In a world full of preferences and opinions, there’s one thing that most people can agree on: movies are pretty great.  Each one tells a completely different story from the last, and draws in its viewers with an intriguing plot, witty one-liners and spectacular effects.  It’s due to the appreciation of movies that events such as the Sitges Film Festival do so well.  For this year’s 49^th Sitges Film Festival, the theme is one of the most recognized franchises in film and tv history: Star Trek.

Taking place between October 7^th and 16^th, Sitges celebrates Star Trek and its history of five TV series, animated 2D series and twelve films, a bunch of video and role games, and hundreds of novels and short stories.  In addition to this, the Sitges Film Festival is also taking a look at the Soviet retrospective with a number of genre films from 1957 to 1978 produced in presently inexistent states (such as the USSR and Czechoslovakia).  However, not all films are made by professionals; for the seventh year, the SGAE Nova Autoria program brings Catalan film students and their creations to the big screen.

For more information about the festival, visit their website.