What age is 16 Sunrises (16 levers de soleil) appropriate for?

6 alone, 5 with a parent; 6 in France. The whole movie, watched in full: what's in it, and how to talk about it with your child.

Why is 16 Sunrises (16 levers de soleil) not recommended under 6?

What's in it: our reading; a launch and six months up there; the rest. The detail, fact by fact, is in the zinema guide, which reads the work itself (images, sound, dialogue).

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16 Sunrises (16 levers de soleil): what age is it for? 6 alone, 5 with a parent

6 alone, 5 with a parent.

Movie · 2018 · 1 h 57 · documentary

YRS

The trailer

Alone, or with you

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not yetwith an adult, or to talk about afteralone

Alone from 6; from 5, with an adult or by talking about it afterwards.

In France, zinema would say 6.

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What it's about

450 kilometers from the Earth, during these six months when the world seems to be moving into the unknown, a dialogue is woven between the astronaut and the visionary work of Saint Exupéry that he took to the space station

Why 6

Our readingThomas Pesquet in space, a documentary where the explosions are a rocket launch: six, five with an adult.
reading
A launch and six months up thereThe rocket leaving Baikonur, archive footage of war and protests seen from space, cosmonauts in training; nothing frightening, everything that makes you dream.
The restA drink on return, a few cigarettes in the archives, death evoked in texts by Saint-Exupéry.

What the movie brings

Thomas Pesquet aboard the Space Station, filmed by himself: the Earth from above through sixteen sunrises a day.
A dialogue with The Little Prince, for children who know it.
The only French-language space documentary, to watch before watching the stars.

Watching it together

Before

Nothing to prepare; little ones sometimes drift during the readings, keep the images.

After

at 6 and up

From space you cannot see borders: what does that change?

See the facts

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A zinema reading from September 19, 2026 · the whole movie, watched in full · the age by zinema's rules for the US and France, and a human reading · report an error · how this guide is made