The 2024 Sydney Science Fiction Film Festival will launch its 5th anniversary celebrations with a retrospective season of six sci-fi classics, to screen at the iconic Skyline Drive-In in Sydney’s west.

In the 50+ years that RICHARD MASUR has been in front of Hollywood's cameras or treading the boards of Broadway, he has amassed the kind of character actor credits that puts him amongst the great support players of all time. Risky Business, License to Drive, Heaven's Gate, My Girl, Fallen Angel, Stephen King's It, My Science Project, Amazing Stories, Encino Man, And The Band Played On - just some of the 150 titles from a filmography rich in beautifully-crafted, crowd-pleasing…

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2024 Science Fiction Film Festival | Melbourne director Simon Foster puts six key questions to the selected filmmakers.

2024 Science Fiction Film Festival | Melbourne director Simon Foster puts six key questions to the selected filmmakers.

2024 Science Fiction Film Festival | Melbourne director Simon Foster puts six key questions to the selected filmmakers.

PYRAMIDEN is an abandoned coal mining settlement on the island of Spitsbergen, once home to a thousand men, women, and children. Now, in the wake of a mass extinction event, it is being explored by a lone hunter, desperate to find food and any remnants of a vanished humanity. The draw of the ghost town is strong, and he settles in the city remains, determined to construct a reborn society. But strange phenomena will upset this new life…

LIMIT (Dir: Qing Kong | China | 7 mins) In 2136, the boundaries of human activities have expanded to Jupiter, where the public security organisation "Border" has been established. A groundbreaking animation work from the vibrant Chinese VFX sector. AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE

CORA (Dir: Sonny Laguna, Tommy Wiklund | Stars Felicia Rylander, Andres Rylander, Thomas Lennon | Sweden | 100 mins) In the near future, a deadly mist has covered Earth, effectively wiping out most of humanity. A lonely figure in the wasteland is Cora, a woman working for a secret organisation trying to reverse the effects of the apocalypse. On a routine patrol, she must confront the fact that she may not be alone, and that having lived through the mist…