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Oct 14, 2024 | bfi.org.uk | Cici Peng |Jessica Kiang |Nick James |Cici PengFestivals

Reviewed from the 2024 New York Film Festival When was the last time you looked up at the sky in search of stars? This is the question docu-fiction film Little, Big, and Far asks – not as a clichéd romantic ideal, but as an interrogative, political examination. Its protagonist, a 70-year-old Austrian astronomer named Karl, tells us: “People don’t care about the stars because they don’t see them.” Jem Cohen’s films are always concerned with ‘ways of seeing’.