Le Skylab

1979. Albertine, 10, and her entire family have gathered at the family home in Brittany for the grandmother’s birthday. All are convinced that NASA’s Skylab space station will fall on their heads that summer. The get-together spirals into a crazy weekend packed with revelations, love and song.

Awards:

San Sebastian International Film Festival:Julie Delpy, Special Prize of the Jury

Director:

Julie Delpy (Paris, 1969) one of the most important actresses on today’s French movie scene, debuted at the age of 14 in Jean-Luc Godard’s Détective (1985). Since then she has worked with directors like Léos Carax, Bertrand Tavernier, Agnieszka Holland, Krzysztof Kieslowski, Richard Linklater and Jim Jarmusch. Her films as a director also include Looking for Jimmy (2002) and two movies that participated in the “Panorama” section at Berlin Festival: Two Days in Paris (2007) and The Countess (2009).