Today at the Toronto International Film Festival, Magnolia Pictures announced they have obtained North American rights to Sweden’s science fiction thriller – ANIARA, directed by Pella Kågerman and Hugo LiIja.
ANIARA is based on the 1956 Swedish Nobel Prize winner Harry Martinsson’s literary work and tells the story of one of the many spaceships used for transporting Earth’s fleeing population to their new home-planet Mars. As the ship, Aniara, leaves the ruined Earth, she collides with space debris and is knocked off course. While her passengers slowly realize that they’ll never be able to return, they continue onwards through an empty and cold universe. In Aniara’s inexorable journey towards destruction there is a warning that cannot be emphasized enough: there’s only one Earth. ANIARA is a prophecy, a panoramic view of humanity’s possible fate.
“We are crazy happy that Magnolia is on board this ship,” states director Pella Kågerman. “We have admired their catalogue for a long time, and are extremely excited that ANIARA will now become part of the Magnolia family for our distribution in North America,” added co-director Hugo Lilja.
Magnolia President Eamonn Bowles said “ We’re thrilled to bring this audacious, intelligent vision to audiences. Pella and Hugo have done an amazing job creating a unique world and society aboard a spaceship.”
