Sci-Fi

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What can you make with $7,000? The most "realistic" film about time travel. A science fiction cinema of ideas, unapologetically cerebral, that keeps you riveted in the vortex of its intricate narrative. A must-watch for sci-fi fans and a chance for those who haven't seen it "since later this afternoon" to revisit it.

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Four friends and fledgling entrepreneurs, knowing that there's something bigger and more innovative than the different error-checking devices they've built, wrestle over their new invention.

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Grand Jury Prize | Sundance Film Festival | 2024
Best Director | Sundance Film Festival | 2024

Primer

Spanish filmmaker Nacho Vigalondo composed in 2007 and in just his first feature film an unforgettably exciting cinematic puzzle that plays with space-time and the viewer's certainties, one of the Spanish thrillers that broke the borders of his country and created a new cinematic movement.

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A man accidentally enters a time machine and travels, almost an hour, into the past. The journey will trigger a series of unexpected and strange events with unforeseen consequences, as the man is confronted with himself, among other things.

Timecrimes

Combining the stories of everyday work madness of The Office with the mysterious and eerie setting of The X-Files, throwing in a dose of 70s and pastel colors, this hilarious satire of science fiction (and not only) stories has humor, heart and our very own Daphne Patakia.

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1978. Didier Mathure, a great space scientist, is transferred to GEPAN, a unit that specializes in UFOs and is made up of people who seem to be on their own planet. Seeing an object himself, he leaves logic behind and travels the country in search of new clues.

UFO(s)

Where manga tradition meets cyberpunk noir and Blade Runner meets Black Mirror, an animated extravaganza takes us to the Red Planet for a retro-futuristic quest full of pop culture references and existential pursuits.

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On the 23rd-century planet Mars, a private detective and her android assistant's mission to track down a notorious hacker will trap them in a dark, high-tech conspiracy. The very fate of humans will find itself threatened in a world dominated by artificial intelligence and corruption.

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Official Selection | Annecy Film Festival | 2023
Nomination for Best Animated Film | César Awards | 2023

Mars Express

Multi-award-winning Danish director Thomas Vinterberg writes and directs his first television series - a tender and evocative ode to loss and hope, portraying love as the last remaining homeland.
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In a not-too-distant future, Denmark collapses, and the government orders a full evacuation of the country due to rising water levels, forcing some families to break apart and others to redefine themselves.

Families Like Ours

On the backdrop of Tokyo's 2011 earthquake, this hallucinatory animated film, based on short stories by Haruki Murakami, features talking frogs and vanished cats, unfolding as an audiovisual tsunami that mirrors the efforts of a handful of lost souls trying to reinvent themselves.

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Tokyo, just days after the 2011 earthquake and tsunami. Kyoko suddenly leaves her husband after he spends five straight days glued to the television, watching footage from the disaster. Helpless, he takes a week off work and heads north to deliver a box to two young women. Meanwhile, his colleague Katagiri returns home one night to find a two-meter-tall frog asking for his help to save Tokyo.

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Jury Distinction | Annecy Film Festival | 2022

Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman

“Whoa!” What else is there to say? A turbo-charged cult comedy that defined Keanu Reeves’ career and was embraced equally by slackers and cinephiles (and slacker cinephiles alike). A wildly improbable time-travel romp that turns the ultimate chore - “homework assignment” - into a riotous sci-fi adventure. Slackers of the world, we salute you.

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Two endearingly dim slackers (Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter) enlist the help of a time-traveling guide in a desperate bid to pass their history class. What follows is a hilariously absurd journey through time, where amid a string of increasingly unlikely scrapes, the only true constant is friendship.

Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure

In one of the finest Philip K. Dick cinematic adaptations, Paul Verhoeven makes inventive use of Arnold Schwarzenegger’s formidable screen presence and, with the crucial contribution of visual effects and makeup artists, delivers some unforgettable images.

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In the distant year 2084, Mars has been colonized by humanity. A construction worker on Earth purchases an implanted augmented-reality experience, only to find himself entangled in a far-reaching adventure.

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Special Achievement Award for Visual Effects | Oscars | 1991
Nomination for Best Sound | Oscars | 1991
Nomination for Best Sound Effects Editing | Oscars | 1991

Total Recall

The film that made Alejandro Amenábar famous and proved pivotal in establishing the Spanish thriller remains a cinematic labyrinth where dream and reality undermine one another, revealing a deeply melancholic allegory about youth, decay, and the obsession with eternal life.

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A young, charismatic publisher becomes entangled in a love triangle that culminates in a catastrophic accident. As he recovers, his grasp on reality begins to unravel, drawing him into a riddle where time, memory, and identity lose all fixed meaning.

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C.I.C.A.E. Award - Honorable Mention | Berlin International Film Festival | 1998

Open Your Eyes

Globalization, consumerism, and the dead ends of modern lifestyle enter the mixer of an explosive satire and produce a vitriolic yet unbearably entertaining film that ranks among the best moments in John Carpenter's career.

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A worker from Los Angeles accidentally finds a pair of special glasses on the street that were probably never meant to come into his hands. Wearing them, he can see the subliminal messages behind every billboard or government announcement that nurture a world of people who stop thinking. Soon, he discovers a group of aliens behind this plan and takes it upon himself to awaken humanity.

They Live

One of the ultimate cult hits of the home video explosion, Vincenzo Natali’s (“Splice”) nightmarish enigma presents a seemingly unsolvable puzzle of death and survival. Who will find the exit?

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A group of people wake up and, without knowing why, find themselves trapped together inside a deadly maze. They soon realize that each of them holds a key to unlocking it, as a mathematical formula for escape gradually reveals itself. Their survival hangs by a thread as they begin turning against one another.

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Best Canadian First Feature Film | Toronto International Film Festival | 1997

Cube

How far would you go to discover yourself? Mamoru Oshii’s mythical cyberpunk noir sci-fi thriller is a landmark of anime, influencing countless blockbusters that followed, from The Matrix to James Cameron.

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Cyborg federal agent Motoko Kusanagi hunts the elusive “Puppet Master,” a mysterious hacker who illegally infiltrates the cybernetic minds of human-machine hybrids. As she pursues a man capable of altering others’ identities, Motoko begins to question her own existence, and what her life might mean if she were more human. Her search for identity sends the case in an unforeseen direction.

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Nomination for Best Film | Sitges - Catalonian International Film Festival | 1996

Ghost in the Shell

What if one day your PC monitor went ahead two minutes? In a delightful one-shot, all filmed inside a real Tokyo cafe with zero budget, five friends discover the art of time travel. Could this be the most inventive sci-fi comedy of recent years?

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Café owner Kato discovers that his PC monitor shows what will happen two minutes in the future. Another screen downstairs in his café shows the past of two minutes ago. His friends decide to place the two mysterious devices opposite each other, which creates a loop to see into the future. Naturally, chaos ensues.

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Official Selection | Sitges Catalonian Film Festival | 2021

Beyond the Infinite Two Minutes

How would you manage your life if someone told you it had to stand still for 2 years? Nobel-winning author Harry Martinson’s poem is turned into a modern and impressively timely (although filmed before the pandemic) existential science fiction film.

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A spaceship transporting people from Earth to Mars, full of amenities for its voracious consumer passengers, goes off course causing a temporary disruption in everyone's lives. Managing the disruption will force them to reflect on their existence and their place in the universe.

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Official Selection | Toronto Film Festival | 2018
Cineuropa Award | Les Arcs European Film Festival | 2018
Best Actress (Emelie Garbers) | Les Arcs European Film Festival | 2018

Aniara

The South Korean film that inspired Yorgos Lanthimos to make Bugonia is a paranoid black comedy that masterfully blends different cinematic genres, centers on conspiracy theories and class struggle, and culminates in a modern tragedy driven by a sense of justice and the instinct for revenge.

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Byung-Gu is convinced that all of Earth’s misfortunes are the work of aliens. He believes that unless he can find the prince from Andromeda before the total lunar eclipse, the planet will face total destruction. So he kidnaps the most likely suspect: the president and CEO of Yoojae Chemical Company. Can one man save the Earth before it’s too late?

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Best Director | Moscow International Film Festival | 2003

Save the Green Planet!

Shot in stark black and white and steeped in a vintage, analog melancholy, this handcrafted cinematic experience invites the viewer into an enigmatic drift, seemingly born of obsolete software and VHS-era dreams.

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A solitary man lives in isolation with his dog and becomes obsessed with an enigmatic video game. When his only companion vanishes without a trace, the boundaries between reality and the game begin to blur and dissolve.

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Official Selection - NEXT | Sundance Film Festival | 2025

Obex

The impressive alt-history psychoanalytic sci-fi thriller by The Boy imagines Greece’s modern political history in a different way: Through a handmade, crimson universe, somewhere between giallo, erotica and sci-fi, starring Sofia Kokkali in a jaw-dropping one-woman show.

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Niki's devotion to the resistance gives away her inability to respond as a mother. Lefteris, Niki’s son, inherits a past that he himself never dreamed of. Until one day, the thread that connects them, an invisible psychological umbilical cord, is severed. The Mother's struggle for her political beliefs is transformed into psychological chains that imprison the Son, who must ultimately fight for his own freedom and seek his own redemption.

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Iris Award for Best Leading Actress | Hellenic Film Academy | 2017

Thread

The Greek short film that Moonlight's Barry Jenkins publicly praised, is a rare for our country contact with science fiction cinema, through a brilliant invention - the tender wink at the genre's history and its connection with current affairs.

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Earth has been abandoned for a long time now and the human race has found refuge in outer space. Three archeologists return to Earth to investigate where a mysterious five tone signal is coming from.

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Official Selection - Critics' Week | Cannes Film Festival | 2018

Third Kind

A tender manifesto of savagery, a deeply political and aesthetically aggressive sci-fi film that seems to emanate from a future that has violently collided with the past. Perhaps the most idiosyncratic film of the Greek 10s.

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A group of people exile themselves to Makronisos to protect themselves from the Infected. 37 years later, we are watching the outcome of that decision. Six people next to fossils of civilization, aimlessly carry the roles that have been imposed on them, letting madness accompany them to their annihilation.