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The 8th Sci-Fi London Film Festival runs from April 29 to May 4 at Apollo West End cinema, Regent Street, London.
The festival will open with a screening of Eyeborgs - a fresh sci-fi take on the idea of a surveillance society. Other highlights include the world premiere of The Hunt For Gollum and the UK premieres of Japanese films The Clone Returns Home and Cyborg She.
All-nighters this year are celebrations of Star Trek, anime and Italian horror.
View previous years coverage of the Sci-Fi-London festival:
Sci-Fi Latest Reviews

Three tales of terror: a threatening phone call; an ancient evil; and a ghostly morality tale.

In a futuristic totalitarian state, where human memories are literally converted to fuel, one man becomes convinced he can save the world.

A teenage girl enters a mysterious maze to try and win back her baby brother from the Goblin King.

A woman loses her mind after her lover is decapitated in a car accident.

Gandalf sends Strider out to find Gollum before he gives away the location of the One Ring.

A Japanese astronaut who dies during a mission is subsequently resurrected as a clone and returns to his childhood home.

A training cruise for Kirk turns deadly with the return of an old enemy.

A former rock star now working in a convenience store discovers that his childhood stories have inspired a megalomaniac with apocalyptic visions.

In a future world where the remnants of humanity are threatened by a sentient forest, a youth must reinvent himself in order to prevent people from the past destroying all that he holds dear.

The story of a reluctant angel turns into a flight of the imagination.

Filming sensations Mathieu Amalric on Pierre Léon, Jeanne Balibar and the sounds and colours of Barbara
Character arc Seth A Smith on filming with a two-year-old and bringing marbling to life in The Crescent
Keeping up appearances Marcello Martinessi on cultural conservatism and filmmaking honesty in The Heiresses
A different space Kelly Macdonald on working with Marc Turtletaub on Puzzle
Out of the past Susanna Nicchiarelli on Trine Dyrholm and the costume design in Nico, 1988
The iconic man Jonathan Baker on Becoming Iconic and Inconceivable
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