SASYQ (Dir: Yerden Telemissov; Kazakhstan, 105 mins) VICTORIAN PREMIERE

WINNER: BEST ACTOR – Sydney Science Fiction Film Festival

As the district administration prepares for the arrival of high-ranking officials, the local homeless alcoholic takes on problems of intergalactic proportions. Direct from Montreal’s Fantasia Film Festival, this charming, hilarious and very moving riff on close encounter mythology is the festival’s crowdpleaser.

Screens with short film INVASION ’53 (Dir: Danielle Weinberg; USA, 10 mins) A man-eating alien crashes a suburban cocktail party. Starring Jeffery Coombs, of Re-animator fame.