FRIDAY, MAY 13
6:00 PM- 7:30 PM
A FEATURE PRESENTATION
BLOCK 1
The Spiral, ( Directors Cut). 2021
Director Peter Wong
Malaysia, 90 minutes
Jon Caine, a respected lecturer at a university, is missing. Three months he resurfaces and massacres a group of civilians and police at a cafe. After being apprehended by Detective Inspector Aleana, he is sent to an asylum to be interrogated by a criminal psychologist, Dr. Melanie Surya. Dr. Surya soon discovers a secret that Jon has kept inside him – The Spiral, a supernatural realm that transcends time, space, and rea
7:30 PM- 9:30 PM
Orbital Christmas, 2021
Director Mitsuyasu Sakai
Japan, 17min
In near future, ALI, a Muslim space pilot, is working alone on a space station during the Christmas season, because all other crew is back on the Earth for holidays. One day, TAKAKO, a Japanese girl who lives in the city on the Moon, stows away in an unmanned cargo ship and gets on board the space station.
Nighthawks, 2021
Director Jon Frier
United States, 2 min
A strange night out
Rojas and Retribution, 2020
Director Daniel Koenig Porter
United States 24 min
A young shepherd living on the outskirts of time is attacked, awakening to find his goats murdered, his camp destroyed, and his mother's gun stolen. Dying of blood loss and thirst, he must now cross the desert to find the thing responsible.
Banquet On The Beagle, 2021
Director Joel Van Dyk
Canada, 8 MIN
The mostly true story of Charles Darwin’s historic voyage to the Galapagos Islands, and the culinary delights that followed aboard the HMS Beagle.
First Time, 2021
Director Timothy Hawthorne
New Zealand, 15 min
A computer genius from a broken home living in the future returns to the East End London Pub where his deceased mother held her 21st birthday party in 1973. The dramatic events of that evening, which lead to the tragedy of their shared history, are played out before him
The Terror Adaptors- Blast Off, 2021
Director Peter Renzullo
Australia, 4 min
The debut video clip from the nerdcore rockers of Perth, Western Australia - six lunatics find themselves strapped inside a rocket, battling a mad scientist and it's robot crew, with only three minutes to spare!
mi-fi, 2018
Director David Mair
United States, 8 min
A very lazy man invents a teleportation device in order to maintain his sedentary lifestyle.
Fulgidusen, 2020
Director Alexander Feichter
Germany, 23 min
Felix has first met his paper friends: He has discovered them on the pages of some of the old books on the bookshelf. Uncle Armin calls them the Fulgiduses. As Felix is browsing through the books again, he discovers something new: Tentacled beings called Skures
Coming Home, 2020
Director Tatiana Samano
United States, 9min
Two sisters uncover a secret dimension in their household attic
Fish Hole, 2017
Director Simon Beaupre
Canada, 8 min.
When a giant hole appears at the edge of the Arctic, fish find themselves faced with a difficult choice. Fight the unknown or dive into a new life.
Odius Savor Sweet, 2021
Director Fritz Master
US, 5 minutes
Fish, Bird, Saint Saens
9:30 PM-11:00 PM
12 Months of KAI, 2021
Director Mutsumi Kameyama
Japan, 83 min
What would you do if an "impossible thing" was born between humanoids and humans? Kyoka, who works as a web director in Tokyo, gets a personal care humanoid (PCH) Kai. Kai learns various things about the owner. Kyoka gradually invites Kai to "more emotions as a thing"
SATURDAY, MAY 14
10:30am- 12:15 PM
INTERNATIONAL SCI-FI
BLOCK 1
Enthusiasm Abounds, 2019-
Director Anthony Burkhalter
US, 2 min
Teaser trailer for the feature film based on the award-winning science fiction short, Enthusiasm Abounds.
Ryoko's Qubit Summer, 2018
Director Yuichi Kondo
Japan, 18 min
Quantum butterflies with Qubit wings, The same technology was used to create KANUMA, an experimental world of Artificial Intelligence inside a quantum computer. Then one day, AIs began using words unknown to man. Scientists saw this as a threat and decided to "delete" KANUMA
June, 2021
Director Dwayne Cameron
New Zealand, 15 min
Willow and David receive a serious diagnosis from their doctor and attempt to deal with the mundane as their world disintegrates in the following 24 hours. This one day in June for the couple holds raw despair, unleashing carnal natures but a transcendent occurrence offers them the hope of new life
THE EM
Director Samuel Clemens
United States, 4 min
The last of the human resistance needs your help: Here's how you defeat the EMs!
The Forgetting Device, 2021
Director Chris Remerowski
Canada, 11 min
A man begins to suspect that something strange and sinister is responsible for his recent memory loss. The Forgetting Device" stars Jarod Joseph one of the stars of the hit CW series "The 100". The film also features Anand Rajaram, from the hit PBS series "Odd Squad"
Memory of Man, 2021
Director Henri de Trogoff
France, 15 min
As Mankind went extinct, artificial Intelligence loads videos from the witnesses of the Apocalypse.
The Desert, 2021
Director Michael Dockery
Australia, 5 min
Earth in a post-human age, where our creations are left to wander in desolation.
El Camino, 2021
Directors Fernando Campos, Jaime Jasso
Mexico, 15 min
In order to sustain his family, a troubled pilot accepts one last crooked deal to transport a dangerous cargo inside his spaceship.
Space Chaser - Remnants of Technology, 2021
Director Lucas Fiederling
Germany, 9 min
A German thrash metal band get's teleported into a cantina bar in a distant galaxy and has to show all the alien creatures what they are about.
Kairos, tiempo cualitativo, 2021
Director Carlos Scasso
Spain, 17 min
To curtail the spread of revolts against the System, the "Kairós Programme" has been activated. Issachar, one of the insurgents, will find himself faced with the chance of preserving something more important than his ideals.
12:15 PM-1:45 PM
TECHNOLOGY VS HUMANITY
BLOCK 2
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Jurrasic Incident
Director Jack Hussey
United States,3 min
Two young men go to the lost world, Isla Sorna, to take some Herbivore dinosaurs to use for World War 3. But all hell breaks loose when the velociraptor virus starts infecting humans
Welcome To Forever,2021
Director John Gray
United States , 10 min
The brilliant designer of smart houses leaves a posthumous surprise for his widow.
Ulom: The Primary Experiment, 2019
Director Jon D.A.
US, 8 min
A secret government film from the 1960s reveals a scientist desperate to work with a mysterious AI to uncover the secrets of a fictional reality invading our own.
KAIJU DECODE, 2021
Director S/N
Japan, 9 min
The catastrophe "Skyfall" was brought by the collapsed orbital space colony crashed into the Earth. Inside the crater at the crash site now inhabit Kaiju born by a gene mutation. Ray, an avatar, comes to the area to collect the scattered "seeds", not knowing what really is going on there, He soon meets Mil, a mysterious girl. Is she a human, or a Kaiju? A secret government film from the 1960s reveals a scientist desperate to work with a mysterious AI to uncover the secrets of a fictional reality invading our own.
Antenna, 2016
Director Carsten Wolke
Germany, 16 min
A lonely 11-year-old-boy gets in contact with an alien via his old radio-device system. Or is the alien only a lonely old man?
The Unconscious and the Reflective Nemesis, 2021
Director Adrian Stanley Thomas
United States, 13 min
The Unconscious and the Reflective Nemesis is a film that explores the ramifications of repressed trauma. Frederick, the film's main character, has been tormented by a childhood of neglect and violence.
Moore's Void, 2020
Director Brad Bangsboll
Canada, 16 min
A grieving mother attempts to speak with her deceased son.
The Assistant, 2021
Director Guil Parreiras
United States, 7 min
A theatre assistant (a human-like robot) dreams of becoming an actress, but when her work condition presents her with an ugly reality, she must fight to escape from it.
Pick Me Up!, 2021
Director Alex Cherney
United States, 12 min
Heartbroken over a recent breakup, a young man gets more than what he bargains for when looks to gain his confidence back with the help of a friend.
Join the directors for a Q@A after the screening
1:45 PM- 3:45 PM
BEST OF SUPERNATURAL SCI-FI
BLOCK 3
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CLAWS: a telephonic thriller for one, 2020
Directors Evan Neiden, John Ertman, Daniel Hendon, Jacob Leaf
United States, 2 minutes
Ring ring. You get a call from a young man named Danny. There’s a monster in his closet, and he needs your help. But as you go deeper into this telephone play, a simple ghost story reveals something altogether more sinister. CLAWS is an award-winning interactive thriller performed live, just for you, over the course of a phone call.
Melchior Strasse, 2020
Director Peter Mason
United Kingdom 5 min
In the back streets of Weimar Berlin, madness is afoot...
Solstice, 2019
Director Lisandro- Perez Rey
United States 16 min
During a brutal winter storm, a bartender befriends a homeless man and brings him home for a warm meal and an ancient ritual.
We Are Nowhere, 2021
Director J. Cody Spellman
United States, 10 min
After aliens abduct her husband, Minnie receives a visit from a mysterious man in black.
The Bus Ride, 2021
Director Nathan Block
United States, 8 min
A young girl with dreams of better life boards a bus where she meets a mysterious stranger
There's Something in the Silence, 2020
Director Mike Castro
US, 8 min
Erin's new hearing aids have been picking up voices and sounds she's unable to explain. In an attempt to quiet the voices, she confronts them head-on- only to find there may be something more sinister lurking in the depths of silence.
Cold Caller, 2020
Director Darren J. Perry
United Kingdom, 10 min
Deep within an English garden under a dark canopy of trees, other-worldly powers are at work which soon become a theatre for a malevolent puppeteer.
First Lesson, 2020
Director Mathieu Mathieu Di Muro
United States, 14 min
The human race has lost individual integrity. As forced accountability they wear their actions, their crimes, as marks on their skin, to act as reminders and as warnings to other
Sereget, 2018
Director Dempsey Tillman
United States, 13 min
An emotionally detached husband (with a child on the way) gets a rude awakening when aliens invade his home and target his family.
ZAP!, 2020
Director Philip C. Sedgwick
United States, 6 min
An astronomer sharing online backyard observations of the center of our galaxy has a run-in with mosquitoes and a not-so-trusty bug zapper
Join the directors for a Q@A after the screening
3:45-6:00 PM
DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
BLOCK 4
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Exegesis: Lovecraft, 2021
Director Qais Pasha
Canada, 120 min
A cathartic journey that Qais Pasha, a Pakistani-Canadian filmmaker embarks on as he traces the life of cult author H.P. Lovecraft, from woodland cemeteries in Rhode Island to the docks of New York and on to the cobbled stone streets of Quebec City.
Join director, Qais Pasha, for a Q@A after the screening
6:00 PM -7:30 PM
SCI-FI FEATURE PRESENTATION
US PREMIERE
BLOCK 5
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LUCID, 2019
Director Victor Villanueva
The Philipines, 90 min
"Anne’s dreams are the exact opposite of her routinary life. In one of her dreams, she meets a mysterious man who challenges her to make her dreams more adventurous. As she crosses paths with another lucid dreamer, Ann realizes her dreams are far more alive than her reality— making her question if it is worth staying there or not."
7:30 PM- 9:45PM
HUMANITY PREVAILS
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In Search of Hawaiian Bigfoot, 2021 Trailer
Director MarQ Morrison
United States,1 min
This award-winning experimental, hybrid, cinematic, vlog (CineVlog2020) film follows "marQ" an award-winning micro-documentary filmmaker turned Cine-Vlogger (Cine-Vlog.com) as he searches for the Maui Skunk Ape a.k.a. Hawaiian Bigfoot in the jungles of Maui.
Looking Glass, 2020
Director Ginew Benton
United States, 20 min
After his father was murdered Benjamin Looking Glass II, a young Native American man builds a time machine using modern science and ancient knowledge in an attempt to bring his father back but ultimately discovers his true purpose in creation.
Parallelism , 2021
Director Marco Bolognesi
Italy, 16 min
In terms of Mind Philosophy, Parallelism is a mind-body interaction dualist theory affirming that mental and physical events take place on a parallel course of existence, and interact with each other in a not casual way.
I Don't Want to Be Alone Tonight, 2021
Director Michael Cho
United States, 7 min
Paranormal activity prompts a sleepover between Caly and her "gay best friend" Rodger.
Low Down Larry Conquers The Moon Men, 2019
Director Sammy Verni
United, States 5 min
At the height of the Space Race in July 1969, Larry Johnson and his trusty sidekick Spike, endeavor to be the first man (and dog) to set foot (and paw) on the Moon.
Solitary, 2021
Director Daniel Farmer
United States, 10 min
The Demeter was supposed to carry the first crew to land on a habitable exoplanet. But after an accident en route, the ship is lost with a single survivor in an escape pod, pushing forward, determined to complete the mission. Alone in unexplored space, the Astronaut drifts, hoping to find humanity’s future.
Cosmic Playtester, 2020
Director Arthur Vincie
United States, 8 min
Two board game playtesters get together after the death of their best friend, to figure out what it all means. Oh, and one of them is an alien.
One-Hit Wonder, 2021
Director Amanda Dow
United States. 11 min
A cab driver takes a former pop star on a one-way Twilight Zone-like ride.
Extasium - a Doorway to Paradise, 2021
Directors Guilhem Bertrand, Quentin Bruet-Ferréol
France, 36 min
In the secrecy of a Parisian building, for half a century, an outsider artist has built a machine that has the alleged power of invoking God at will. Every night, his creation plunges him into a powerful ecstasy. A religious and sexual trance
Join the directors for a Q@A after the screening
Tales of Tomorrow, 2020
Director Pedro de Lima Marques
Brazil, 85 min
In 2165, the kidnapping of a young girl puts the last stronghold of human civilization at war! The problem is that, in order to save humanity, it will be necessary to rely on the help of an adolescent who lives in 1999
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SUNDAY, MAY 14
11:AM- 1:15 PM
OUR BRAVE NEW WORLD
SHORT FILM BLOCK 1
Lockdown - The Doctor Who Fans' Survival Guide, 2021
Director Roger Christopher Stevens
United Kingdom, 46 min
During the Covid-19 pandemic, a call went out to fans of the BBC tv science fiction series DOCTOR WHO to film personal videos of how they coped with being confined in their homes for months on end. Shot on mobile phones, laptops, tablets, and cameras …anything they could lay their hands on … the following film is the result.
Remote Viewing, 2021
Director Jordu Schell
United States, 13 min
A genetic experiment goes wrong, potentially creating a disaster for humankind
Populace, 2015
Director Aaron Bevan Bailey
United Kingdom, 14 min
Populace is a dystopian SCI-FI thriller from Aaron Bevan Bailey, written by Dan Horrigan. It follows a day in the life of John, a clone, who works for the sinister Orwellian Populace corporation. His world is turned upside down when he is forced to choose between the reason he was created and the woman he loves.
Beta Test, 2016
Directors Joel Makar, Kenton Evenson
Canada, 15 min
BETA TEST is a science fiction thriller that takes Eric Holt into a simulated world in order to relieve him of the stresses of his everyday life. When Eric enters the simulation, he relives some of his favorite memories from the past. However, complications in the program occur and Eric must face a memory he has been trying to bury.
i.am.real, 2019
Director Eddie Frente
United States, 9 min
In the not-so-distant future a newly designed AI living among humans questions the very idea of what is real.
Zero,One, Zero, 2021
Director Graham High
United States, 13 min
Looking to boost his confidence, Chuck tries a new meditation technique and manifests a night he won't forget.
Invasion, 2021
Director Joann Perez-Moya
United States, 6 min
A Film Noir horror. An Alien Detective hunts down a suspected Scientist trying to prove Aliens exist and possibly reveal their impending plan to invade earth. His job is to stop him before he can warn mankind.
Atlas- Chapter One, 2021
Director Ayman Chaudhry
United Kingdom , 10 min
AN ORIGINAL SCI-FI SERIES. Technology has replaced currency. Wealth has replaced humanity. When a rebel cell interrogates a corrupt politician, they uncover a secret more terrifying than anything they could have imagined
1:15- 3:00pm
TECHNOLOGY VS HUMANITY
SHORT FILM BLOCK 2
The Dark Odyssey, 2021
Director Michael Lavine
United States 9 min
A brave captain and his faithful mate transport a captive warrior, who holds The Inventory of The Mind, across the interstellar line. When their ship is forced to navigate an asteroid field, their mission is jeopardized.
Stream, 2021
Director Britt Couch in Best Science Fiction Short
United States, 12 min
A heartbroken man pays a washed-up doctor to insert him into the dangerous illegal Virtual Reality system called streaming.
Immortal Game, 2021
Director John Freeman
United States, 11 min
Early in the 21st Century, Man has developed the technology to create humanoid androids with short, fixed lifespans. Ema returns to Earth with the hope of extending her lifespan. After discovering her creator has been murdered, she meets a new visionary poised to continue the fateful experiments.
EP, 2021
Director Pat Campo
United States, 10 min
(Pilot Episode) An AI robot and its owner make a living by hacking into computers and stealing important electronic files. During their usual escapade, they stumble upon a hard drive containing EP. But what is EP?
G-Rail, 2021
Director Javier Merono
Spain, 10min
G-Rail is a modern adaptation of the Arthurian myth of the Grail. Perceval Gallois attends a meeting where Gawain Hawk introduces him to a plan to save Arthur´s life. This leads him on an extreme and fantastic trip to endure G-forces, transcend the limits of human knowledge and discover the secret of the Grail.
The Stamp Collector, 2020
Director Luke Momo
United States, 9 min
A high-tech thief comes home from the scene of a crime, reeling with guilt and misbegotten plans. How will his artificially-intelligent assistant, designed to help commit crimes, respond to his programmer's sudden change of heart? interactive thriller performed live, just for you, over the course of a phone call.
Transfert, 2020
Director Jonathan Degrelle
France, 14 min
1967: IV Reich. The Germans won the war. ISAAC, a survivor of the concentration camps, is sent by Max, a Nazi officer, in the middle of the Second World War to recover a strange mechanism. But during his quest, he will be facing his worst nightmare
The Prospector, 2020
Director Wade Chitwood
United States, 14 min
A lone man searches for his place in the Universe. This journey takes the prospector to a place where he has to look directly at his soul and decide what he is willing to sacrifice to achieve his ambitions.
3:15- 5:45pm
Sci-FI Feature Presentation
Block 3
The Stars My Destination, 2018
Director Keishi Suenaga
Japan, 135 min.
A retired Russian-Japanese soldier Eiji Onodera (Keishi Suenaga) was going to his hometown in Japan. But on his way, he was caught and given a new mission by his ex-colleague Captain Vadim Dadikov (Gohnosuke Tokuda). Onodera and his father would never be free unless he completes the secret mission. He and the Master Sergeant Zinaida Zasyekina (Satoko Enmei) go to Hokkaido to monitor an ex-officer of Japan’s Ground Self-Defense Force, Toshio Honda (Taiyo Sawa). Honda has killed 27 people including his colleagues and is hiding in a mountain with a mysterious beauty, Risa (Riho Yoshioka)
5:45pm- 7:45pm
BEST OF VISIONARY AND SUPERNATURAL SCI-FI
The Penny Dropped, 2016
Director A D Cooper
United Kingdom, 6 min
A desperate woman seeks help from an unlikely source in a dark place. Neither of them realize that their futures will be decided by the flip of a coin.
Mother's Day, 2018
Director Elizabeth Tabish
United States, 22 min
California, 1968. Jane has a perfect life. A loving husband, a darling daughter, and -hands down- the grooviest home in the neighborhood. But all that is no match for the painful memories of Jane's childhood as they emerge on the eve of Mother's Day.
The Cabin, 2021
Director Bartosz Tobola
Poland 20 min Julka and Marek visit a mountain cabin to rest, but at the beginning of their journey, things get complicated as the violin, the forest, Venus and Schrodinger's Cat come to the fore. The cabin has its secrets and so do the characters as the tension grows the deeper they walk into the forest.
Adam In Aeternum, 2020
Director Pedro Jaen R.
Spain, 15 min
An exhausted traveler reaches the border of the world chasing his destiny: to face the demon that caused his misfortune.
Parallelism , 2021
Director Marco Bolognesi
Italy, 16 min
In terms of Mind Philosophy, Parallelism is a mind-body interaction dualist theory affirming that mental and physical events take place on a parallel course of existence, and interact with each other in a not casual way.
Mercury XX , 2021
Director Miriam Kuhlmann
Germany 7 min
Mercury XX is a science fiction short film that tells the story of an all-female space mission to draw the first breath on another planet. After an astronauts, decade-long journey across the stars accompanied only by her spaceship AI she becomes conflicted with the realization of having to leave her sole friend behind or taking this next breath for humankind
Retreat, 2020
Director Joeri Verbesselt
Belgium, 5 min
A futuristic vision of a world on the brink of environmental meltdown, where a violent confrontation between the police and demonstrators, pollution and nature, is performed in a parallel reality
Pale Blue Dot: A Tale of Two Stargazers, 2021
Director Matteo Scarfo
Italy, 18 min
A female form is sent to investigate a planet to see if it can be inhabitable, and upon crash landing, her directive is revealed as being a sacrifice for the exploration against her will. She is discovered by a robotic presence who explains that she is on Earth and that humans have been here before. Two lost souls, a direct result of human interference, make their own destiny against all odds.
Obsolete Model, 2019
Director Warren Difranco Hsu
United States, 12 min
The future beckons
8:00pm-9:15pm
SCI-FI FEATURE PRESENTATION
(Out of Competition)
The Final Equation, 2021 Remastered/ Directors Cut
Director DUA
US, 70 min
Through a series of String equations, physicist Jack Smith begins to realize Einstein's Dream of a Unified Field Theory. When his calculations accidentally unlock a door between realities and start to unravel the fabric of his existence, Jack is forced to make a choice between s
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