Sci-Fi-London: Annular Eclipse

UK Premiere.

In a dystopian future, a cure for Alzheimer's has given rise to technology that enables near-perfect brainwashing and memory editing. Two contract killers, Ge and Song, carry out daily executions for the organisation. Ge has become a deeply troubled man, sustaining nightmares and flashes of suppressed memory. On their next assignment, Ge’s flashbacks aren’t ones he recognises; it seems that someone is manipulating his memory and their latest target is someone important from his past. The assassins must infiltrate the Brain Science Corporation to find out the truth.

Picture a Hong-Kong style mash-up of Blade Runner and Memento – Zhang's film is a futuristic, dystopian love letter to cyberpunk. A big step forward for Chinese sci-fi cinema.