Shooting Stars

While investigating mysterious UFO sightings from his childhood, a boy begins to question who the real aliens are.

His search gradually shifts from extraterrestrial fantasies toward the invisible outsiders living among us on Earth. Blending cosmic imagination with social observation, Shooting Stars explores themes of identity, alienation, and social division. Through the metaphor of space and extraterrestrial life, the film reflects on how societies label, exclude, and construct the «other».

The film was supported in 2026 and received 500 000.

Jury Statement

A personal and visually distinctive documentary about the feeling of alienation, told through director Parsa Ansari’s own experience. The film connects his childhood fascination with UFOs and aliens to the reality of young people in education and public life. Through animation, archive and interviews, the film builds a visual language where the alien metaphor feels playful and precise rather than forced. The film finds an original way to speak about what it means to be made an outsider in your own society