The Outer Rim Festival is a weekend celebration of Science Fiction film.  Our program contains content from many parts of the world. For each event, there is plenty of planning and work to do. We are open to participants planetwide to join us in the impressive, and historical rich city of Baltimore, Maryland.

If you are interested in volunteering, performing, or giving a talk during the annual event, please send us a note via email or connect with us on social media. For proper planning, ensure at least two months prior to the festival.

Some of Year One Films

Isaac Asimov: A Message to the Future
With more than 500 publications, Isaac Asimov is considered the father of science fiction. Thirty years after his death, he is back, thanks to the artificial intelligence that he had so cleverly imagined, to address humans to pass on the lesson of a lifetime: a method to anticipate the future of our world and especially to invent it.

115
In the ’80s, alien Emily crash-lands near the town of Stony Plain, desperate to find the enigmatic fuel “115.” Stuck in a reverse time loop, she relives her mission daily, struggling to blend in while searching for the elusive substance. Emily must choose between her mission and the romantic connection that could break the cycle. A heartwarming, retro sci-fi rom-com that explores love’s power to transcend time and space, and why it takes more than a day to truly fall in love.

Kestav
A Cornish speaking alien returns to earth with the mortal remains of a 10th Century pilgrim. The alien comes with a warning, a gift and a proposition.
The film KESTAV (CONTACT) is in the Cornish language (with some English) and was commissioned/made in Cornwall by Screen Cornwall and FylmK to promote the reviving Cornish language.

The Miners
In the not-too-distant future- where America’s era of technological unemployment is ending- a proud, fourth-generation miner’s search for her father leads to an unexpected truth that forces her to question her morals and her purpose

Pinky’s Dream
Martin Widmark is a specialist who offers a unique scientific service; he can give his clients the ability to vividly access old memories. His latest clients are a grieving couple Sam and James, whose daughter went missing. But when Martin hooks up his clients to relive the moments before their child disappeared, he discovers an ugly repressed truth.

Outrun
A hapless courier is pursued across the vastness of space by an unknowable enemy.

Bar Sci-Fi film “REUNION:02 GENESIS”
A place beyond time and space, one needs a “key” that was produced only 1,000 (keys) a long time ago. The key had the ability to transcend time to the past and future. YURI has to deliver a “package” to the promised place for a special mission. However, she accidentally uses an illegally modified key to bring the package to the promised place, and it flies to an unexpected place in time and space.

The Fourth
Eager to celebrate the 4th of July, a group of friends experience a horrific encounter that shatters the meaning of the holiday.

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