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 “Another End,” billed as a sci-fi romance, went on a film festival tour in 2024 and is now set to be released in select theaters and VOD on September 19. While the film certainly qualifies as sci-fi, the romance leaves much to be desired, falling somewhere between disappointing and fun when the filmmakers had hoped it would be their centerpiece. Close, but not quite. Set in an uncertain future, but with a very similar feel to the present, Sal (Gael García Bernal) plays a young man whose wife, Zoe, recently died in a car accident in which Sal was the driver. Naturally, he struggles to process the loss. He is so distraught, dejected, and depressed that his sister, Ebe (Berenice Bejo), a scientist at the Another End Institute, offers Sal the chance to reconnect with Zoe through technological software that allows one to say goodbye to deceased loved ones. They store the memories and consciousness of the dead in a database, which is then inserted into a "host" body that, for a br...