To the Moon and Back
A film by Elisa Gómez Alvarez
From a small island, a Filipino space biologist chasing a big dream.
From Morocco, Casablanca, a young scientist reaching for the stars.
“A vibrant film that views Gen Z
not as heroes, but as sensitive beings
searching, against all odds,
for a new horizon.”
Visions du Réel, Selection committee
A screening can be a beginning. Building on the film’s momentum, our campaign connects film, science and youth across borders – creating educational opportunities for desert dreamers and island kids.
THE STORY
DOESN'T END
WITH THE CREDITS.
A screening can be a beginning.
Building on the film’s momemtum, our campaign
connect film, science and youth across
borders – creating educational opportunities
for desert dreamers and island kids.
PHILIPPINES
Science Caravan
Mentorship
EUROPE
Universities
Dialogue
MENA
Science outreach
Partnerships
DIRECTOR'S NOTE
As a child, I didn’t want to go to the moon, but I wanted to disappear from Earth, transcending my body to escape domestic violence and my parent’s mental health issues — a dangerous environment. To The Moon and Back explores this need for escapism, revealing the untouchable space of imagination as the ultimate shelter and dreaming as a form of resistance.
I see in Ilyasse and Pauline brilliant, sensitive dreamers for whom space is an untouched realm of hope and desire. Yet each of them faces barriers, stigmas and conflicts rooted in today’s world, revealing the tension between a broken present and a generation reaching for a new beginning.
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TECHNICAL DETAILS
with FLORENCE PAULINE G. BASUBAS
and ILYASSE TAAME
- directed by
- ELISA GÓMEZ ALVAREZ
- produced by
- PALMYRE BADINIER
EUGÉNIE MICHEL VILLETTE
GALE OSORIO - director of photography
- MYRIAM GUYÉNARD
- sound operator
- THÉODORA MENTHONNEX
- sound operator and sound design
- ILÙ SEYDOUX
- editing
- KATJA DRINGENBERG
NOÉMIE RUBEN - original soundtrack
- THÉO DIBLANC
- production management
- AUDREY FREI
- post production supervision
- DENIS LIAKHOV
- mix and sound design
- ARNO LEDOUX
- productions
- RITA PRODUCTIONS
LES FILMS DU BILBOQUET
BINISAYA MOVEMENT
RTS RADIO TÉLÉVISION SUISSE
AL JAZEERA DOCUMENTARY CHANNEL
TËNK
- LENGTH
- 84’
- FORMAT
- Scope
- ORIGINAL LANGUAGES
- English, Cebuano, Arabic, Spanish, French
- PRODUCTION COUNTRIES
- Switzerland, the Philippines, France, Qatar
- SUBTITLES
- English, French, German
- DCP
- 5.1