Film Listing

Feature Films

  • Byzantium

    Byzantium

    Residents of a coastal town learn, with deathly consequences, the secret shared by the two mysterious women who have sought shelter at a local resort.

    Director: Neil Jordan

    UK

  • Birdemic II

    Birdemic II: the Resurrection

    A platoon of eagles and vultures attack Hollywood, California. Why did the eagles and vultures attack? Who will survive?

    Director: James Nguyen

    USA

  • Alter Egos

    Alter Egos

    At a time when superheroes have lost government funding and public support, a superhero meets a girl who can help him overcome his own emotional crisis.

    Director: Jordan Galland

    USA

  • Best Friends Forever

    Best Friends Forever

    Harriet, a comic book artist with a secret, and her reckless BFF, Reba, take their '76 AMC Pacer on the open road and instead get a wild ride towards an impending nuclear apocalypse.

    Director: Brea Grant

    USA

  • Dark Star

    Dark Star

    We're delighted to welcome Sheffield electronica duo ANIMAT to the BFI stage with a live rescore of John Carpenter's first feature, DARK STAR.

    Director: John Carpenter

    USA

  • The Search for Simon

    The Search for Simon

    Thirty years ago David Jones younger brother Simon disappeared without a trace, and has never been seen since. David is still looking, and The Search for Simon has become his life.

    Director: Martin Gooch

    UK

  • The Man from the Future

    The Man from the Future

    20 years ago a brilliant scientist was publicly humiliated and lost the love of his life. One day, an accidental experience with one of his inventions makes him travel in time, more precisely, to the past. 

    Director: Cláudio Torres

    Brazil

  • War of the Worlds Goliath 3D

    The War of the Worlds: Goliath 3D

    A retro-futuristic epic of steam punk battle set in 1914. Its 15 years since the original HG Wells Martian invasion. Fearing another attack, the human race is prepared itself.

    Director: Joe Pearson

    Malaysia/ USA

  • The Facility

    The Facility

    Eight volunteers find themselves fighting for their lives when a drug trial goes horribly wrong.

    Director: Ian Clark

    UK

  • Vanishing Waves

    Vanishing Waves

    A neuron-transfer scientist experiments with the thoughts of a comatose young woman.

    Director: Kristina Buozyte

    Lithuania

  • Tai Chi Zero

    Tai Chi Zero + Tai Chi Hero

    Yang travels to Chen Village to learn a powerful form of Tai Chi. Though villagers are forbidden from teaching outsiders, Yang becomes their best hope for survival when a man arrives with a plan to build a railroad through the village.

    Director: Stephen Fung

    China

  • Dead Weight

    Dead Weight

    Charlie is traveling through the wilderness to find his girlfriend, Samantha, after civilization is destroyed by widespread biological attacks. He must try to survive while dealing with other survivors and his own emotional burdens.

    Director: Adam Bartlett

    USA

  • Vessel

    Vessel

    An Alien interfacer, who has the ability to converse with ET's, has until the end of the day to rid himself of his gift or risk succumbing to its terrible side-effect.

    Director: Adam Ciancio

    Australia

  • Mars et Avril

    Mars et Avril

    The story of an elderly musician and his instrument maker who both become obsessed with the same woman. She agrees to be the model for their next musical instrument but then gets lost in a virtual world on the way to Mars.

    Director: Martin Villeneuve

    Canada

  • Sado Tempest

    Sado Tempest

    A sci-fi rock version of Shakespeare’s ‘The Tempest’, shot on Sado, one of Japan’s biggest islands.

    Director: John Williams

    Japan

  • Piercing Brightness

    Piercing Brightness

    A young Chinese boy and girl are sent on a mission to retrieve the 'Glorious 100' - agents who were sent to this planet millennia ago to study and observe.

    Director: Shezad Dawood

    UK

  • Dark by Noon

    Dark by Noon

    A time-travel thriller set in an alternate 1993. A world where history has unfolded differently, rendering the world unrecognizable.

    Director: Alan Leonard & Michael O’Flaherty

    Ireland

All-nighters

  • Anime All Nighter

    Anime All Nighter

    A collection of amazing animated films, from brand new to old school.

  • MST3K All Nighter

    MST3K Laughathon

    It ran for 11 years in the USA and we miss it. Those of you who know, know. Those of you who don’t, Google, then come and join the clan.

  • Defiance All Nighter

    The Defiance All Nighter

    United. Divided. Defiant. We bring you a collection of films that show what us humans do best to alien creatures... we band together and kick-ass!

Special Events

  • Dark Star

    Dark Star

    We're delighted to welcome Sheffield electronica duo ANIMAT to the BFI stage with a live rescore of John Carpenter's first feature, DARK STAR.

    Director: John Carpenter

    USA

  • Dr Who

    Dr WHO 50th Anniversary - Talk & Screening

    As part of the celebration of the 50th anniversary of Doctor Who, we’re proud to host two panels celebrating the adventures of the Timelord in print.

    UK

  • Pub Quiz 2013

    SCI-FI-LONDON Pub Quiz

    Think you know your sci-fi?

    We’ll see about that... Our annual in-cinema pub quiz will test the most knowledgable fan.

Blink of an Eye

  • Shorts Programme i

    Shorts Programme I

    We feel that short films are a perfect platform for science fiction stories, many ideas just won’t stretch to a feature.

  • Shorts Programme ii

    Shorts Programme II

    We feel that short films are a perfect platform for science fiction stories, many ideas just won’t stretch to a feature.

  • Shorts Programme iii

    Shorts Programme III

    We feel that short films are a perfect platform for science fiction stories, many ideas just won’t stretch to a feature.

  • Shorts Programme iv

    Shorts Programme IV

    We feel that short films are a perfect platform for science fiction stories, many ideas just won’t stretch to a feature.