description I Origins Overview
I Origins is a 2014 science fiction romantic drama film directed by Mike Cahill. The independent production premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2014 and received the Best Feature Length Film Award at the Festival Internacional de Cinema Fantàstic de Catalunya in October 2014. It was subsequently released for limited distribution by Fox Searchlight Pictures.
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info I Origins Specifications
| Country | United States |
| Year | 2014 |
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What is I Origins about?
It follows PhD researcher Ian Gray, played by Michael Pitt, who studies the evolution of the human eye to disprove intelligent design. After his wife Sofi, played by Astrid Bergès-Frisbey, dies, he discovers a young girl in India with her identical iris pattern, pulling him into evidence suggesting reincarnation.
Is I Origins made by the same people as Another Earth?
Yes, it reteams director Mike Cahill with co-writer and star Brit Marling, who made Another Earth together in 2011. Cahill later directed Bliss for Amazon in 2021.
Where did I Origins premiere and did it win awards?
It premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2014. It went on to win the Best Feature Length Film award at the Sitges festival, the Festival Internacional de Cinema Fantàstic de Catalunya, in October of that year.
Who else stars in I Origins and how does it end?
Brit Marling plays Ian's lab partner Karen and Steven Yeun plays his research colleague Kenny. In the ending, Ian travels to India and finds the orphan Salomina, whose responses in his iris-pattern tests suggest a genuine connection to his late wife Sofi.
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