SIFF 2022: Spaceboy

Jim, who is just 11 years old, is a bright young boy who is enthusiastic about science and space. Jim must compete in a young scientist contest with his new classmates Emma, a delicate and modest girl, after moving to a new town with his father. Despite her reservations, Jim persuades her to replicate Kittinger's 'Excelsior' experiment (the first man to touch the frontier of space in 1960) by surreptitiously building a genuine air balloon. But his life falls apart when he realizes she has surrendered without telling him.