Ambition Is The New Sci-Fi Movie I Didn’t Even Know I Wanted To See

Ambition Is The New Sci-Fi Movie I Didn’t Even Know I Wanted To See

It’s not Interstellar but now I want to see it just the same: Ambition is the sci-fi movie that nobody seems to be reporting about even while its main actor, Aidan Gillen, is arguably the best character in Game of Thrones — Littlefinger himself — and its director was already nominated for an Academy Award in 2002.

It looks good — and very intriguing.

Tomek Bagiński’s latest project – tells of a young apprentice (Aisling Franciosi) struggling to master nanotechnology on an alien world and prove herself to her enigmatic master (Aidan Gillen).

The film will premiere next week, on October 24, at the British Film Institute sci-fi week.

Ambition Is The New Sci-Fi Movie I Didn’t Even Know I Wanted To See

Ambition Is The New Sci-Fi Movie I Didn’t Even Know I Wanted To See

Ambition Is The New Sci-Fi Movie I Didn’t Even Know I Wanted To See

It was filmed on location in Iceland. The director — the Polish Tomek Bagiński — also made the short film The Cathedral, which got an Oscar nomination for Best Animated Short Film in 2002. Here’s that short film, which is based on a story by Jacek Dukaj:


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