Aniara is based on a 1956 sci-fi poem of the same title, written by novel laureate Harry Martinson. People boarding a spaceship to Mars are annihilated in a predicted apocalypse. Aniara is a poetic Sci-Fi film laced with modern imagination and powerful expression. Cataclysmic scenes featuring suicidal articial intelligence, a new religion, and group sex will horrify. (Ellen Y. D. KIM)