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Release date: Fri 2/18 at 6:45pm

(Japan, 2021) US Premiere.

Relationships between humans & machines have evolved. The next step is here. Lost in a vast urban landscape, Kyoka purchases Kai, a Personal Care Hunmanoid, aka PCH. With time, their interactions get more personal, perhaps too much so.

d: Mutsumi Kameyama

c: Ayaka Nakagouchi, Kosei Kudo

Virtual Release: Friday, Feb 18, 6:45PM EST

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(US, 2022) East Coast Premiere

After a beloved teacher dies, a loyal student sets out on a self-destructive journey to prove her eccentric mentor was right, and that a local legend is more than just a mere bedtime story.

d: Bill Zahn

c: Aidan Zahn, Zoe Vorhies

Friday, 2/18 3:00PM: Somerville Theatre Cinema 3

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"A genre-bending ode...A visual love poem." - Reel News Daily

(US, 2022) East Coast Premiere

Aging artist Oliver Black wakes to discover his wife Evelyn has died quietly while they slept. But in the aftermath of death, there is evolution. There is an expansion and perhaps, a door to serenity.

d: Steve Balderson

c: Mink Stole, Xander Berkeley

Saturday, 2/19 6:00PM: Somerville Theatre Screening Room (Microcinema)

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(UK, 2020) NE Premiere.

In space, everyone could hear the audience scream, or nobody can say no no to Nostromo or Ripley grabs a bus pass to the West End! Dedicated, and slightly daft, British co-workers adapt ALIEN for a one night only stage premiere. Full of wobbly sets, SFX that are iffy, and a cast only a mother coould love. Yet it is endearing and full of the best himanity has to offer. In space, everyone could hear the audience scream.

d: Lucy Harvey, Danielle Kummer

Saturday, 2/19, 5:00PM: Somerville Theatre Cinema 3

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(UK, 2022) US Premiere

Part police porcedural, part chase film, part twisty SciFi film. A government agent is sent to find, and eliminate a professor. The professor has tagged a security leak, but when he reveals the unexpected source, an unlikely partneship ensues. Set against barren & foreboding landscape, the new mission is far different.

d: Schuman Hoque

c: Amelia Clay, Gary MacKay

Virtual Release: Thursday, Feb 17, 7:15PM EST

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(UK, 2021)

Award winning director Kennedy dives into the world of A.I., creativity, and the tension that surrounds us all. A struggling writer heads to a fully A.I. operated retreat.Things go south when a glitch occurs. She trapped. The malfunctioning android is devolving, and communication has been cutoff. To overcome her fears and to outsmart the misfiring technology is the order of the day.

d: Natalie Kennedy

c: Rachel Shelley (The L Word), Heida Reed (Poldark), Wayne Brady (Whose Line Is It Anyway)

Virtual Release: Friday, Feb 18, 7:30PM EST

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“A diverting, no-longer-than-it-has-to-be 80 minutes that will fill the bill for future festival/late-night screenings and alcohol-fueled watch parties.” - Rue Morque

(US, 2021) Premiere

Mutated & murderous horseshoe crabs descend into a sleepy town causing on Prom Night night. As the deadly crustaceans claw their way through the disbelieving population, it’s up to a ramshackle band of students and local law enforcement to address the increasingly ginormous crab menace in a love letter to such practical effects horrors as GREMLINS and nostalgic Roger Corman classics.

d: Pierce Berolzheimer

c: Dylan Riley Snyder, Jessica Morris, Robert Craighead

Friday, 2/18, 11:00PM: Somerville Theatre Cinema 3

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Grand Prize Winner - SciFi London

(Peru, 2021) US Premiere

M is an elderly, homeless woman drifting through her wretched existence in a harsh, unkind society. Daydreaming of the past brings her solace. One day she happens upon an ant. Instead of squashing it, she befriends the pismire.not knowing a “mechanical angel” will also soon arrive. 80m

D: Aldo Salvini

c: Haydeé Cáceres

Direcotr Salvini is expected to attend.

Friday, 2/18, 7:00PM: Somerville Theatre Cinema 3

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(Chile, 2021) US Premiere

It took director 8 years of hand drawing to make this wonderful animated film come to life. The loss of his mother compels a scientist/painter to revisit his childhood home. As he seeks closure, a caterpillar, with fellow magical creatures share his house. They will eventually cross paths in this touching, heartfel singular animated feature.

d: Gabriel Verdugo Soto

Virtual Release: Thursday, Feb 17, 7:30PM EST

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(Canada, 2021) US Premiere

A clever and orginal indie film where isolation makes for some strange bedfellows. While in quarantine on a remote mountain top, a journalist discovers that he is not alone. Then again, that might not be true.

d: Christopher Walters

Wednesday, 2/16 5:00PM: Somerville Theatre Cinema 3

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(US, 2022) Premiere

When a magical anime transforms two Japan-obsessed teenage friends and a shy foreign exchange student into its superpowered characters, the three underdogs must discover their inner heroes in time to save the world. a cleverly crafted coming of age comic book adventure about friendship and the perils of life.

d: Eric McEver

Thursday, 2/17, 9:00PM: Somerville Theatre Cinema 3

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(India, 2021) US Premiere, SciDoc

The historical arc of Kalpavigyan over a century of the genre. This is the first documentary film on the history of Bangla Kalpavigyan and on Indian Science Fiction: a journey captured and presented like never before in film. (In Bengai with subtitles)

d: Arunava Gangopadhyay

Virtual Release: Thursday, Feb 17, 6:30PM EST

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"A campy, bloody vampire flick" - HorrorGeekLife.com

(Ireland, 2021) NE Premiere

A supermarket clerk discovers his brother is a vampire. The age old thickness question takes on new meaning about water & blood takes on new meaning in the tongue check send-up. 96m

d: Conor McMahon (Stitches)

c: Anthony Head (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)

Saturday, 2/19, 11:00PM: Somerville Theatre Cinema 3

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(US, 2022) US Premiere

Indie entreperneurs Madeline and Owen discover the secret of time travel. Nobel prize on its way, but there's a hitch. A beta code version erroneoulsy creates a copy of Madeline, every day. To prevent those pesky universe ending paradoxes, they decide to eliminate the copies the old fashioned way, murder.

d: Jason R Miller

c: Brea Grant, Parry Shen

Thursday, 2/17, 7:00PM: Somerville Theatre Cinema 3

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"Hugely enjoyable" - Jeremy Clarke

"Delgihtful for all ages" - Josh Betchedler

(Chile/Brazil, 2020) NE Premiere

Nahuel fears the sea. When his father is emprisoned on a far away island, he must face a gamut of emotions. A magical book seems to be the answer. But sometimes answers come from strange places. Want a log line on this animated gem, it would be "Harry Potter meets Aquaman" 98m.

d: German Acuña

In-Person: Saturday, 2/19, 3:00PM: Somerville Theatre Cinema 3

Virtual Release: Thursday, 2/17, 2:00PM EST

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"I, For One, Welcome Our New Robot Overlords"- Lee Butler

Documentary

(US, 2019) NE Premiere

An inside look into cutting-edge laboratories where scientists attempt to make robots move, speak and look human. These scientists and their discoveries are contextualised with cinematic and pop culture references to underline the mythic, comic and uncanny aspects of our aspiration to create machines that are eerily similar to ourselves. 72m

d: Abigail Child

Director Abigail Child & Producer Jennifer Burton are expected to attend

In-Person: Friday, 2/18, 5:00PM: Somerville Theatre Cinema 3

Virtual Release: Friday, Feb 18, 6:30PM EST

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"Unsettling, twisted but so compelling." - Bloody-Flicks (UK)

SCI-FRIGHT (US, 2021) US Premiere

Two years ago, William Langston made a mistake that would affect the course of his life. Now, with a killer loose in his home town and his circle of friends falling away one at a time, William faces his greatest fears as well as his own mortality. Filmmakers will be attending.

d: Keene McRae

Wednesday, 2/16 9:00PM: Somerville Theatre Cinema 3

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(German, 2021) East Coast Premiere

t=E/x² ("texsquare") is a Ground Hog Day type story about being stuck in a time loop. Albeit, the loop is small and more challenging. In his first film director Simon adds a Steampunk sensibility as the hero navigates a malleable, changeable future.

d: Andreas Z Simon

c: Gøtz Otto (Iron Sky, Tomorrow Never Dies), Jasmin Wagner

Virtual Release: Friday, Feb 18, 7:15PM EST

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(S. Korea, 2021) US Premiere

Pan-Gyo which is the Korean Silicon Valley, is attacked by Nuclear bomb. The member of family hide at basement in their house for 2 weeks in accordance with direction from Korean Government. Family realtionships fray as they struggle to survive in the basement day by day.

d: Choi Yang Hyun

c: Seongeun Kwak, Cheolhui Lee

Virtual Release: Saturday, Feb 19, 7:30PM EST

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(New Zealand, 2020) US Premiere

With their Noir patois firmly placed in their cheeks, two alien soldiers arrive on Earth are tasked with a deadly mission. The filmmaker originally stated that the film was best watched under intoxicating circumstances, but first time director Nikitin backtracked. It was also suggested that this indie filmis perfect Mindnight show fodder. And John Cena was no where near when this film was made.

d: Svuatoslav Nikitin

Virtual Release: Thursday, Feb 17, 7:45PM EST

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(China, 2018) US Premiere

Zhang Linzi’s directing debut is based on the acclaimed Chinese novel The Mirror Project by Xiao Dun. Taking place in a time when 'replicas' aka replicants are models of genetic perfection. Still they are artificial and programmed. They are ihumanity, but that's what they want.

d: Zhang Linzi

c: Toby Lee, Guo Shutong

Virtual Release: Saturday, Feb 19, 6:45PM EST

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(US/China/It, 2021) US Live Premiere.

A different type of SciFi film. Following a violent encounter, two fringe dwelling strangers hit the American highways. Part road movie, part chase and part exploration of humanity, it is the search for truth about a shared through a close encounter. 94m

d: Antonio Tibaldi

c: Jorge Antonio Guerrero (ROMA)

Friday, 2/18, 9:00PM: Somerville Theatre Cinema 3

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(Ireland, 2021) NE Premiere.

First time feature director Kate Dolan shows a rare command of the cinematic vernacular while touching her Celtic roots. RogerEbert.com said it well, Mother "weaves teen angst and mental illness into an updating of a classic Irish folk tale about changelings and doppelgangers. With fantastically committed performances and a deft management of tone, it’s one of the better genre films of 2021."

d: Kate Dolan

Director Dolan is expected to attend

Saturday, 2/19, 9:00PM: Somerville Theatre Cinema 3

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(US, 2021) SciFright

Massachusetts filmmaogrpaher Verdi takes a small budget and a wealth of creativity to limn a portrait of a delusional loner who returns to his hometown in the wake of family tragedy. Grief may hvae been on the menu, nbut murder is being served.

d: Nick Verdi

c: Ethan Hansen, Jimmy Laine

Thursday, 2/17 5:00PM: Somerville Theatre Cinema 3

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First scifi film made in Cambodia

“Highly entertaining sci-fi mystery-adventure” - Variety

East Coast Premiere

In this Buddhist sci-fi mystery set in near-future Phnom Penh, a young Cambodian detective untangles a link between her friend's past-life dreams of a lost gold artifact and a neuroscientist's determination to attain digital enlightenment.

D: James Wachtel

Saturday, 2/19 7:00PM: Somerville Theatre Cinema 3

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(Japan, 2021)

d: Minoru Kawasaki

c: Shô Higano, Nana Oda, Jiro Dan

Virtual Release: Friday, Feb 18, 2:00PM EST

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"Playful, enchanted and humane" - Olivier Bachelard

(France & Belgium, 2019)

New England Premiere

Meet Simon, an eight year old without a family, but when friendship blossoms with two other kids, things are better. To them he shares a secret. A secret that gets more difficult as the years gather.

d: Léo Karmann

Virtual Release: Saturday, Feb 19, 7:15PM EST

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