Best Sci Fi International Film Festival

The Bioscope is proud to bring the Best International Sci Fi Film Festival to Johannesburg. This is one package of some of the best Sci Fi shorts made this year, with content from around the world, including USA, Spain, Russia, France,Israel, Ukraine and Croatia selected from shorts all over the world.

Breathtaking adventures through time, faraway space travels, meeting with extraterrestrial civilizations, artificial intelligence and future of the virtual reality - all of this and even more.

Organizer of the festival - CinemaHall

International Distributor of the festival - KINOLIFE Distribution.

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Best Sci Fi Short Film Programme 

Restart (2015), Spain, 15min

One day like any other Andrea walks out for a walk. An unknown group of people kidnap her and take her to an isolated warehouse she can’t leave. Regularly, the door opens and Andrea appears in the same place she was kidnapped around twenty minutes before it happened. The loop restarts again.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=327Lw5BZr3g

Redux(2015), USA, Rusia, 9min

A scientist must send a warning message through time before he gets killed by an assault team.

 Interesting facts:

• The short with the '80s retro/sci-fi vibe.


• Well-known Hollywood actor and Oscars nominee Eric Roberts starred in it.


• Original music composed on some of the iconic hardware synths from the '80s.

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35tcCyUjeXY

Clarke’s Third Law (2014), Spain, 7min

Dive into the life of Arthur C. Clarke, writer and co-author of the film "2001: A Space Odyssey" in its search for extraterrestrial civilizations.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGERlWLmUCU

Juliet (2015), France, 12min

In a near future, the SEED company launches with great fanfare, JULIET1, the first generation of synthetic pleasure beings. But as technology evolves and new styles come and go, it becomes more and more difficult for mankind to find their own place…

Interesting facts:

• The main source of inspiration for the film "Westworld" (1973) by Michael Crichton. Fun fact is that Westworld will become a TV show produced by JJ Abrams in 2016.


• The film required 19 roles and shooted in 25 differents sets (pretty big for a short film).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40mx_FoHx4A

Mr. Dentonn (2014), Spain, 9min

On a cold winter night, Laura reads his brother David the story of a strange creature that attacks children. Suddenly, a shiver runs Laura’s body, feeling  a strange presence in the house. It’s him.

 Interesting facts:

• The film won more the 78 awards, participated more than 260 film festivals of the World.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AfDn3WkOFw4

 Summer (2015), Russia, 15min

Near future. A military nurse is taking her wounded husband to safety.  But a call from orbital command forces her to make some very tough  choices...

 Interesting facts:

• The original story convinced Alena Babenko, one of the most recognisable and loved faces of Russian cinema to take part in the project.


• The crew used the same film equipment, as there was used in many action scenes of the Hollywood “Avengers: Age of Ultron”.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sOuT_CvGI_4

Apolo (2015), Spain, 12min

Apolo81 walks into an apparently normal bar. He throws the dice and chooses his rival: Caperucita_Love, legendary and dreaded in equal measure. So a game begins in which both players have their cards and the setting is the board. Caperucita, a top-level expert player, looks bound to win. Love is the name of the game and Apolo81 is going to stake everything on one card. Beating his opponent means winning her over. Will he manage it?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4L3TNcHZnI

Pointless Pencil (2015), USA, 10min

A Pointless Pencil is a fantasy-comedy about an uncreative, blue-collar worker who must compete in a game of imagination to win a pencil he desperately longs to add to his collection.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_TvtjqnVO_E

Sirena Negra (2015), Spain, 17min

The Dark Siren lives in the sewers beneath the city, hidden away in her lair. This is her story.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kwLl7ixFVY

 The Rats Dilema (2015), Israel, 11min

In the midst of the Holocaust, a gifted Jewish physicist named Rudolph is forced to build a teleporter for the Nazis. Rudolph keeps telling his Nazi supervisor Heinz that the machine doesn’t work yet, but Heinz suspects Rudolph is hiding something. As Heinz is determined to squeeze the truth out by any means necessary, Rudolph soon has to face the dilemma of his life.

Interesting facts:

• The film was shot in an actual bunker that was secretly built in the 1950’s in Israel, by German architects who built bunkers for the Nazis. Today it’s deserted.


• This is the first fiction film ever made in Israel that actually takes place during the Holocaust itself. Unbelievable, but true.


• Even though the plot revolves around German characters, the dialogue is all in Hebrew. This is the first time a Nazi character speaks Hebrew in a film.


• The movie became a hit in comic-cons around the U.S., and won several awards in comic-cons.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QcC0hr-H2TE

Imaginapped (2015), USA, 14min

When her imaginary friend is kidnapped, Olivia (8 years old) has to go on an epic adventure to get him back.

Interesting facts:

• The lead Oona Laurence played Matilda on Broadway, Jake Gyllenhaal’s daughter in the Hollywood movie “Southpaw”, and is in the upcoming Disney movie “Pete’s Dragon”.


• The boy next door, Owen Judge, played the young Mr. Fantastic in the Hollywood blockbuster “Fantastic Four”.


• The writer/director is a YouTube star from Norway, behind the success duo PistolShrimps with over 430 000 subscribers and 150 million views online.

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8vlvkPwE9o

 Escape (2015), Croatia, 5min

An autistic girl obsessed with science fiction dreams that she is chosen to be abducted by an alien in one of her books.

Interesting facts:

• Escape is adaptation of the comic book written by internationally known comics artist Igor Kordey. Igor Kordej is best known for his work as the illustrator of the New X-Men and the Star Trek comics, but he has a large volume of diverse work.

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJaKKDBAJuM