Mi gran nave espacial
2021 · 11m · España
Directed by Manu Cabrera
Genres: coming-of-age, fantasy, sci-fi
Tones: contemplative, tender, whimsical
Olya is a girl who has grown up among American fashion magazines and old posters of astronauts from the former Soviet Union. Now she prepares to embark on a journey worthy of her heroes, who look at her from space and await her on a planet where she can be happy, as in the old Hollywood films.
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It's a coming-of-age wrapped in Soviet cosmonaut kitsch and Hollywood fever dream—genuinely weird premise, but the execution feels too tender-hearted to push it where it could actually rupture something.
Cabrera threads a formal lineage here: the bildungsroman meets sci-fi pastoral, with careful attention to how found imagery (fashion magazines, old posters) becomes the grammar of a child's interior world—cinema about cinema, measured and deliberate.
The film lives in that single decision to let Olya's imagination collapse Soviet aspiration and American glamour into one image; it's the sound design and color grading around those magazine cutouts that transforms a modest premise into something that *feels* boundless on eleven minutes and whatever the budget allowed.