Film Listing

Feature Films

  • Death

    Death

    Following the death of their Dad, four brothers and sisters return to the family home after many years to face each other, face facts and face the future. But what do they know of the past?

    Director: Martin Gooch

    UK

  • Clone

    Clone

    A woman's consuming love forces her to bear the clone of her dead beloved. From his infancy to manhood, she faces the unavoidable complexities of her controversial decision.

    Director: Benedek Fliegauf

    UK

  • Extracted

    Extracted

    A scientist developing a technique for seeing people’s memories. His altruistic intentions are tested when his potential funder reveals that the government is interested in the technology as a way of determining criminals’ guilt.

    Director: Nir Paniry

    USA

  • Radio Free Albemuth

    Radio Free Albemuth

    Based on a 1976 semiautobiographical novel, published posthumously in 1985, it recounts Philip K. Dick's visions of Jesus and ancient Rome and a cosmic force called VALIS

    Director: John Alan Simon

    USA

  • Strange Frame

    Strange Frame: Love & Sax

    The human race has long since left a decimated Earth. To survive the harsh climates of other planets and moons, humans have genetically modified themselves making skin color and sexual organs a common matter of fashion.

    Director: GB Hajim

    USA

  • Cycle

    Cycle

    A messed-up astronaut runs from the deadly black fog that slowly covers everything. He seems to have only a short memory but he needs to find a way out

    Director: Zoltan Sostai

    Hungary

  • The Last Push

    The Last Push

    When a tragic accident cuts short the first manned mission to explore life on the moons of Jupiter, Michael Forrest must make the 3 year journey home to Earth in pure solitude

    Director: Eric Hayden

    USA

  • True Love

    True Love

    Jack and Kate are in love. They have the big white wedding and are heading towards their happily-ever-after life, until they both wake up alone in sealed, doorless cells.

    Director: Enrico Clerico Nasino

    USA/Italy

  • SOL

    Sol

    Every year, teams of young men are sent from the Earth’s finest academies to compete in the Sol Invictus competition. The teams are teleported to a remote planet and the winners are the first team to pinpoint the position of our Sun.

    Director: Bejamin Carland

    USA

  • Zero One

    Zero One

    HAL, Skynet, Cylons; somehow people just don’t learn that sentient computers are not a good idea. Enter Devon Owens, computer hacker, who discovers a bit of AI code hidden within the myriad data streams of the Internet.

    Director: Kareem Gray

    USA

  • Hell

    Hell

    It was once the source of life, light, and warmth. But now the sun has turned the entire world into baked and barren wasteland. Forests are scorched. Animal carcasses line the roads. 

    Director: Tim Fehlbaum

    Germany

  • Manborg

    Manborg

    Nazi vampires, straight from the bowels of hell, led by the nefarious Count Draculon, take over the planet our intrepid heroes, which include the titular Manborg

    Director: Steven Kostanski

    Canada

  • Robo-G

    Robo-G

    Three inept employees of a small electronics firm are ordered by the company's President to develop a bipedal robot. But just before the Robot Expo, their robot-inproduction "New Shiokaze" is smashed to smithereens!

    Director: Shinobu Yaguchi

    Japan

  • Osombie

    Osombie

    Dusty, a yoga instructor from Colorado, who is on a desperate rescue mission to save her crazy brother Derek, a conspiracy theorist who is convinced Osama bin Laden is still alive

    Director: John Lyde

    USA

  • Shuffle

    Shuffle

    Imagine if every time you fell asleep you woke up in a different place and time in your life. That's what is happening to Lovell Milo, and he is trying to make sense of it, especially when random people start giving him instructions. What is it he has to pay attention to? Whose life does he have to save?

    Director: Kurt Kuenne

    USA

  • Memory Lane

    Memory Lane

    Nick is just back from the war and, like so many of his comrades, life isn’t going so well for him, until he meets Kayla. They start a relationship which blossoms until Kayla seemingly commits suicide in the bath.

    Director: Shawn Holmes

    USA

  • Exit

    Exit

    The film follows Alice, one of a growing number of people who believe that the city is a maze wherein exists a door, a hidden exit to a better place.

    Director: Marek Polgar

    Australia

  • Sound of My Voice

    Sound of My Voice

    A journalist and his girlfriend get pulled in while they investigate a cult whose leader claims to be from the future.

    Director: Zal Batmanglij

    USA

  • Ghosts with Shit Jobs

    Ghosts with Shit Jobs

    Ghosts are what the Chinese call Westerners, and they are now employed as cheap, outsourced labour to do all the jobs the new fiscal masters won’t do

    Director: Chris McCawley, Jim Morrison, Jim Munroe & Tate Young

    Canada

All-nighters

Special Events

  • SCI-FI-LONDON Parade 2012

    SCI-FI-LONDON Parade

    In spite of the weather, we are still parading - so bring a brolly!.. if we start to get blown away, we will have some party games and a glass of wine at the BFI

  • Girl Geek Dinner

    Girl Geek Dinners Club

    Into technology, gadgets, education or similar? So are the LGGD.

    Join them for their annual outing to the festival.

  • Comedy Night

    Outstanding - Rob Deb's SCIFI Cabaret

    Rob Deb, the caped comedian, returns with another eclectic mix of 'outstanding' geek comedy, with a little burlesque for good measure!

  • ZX Spectrum

    HORIZONS: A Celebration of the 30th Anniversary of the ZX Spectrum

    So many of today’s creative, technical, and cultural talent are, in one way or another, indebted to the little machine that plugged into the living room telly.

  • BAFTA Presents: Genre filmmaking in Britain

    A day of talks at BAFTA HQ on the state of Sci-fi filmmaking in the UK

  • Music Videos

    Fantastic Music Videos

    Video artists include Casey Raymond and Craig Murray. Featuring music by The Dogbones, Turbowolf, John Grant and many more.

  • Best of the Challenge Screenings

    Over the last four years the festival has run a 48hour Film Challenge and we have had over 380 films made, many of which have gone on to be presented at other film festivals and been broadc

  • Prince Achmed Sawchestra

    Prince Ahmed - Sawchestra

    We present a live score performance to Lotte Reiniger's classic silent animation 'The Adventures of Prince Ahmed' (1925).

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