Sci-fi classics set for special season at IFI - 2001 Silent Running Gattaca and more

The Irish Film Institute has teamed up with the Science Gallery Dublin to present a series called Futures Past - taking classic sci-fi films and examining how they spoke about their present and reached forward to the future.

10 films will be screened from the 6th to the 27th of April, with accompanying talks by scientists and educators, looking at the importance of the themes the films raise, and how they're often still relevant today. Seminal sci-fi 2001 will be part of the list (screened in a new 70mm print) alongside Silent Running, George Lucas' THX 1138, Soylent Green, Metropolis and the more recent classic Gattaca.