SFL_2018_A5_PROGRAMME

OPENING
NIGHT FILM
CHIMERA
TUE 1 MAY
8.00PM
STRATFORD
PICTUREHOUSE
Dir: Maurice Haaems
Year: 2018
Language: English
Runtime: 80
Country: USA
Our opening night film stars Henry
Ian Cusick (Lost, The 100).
A brilliant but disturbed scientist’s
children are in cryogenic suspension,
while he races to cure their deadly
disease by decoding the DNA of the
immortal Turritopsis jellyfish. To
progress he needs lots of stem cells.
A manipulative millionaire can help
but she has her own agenda,
Inspired by the director’s real life as
his loved ones struggled with genetic
disease, Chimera asks the existential
question “do you want to live forever? “
Screens with the UK premiere of
Nguyen-Anh Nguyen’s short film
HYPERLIGHT.
Our gala evening also has a prescreening
introduction by Dr
Charlotte Mykura (microbiologist
and geneticist) who will try to
separate the science from the
fiction, and highlight the themes,
the exaggerations, and the
sometimes stranger-than-fiction
realities of nature.”
In association with
UK
PREMIERE
DIRECTOR
Q&A
2
THE LONDON INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASTIC FILM 1 — 7 MAY 2018