Little, Big, and Far

Little, Big, and Far

Jem Cohen / 2024 / 121 min. / Austria, USA

Coming soon in 2025

 

Austrian astronomer Karl is at a crossroads in his life and work. He finds his physicist wife growing distant and his job being reshaped by environmental crises as thoughts about science, fascism, and his grandson’s future spin above his head. After attending a conference in Greece, Karl decides not to return home and heads for a small island in hopes of finding a dark enough sky to reconnect with the stars. Abandoned at a remote mountain trail, he ascends and waits for darkness to fall. 



  • Director

    Jem Cohen

  • “Magical. Captures all the glories of the universe.”

    — Dustin Chang, Screen Anarchy

  • “Moments of sheer beauty… By broadening his imagery to include those obtained from actual outer space, and placing it within the tapestry of his feature, Cohen suggests that modern cinema, unshackled from genre, is more powerful than we may give it credit for.”

    — Conor Williams, Reverse Shot

  • “Wondrous. Will make you see the world in a new way.”

    — Steve Kopian, Unseen Films

  • “Jem Cohen’s wondrous, expansive Little, Big, and Far…. A reminder to seize solitude amid the bustle of everyday existence, to be quiet and still, to look up and consider the universe.”

    — Isaac Feldberg, RogerEbert.com

  • "Jem Cohen brings the same meditative elegance and intellectual curiosity he did to Museum Hours (2012) with his stargazing new feature, again using the cinematic form to patiently interrogate ways of seeing and being."

    — New York Film Festival
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