Meanwhile on Earth

Director: Jérémy Clapin

2024 / 89min / DCP

A sci-fi psychodrama like nothing you’ve seen before, Meanwhile on Earth follows aspiring graphic novelist Elsa (an arresting Megan Northam, in her debut feature starring role) as, along with her family, she struggles to cope with the disappearance of her brother Franck, an astronaut who vanished during his first mission. While stargazing one night, Elsa is shocked to receive contact from Franck, but her joy is short-lived when she learns of the dark and troubling forces behind his reappearance, forcing her to confront the lengths she will go for the brother she once feared lost forever. Featuring an ethereal score courtesy Dan Levy of indie pop band The Dø and arresting images from the lens of DP Robrecht Heyvaert, Clapin—director of the Academy Award-nominated hand-drawn animation I Lost My Body—creates a rich, strange, and vitally original meditation on grief in his first (mostly) live-action feature. A Metrograph Pictures release.

Q&A with director Jérémy Clapin on Saturday, September 7th