Uploaded June 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
How would you live your life if you got a second chance?
By 2064, the planet is on the brink, devastated by climate collapse. Henrik is a brilliant young physicist whose team develops a fusion reactor capable of providing endless clean energy. But when their invention is hijacked for profit, the dream turns into a nightmare.
In a final bid to save humanity, the UN deploys a radical form of time travel, one that sends a person’s consciousness back to the moment of their birth. Henrik is chosen to go back and steer the world away from disaster. But when things go wrong, he wakes up in an unfamiliar body, facing a very different life, and the same ticking clock.
This is a thought-provoking and emotionally rich film that blends grounded drama with speculative sci-fi. It asks urgent questions about identity, accountability, and why, despite all we know, we still struggle to change.
Dir: Arto Tapio Halonen | 2024 | 97MINS | Finland |Finnish (Eng subs)
PART OF THE SCI-FI-LONDON FILM FESTIVAL 2025
How would you live your life if you got a second chance?
By 2064, the planet is on the brink, devastated by climate collapse. Henrik is a brilliant young physicist whose team develops a fusion reactor capable of providing endless clean energy. But when their invention is hijacked for profit, the dream turns into a nightmare.
In a final bid to save humanity, the UN deploys a radical form of time travel, one that sends a person’s consciousness back to the moment of their birth. Henrik is chosen to go back and steer the world away from disaster. But when things go wrong, he wakes up in an unfamiliar body, facing a very different life, and the same ticking clock.
This is a thought-provoking and emotionally rich film that blends grounded drama with speculative sci-fi. It asks urgent questions about identity, accountability, and why, despite all we know, we still struggle to change.
Dir: Arto Tapio Halonen | 2024 | 97MINS | Finland |Finnish (Eng subs)
PART OF THE SCI-FI-LONDON FILM FESTIVAL 2025

![On My Watch Team Badger Way
2018 48hr Film Entry [Shortlisted] by Team Badger Way
Witty, super-geeky and great fun. Perhaps this type of conversation is going on in a few households in isolation around the world.
Great job! On My Watch Team Badger Way](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/c9bFfky8UiE/mqdefault.jpg)







![THE AMERICAN ASTRONAUT | SCI-FI-LONDON 2020
20TH BIRTHDAY FREE SCREENING
The very first SCI-FI-LONDON opened at the Curzon Soho and our first film was a debut film by the director, Cory McAbee.
Fresh from Sundance, where it won the Sloan Award, and the Toronto film festival, The American Astronaut is still one of our all-time favourite films. It seemed fitting to celebrate our 20th birthday with our first film and we are delighted to be joined by Cory for a Q&A.
A simple synopsis would read “Samuel Curtis, an interplanetary trader, sets forth through a rustic and remote solar system, unaware that his old friend Professor Hess is trying to kill him” but this doesn’t even hint at the joy this film brings.
From the trailer and photos, one might imagine it to be a parody of old black and white SF movies, it’s not! Sure, it’s a black and white space film with songs, but it is one of the more original and entertaining films we have ever seen.
Like absinthe, the Velvet Underground, or Marmite, this film is for the more discerning palette. Enjoy it, relish it and try to get the songs out of your head… trust us, you never will.
6.30 PM, 11 DEC 2020 [ FREE TICKET, NO NEED TO BOOK THIS]
Dir: Cory McAbee
Country: USA
Language: English
Year: 2001
Runtime: 91 mins THE AMERICAN ASTRONAUT | SCI-FI-LONDON 2020](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/gNE8qtoRAUg/mqdefault.jpg)
