Little, Big, and Far

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Little, Big, and Far

2025

2h 1m

Drama

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An Austrian astronomer named Karl who has been re-evaluating his work and life after turning 70, and who travels to a mountaintop on a Greek island in search of the darkest sky against which to view the cosmos.

Cici Peng

Sight & Sound

Nov 20

Cohen casts out a wide net, pulling the astronomical towards the ephemeral, draping them around each other with the implicit conviction that our lives are connected to the cosmos.

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Alissa Wilkinson

New York Times

07/10/2025

Feels spiritually nourishing in a way few films can manage.

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Clayton Dillard

Slant Magazine

07/06/2025

2/4

The film adopts a diaristic, epistolary form that flattens its emotional topography.

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Chris Cassingham

In Review Online

Aug 3

"questions...about cosmic expanse emerge in sharp relief to ones about terrestrial minutiae, all asked by deeply curious people with an implicit but shared melancholy for a world precariously balanced on the edge of catastrophe and loss.

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Erik Reeds

Spectrum Culture

07/17/2025

It’s unlikely that Little, Big, and Far will win any new converts who were dissatisfied with Jem Cohen’s previous material, but as an intro to his work, you really can’t go wrong here.

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Christopher Campbell

Nonfics (Substack)

07/11/2025

You could just listen to it or just watch it, and have a great experience either way. With both, it feels transcendent.

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Stephen C

@bob25009 07/19/2025

Success in 2 hours and 1 minute!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! In German and American English audio options with American English subtitles!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Synopsis

An Austrian astronomer named Karl who has been re-evaluating his work and life after turning 70, and who travels to a mountaintop on a Greek island in search of the darkest sky against which to view the cosmos.

Director: Jem Cohen
Producer: Jem Cohen, Paolo Calamita
Screenwriter: Jem Cohen
Distributor: Grasshopper Film
Production Co: Gravity Hill Films, Little Magnet Films
Genre: Drama
Original Language: German
Release Date (Theaters): Jul 11, 2025, Limited
Runtime: 2h 1m