Dublin Sci-Fi Film Festival 2018 Brochure
Full programme brochure for Dublin Sci-Fi Film Festival 2018
Full programme brochure for Dublin Sci-Fi Film Festival 2018
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Thread<br />
Alexander Voulgaris<br />
93 min / 2016 / Greece<br />
Sat 28/04 @ 19:45<br />
Generator<br />
Official Selection:<br />
LA <strong>Fi</strong>lm <strong>Festival</strong><br />
Thessaloniki IFF<br />
Göteborg <strong>Fi</strong>lm<br />
<strong>Festival</strong><br />
Political revolutionary Niki and her son Lefteris live in a world bound by memory,<br />
sexual nightmares, and the political chaos of Greece in the 1970s. Their existence<br />
is a claustrophobic fever dream in which one face merges into the next, meshing<br />
fantasy and horror. The result is a head trip that manages to defy the conventions<br />
of genre by crafting a savage meditation, oscillating among political aggression,<br />
motherhood and violence as protest.<br />
Writer/director Alexandros Voulgaris and lead Sofia Kokkali create an experience<br />
unlike any other, challenging the values of contemporary society with a unique<br />
cinematic articulation. Both vibrant and horrifying, Thread is Greek cinema at<br />
its most brutal and experimental; a burning hallucination that brands your brain<br />
and won’t let you wake up. – Adam Piron, LA <strong>Fi</strong>lm <strong>Festival</strong><br />
50 th anniversary:<br />
Planet of<br />
the apes<br />
Franklin J Schaffner<br />
112 min / 1968 / US<br />
sat 28/04 @ 21:45<br />
Light house<br />
Cert: pg<br />
<strong>Dublin</strong> <strong>Sci</strong>-<strong>Fi</strong><br />
film <strong>Festival</strong><br />
Charlton Heston and Roddy McDowall star in this legendary science fiction<br />
masterpiece. A group of astronauts, led by George Taylor (Charlton Heston),<br />
crash land on a strange planet where mute humans are treated as slaves by<br />
intelligent apes. Taylor is hunted down and captured by horse-riding gorillas,<br />
and then taken for experimentation by sympathetic chimpanzee Dr Zira (Kim<br />
Hunter). When Zira discovers Taylor’s intelligence, she and her fiancé Cornelius<br />
(Roddy McDowall) appeal to the governing council on his behalf, but the appeal<br />
fails, leaving the astronaut no choice but to go on the run.<br />
““Planet of the Apes is an amazing film. A political-sociological allegory, cast<br />
in the mold of futuristic science-fiction, it is an intriguing blend of chilling<br />
satire, a sometimes ludicrous juxtaposition of human and ape mores,<br />
optimism and pessimism.” – Variety, 1968<br />
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