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At a motivational seminar, seminar leader Marius meets Jörg, an Ossi who doesn't understand. When Marius teaches him how to open a door with the right attitude, suddenly none of the participants can remember them. They are forgotten by the world, dependent on each other. Marius discovers that opening doors in the parallel universe creates unexpected opportunities for them to change places at will and live freely. But life as a couple brings with it tensions.

Conquerors land on a newly discovered planet and try to colonize and explore a new discovered planet.

After serving a prison sentence, Laurence Burton lives a simple life in the desert with his wife. His dream is to build a flying saucer with renewable energy. Together with a group of British pensioners, he tries to make it come true while trying to reconcile with his family's past.

Set in the future in a time of interplanetary colonization, an unlikely pair race against an impending global crisis and are confronted by the monsters that live inside us all.

A nationwide tour celebrating the 25th anniversary of their debut. This recording captures the unforgettable K-Arena Yokohama performance, including a special encore set exclusive to the final day, marking a milestone achievement in their career.

Nine-year old Andreas Decker is the new kid in town. He tells his class that he has lived all over the world on account of his parents being top scientific researchers. Yet classmate Vero finds Andreas's workaholic parents really weird. She suggests to spy on them. When Andreas overhears their conversation about conquering the world and becoming leaders, their can only be one conclusion for the baffled children: Andreas's parents are aliens.

Five unknown, unread, and well-past-their-prime science fiction authors grapple with obscurity, infinity, and obsolescence (...and whether robots should legitimately be allowed to enter dance competitions). Filmed in the DOGME 95 spirit, SCIENCE FICTION is an existential comedy from writer/director Pablo D'Stair

Science Fiction is a found-footage film that playfully explores the space-time continuum as it applies to narrative structure. Max J. Alvarez in the Milwaukee Journal writes: “J. J. Murphy’s Science Fiction, a dazzling five-minute experimental fantasy that at first appears to be a 1950s travelogue gone awry, features technical trickery that will impress and bewilder filmmakers and filmgoers.”

A comparison of science fiction and real life.

American Documentary, narrated by Christopher Lee

A multifaceted portrait of science fiction writer Stanislaw Lem.

This documentary is shown at the exhibition at MoPOP

Science fiction short involving dreams.

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For his school science fair, Nutmeg creates a science fiction wonder, Manler Wagner, a totally awesome robot with incredible time travel hair.

Three science fiction stories told in three minutes.

A short documentary about Fritz Lang's film 'Frau im Mond', and its relation to the science and history of real space travel.

Tom has a simple assignment for school: to write a science fiction story. But none of his ideas are clicking, so he goes outside for a walk, and before he can say "time travel," he has a science-fiction adventure of his own.

From A TRIP TO THE MOON (made in 1902) to STAR WARS, no other genre has captivated our imagination quite like Science Fiction. Join us in our 56 minute mission to seek out the Sci-Fi film destroyed by Adolph Hitler, to explore the difference between Jules Verne and H.G. Wells, to boldly go where the Sci-Fi greats have gone before!

This film explores the most astonishing predictions of Jules Verne and H.G. Wells. Michio Kaku contributes.

Taking place after alien crafts land around the world, an expert linguist is recruited by the military to determine whether they come in peace or are a threat.

In an American desert town circa 1955, the itinerary of a Junior Stargazer/Space Cadet convention is spectacularly disrupted by world-changing events.

In a future where a failed global-warming experiment kills off most life on the planet, a class system evolves aboard the Snowpiercer; a train that travels around the globe via a perpetual-motion engine.

In the future, the Japanese government captures a class of ninth-grade students and forces them to kill each other under the revolutionary "Battle Royale" act.

In the near future, on a decimated Earth, Paul and his twin sons face terror at night when ferocious creatures awaken. When Paul is nearly killed, the boys come up with a plan for survival, using everything their father taught them to keep him alive.

John Brown is a bumbling but well-intentioned security guard who is badly injured in an explosion planned by an evil mastermind. He is taken to a laboratory, where Brenda, a leading robotics surgeon, replaces his damaged limbs with state-of-the-art gadgets and tools. Named "Inspector Gadget" by the press, John -- along with his niece, Penny, and her trusty dog, Brain -- uses his new powers to discover who was behind the explosion.

Three friends discover a mysterious machine that takes pictures 24 hours into the future and conspire to use it for personal gain, until disturbing and dangerous images begin to develop.

A star athlete reluctantly returns home to take over his father's duties as Ultraman, shielding Tokyo from giant monsters as he becomes a legendary hero.

A peace treaty between the Earth and the Black World, a parallel universe of demons, is coming to an end. Two cops, Taki, a human male, and Maki, a female demon, are assigned to protect a diplomat who will help secure another treaty. A radical group of demons from the Black World are out to assassinate the diplomat and prevent the treaty; only the bond that forms between the two cops can save the Earth from destruction.

Set in the future on a war-ravaged Earth, four exhausted soldiers man Sentinel - a remote military base in a vast ocean that separates two warring continents. While their tour of duty ended three months ago, the relief crew still hasn't arrived and as the empty weeks turn to months, paranoia descends, testing relationships to breaking point...

As London is submerged below floodwaters, a woman gives birth to her first child. Days later, she and her baby are forced to leave their home in search of safety. They head north through a newly dangerous country seeking refuge from place to place.

After depleting Earth's resources for centuries, humankind's survival requires an exodus to outer space. An international expedition is quickly formed to find a suitable new planet, but when plans go awry, the crew is suddenly stranded without power on a strange planet, where something unimaginable lies in wait.

A top secret Alaskan lab goes dark due to an unexplained incident, prompting the military to send a black ops team to recover sensitive data and destroy the lab, only to find their ranks infected with a deadly alien virus.

The ancient tradition of Mimicry is a dying art. When Maggie, the last remaining Mimic in England has her world turned upside-down by a patient, she begins to find the cracks in her reality start to widen. What would you do if you could have one last conversation with someone you've lost?

In a massive, mysterious chamber, fifty strangers awaken to find themselves trapped with no memory of how they got there. Organized in an inward-facing circle and unable to move, they quickly learn that every two minutes, one of them must die…executed by a strange device in the center of the room.

On a deep space mining mission to a remote planet, an ancient religious relic - thought to be proof of the existence of God - is unearthed and brought aboard. When the unholy artifact unleashes a long-dormant alien race, its glimpse of Heaven transforms the ship into a living Hell. A prequel to the events of the 2008 video game Dead Space.

A developmentally disabled boy's life changes after he encounters an extraterrestrial being.

In a galaxy not so far away, the world the two moons "Alphamoon" and "Betamoon" is very divided. While life on "Alpha" is wealthy, luxurious and elegant and people always have plenty of food, culture and nice conversations, living on "beta" is the opopposite. People live in an industrial landscape and work hard for little amounts of bad food and bad air, to provide "Alpha" with the best things. But a little piece of Sushi, flying through space is about to change that.

When an alien visitor discovers it can communicate with Earth’s oceans, it becomes the only intermediary between humanity and a vast marine intelligence whose patience with the human race is running out. Part survey, part discovery, the film explores a stretch of the wilderness that has largely slipped through the cracks of human attention, and in some places, bears the marks of human failure. The alien encounters a force both beautiful and terrifying, a voice as old as the planet itself, carrying memories, warnings and a power beyond human control. The film is a parable about nature on Earth by establishing an unidentified alien as interacting with the planet. By way of subtle messages the sea warns the alien that the existence of the planet is at stake. The alien discovers a controlling city but does not interfere with it and hopes that the sea will find a way to survive.

Planet tells the story of a man who dreams of building an artificial planet from the ground up, asking the question, "Is the sacrifice required to create something truly great worth it in the end?" Set in the year 2730 IA, Dr. Evren Kon dares to think beyond a United Council request to build an orbital supercomputer and proposes an idea far bolder: a plan to build an artificial planet. The film takes place during the final century of the project.