Jupiter

Only a few hours until comet Calypso passes Earth at a threatening distance. A shy teenage girl is travelling with her family to a remote cabin in the alps, where she has to decide if to pursue her own path on Earth or to follow her parents, members of a cosmic cult, through a fatal procedure into a higher existence on Jupiter.

Director: Benjamin Pfohl
Producers: Dreifilm (Martin Kosok, Alexander Fritzemeyer) und Maverick Film (Sebastian Fehring, Philipp Maron, Tristan Bähre)
Live-Action, Germany, 2019
13:58 min | trailer

Born in Cologne, Germany in 1985, Benjamin Pfohl worked on several national and international
feature film productions. In 2008 he enrolled at University of Television and Film Munich (HFF)
where he wrote and directed several short films and was awarded a FIPRESCI prize. His
graduation short JUPITER competed in over thirty filmfestivals worldwide and was shortlisted for
the BAFTA Student Film Award.

Jupiter - Director - Benjamin Pfohl

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