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The sixth annual Apocalypse Later International Fantastic Film Festival (ALIFFF 2021) will be held in the 3rd Street Theater at the Phoenix Center for the Arts from Saturday 7th to Monday 9th October, 2021. TicketsTicket sales for 2023 are open!
Price is $60 in advance for a full event pass. This includes access to all films over three full days. We're hoping to have a cash bar again this year. However we will definitely be selling concessions. Safety ProtocolsThere will be no COVID restrictions this year. However, we do still recommend that you vaccinate to protect yourself and wear a mask if you wish to protect yourself and others. Logo by Marty Freetage. Postcard by Jason Drotman. AwardsOur competition films are fighting it out for awards created and designed by the ever-fantastic Tom Deadstuff! We'll share an image of these awards once we have it. ScheduleDoors will open at 10:30am on each day, with the first set beginning at 11:00am. |
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Set | Start | End | Length | Set | Start | End | Length | Set | Start | End | Length |
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Horror Shorts A | 11:00am | 12:10pm | 1h 10m | Xanadu Hellfire | 11:00am | 12:45pm | 1h 44m | The Love Song of William H. Shaw | 11:00am | 12:36pm | 1h 35m |
What Lurks Beneath | 12:30pm | 2:12pm | 1h 42m | Horror Shorts B | 1:05pm | 2:16pm | 1h 11m | Sci-Fi Shorts C | 12:55pm | 2:12pm | 1h 17m |
Sci-Fi Shorts A | 2:30pm | 3:48pm | 1h 18m | Phi 1.618 | 2:35pm | 4:09pm | 1h 34m | Once Again | 2:35pm | 4:28pm | 1h 53m |
Blood and Snow | 4:15pm | 6:00pm | 1h 45m | Sci-Fi Shorts B | 4:30pm | 5:38pm | 1h 08m | Other Shorts B | 4:50pm | 5:51pm | 1h 01m |
Genre-Hopping Shorts | 6:20pm | 7:46pm | 1h 26m | Perfectly Good Moment | 6:00pm | 7:12pm | 1h 12m | The Beehive | 6:10pm | 7:36pm | 1h 26m |
Agatha | 8:05pm | 9:05pm | 1h 0m | Other Shorts A | 7:30pm | 8:42pm | 1h 12m | Final Shorts | 7:55pm | 9:03pm | 1h 8m |
Edgier Shorts | 9:25pm | 10:42pm | 1h 17m | Zombie Strain | 9:00pm | 10:40pm | 1h 40m | Award Ceremony | 9:03pm | 9:23pm | 20m |
ImagesClick on any image on this page to see a larger version. Première statuses will gradually fill in over the next month. These speak to theatrical exhibition (virtual doesn't count). |
FeaturesALIFFF 2023 will screen 10 feature films from 4 countries. |
Title | Year | Director(s) | Country | Length | Première? |
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What Lurks Beneath | 2023 | Simon McPhillips | Canada | 1h 42m | |
Blood and Snow | 2023 | Jesse Palangio | Canada | 1h 45m | |
Agatha | 2022 | Roland Becerra & Kelly Bigelow | USA | 1h 0m | |
Xanadu Hellfire | 2022 | Justin Armao | USA | 1h 44m | Arizona |
Phi 1.618 | 2022 | Theodore Ushev | Bulgaria | 1h 34m | |
Perfectly Good Moment | 2022 | Lauren Greenhall | USA | 1h 12m | |
Zombie Strain | 2023 | Michael Seabolt | USA | 1h 40m | no |
The Love Song of William H. Shaw | 2023 | Marty Ketola & Clif Campbell | USA | 1h 35m | no |
Once Again | 2021 | Shin Seung Hoon | South Korea | 1h 53m | North America |
The Beehive | 2022 | Alexander Lasheras | Canada | 1h 26m |
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What Lurks Beneath1h 42m, Canada, Simon McPhillips The crew of USS Titan find themselves on the brink of world war 3 with Russia when a naked stowaway appears in one of their torpedo tubes. Captain banks fears she may be Russian, but she's something far more dangerous. Official trailer at YouTube. |
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Blood and Snow1h 45m, Canada, Jesse Palangio Two scientists uncover a meteorite impact site in the Arctic tundra, but it kills one scientist and infects the other. A nearby base takes in the lone survivor whilst trying to understand what happened. The lone survivor may not be the person they think she is. |
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Agatha1h 0m, USA, Roland Becerra & Kelly Bigelow The film follows “The Professor”, a man suffering from a terminal disease, who by a twist of fate, witnesses an incredible event involving his mysterious neighbor Agatha. Hoping to find a cure to his sickness, he agrees to follow her on a strange and risky journey into a forgotten but not entirely deserted urban wasteland. Official trailer at YouTube. |
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Xanadu Hellfire1h 44m, USA, Justin Armao A young girl brings her comic book hero from the future to the present just to hang out. An evil soon follows and all hell breaks loose. Official trailer at YouTube. |
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Phi 1.6181h 34m, Bulgaria, Theodore Ushev In the worst of times, science conquers death. A micronation of bio-titans is created—a new breed of loveless asexual immortal men built to fit the golden ratio Phi 1.618. They prepare to leave behind the toxic planet Earth and colonize the Cosmos on board a colossal spaceship. The female sex has become obsolete as immortal men do not procreate. They will take on board only a single female body, a translucent Sleeping Beauty, kept minimally alive as a curious testament of the extinct past. The immortal calligrapher Krypton is tasked to create an indestructible copy of the entire bio-titanic written heritage. He must copy all existing books but one. If copied, that book will bedevil the universe. As Krypton is about to toss the forbidden book in an incinerator, it transforms into a wickedly feisty punk girl named Gargara. She challenges Krypton to wake up Sleeping Beauty with a kiss. Krypton tries but fails. His kiss is powerless. They need a super potent miracle balm called Kykeon. To get it, they embark on a dangerous journey through a Boschian wasteland. On the road, they bump into Karbon 666, a vengeful lone-wolf terrorist who is on his way to blow up the spaceship. Krypton and Gargara find themselves in a frantic race against time. They need to bring Sleeping Beauty back to life and save the fairytale before it turns into a raging nightmare. Official trailer at YouTube. |
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Perfectly Good Moment1h 12m, USA, Lauren Greenhall This psychosexual thriller asks the question: what happens when the things that make your relationship passionate and exciting are the same things that make it toxic? Ruby and David have been together on-and-off for 8 years, since she was 19 and he 34. Six months after Ruby last ran out on him, she has returned. Once the initial bliss of the reunion wears off, old toxic patterns re-emerge. Is David too demanding and controlling or is Ruby just too sensitive? Is Ruby as delicate and demure as she appears to be... or is there something more sinister behind the surface? Why did Ruby really come back? Official trailer at YouTube. |
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Zombie Strain1h 40m, USA, Michael Seabolt During the zombie apocalypse, a group of survivors trapped in a sound stage makes an amazing discovery about a potent strain of marijuana. But tensions rise, mistakes are made, and they start to wonder—who’s more dangerous, the undead or each other? Official trailer at YouTube. |
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The Love Song of William H. Shaw1h 35m, USA, Marty Ketola & Clif Campbell Years ago, comic bookstore owners Pete Reynoso (the "Oscar") and John Burns (the "Felix") helped their friend, the acclaimed screenwriter William H. "Billy" Shaw complete the screenplay for the sequel to the hottest comic book movie of the moment, Fren-Zee 2. Now, Billy finds himself again haunted by imaginary (?) superhero Fren-Zee, as he was during the writing process of Fren-Zee 2. With his life relatively on track with his new girlfriend Katy and his two years of sobriety, Billy needs to make Fren-Zee go away permanently. He can’t watch his life go down the drain again. Unfortunately, the only two people who could help him, Pete and John, have been feuding for years since achieving fame, and now run rival comic stores. And they don’t have time for Billy’s shenanigans. Can Billy save himself and his friends, too? Or is this the time where it all falls apart? Official trailer at YouTube. |
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Once Again1h 53m, South Korea, Shin Seung Hoon Stuntman Wooseok who wanted to become an actor. When you die at some point, you go back to the past. So, after several deaths, Wooseok goes back to his high school days in 1997. And Wooseok tries to change his fate. |
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The Beehive1h 26m, USA, Alexander Lasheras The Beehive is a captivating science-fiction drama that follows the Piers family—a widowed single father, Frank, and his two children, Arron and Rosemary—as they face an unexplainable cosmic event at their family farm. The next day, Rosemary discovers a large bees nest growing on the branch of a big Leaf Maple tree and visits it each day to document its unusual growth. However, when her father and brother discover it, it has grown into a disturbingly large cocoon-like object. Frank attempts to inspect the nest but is stung by a camouflaged stinger, becoming infected with an alien virus. In a desperate attempt to protect his children, Frank barricades himself in the house as they escape the farm. Official trailer at YouTube. |
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ShortsALIFFF 2023 will include ten sets of short films. |
Horror Shorts ASaturday, 11:00am-12:10pm The Horror Shorts A set will run 1h 10m and include 8 films from 5 countries. |
Title | Year | Director(s) | Country | Length | Première? |
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#nofilter | 2021 | Nathan Crooker | USA | 13:20 | |
Golem | 2020 | Ryan Cauchi | Australia | 5:00 | |
Every 75 Minutes | 2020 | Borja A. Ortiz | Spain | 7:21 | Arizona |
Cart Return | 2023 | Matt Webb | USA | 3:42 | Arizona |
Merger | 2022 | Daniel Negret | UK | 7:45 | |
Midnight Screams | 2021 | Sean Menendez | USA | 10:10 | |
Script | 2018 | Piero Cannata | Italy | 8:10 | no |
Escalation | 2022 | Christian Bachini | Italy | 15:00 | no |
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#nofilter13:20, USA, Nathan Crooker #nofilter addresses the ever-growing issue surrounding Body Dysmorphic Disorder through the eyes of Beth, an insecure twenty-something, who becomes obsessed with an insidious filter, leaving her to question true beauty. It is a cautionary tale for all those obsessed by "likes", being flawless, and thinking that somehow social media is the magical cure-all for happiness. |
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Golem5:00, Australia, Ryan Cauchi Nazi-occupied Prague, 1939. A group of German soldiers search for a fugitive Rabbi in the basement of an abandoned synagogue - unaware of the horror awaiting them. |
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Every 75 Minutes7:21, Spain, Borja A. Ortiz While Rachel is waiting for the bus on her way into town, she meets a very special visitor... |
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Cart Return3:42, USA, Matt Webb Melanie is just too busy and self-absorbed and refuses to return her shopping cart, leading to an unfortunate turn of events when she's transported directly into a 1960's Hitchcock-like thriller. |
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Merger7:45, UK, Daniel Negret A man's commitment to his job takes a dark and surreal turn for the worst.
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Midnight Screams10:10, USA, Sean Menendez Embroiled in an argument on their drive home, Derek and Jess slam into a living nightmare. What they hit isn’t dead ... and very angry. Official trailer at YouTube. |
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Script8:10, Italy, Piero Cannata Two screenwriters, a ghost story, the night that goes on. Who will put an end to this?
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Escalation15:00, Christian Bachini, Italy Chris, a paranoid and self-centered man, is happily avoiding all human contact, preferring to escape from reality in whatever's on TV. When a friend reaches out to him to confront him about his past promises, Chris has to decide what kind of person he is inside, or it may just eat him... alive. |
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Sci-Fi Shorts ASaturday, 2:30pm-3:48pm The Sci-Fi Shorts A set will run 1h 18m and include 4 films from 3 countries. |
Title | Year | Director(s) | Country | Length | Première? |
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BLUE FiRE | 2021 | Nick Ronan | USA | 20:43 | Arizona |
Go with Her | 2022 | Yushi Che | China | 15:00 | Arizona |
Crackpot | 2021 | Nicola Sercombe | Australia | 17:29 | |
LifeQuest | 2023 | Richard Lounello | USA | 24:55 | Arizona |
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BLUE FiRE20:43, USA, Nick Ronan Deep in the snowy Blue Mountains, two damaged lives come crashing back together when they discover something in the forest not of this world. Official trailer at Vimeo. |
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Go with Her15:00, China, Yushi Che In a lonely and distant space station, BAI, a female scientist and other partners spent five years inventing a chip that can convert human emotions into extraordinary physical performances. BAI and one of her partners, DU, have developed a certain chemistry between each other. But as a wife and a mother, BAI has kept her feeling for DU deep in her heart. When the head of the space station, AN, declares the successful development of the chip, everyone believes that they can fly back to earth and rejoin their families. However, the superior broke their dreams and ordered all the crew to remain in the station since he received a report of alien creatures being detected around the space station. But AN is planning to fly back to Earth alone. Potential danger is getting closer. BAI, struggling with choosing between passion and morality, also discovers DU’s secret.
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Crackpot17:29, Australia, Nicola Sercombe With the end of the world only hours away, a dippy doomsday prepper kidnaps her lonely neighbour to "save him" from the impending apocalypse. |
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LifeQuest24:55, USA, Richard Lounello A young physicist lives out his life in search of his greatest scientific discovery and finds one extraordinary truth. |
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Genre-Hopping ShortsSaturday, 6:20pm-7:46pm The Genre-Hopping Shorts set will run 1h 26m and include 3 films from 3 countries. |
Title | Year | Director(s) | Country | Length | Première? |
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Sights Unseen | 2022 | Jesse Terrell | USA | 29:53 | |
Les Mots Croisés | ? | Nicolas Engel | France | 28:16 | |
The Lord of the Woods | 2021 | Julia Bui | Poland | 28:00 |
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Sights Unseen29:53, USA, Jesse Terrell A student's fascination with extra dimensions will lead to an obsession with the mysteries of what is beyond our comprehension. Is it math or is it magic? |
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Les Mots Croisés28:16, France, Nicolas Engel A hotel at night. Coded messages. Tea. |
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The Lord of the Woods28:00, Poland, Julia Bui Warrior Kriss meets a young girl in the forest, Mojmira, who escaped captivity. In the ruins of a hut, where they stop overnight, Kriss finds the Urobors, a magical object of time travel properties. Kriss is being entangled in a tragic love story of Mojmira-Valdemena and Derwan. The characters, constantly travel through time dimensions, trying to escape the vicious cycle and, in their own little ways, reverse the course of the tragedy.
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Edgier ShortsSaturday, 9:25pm-10:42pm The Edgier Shorts set will run 1h 16m and include 7 films from 4 countries. |
Title | Year | Director(s) | Country | Length | Première? |
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Entropic | 2020 | Bradford Uyeda | USA | 3:33 | |
Squish | 2020 | Xavier Seron | Belgium | 20:45 | no |
Charlie the Cancelled Skeleton | 2023 | Joe Reilly | USA | 8:59 | Arizona |
Exhaust | 2022 | Lucy & Jesse Velik | Australia | 8:54 | Arizona |
The Task | 2021 | Trevor Alpert | USA | 8:53 | |
Manicure | 2023 | Carluccio | USA | 9:25 | Arizona |
Judge | 2022 | Nicolo Pozzali | Italy | 16:22 |
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Entropic3:33, USA, Bradford Uyeda A man camping in the wild of Arizona has a close encounter that has terrifying results!
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Squish20:45, Belgium, Xavier Seron Flo has to go to Marrakech for work. So, it’s Tom who takes care of Sam, their 5-year-old son. Flo left him a list of tasks to complete during his absence. Despite this, Tom forgot Sam’s guitar course. From his ryad, Flo calls to blame him. Tom hates being caught. He picks up Sam. The car comes out of the garage at full speed. SPROTCH. Tom just crushed something... |
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Charlie the Cancelled Skeleton8:59, USA, Joe Reilly Beware who you cancel. Bitter about a film firing him as an actor for not allowing him to work from home, one man plots out for revenge on a horror film, successfully running a successful cancellation campaign against the film. Unbeknownst to him, however, is the film he cancelled might just be out to cancel him in return... |
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Exhaust8:43, Australia, Lucy & Jesse Velik Cut Ben some slack. Being a driver for criminals is his dream. He just needs a bit more practice. |
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The Task8:53, USA, Trevor Alpert In a creative work environment in a corporate setting a low level employee must figure out what her boss wants her to do because he refuses to say what he actually means. |
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Manicure9:25, USA, Carluccio Before her 30th birthday party, Elanor's anxiety and demand for perfection turn a pleasant manicure into a bloody mess. |
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Judge16:22, Italy, Nicolo Pozzali Gianni, an eccentric Italian-American, is forced to hide out in a luxurious villa on Lake Como, Italy. He hosts a card game in the villa with a group of suspicious personalities and his old apprentice, Tim. The game turns sour when it is interrupted by an Interpol raid. However, neither the officers nor Gianni and his friends are what they seem. |
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Horror Shorts BSunday, 1:05pm-2:16pm The Horror Shorts B set will run 1h 11m and include 5 films from 4 countries. |
Title | Year | Director(s) | Country | Length | Première? |
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Before We Leave | 2021 | Natalia Gurkina | Russia | 10:00 | |
Tistlebu | 2022 | Simon Matthew Valentine | Norway | 18:00 | Arizona |
Watch Over Me | 2021 | Angel Ruiz | USA | 6:00 | |
Greed & Gore | 2023 | Adam Kirkey | Canada | 15:00 | |
The Negative | 2022 | Tommy Bentz | USA | 21:57 |
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Before We Leave10:00, Russia, Natalia Gurkina A story about the memory of the dead, about life after death and about love after leaving forever. The family packs for the moving. Mom gets nostalgic sorting stuff out. Son indifferently throws books and toys in his backpack. Dad tries to slip away to say goodbye to his friends. And only the Youngest Daughter can not find her deal. She stares at others and mess with them. At the same time a strange Old Lady in black stares at the Girl attentively. But no one notices the Old Lady except Girl and it scares her. The Girl becomes frightened even more when she realizes that the whole family will leave her alone with the Old Lady in an empty apartment. And no one can help her, because her family is no longer alive. |
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Tistlebu18:00, Norway, Simon Matthew Valentine As a young urban couple on a working holiday hopes to connect with nature at Tistlebu farm, a primordial power comes into play, changing them both forever. |
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Watch Over Me6:00, USA, Angel Ruiz A young woman goes up to her house in the woods for the weekend only to be terrorized by an escaped convict.
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Greed & Gore15:00, Canada, Adam Kirkey After a bank robbery doesn’t go exactly as planned, a crew of five pick a last minute safehouse to lay low with their take and a hostage. But the safehouse isn’t so safe... |
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The Negative21:57, USA, Tommy Bentz A struggling writer finds a fabled "Cabin of Success" in the woods, where anyone who stays there becomes everything they've ever wanted. But before his dream is realized, he comes face to face with the answer to the question: What would you sacrifice to be successful? |
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Sci-Fi Shorts BSunday, 4:30pm-5:38pm The Sci-Fi Shorts B set will run 1h 8m and include 3 films from 43 countries. |
Title | Year | Director(s) | Country | Length | Première? |
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Entanglement | 2022 | Yashaswini Nath | India | 31:38 | |
Desde el Cosmos | 2022 | Rebeca Arce | Puerto Rico | 6:51 | |
Starship Impossible | 2021 | Greg McLeod | UK | 30:00 |
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Entanglement31:38, India, Yashaswini Nath A couple struggles to make sense of the past, and their vastly different versions of the bizarre event that made their relationship spin out of control. |
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Desde el Cosmos6:51, Puerto Rico, Rebeca Arce David, a boy obsessed with space, receives an alien egg for his birthday. David does everything in his power to protect the egg. What he did not know is that his biggest wish would become his worst nightmare. David needs to be brave to defend the planet against the alien.
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Starship Impossible30:00, UK, Greg McLeod Captain Quitter and his crew of misfits may have found the secret to eternal life. But only if you're prepared to live it out as a moose. A lo-fi sci-fi from the Brothers McLeod and Misfit. |
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Other Shorts ASunday, 7:30pm-8:42pm The Other Shorts A set will run 1h 12m and include 5 films from 3 countries. |
Title | Year | Director(s) | Country | Length | Première? |
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Aww, Shit! | 2022 | Gibbs Ryals | USA | 6:28 | |
Evenfall: Prologue | 2021 | Dustin Lee | USA | 20:28 | |
Retribution | 2021 | Julia Grace Jones | USA | 14:16 | |
Eco | 2020 | Gilberto David Vázquez Gómez | Puerto Rico | 14:38 | |
The Faun of Healwood: The Edge | 2023 | Stephane Artus | France | 15:50 | US |
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Aww, Shit!6:28, USA, Gibbs Ryals The Hitman (Jalen Smith) is the best contract killer in the city; not a single blemish on his resume. He faces his biggest challenge yet when a woman named Jessica Leary (Ellie Key) hires him to murder her wife Tabitha (Anna Jackson), and stage it as a suicide. In response, the Hitman devises an elaborate and intricate plan. One fatal mistake, however, compromises the entire mission and possibly his life. |
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Evenfall: Prologue20:28, USA, Dustin Lee A woman struggles to protect her son from the ever-increasing dangers of the world around them. |
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Retribution14:16, USA, Julia Grace Jones A man awakens to find himself restrained and recovering from an unknown procedure at the mercy of two mysterious women. |
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Eco14:38, Puerto Rico, Gilberto David Vázquez Gómez Ariel will try to hold the reins of his life as he faces the instability of his emotions, accompanied by a strange Eye that has come out on his back. |
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The Faun of Healwood: The Edge15:50, France, Stephane Arbus During a walk in the forest, a young woman, Jane, meets a wounded stranger pursued by strange hunters. She asks her to help her reach a dolmen in order to bring a magical object. Jane is reluctant to accept the adventure for which she seems destined. Official trailer at Vimeo. |
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Sci-Fi Shorts CMonday, 12:55pm-2:12pm The Sci-Fi Shorts C set will run 1h 17m and include 4 films from 2 countries. |
Title | Year | Director(s) | Country | Length | Première? |
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Denali | 2022 | Alberto Ortega | Spain | 12:00 | |
Bad Drones | 2021 | Sam Coale | USA | 25:50 | Arizona |
Möbius’ Trip | 2022 | Matt Jaems | The Netherlands | 19:45 | |
Artificial Existence | 2021 | John D. Marshall | USA | 19:31 |
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Denali12:00, Spain, Alberto Ortega Marina hires the services of Soul Data, a company that creates digital consciousness through data generated in life, to claim her deceased father for his part of the inheritance until she comes across new secrets.
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Bad Drones25:50, USA, Sam Coale A young man is unintentionally set on an adventure to save mankind when he falls through a wormhole to another world only to discover an army of evil drones on the other side poised to invade Earth. |
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Möbius’ Trip19:45, The Netherlands, Matt Jaems Jeremy Brandt is an agent on a mission to stop a man with a device containing a button that must not be pushed—but has been—resulting in an extensive chase. This leads to an electric struggle, against each other and ultimately for a solution to the greatest challenge anyone can face. |
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Artificial Existence19:31, USA, John D. Marshall A mother desperately yearns to escape an oppressive dystopian society where humans have merged with machines and life is automated by artificial intelligence, but her family would rather live in technological comfort than escape with her into the unforgiving wilderness. |
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Other Shorts BMonday, 4:50pm-5:51pm The Other Shorts B set will run 1h 1m and include 4 films from 2 countries. |
Title | Year | Director(s) | Country | Length | Première? |
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OverKill | 2019 | Alex Montilla | USA | 14:45 | |
Even Monsters Sleep | 2022 | Cooper J | USA | 17:00 | Arizona |
Monster in a Box | 2022 | Noah Weisel | USA | 9:16 | |
The Operator | 2022 | Matt Riley | UK | 17:40 |
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OverKill14:45, USA, Alex Montilla OverKill is a film with a comedic take on a familiar setup: when too-woke-for-their-own-good college kids are terrorized by an unstoppable masked killer, the final girl must outsmart him to survive. Only in this movie, the killer literally cannot be stopped (or killed). |
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Even Monsters Sleep17:00, USA, Cooper J Inspired by the victims of Harvey Weinstein and the #metoo movement. An actress chases her dream role down a rabbit hole in this surreal and interpretive tale of terror. |
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Monster in a Box9:16, USA, Noah Weisel He did it for the role. When carnival hucksters pull their act in the wrong town they get help from the most unlikely of performers. |
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The Operator20:00, UK, Matt Riley The Operator follows Michael, a client contact associate as he starts another dull day of business as usual. Connecting long distance intergalactic calls from a remote satellite (not as exciting as it sounds); a bleary eyed and coffee fuelled Michael receives a distress call. No one ever receives a distress call. They barely touch on distress calls during the induction day. |
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Final ShortsMonday, 7:55pm-9:03pm The Final Shorts set will run 1h 8m and include 7 films from 3 countries. |
Title | Year | Director(s) | Country | Length | Première? |
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Midnight Bound | 2020 | Andrew Battaglia | USA | 7:25 | |
Yo-Yo Dominance | 2022 | Lucky Meisenheimer, M.D. | USA | 2:44 | |
The Gray | 2020 | Myra Aquino | USA | 9:36 | Arizona |
Innermost | 2022 | Maing Caochong | China | 15:00 | Arizona |
On/Off | 2022 | Jurg Slabbert | South Africa | 17:54 | Arizona |
House of the Unholy | 2022 | Daniel Merlot | USA | 15:00 |
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Midnight Bound7:25, USA, Anthony Battaglia As nuclear missiles are flying towards Paul’s hometown, he casually explains why he doesn’t want to find shelter or survive the apocalypse while chaos erupts around him. |
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Yo-Yo Dominance2:44, USA, Lucky Meisenheimer, M.D. An experimental film done by artificial intelligence. Only the editing and prompts were done by a human. Artwork, voiceovers, animations, music and story was all created by AI.
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The Gray9:36, USA, Myra Aquino A former cop works in purgatory and processes people going to heaven or hell. One day, his 20-year-old son appears. |
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Innermost15:00, China, Maing Caochong The background of the stop-motion animation short film Innermost is set in the future featured by highly advanced technologies but collapsed society and civilization system. The cyberpunk-style science fiction world coexists fantastically with the traditional oriental martial arts world. The story follows the emotional entanglement between a long-lost chivalrous couple and a person with regenerated organs starting from a fight for a mystic magic lyre. From the perspective of what regeneration technologies are able of, the short film will arouse the audience to think of how the value of emotions can be magnified or dissolved.
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On/Off17:54, South Africa, Jurg Slabbert An Afrikaans-speaking man helps his elderly German neighbour in a time of need, despite a language barrier. In the process, he learns volumes about himself. |
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House of the Unholy15:00, USA, Daniel Merlot A bloodthirsty Princess puts out a bounty to hunt down the last of the Indigo Elf tribe. She is on a quest to attain a magical elixir that's hidden in his heart. The elixir will grant her the powers to reign over the Kingdom for an Eternity. |