Gagarine 12A

"★★★★ – mesmerising" – The Guardian

"★★★★ – terrific" – Observer

Screening as part of Journeys Festival International.

Fanny Liatard’s gorgeous, moving feature debut is set in Cité Gagarine – a vast red brick housing project on the outskirts of Paris – concocting an urban fantasy around its real-life demolition in August 2019.

Isolated, inventive 16 year old Youri dreams of becoming an astronaut, inspired by his namesake and the Gagarine’s too, Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin. But with the building in disrepair and scheduled to be demolished, Youri plans to save it, by transforming the estate into his very own ‘starship’.