville Baby” (2013) about a long distance call from a long lost lover, has received several awards and inspired young film makers worldwide.