NEW! : LEE PACE STARS IN SCI-FI MOVIE 'REVOLT'.

Here at Future-Rocker, we love two kinds of movies: Lower-budget but higher-aiming science fiction films ( eg. Dredd, Battle Los Angeles, Skyline, Monsters ), and we especially love science fiction films set in places other than America ( eg. Chappie, Monsters: Dark Continent, Darkest Days ). Because, let's face it - America does not own the future. So we're intrigued by this trailer for a movie that originally surfaced as a proof-of-concept clip called Prisoners of War back in 2014, and has now been developed by Dutch Filmworks into a fully-fledged action movie starring Lee Pace ( Halt and Catch Fire ) and Berenice Marlohe ( Skyfall ). With shades of District 9 and Edge of Tomorrow ( albeit smaller in scope ), this will be released in July on TVOD and then on Blu-ray in December 2017.

Revolt ( Netherlands trailer ).

Original short, posted by cinematographer Chris Saul on Vimeo.

NEW TRAILER FOR INDIE SCI-FI ADVENTURE 'BOKEH'

In photography, bokeh (originally /ˈboʊkɛ/, /ˈboʊkeɪ/ boh-kay — also sometimes pronounced as /ˈboʊkə/ boh-kə, Japanese: [boke]) is the aesthetic quality of the blur produced in the out-of-focus parts of an image produced by a lens. Bokeh has been defined as "the way the lens renders out-of-focus points of light". Differences in lens aberrations and aperture shape cause some lens designs to blur the image in a way that is pleasing to the eye, while others produce blurring that is unpleasant or distracting—"good" and "bad" bokeh, respectively. - Wikipedia

'In life, we choose what we focus on and what we blur. We wanted to tell a story of two people who continue to change their priorities, their ideals, their focus based on an altered world. They are defined not just by what they focus on, but what they choose to blur.'

'Bokeh' ( pr. Beau-ka ) is a film fable where, alongside the two leads - Maika Monroe and Matt O'Leary - the landscape of Iceland itself is the third character, according to filmmakers Geoffrey Orthwein and Andrew Sullivan of Zealous Pictures.

If you're going to do an end-of-days thriller about the last people on Earth, what more convenient place to set it than Iceland, where summer daylight lasts for twenty-four hours, and you can film your protagonists wandering the empty streets uninterrupted while everyone sleeps?

With sixty locations, many showcasing the imposing local geology ( Iceland was also the location for the Engineer's alien base in Ridley Scott's Prometheus ), Bokeh looks to be an intriguing addition to contemporary indie sci-fi.

And check out the filmmakers' original Kickstarter pitch from 2015: