In Little, Big, and Far, Jem Cohen crafts a cinematic universe where the intimate meets the infinite. Karl, a 70-year-old Austrian astronomer played by Franz Schwartz, contemplates the distances between stars, the fragility of human bonds, and the quiet harmonies linking life, love, and memory. Through letters exchanged with his wife, Eleanor, and his colleague, Sarah, the film drifts from Viennese streets and museum halls to the stillness of a Greek island, where Karl searches for a sky dark enough to commune with the cosmos. Blurring fiction and documentary, Jem Cohen shapes an essayistic meditation in which eclipses, comets, and the textures of daily life converge in frames alive with wonder, revealing cinema as a vessel for curiosity, reflection, and the cosmic gaze. (ME)

Quebec Premiere

Little, Big, and Far