A teenage girl's family falls for a cosmic cult promising salvation in a higher existence on Jupiter. As flashbacks leading deeper into the past unravel the family's struggle to get a hold on life, the girl has to decide if to follow her parents or to make her own way on earth.
Acting
Mariella Aumann carries the whole broken family.
Cinematography
Jupiter worship never looked so clinically beautiful.
Direction
Pfohl makes cult indoctrination feel uncomfortably domestic.
Director
Benjamin Pfohl
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Pfohl's debut feature was shot in actual German communal housing to capture authentic institutional bleakness.
The film mirrors real 2010s European 'ascension' movements where middle-class families abandoned children for spiritual colonies.
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