A companion film for Gravity was released this week capturing the other side of the call Sandra Bullock's character makes to earth as she anticipates her death.

The short has been directed by Jonas Cuarón, Alfonso Cuarón's brother. In a heartrending scene from the film Bullock's character is trapped in a tiny pocket of space craft that seems to have caught fire. As she starts to panic she desperately tries to reach out to someone at home base.

As she is in a Chinese aircraft, she thinks she has been connected to a Chinese person. She tries to communicate with the person on the other end but language gets in the way. Audiences hear the voice of a man speaking in a foreign language, a baby crying, dogs barking, and the man humming a lullaby to the child from the other end of the line. Bullock breaks down as she fears death is nigh and the man is her only link to human existence.

In Jonas' companion piece fans see the man talking on the other end, in the icy landscape of Greenland, he seems a bit distracted in parts as he tends to his dying dog and his wailing baby. Subtitles translate the other side of this conversation.

Gravity released to rave reviews on Oct. 4. and faired amazingly well on the U.S. box office. The film just hit theaters in China and has already raked in $9 million in its first two days.

In a recent interview with the Chinese press, the director defended the film against accusations of featuring China in the storyline because of the box office boom in the country and for pure marketing reasons.

"When we were mapping out the story, we had to base it upon elements in space at the time," the director told People's Daily.

"We had the Hubble Space Telescope, the International Space Stations, Tiangong and Shenzhou. That's what was in space; and this is way before China became sexy for the Hollywood box office," he added.

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