A first at the SFFF! Ride the immersive power of IMAX technology and 3D audio on a journey into space with Thomas Pesquet, the European Space Agency’s (ESA) youngest astronaut, and the 10th French astronaut to travel into space. Enjoy the highlights of his six-month space odyssey, the Proxima Mission, 400 km above the Earth.

Directed by Franco-German duo Pierre-Emmanuel Le Goff and Jürgen Hansen, In the Eyes of an Astronaut is a 27-minute documentary based on images shot on board (and outside) of the International Space Station (ISS). Pesquet docked with the ISS in November 2016 for a 196-day, 17-hour, and 49-minute mission. The filmmakers and Pesquet had agreed to a shooting plan before the mission, but the result exceeded their expectations! Pesquet kept a daily visual diary -he brought back more than 600 hours of footage, including 40 in IMAX format, sharing his thoughts and feelings on the beauty and fragile nature of our planet, and man’s place in the universe.

Highlights of the film include the scene where the French astronaut plays the saxophone in the ISS Cupola overlooking planet Earth, extravehicular footage when Pesquet went out of the ISS in his sokol suit – "the dream in the dream" – as well as more intimate or singular moments.

During his mission, Thomas Pesquet (the French "Major Thom") also regularly posted breathtaking pictures on his popular Instagram account (with 484k followers). Check them out: @thom_astro.

THROUGH THE EYES OF AN ASTRONAUT is NOT preceded by a short film.