Exit Pangea

(Dir: Tibor Baumann, Germany, 80mins)

Ingenious and uncompromising scientist Pouya and her friend Joro are trying everything they can to create the perfect simulation - a new world. In the process, she enters into a battle with Claire Mitchell a representative of the mega-corporation "RenJi".It is a battle Pouya can only win if she merges with the machine, the AI EXIT, becoming the impulse for the emergence of a new world herself. The speculative subgenre ‘Cli-Fi’ meets some Cronenbergian body-shock in Tibor Baumann’s thrilling drama.

World Premiere

Tibor Baumann is a guest of the festival and will be present for a Q&A at Event Cinemas Macquarie on 2 September

What Time Is It?

(Dir: Eric Giessmann, Piers Goffart; Germany, 3.16)

He travels back in time ten years to meet his younger self and give him a message. A message that is of tremendous importance for his future life!

Australian Premiere

Prototype

(Dir: April Ruzmed, Germany)

A woman takes part in a psychiatric trial of a prototype capable of reading emotions through neurotransmitters. Taken to her physiological breaking point, she will unleash unexpected inner powers.