Wishing on a Star
One trip, one wish, one new beginning.
Luciana, a Neapolitan astrologer, has a method to make her clients’ wishes come true. All they need to do is take a trip on their birthday to a precise destination to be reborn under a new sky. Whether it's Taipei, Beirut, or a nearby village, during these birthday journeys, the protagonists will go through unexpected transformations to help them discover what they truly desire.
For his sixth feature film, which is full of star-crossed charm and earthly delights, veteran filmmaker and master of the hybrid form Péter Kerekes brilliantly combines the cinematic feel of a fiction film with cleverly captured real emotions from real people. With an emphasis on coincidence, which plays as significant a role in his film as it does in life, “Wishing on a Star” is a journey into the human soul, the cosmos, and beyond.
Péter Kerekes (b. 1973)
Selected: Zamatoví teroristi (Velvet Terrorists, 2013, doc), Slovensko 2.0 (2014, co-dir), Batastories (2019, doc), Cenzorka (107 Mothers, 2021, doc)