Mars Express (2023)

It is 2200. Private investigator Aline Ruby works with her partner Carlos Rivera, who has been dead for five years but whose memories and likeness live on in android form. When a wealthy businessman hires them to track down a notorious hacker, they end up on Mars in a dark plot involving brainfarms, corruption and a missing girl in possession of a secret about the robots that threatens to change the universe forever. 

Mars Express is a sci-fi and cyberpunk thriller with voices by top French actors Léa Drucker, Mathieu Amalric and Daniel Njo Lobé. A stylish, futuristic film noir that combines 2D and 3D animation. A film full of adrenaline, humour and intriguing philosophical questions about artificial intelligence. Director Jérémie Périn creates a detailed world where we face the big questions about our own future with AI. 

The film premiered at Cannes and will be shown at IFFR in 2024 and open for Anima, the international animation film festival in Brussels.

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