THE SON OF THE STARS
Dir. Mircea Toia & Călin Cazan, 1988
Romania. 78 min.
In Romanian with English subtitles.

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 4 – 7:30 PM
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 7 – MIDNIGHT (with filmmaker Q&A)
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 12 – 7:30 PM
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 21 – 10 PM

From the Romanian animators behind DELTA SPACE MISSION, THE SON OF THE STARS is an even more wildly ambitious and surreal outer space adventure, a mid-1980s mash-up of THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK, ALIEN and Edgar Rice Burroughs’s Tarzan. In the year 6470, a husband and wife team of explorers receive a mysterious distress signal from a female astronaut who disappeared decades earlier. They leave their son, Dan, on board their ship while they go searching for the missing woman — but fate intervenes, crash-landing the ship on a jungle-like planet populated by bulbous, telekinetic aliens and eerie stone gardens of frozen space creatures.