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Meerkat Moonship

Meerkat Moonship

2018 · 100 min · ★ 7.3 · Fantasy

Timid, wildly imaginative 13-year-old Gideonette de La Rey learns that the name she was given comes with it a horrible curse. After her father dies, Gideonette is paralyzed by fear and is sent to live on a farm in the forest with her grandparents where she befriends a young deaf boy who is “training” to become an astronaut and preparing to fly away in a Moonship that Gideonette’s grandfather had built.

Directed by Hanneke Schutte · Written by Hanneke Schutte

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