Alice is 16 years old but on her bedroom walls no posters of Busted (What, teenagers these days no longer listen to Busted, you say? We refuse to believe that!) but of Greta Thunberg. After school hours – sometimes even during – she walks in climate change marches and she protests against evil projects like… Continue reading LE VISITEUR DU FUTUR
Genre: Science-Fiction
LIFE OF MARIKO IN KABUKICHO
A man is on the run in Tokyo. People sometimes see him wandering the streets at night holding a mysterious basket. But those unfortunate enough to peek inside, end up X-rayed into a smoldering pile of bones… A couple of days earlier, a UFO allegedly crashes in the outskirts of the city and the FBI… Continue reading LIFE OF MARIKO IN KABUKICHO
RUBIKON
2056, far, far away from the Earth. Hannah and Gavin are sent to the Rubikon space station to work on the promising research of geneticist Dimitri Krylow. The latter has succeeded in cultivating genetically modified algae that provide energy, oxygen and food. In short, perfect self-sufficiency! In the meantime, the previous crew returns to Earth.… Continue reading RUBIKON
PREDATOR
A commando of mercenaries is sent on a mission in a Central American jungle. Once there, they discover that their target is none other than an alien vacationing on our planet for some exotic hunting. Y’know, just for the joy of killing inferior creatures. But whaddayaknow, Mayor “Dutch” Schaefer loves the same outdoor sport! An… Continue reading PREDATOR
VIRUS-32
Iris is a night guard at a big sports club in Montevideo Bay and the cliché of the single mother struggling to make ends meet. Sure, she likes to drink and smoke some weed from time to time, but who are we to judge? Once a week she also takes her daughter Renata to work… Continue reading VIRUS-32
VESPER
Despite endless warnings by scientists and BIFFF-ers alike, all pathetic attempts to save our planet have failed. Our ecosystem has collapsed and along with it, society’s structures. Many people perished, the powerful fled to walled-in, high-tech Citadels that artificially hold up an illusion of civilization. The rest of humanity linger like wild animals in a… Continue reading VESPER
CUBE by Yasuhiko Shimizu
After CUBE, CUBE 2: HYPERCUBE and CUBE ZERO (sometimes also called CUBE3 or THE CUBIC CUBE) it got frightfully quiet in Crazy Cubetown. Has the Cube no more sides to turn? Hah! Leave it to the Japanese to take CUBE to the next level! Tinkering with the same basic ingredients of the original (six strangers… Continue reading CUBE by Yasuhiko Shimizu
WARNING
It’s 2035 and it’s nearly the end of the world as we know it. While a lonely maintenance technician (“Oh, they still send humans up there for that kind of work?”) circles off into space – without Clooney’s vodka bottle – he has a grand view on Earth as it is about to explode. And… Continue reading WARNING
KARMALINK
Cambodia in the near future. Nanotechnologies have brought about a gigantic boom in the ever-expanding capital Phnom Penh, threatening to swallow its surrounding slums whole in a gentrification frenzy. City-planners and real estate crooks swarm to these district in order to push out the poor local community. Next on their list? Young Heng Leng’s district,… Continue reading KARMALINK
BRAIN FREEZE
Welcome to Peacock Island, the peninsula where the proud peacocks of Quebec capitalism are happy to idly loaf around, a bourgeois stronghold with no intentions to mingle with the rest of the country. And there’s a new fad in town: playing golf all year long, even during harsh winter months at -30 degrees. In this… Continue reading BRAIN FREEZE