Film Listing
Feature Films
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Anime All-nighter
Our notorious animé allnighter returns!
Arrive at the Apollo from 10.30pm and listen to some sounds in the bar, draw on the Mangawall or just hang out.
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MST3K Comedy All-nighter
Each year we experiment on our Mystery Science Theater 3000 audience, testing their laughing gear to the max.
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Boris Karloff- All-nighter
As part of a tribute to Boris Karloff we present an all-nighter of some of his finest roles.
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Dutch Master: Verhoeven All-nighter
NEWS: We just had confirmation that we will be screening TOTAL RECALL from the brand new Verhoeven-Approved HD version of the film
Special Events
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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
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Girl Geek Dinners Club
Into technology, gadgets, education or similar? So are the LGGD.
Join them for their annual outing to the festival.
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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!
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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.
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BAFTA Presents: Genre filmmaking in Britain
A day of talks at BAFTA HQ on the state of Sci-fi filmmaking in the UK
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Fantastic Music Videos
Video artists include Casey Raymond and Craig Murray. Featuring music by The Dogbones, Turbowolf, John Grant and many more.
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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
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Prince Ahmed - Sawchestra
We present a live score performance to Lotte Reiniger's classic silent animation 'The Adventures of Prince Ahmed' (1925).
Blink of an Eye
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Blink of an Eye: Shorts Programme 1
We love short films and think they are a wonderful format for science fiction themes.
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Blink of an Eye: Shorts Programme 2
We love short films and think they are a wonderful format for science fiction themes.
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Blink of an Eye: Shorts Programme 3
We love short films and think they are a wonderful format for science fiction themes. Each year we receive hundreds of excellent films and it is a challenging task to select for ou
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Fantastic Music Videos
Video artists include Casey Raymond and Craig Murray. Featuring music by The Dogbones, Turbowolf, John Grant and many more.
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Great Writers in Short Form
Arguably, science fiction goes back to the ancient Greeks, with stories of beings on the moon and beyond.