Gagarine

Yuri lives in Cité Gagarine, a vast housing project in Ivry-sur-Seine on the outskirts of Paris. It was opened in the 1960s by the famous Russian cosmonaut, after whom both the building and its young resident are named. Now in a state of disrepair, the building is to be torn down, but this once-thriving hotbed of leftist political activism still hosts a community of residents unhappy at having to leave. None more so than Yuri, who not only figures out a way to stay beyond the council-mandated evacuation order, but to create his own orbital spacecraft within it.

Starring Finnegan Oldfield, Jamil Mccraven, Denis Lavant, Lyna Khoudri, Alseni Bathily, Farida Rahouadj

Directed by Fanny Liatard, Jérémy Trouilh

Duration 98 mins

Certification (12A)