A scene in Alfonso Cuarón's Gravity shows astronaut Ryan Stone (played by Sandra Bullock) fearing for her life as she is low on oxygen and trapped inside a Russian escape pod in space. She tries to call NASA, but Stone instead reaches the radio of Inuit fisherman Aningaaq, who doesn't speak English.
The movie doesn't reveal the fisherman's face. A short companion film, however, gives us a look of what happened on the other end of Stone's call.
Titled Aningaaq, the seven-minute film focus on Stone's conversation with the man, who sits in snow-covered Greenland surrounded by sled dogs and presumably his wife and child. The movie captures the moment Stone goes from thinking she is about to be saved to realizing that the last words she may ever speak will not be understood.
Aningaaq, which was written and directed by Gravity cowriter Jonás Cuarón, the son of the movie's director, Alfonso Cuarón, will be released along with Gravity when the feature-length movie comes out on Blu-ray.
Warner Bros. submitted Aningaaq for an Oscar nomination in the live-action short category. If Gravity and this spinoff are chosen as nominees, this would be the first time a feature-length film and a related short have ever been nominated in the same year.
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