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Sci-Fi-London

19 October – 26 October 2021

Tiong Bahru Social Club
Tiong Bahru Social Club

London's leading science fiction film festival continues to support cutting edge speculative work from around the world. This year it opens with Agata Alexander's Warning and features eight UK premières, with some great documentaries and a strong programme of shorts, a 48 hour filmmaking challenge and a quiz.

The festival runs from 19 to 26 October.

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Latest reviews

  • Strawberry Mansion
    Review preview for Strawberry Mansion

    Simple tricks like painting sets pink and amassing large piles of low cost everyday objects enable the filmmakers to create a distinctive fantasy landscape on a very low budget.

    Jennie Kermode · 4 out of 5
    In a world where the government records and taxes dreams, an unassuming dream auditor gets swept up in a cosmic journey through the life and dreams of an ageing eccentric named Bella. Together, they must find a way back home.
  • Warning
    Review preview for Warning

    Each story has to it a kernel of interestingness, some more than others. But I wasn’t convinced they all belonged in the same world.

    Jane Fae · 2.5 out of 5
    The meaning of life explored through multiple interconnected lives set in the near future.
  • Repeat
    Review preview for Repeat

    An impressive piece of work which punches well above its weight.

    Jennie Kermode · 4 out of 5
    An inventor whose daughter is missing develops a device which he believes he can use to communicate with the dead.
  • Glasshouse
    Review preview for Glasshouse

    One of the most tightly plotted and sharply observed pieces of science fiction to grace our screens for some years.

    Jennie Kermode · 5 out of 5
    Safe within their glasshouse sanctuary, a family survives a memory-shredding neurotoxin that has poisoned the air outside - until a stranger forces them to confront a truth they have done their best to forget.

Features

  • Keeping it real
    Richard Miller and Grant Archer on crafting a science fiction story and Repeat
  • Unforgettable
    Kelsey Egan on memory, fairy tales, pandemics and Glasshouse