In 2200, private detective Aline Ruby and her android partner Carlos Rivera are hired by a wealthy businessman to track down a notorious hacker. On Mars, they descend deep into the underbelly of the planet’s capital city where they uncover a darker story of brain farms, corruption, and a missing girl who holds a secret about the robots that threatens to change the face of the universe.
Directed by Jérémie Périn, whose anime-influenced, action-heavy style first gained acclaim with his series adaptation of the comic Lastman, MARS EXPRESS injects the cyberpunk genre with urgent new themes that make its far-flung world feel strangely like our own. A fantastically imagined, propulsive feature film debut.
“A visually stunning 2D animated film with a fully realized sci-fi world, one that takes the fears and concerns of GHOST IN THE SHELL and updates it to 2023 and the rise of A.I…. MARS EXPRESS works because even its most outlandish and complex sci-fi concept is grounded in human drama.” —Rafael Motamayor, Slash Film “A noir sci-fi thriller that features both a complex mystery and a deeper philosophical exploration of what it means to be alive, or more to the point, to be aware of being alive… MARS EXPRESS at once feels rich in its design, and complex in its stories, but at its heart it's asking the question that most works of art ask: what does it mean to be human?” —Shelagh Rowan-Legg, Screen Anarchy
