Browsing Category 'Sci-Fi/Fantasy'

Space Battleship Yamato 2010 Japan

The human race faces extinction in 2199. War has been raging for the past 5 years with an unknown foe. Humanity is losing badly, aliens have bombarded the earth with asteroids, making the surface uninhabitable. Driven underground, survivors have little to hope for.

Attack The Block 2011 England

When aliens invade South London, the only thing between them and world domination is a gang of thugs. They live in the government social housing otherwise known as council housing or as the kids refer to it: The block.

2033 2009 Mexico

In the future Mexico City is renamed Villeparisio. The country has become a totalitarian regime. It pacifies it’s citizens with mind control drugs. In it lives Pablo, a well to do young man with a mother who is about to marry the government’s head of security. He has everything handed to him, yet he numbs himself with with drugs and alcohol.

Finisterrae 2010 Spain

It’s amazing what a sheet with 2 dark holes can do. Imagine what 2 sheets can do! Finisterrae is an abstract visual feast about a pair of ghosts, that is devoid of a plot but is absolutely captivating. Set to an eclectic collection of tunes, it’s an enthralling 80 minutes.

Sintel 2010 Netherlands

Sintel is alone in a large city. Barely getting by on rotting discarded food, she finds friendship with an injured baby dragon. She names it Scales and nurses it back to health. When Scales is taken by an adult dragon, Sintel embarks on a long and dangerous quest to rescue her friend.

Astrópía 2007 Iceland

Beautiful Hildur is a woman of leisure. When her car dealership owing boyfriend is arrested, she finds herself without a home or funds to continue her lavish lifestyle. She gets a job at the Astropia Comic book store selling role playing games. It’s a clash of two worlds.

Djinns (Stranded) 2010 France

It’s 1960, a French military plane has crashed in the South Algerian dessert. A team of paratroopers are sent in to retrieve a mysterious metal brief case. Trapped in a giant sandstorm, a Djinn creature visits them in darkness. They also seek the case.

Carlston za Ognjenku (Tears for Sale) 2008 Serbia

In the eastern Serbian town of Pokrp, it’s desperately low on men. In a double twist of fate, the town loses its source of income and one of their last remaining men, when he decides to put mines in the vineyard. Needless to say, it does not end well.

Trolljegeren (The Troll Hunter) 2010 Norway

Hans is the only hunter of his kind in Norway. Often mistaken as bear poacher, he’s really a Troll hunter. Three journalism students sense a great story with Hans and they follow him into the forest, only to discover that monsters really do exist.

Skeletons 2010 England

The pair are fact psychic cleaners. Their abilities allow them to extract repressed or troubled emotions literally from their client’s closets. Once extracted, the pair gives the clients a full rundown of all the things they’re holding secret, known or otherwise.

Chrysalis 2007 France

In the near future David Hoffman is a hard boiled Paris detective. While pursuing Nicolov a notorious human trafficker, Hoffman’s is helpless as his wife and partner is killed before his eyes. Nicolov escapes and leaves the cop’s life in shambles.

Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives 2010 Thailand

Set in the pastoral north of Thailand close to the Laos border, Uncle Boonmee tends to his Tamarind farm. He’s dying from kidney disease when he’s visited by his sister and nephew from the city. During dinner they’re joined by the spirit of his deceased wife and his son that has transformed into a forest beast.