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Sci-Fi-London · 2021

Sci-Fi-London 2021

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12 Months Of Kai

A Tokyo career woman struggles to cope with her feelings for her personal care robot.

(Country: Japan; Year: 2020; Director: Mutsumi Kameyama; Stars: Ayaka Nakagouchi, Kosei Kudo)

Esluna - Crown Of Babylon

A treasure hunter teams up with a stranger from another world to try to track down a powerful relic and save her mentor.

(Country: Canada; Year: 2021; Director: Denver Jackson)

Exposure 36

As the end of the world approaches, a photographer tries to capture the final days, but his plan is disrupted when his friend goes missing.

(Country: US; Year: 2021; Director: Mackenzie G Mauro; Stars: Charles Ouda, Jennifer Leigh Whitehead, Nick Smithson)

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.

(Country: South Africa; Year: 2021; Director: Kelsey Egan; Writer: Emma Lungiswa De Wet, Kelsey Egan; Stars: Jessica Alexander, Hilton Pelser, Brent Vermeulen, Adrienne Pearce, Kitty Harris, Anja Taljaard)

Full review See: Interview with Kelsey Egan about Glasshouse

The High Frontier - The Untold Story Of Gerard K O'Neill

A documentary about the visionary author of The High Frontier: Human Colonies In Space.

(Country: US; Year: 2020; Director: Ryan Stuit)

Moon Heart

A mechanical angel brings hope to a forsaken homeless woman whose only friend is an ant.

(Country: Peru; Year: 2021; Director: Aldo Salvini; Stars: Haydeé Cáceres)

Night Raiders

In a dystopian future, children are considered property of the military regime which trains them to fight in a state boarding school. A Cree woman tries to get her daughter back.

(Country: Canada, New Zealand; Year: 2021; Director: Danis Goulet; Writer: Danis Goulet; Stars: Amanda Plummer, Shaun Sipos, Eric Osborne, Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers, David MacInnis, Alex Tarrant, Gail Maurice, Birva Pandya, Pamela Matthews, Suzanne Cyr, Violet Nelson, Elena Khan, Brooklyn Letexier-Hart, Kevin Allan Hess, Scott Barker)

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.

(Country: UK; Year: 2021; Director: Richard Miller; Writer: Richard Miller; Stars: Charlotte Ritchie, Nina Wadia, Tom England, Ellila-Jean Wood)

Full review See: Interview with Richard Miller and Grant Archer about Repeat

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.

(Country: US; Year: 2021; Director: Kentucker Audley, Albert Birney; Writer: Kentucker Audley, Albert Birney; Stars: Penny Fuller, Kentucker Audley, Grace Glowicki, Reed Birney, Linas Phillips, Constance Shulman)

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Tiong Bahru Social Club

Ah Bee goes on a comedic odyssey through Tiong Bahru Social Club, a data-driven project to create the happiest neighbourhood in the world. Little by little, his encounters with the neighbourhood's residents reveal the absurdity of life.

(Country: Singapore; Year: 2020; Director: Bee Thiam Tan; Writer: Bee Thiam Tan, Antti Toivonen; Stars: Thomas Pang, Guat Kian Goh, Jalyn Han, Noorlinah Mohamed)

Tune Into The Future

A documentary about Hugo Gernsback and his contributions to technology, futurism and science fiction.

(Country: Luxembourg; Year: 2020; Director: Eric Schockmel)

Visitor

A woman who lost her sister to a terrible accident years earlier discovers a portal to another reality, one where her sister is alive and grown-up - and has a warning for her.

(Country: Spain; Year: 2021; Director: Alberto Evangelio; Stars: Jan Cornet, Iria del Rio, Miquel Fernández)

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.

(Country: US, Canada; Year: 2021; Director: Agata Alexander; Writer: Agata Alexander, Jason Kaye, Rob Michaelson; Stars: Annabelle Wallis, Kylie Bunbury, Alice Eve, Thomas Jane, Alex Pettyfer, Rupert Everett)

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