824 years in the future, warring tribes battle for a dying Earth’s scant resources. The subterranean Kukeri prepare for a siege on the stronghold of their nemesis Dr. Nihil. Dissension among their ranks may undo them if blood thirsty replicants, ripper winds, and unforgiving heat don’t. Welcome to the end.
The old and overcrowded penitentiaries are just a memory. Inmates now serve their sentence in a state of deep sleep that renders them harmless, and has drastically reduced recidivism. Until one day, a psychologist in charge of monitoring the mental state of inmates finds himself confronted with a prisoner over whom he's lost all control.
A girl who has a life she doesn't want, with no family present and no friends, receives a birthday present from her grandfather that will take her to a parallel dimension where she can take refuge. Happiness, anguish and loneliness await her behind the hands of an old clock. Already suffocated by her confinement, she receives one last present, a birthday cake. Blowing out the candles, she receives instructions on how to leave this dimension, but also how to enter new ones.
Five teenagers during a late summer party play with an artificial intelligence that draws dangerous challenges: the most extreme of all will force them to abandon their innocence.
Short film in competition at the 48Hours Film Project. Sci-Fi/Mystery genre.
Directed by Simone Marsella, starring Ludovica Castrichella, Dario Grasso and Federico Imola.
In a post-catastrophe world, where the inhabitants of the re-established cities treat outsiders with suspicion and hostility, Isaac encounters a stranger - who seems to have a way for him to cross the border.
On his way to prison, a man gets intercepted by a secretive government agency who task him to monitor a secret experiment in exchange for commuting his sentence.
Mario, a retired conductor, spends his days in a luxury resort in the south of England. He has been suffering from Alzheimer's for some time and is often assailed by sudden memories that he then he, punctually, he forgets. He lives with the fear that illness can erase his past, made up of fame and success. But above all of the love of his wife Amelia, who died years earlier, and of his daughter Michela who one day hopes to find again in a place far from time ...
How do we bring our physical bodies with us into our inevitably digitally-bound futures? Collaboratively conceived by director Brian J. Johnson and Vancouver’s acclaimed Company 605, Future Futures is a collection of five short dance films that explore the digital destiny of humankind through a unique merging of camera and visual effects with a specific choreographic vision. Embracing the absurdity of centering dance inside a sci-fi narrative, the experimental series collapses time to portray human culture at an unprecedented moment: the emergence of a new, autonomous, and intelligent being—the digital reflection and culmination of ourselves. Through its otherworldly imagery, choreography, and driving electronic sound score, Future Futures evolves into a strange, highly visual exploration of what we are if we are no longer tied to our physical bodies, and how we will define humanity when faced with a fading IRL existence.
An experimental silent film made with a team of three. Humanity is being wiped out and the last people left are friends May and Pearl. The main themes of the film are friendship that gives strength and hope, as well as current concern for the future of humans and our nature. Could we start over or was this it?
With a deep yearning for the perfect partner, Simon, a socially withdrawn man, applies to a futuristic matchmaking agency with a highly advanced algorithm. Things get complicated when Simon meets Hannah, a woman with the exact same ideal features he described in the examination room, down to the specific detail of a birthmark. Shocked yet intrigued, he strikes up a romantic connection with her. Unable to extract more information about his result, Simon must soon choose between pursuing an organic, real-life relationship with Hannah or putting his faith back in the numbers and waiting for his scientifically calculated match.
It's the year 3000 and humanity has left Earth and moved out into the galaxy but some things never change and the weekly broadcast of the antiques roadshow is one of them.
Two messy nerds try to hack into "cool guy's" social media profile to destroy his relationship, but instead they accidentally hack into the whole REALIFE (social media) system.
A reflective short film that recounts life alone during the pandemic and how what was once our daily life now seems to belong to an alien planet. Left adrift for almost a year due to quarantines, many saw their daily lives radically changed. For those who had to live this time alone, life became an endless monologue. What used to be day-to-day became something distant and strange. At the same time, home activities were now the only escape. Bars, cinemas, trips, urban transport... all of this became a world isolated by a void thousands of kilometres away. All of this became our new normal, a distant outside world and a strange inside world, a new world, an alien world.
Set several decades in the future, The Interrogation is a cat-and-mouse game between a corporate media executive performing a “loyalty test” and a savvy news director harboring a potentially game-changing secret. The Interrogation explores a mind-bending and often-psychedelic world where an all-powerful media company sets all the rules and demands religious-like devotion from its employees. In just 6 minutes, this short animation takes the audience on an unexpected ride full of twists and turns. Based on the award-winning The Cloaked Realm Universe created by Peter Issac Alexander and Marisa L. Cohen, The Interrogation features hand-drawn animation, an original score by John Baxter, and sound design by Dara Crawford.
A lone astronaut aboard the ISS suddenly loses communication with Earth. He soon begins to experience a series of strange events that put him and the entire station at risk.
Seized by Time Agents, Sam discovers the action of time travellers from the future have erased his family tree. He no longer exists. With the help of his cousin Eliza, can they find a way to restore their timelines and save their family?