Official Selections: 8th LA Sci-Fi Film Festivals
Congratulations to our accepted filmmakers!
Films are listed in alphabetical order, index to the left.
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Singularity
Animation, Music Video
A painterly space adventure set in a universe before the beginning of our time.
Director: Andy Goralczyk
Producer: Fiona Cohen
Writer: Andy Goralczyk
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Untainted sky
West Coast Premiere, Los Angeles Premiere.
Within the confines of an extensive underground Machine, a curious mechanic encounters a stranger from the surface. Defying the strict obedience to the Machine, he is driven to learn more about this outsider.
Director: Madeline Bradley
Producer: Orlando Grayson, Carson Blickenstaff, Madeline Bradley
Writer: Carson Blickenstaff, Madeline Bradley
Cast: Ethan Akester, Ava Jarque
Cinematographer: Carson Blickenstaff
Editor: Carson Blickenstaff, Madeline Bradley
Awarded "Best Sci-fi" at the 2026 Utah International Film Festival.
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volume 7
Los Angeles Premiere
The future is just another past.
In the isolated City-Building 7, where human knowledge is preserved in the minds of the gifted, a young man reappears again and again, confronting love, rebellion, and the elusive promise of escape. A woman becomes the mirror of this repetition, keeping alive the fragile hope that something might finally change.
Volume 7 is an existential science fiction film about time; not as a straight line, but as a closed loop of memory, identity, and failed revolutions. At its centre is the City-Building: isolated, decaying, yet obsessed with maintaining order and the illusion of a higher purpose. The film explores the idea that rebellion, like love, may be an inevitable illusion: beautiful, tragic, and futile. And amid it all, there is humour; sometimes your grand escape plan is made of bland, edible rope. This film doesn’t promise solutions. Like memory, it flickers. Like history, it repeats in a slightly altered form. And like life itself, it remains ambiguous.
Directors: Panos Pappas + Despina Charalampous
Producer: Nikos Moustakas
Writer: Despina Charalampous
Cast: Stela Fyrogeni, Kostis Mpountas, Kristel Kaperoni,
Cinematographer: Ioan Meltzer
Editor: Despina Charalampous
Production designer: François Schuiten
Music composer: Nikos Kypourgos
Official selection at:
- 66th Thessaloniki International Film Festival (Greece)
- 22nd Another Hole in the Head Film Festival (San Francisco - USA)
- FECIP 2026 Festival Internacional de Cine de Portoviejo (Ecuador)
- 8th Los Angeles Sci-Fi Film Festival (USA)
Official selection & award-winning at:
- London Director Talents Movie Awards (UK) / Best Narrative Feature
- Philip K Dick International Film Festival (New York - USA) / Best PKD Feature
- Universal Sci-Fi & Fantastic Film Festival (Turkey) / Honourable Mention
- Antakya International Film Festival (Turkey) / Best Actress (Stela Fyrogeni)
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