Andrew Finch’s Others Will Follow is about a mission to Mars gone awry, but this isn’t The Martian. There are no alien potatoes, and no jokes about space pirates — just a lonely astronaut reflecting on his fate, and deciding to risk it all to send one last inspirational message back to Earth.
The story is very simple — but the special effects are very cool and give the astronaut’s last act real emotional impact. You can check out a making-of video to learn more about those.