While America has its Sundance Film Festival (in terms of indies), the UK also has a long-standing tradition of film festivals. Among them is also SCI-FI-LONDON, a popular annual event that will celebrate its sixth edition in May 2007. As years went by, the festival has become a major launching platform for international and British movies, which premiere here along the program of rarely screened classics.

For example, in the past, the SCI-FI has introduced such movies as 'Versus', 'Avalon', 'Mothman Profecies', 'The Machinist', 'Saving Star Wars', 'Final Fantasy: Advent Children' and 'Confederate States of America' in national premiere. But that doesn't mean that it has ignored classics. On the contrary, the festival prides itself in being among the few that still run classic movies to a wider audience, offering people the chance to relive those old forgotten feelings via uncut and reconditioned versions of the movies that changed the face of cinematography as we know it.

This is basically the same idea that operated behind the restoring of one of the greatest sci-fi thrillers ever envisioned by a living man - H.G. Wells' 'Things to Come', based on his popular novel 'The Shape of Things to Come'. On Friday 4th May 2007, all those who claim to be true fans of the genre, should go and save a place for the world screening of the restored, extended version of the 1936 classic film. Also in May, the special DVD edition will be launched in British stores.

This brand new uncut edition (all the versions that ran on the big screen, television programs and video tapes until now have been drastically cut) will show you the world as Wells envisioned it by means of a brilliant piece of work that still outshines many of its contemporary counterparts for its special effects and visual imagery. It is a place where humanity's worst dreams come true, where that fear that man always had of scientific progress finally becomes justified, a dystopia in the true sense of the word. It's only up to human race itself to decide whether it is fit enough to survive another world crisis...

If this was enough to get your attention, the SCI-FI-LONDON runs from May 2nd to May 6th London, Apollo West End, Lower Regent Street and additional information can be found on the official webpage.