Showcase of the best FANTASY/SCI-FI Short Films from around the world today.
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Saturday April 20th – South American Sci-FI
GOOD NIGHT, 1min., Brazi
Diected by Paulo Leão
Strange sounds surrounding home
https://www.facebook.com/paulo.leao.31
NO MAN’S LAND, 15min., Argentina
Directed by Enzo Pedroni, Francisco Castro Inveninato
Threatened by imminent danger, Victoria and her baby seek refuge in an abandoned chapel where they meet Aquiles, an elusive village survivor who gives them shelter. Their bond will be tested when their paths cross with “El Golfista”, a young man who makes many promises.
https://www.instagram.com/tierra.de.nadie1/?hl=es
CNX´S, 15min., Argentina
Directed by Bernardo Alejandro LORENZO
Abel lives in a complex where he interacts with a strange talking computer and develops an alienating job under a system of merits and punishments. Due to the deterioration that this routine generates, he needs to add more merits to update his biomechanical body and continue to be functional. For that, he receives the help of a delivery man who allows him to develop a plan to hack the system. When he succeeds, he discovers the truth about the environment in which he is immersed.
https://www.instagram.com/cnxs_cortometraje/
ANANTARA, 13min., Brazil
Directed by Douglas Alves Ferreira
In the not so far future, a little girl lives alone in a junkyard. One day, another girl appears, and life is not so lonely anymore. A big event occurs, and they will never be the same again…
http://www.douglasferreira.com/
SCISSION, 73min,. Venezuela
Directed by Luis Rojas España
Luis tries to lead a normal life since he left his country, but strange events begin to happen from his homeland, submerging him in a sea of doubts where it is impossible for him to differentiate reality from paranoia.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt21916134/
https://www.instagram.com/escisionmovie/
Sunday April 21st – FEATURE FILM
THE STARS MY DESTINATION, 2hr. 15min., Japan
Directed by Keishi Suenaga
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 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)…
https://www.facebook.com/inheritthestarsthedirectorscut/
Monday April 22nd – EUROPEAN SHORTS
WE’RE COMING BACK, 9min,. Italy
Directed by Francesco Maffei
The last chapter of the invasion trilogy made by Lutey film. If in “The Rooftop” it was the house to be invaded and in “The child is hiding in the woods” it was the mind, in “We’re Coming Back” invasion becomes a threat to all humanity.
http://www.luteyfilm.com/
https://www.instagram.com/luteyfilm
FALLOUT, 8min., Malta
Directed by Maurice Micallef
The horror of nuclear explosions is unparalleled, evoking a nightmarish blend of immediate devastation and enduring consequences. The psychological trauma lingers indefinitely, haunting communities with the spectre of annihilation and leaving scars that endure for generations. This is Xanor’s story.
https://www.facebook.com/CMM-Productions-102460285380409
GLIESE, 20min,. Spain
Directed by Jorge Guimerá
Nacho awakens on the advanced planet Gliese. He is there by mistake and discovers that death does not exist. He must decide whether to remain on Gliese accepting his new condition or return to Earth with his needy younger brother and end the conspiracy forever.
DROP BY DROP—-DAMLAYA DAMLAYA, 5min., Turkey
Directed by Melihat Özdoğan Ağgül
Agricultural land and drinking water are not infinite, they may run out one day.
https://www.facebook.com/melihat.ozdoganaggul
https://www.instagram.com/melihat_ozdogan_aggul/
FRAGRANT, 7min., Turkey
Directed by Melihat Özdoğan Ağgül
It is the visit of family members from three generations together to the exhibition titled “Legacies Remaining from 2023” at a time in the future.
Tuesday April 23rd – WORLD SCI-FI
ARITHAARAM (Facial Makeover), 13min,. India
Directed by B Suresh Kumar
Due to the advanced technological developments in Social media, the future of Therukoothu (Therukoothu in Tamil, is an ancient art, where artists play songs with dance and music in storytelling the epics. It is a folk art originated from the early Tamil country.) slowly started diminishing and the survival of the Therukoothu artists became a question mark? This film captures one such artiste and his mental agony.
https://www.facebook.com/babusureshkumar
https://www.instagram.com/sureshkumar_1971/
IRONIC IS THE IRONY, 2min, USA
Directed by Jonathan Christopher Martin-Ives
A couple find everlasting love, only for it to end tragically.
POEMS FROM THE THREKJSHANELLE, 4min,. USA
Directed by Jonathan Martin-Ives
A selection of three poems from Jonathan Martin-Ives based on his Threkjshanelle poetry/short story series. Threkjshanelle is a word from the RellianStorm which means collection or gathering.
DREAMING IN CYBERSPACE, 4min., USA
Directed Logan Fry
“dreaming in cyberspace” is about dreams, and the dreamspace within cyberspace. I’ve been fascinated by both, and in this film, I try to bring them together, showing fragments of dreams coursing freely through the mind, through both dreamspace and cyberspace, beyond and through time, and unfettered from the control of the consciousness.
https://www.patreon.com/LoneBuzzardFilmworks
https://www.facebook.com/actorloganfry
https://www.instagram.com/lonebuzzardfilmworks/
THE TABLEHERDER, 40min., Russia
Directed by Aleksandr Tretiakevich
OPTUM, 7min., USA
Directed by Alex Niforatos
A detective debates the nature of humanity with an AI terrorist that has captured him.
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