Go back to the future with a season of sci-fi films in Sharjah

After parts of Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens were filmed in the Abu Dhabi desert last year, and with Star Trek set to film in Dubai this month, Sharjah Art Foundation and Cinema Akil have been inspired to organise special screenings of two short films for sci-fi fans.

The first is THX 1138, a 15-minute film made by George Lucas in 1967, 10 years before Star Wars. The second is Egyptian director Yehia El Alami’sStar Trek-inspired 1979 film Khatee’at Malak (Sin of an Angel). Both will be screened at Sharjah’s Mirage cinema on Saturday.

Lucas’s THX 1138 is set in an underground city, an impersonal, emotionless, computerised society in which the residents are drugged into compliance and their movements are constantly monitored. The film follows the main character, known only as THX 1138 4EB, as he attempts to escape from the dystopian hell.

Lucas expanded the film into his feature-film debut of the same name, produced by Francis Ford Coppola, which was released in 1971.

Original article by Anna Seaman

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