Director: Adrian Molina, Madeline Sharafian, Domee Shi

Cast: Yonas Kibreab, Zoe Saldaña, Remy Edgerly

Synopsis:

Elio struggles to fit in until he is transported by aliens and becomes the chosen one to be Earth's galactic ambassador while his mother Olga works on the top-secret project to decode alien messages.

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The new Pixar animated film “Elio” takes up a question famously posed by astrophysicist Carl Sagan: “Are we alone?” It’s in reference to the search for extraterrestrial life, but the idea, according to Sagan, is “the deepest of human concerns.” It’s a question both existential and intimate, galactic and earthbound. It dictates our day-to-day experience and our wildest dreams, motivating our every action and reaction. For our hero, Elio (Yonas Kibreab), the worry that he might be entirely alone on Earth is what spurs his desire to look for community elsewhere — in the stars.

Elio starts to wonder about this when he wanders away from his new guardian, his aunt Olga (Zoe Saldaña) at her job. She happens to be a major in the Air Force, working at a base monitoring orbital space debris, and Elio finds an exhibit about the space program Voyager, launched in 1977 to explore space and collect data. Recently orphaned and feeling so alone, the idea that life-forms in outer space might be out there is a lifeline for misfit Elio. He becomes obsessed with aliens and spends his days and nights trying to make contact, begging to be abducted.

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