Astronaut

Aerospace engineer Jim is carrying out a secret plan. He wants to fly into space on a mini rocket he built entirely by hand and walk outside the spacecraft. But one problem after another comes one after another. Can his dream still be realized? This film takes a different approach in the science fiction genre, abandoning the grand commercial narrative of space exploration. It uses the repeated failures of a "grassroots team" to trace the original intention of the science fiction story, and puts a realist cloak on a Hollywood-style dream-chasing journey. French actor Nicolas Guiraud wrote, directed, and acted, composing a space poem dedicated to ordinary people. Shortlisted for the main competition unit of the 2022 Cairo International Film Festival.