A showcase of the best fantasy/sci-fi shorts from around the world today.
AUDIENCE AWARDS (from FEEDBACK Film Festival):
Best Sci-Fi Film: The Architect’s Dream
Best Fantasy Film: THe Sanguine
Best Music Video: Impact
Best Animation: New Earth Project
Best Drama Film: Final Transmission
Best Story: The Last Sun
Best Performances: Of Birds and Men
Best Micro-Short Film: MRI
Best Direction: Alienated
Best Visual Design: The Forgotten Door
New Earth Project, 2min., USA
Directed by Wu Haolin
In the future, with Earth’s resources depleted, humanity must set out to find new habitable planets to call home. Months into their journey, the spacecraft detected a massive black hole and was sucked into it. Seconds later, the ship was transported to an unknown region where humans discovered a new planet resembling Earth. After landing on this planet, they uncovered a shocking truth.
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-new-earth
Final Transmission, 10min., UK
Directed by Sean Coleman
Alone aboard a crippled transport drifting through deep space, Commander Elias Walker records what will become humanity’s final message. Earth is gone, and the ship, once a vessel of hope, now carries only failure and silence. As oxygen fades, Elias begins a calm mission log, clinging to duty and procedure. But as systems die around him, the truth surfaces. He isn’t just facing his own death, he’s witnessing the extinction of mankind.
https://www.instagram.com/sean_coleman7/
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-final-transmission
THE LAST SUN, 20min., Gibraltar
Directed by Nigel Canepa, Orlando Charvetto
In a future where the sun is blocked and humanity is forced underground, Gibraltar holds the last light. Lena, a former scientist, strives to bring back the sun. One day, a stranger arrives with ancient knowledge and new hope.
https://www.instagram.com/the.last.sun.shortfilm/
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-the-last-sun
OF BIRDS AND MEN, 8min., Argentina
Directed by Lucas Fullone
Beinicio (30), a depressive man, lives in insolation in his apartment in Buenos Aires after the death of his wife. One night he discovers a magic show where he meets Centipedes, a manipulative illusionist who transforms him into a bird-man.
https://www.instagram.com/fullone_audiovisuales/
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-of-birds-and-men
MRI, 4min., UK
Directed by Dougal Vecqueray
A patient named Tom goes for an MRI scan only to be transported into a galactic void. After the contrast dye he was injected with begins to spread across his body, Tom is turned blue. Things become even more trippy as Tom’s journey through the void takes a sinister turn.
https://www.instagram.com/mrishortfilm/
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-mri
ALIENATED, 12min., USA
Directed by Tamara Hernandez
Alienated is a dark sci-fi coming-of-age story about a troubled teenage girl who discovers a strange, greenish-blue growth on her shoulder at a high school party. What begins as an embarrassing secret soon unravels into a terrifying revelation: she is an alien hybrid, the product of a covert extraterrestrial breeding program. As her powers awaken, she is forced to confront not only her fractured sense of identity but the chilling reason she’s always felt like she didn’t belong.
https://www.instagram.com/tamarahernandezdirector/
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-alienated-film
THE FORGOTTEN DOOR, 20min., USA
Directed by Anzor Mulkoev
On the edge of town, next to a landfill, lives a man, broken and forgotten. His life seems empty until he finds a discarded door among the trash. This door opens to any place on Earth, as long as there is a door there too. With each step through this door, the joy for life returns to him. But he discovers an even more astonishing turn in his life when he finds himself in the very place he once decided to leave – his hometown.
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-the-forgotten-door-film
The Architect’s Dream, 8min., Israel
Directed by Einat Graitser
In a future where happiness is mandatory and grief is flagged as a system error, the architect of the city’s ‘Serenity Algorithm’ faces an impossible choice: purge the memory of her late sister to survive, or destroy the perfect utopia she built to remind humanity that pain is proof of life.
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-the-architects-dream
THE SANGUINE, 25min., USA
Directed by Patrick McNerney, Daniel Jones
A crestfallen master and outcast servant rob the grave of a long dead warlord to find he’s returned to defend it.
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-the-sanguine
IMPACT, 4min., USA
Directed by Nick Ippolito
https://www.instagram.com/litomusic_official
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-impact-film
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