Cosmographies (2024): cast, story & where to watch

Released in 2024, Cosmographies is a science fiction and documentary film directed by Juan Francisco Salazar, running about 94 minutes.

What it’s about. Maori astrobiologist Xuê Noon (Victoria Hunt) finds solace in Mars in 2051 as a leader from the Aotearoa Space Agency on an international scientific mission, following the discovery of dormant microorganisms by the NASA Mars Sample Return Mission in 2039. Xuê wanders across this sentient planet and reflects on the newly found lifeforms as she grows plants in a glasshouse. Through the spirit of an ancient taniwha, she slipstreams in spacetime to the Atacama Desert in 2023 where she lived as an Indigenous scientist years earlier. In Atacama the film engages with numerous ongoing life-and-death struggles for land and water justice led by Indigenous communities, activists, and scientists in this old, vital yet scarred desert. Through interviews and conversations, the film depicts centuries old and ongoing forms of social injustice and ecological degradation to weave a critical allegory against the renewed commercial impulse of a new space age rampaging in the 2020's.

Who’s in it. Cosmographies stars Victoria Hunt as Xuê Noon, Adriana Aránguiz as Participant, Jimena Cruz Mamani as Participant and Rudecindo Christian Espíndola as Participant, among others.

How it landed. With an audience score of 6.0/10, Cosmographies has drawn a solid, mixed-to-positive response.

Where to watch. Streaming options change often. See the full, country-by-country breakdown on our where to watch Cosmographies page.

If you liked it. Fans of Cosmographies tend to enjoy Inception, Interstellar, The Empire Strikes Back and Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse.