Far From Home: Cinema's Fascination with Space — World Science Festival Brisbane Film Program

Overview

Rocketing into space might be a mere dream for most of us; however thanks to the movies, it's easy to pretend otherwise. Whether taking a lunar trip, pondering other planets or journeying towards the sun, cinema just loves jetting off of this rock we call earth — and taking film-goers along for the ride.

The list of great space-set flicks might be rather hefty, and you'd might need quite the long-haul intergalactic flight to get through them all, but the Gallery of Modern Art is going  to showcase a few standouts as part of this year's World Science Festival Brisbane. Across the three days between Thursday, March 21 and Saturday, March 23, it'll screen eight features and an array of shorts that are all focused on zooming into the great starry beyond.

Fancy heading to Mars with Arnold Schwarzenegger? Having a grand day out with Wallace & Gromit? Getting stranded on a space mission with Sandra Bullock? Revisiting one of the very first science fiction films ever made? With Total Recall, A Grand Day Out, Gravity and Le Voyage Dans La Lune on the bill at Far From Home: Cinema's Fascination with Space, you can do all of the above. Other highlights include Aussie comedy The Dish, iconic Russian sci-fi epic Solaris, the Danny Boyle-directed Sunshine and four winners from NASA's Project Mars short film competition.