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Some fears are too close to home. A young girl must find the strength to face the demon that haunts her.

Two film students set out to document their attempt to use science to communicate with god. Have their experiments made them crazy or have they truly found the answer?

If time travel became possible and you could go back to leave yourself a message, what would that message be?

As a spiritual war is brewing one woman must fight to save her sister's soul.

An astronaut survives falling to an unknown planet after a nearly fatal crash but he's not the only one there. Is he in some sort of crazy halucination or did he really awaken next to his own dead body?

Four soldiers enter a building filled with terrifying creatures to fix faulty equipment, but will any of them make it out alive?

In a future where sex kills and interaction between men and women is strictly regulated what will people risk to feel the pleasure of real intimate human contact?

In a diverse eco-system of mollusc like creatures, a late devoted scientist of these life forms has passed his life’s work on to his daughter, along with his most prized discovery.

In a sparse post-apocalyptic world a man's grief leads him on a path towards danger and disappointment.

2nd place winner at the 2013 Sci-Fi London 48 Hour Film Challenge. Written, shot, edited and scored in less than 48 hours.The filmmakers were given a random title ("FALLING APART"), a random line of dialogue ("Fame is fleeting, baby, but legends live forever") and a random prop/action (A mug of steaming liquid - a character sniffs the hot liquid and pours it away), and then had 48 hours to write a script with those elements, shoot it, edit it, grade it, score it, sound design it, export it and deliver it in person at the London BFI. A stunning result that DUST is honored to present here.

In the middle of nowhere in a small motel a mysterious trio's arrival comes with strange electrical phenomena. What are they waiting for, and what will the suspicious motel owner do about it?

Keiichi Matsuda's "Hyper-Reality" takes a look at what life could be like for people in a world altered by augmented reality. Does the technology help your life or trap you in a lonely virtual prison full of clutter and confusion?

DUST is celebrating Halloween by presenting three horror sci-fi short films this week! Our final film in the series is “THE CLOUD” from Director Alfonso Garcia, Writer Vincent Blonde, and Starring Martjin Kuiper. This intense short will have you wondering how much power you should give the technology you use to help run your life.

DUST is celebrating Halloween by presenting three horror sci-fi short films this week! The second film is "CLICK" from Writer / Direcor William Prince, Producer Catherine Jeffrey, and Executive Producers Tony Dixon & Kate O'Hara. A group of kids goofing off begin disappearing one by one from a locked room.

DUST is celebrating Halloween by presenting three horror sci-fi short films this week! The first film is "xVoid" from Writer / Producer / Director Meny Hilsenrad. A stunning experiment with setting and creature effects.

A film based in a world where the singularity is near through the development of ANA, a management software, used to increase productivity. ANA follows the sole worker in a futuristic car manufacturing plant, as ANA tricks him into giving her total control.

Strings is an action short about a captive woman who is kept sedated for a very good reason. She is extremely valuable, and the battle to free her will determine her fate.

When colleagues Laura and Grady have an impulsive fling on a business trip, they decide it might be for the best if it all just never happened.

A chance encounter proves fateful for 2 robots mining on a desolate planet.

The "Cloud" collapsed and destroyed all the digital data in the world a few years ago in an electromagnetic storm. Since that moment, the world has been slowly recovering. A.D. is now A.C. ("After Cloud.") In an ultra-connected world filled with hyper connected people, how do you find your one true love, who remains off-line?

Paris, 2020. A beautiful couple, a city over-saturated by holograms and digital stream. A polaroid camera. Tomorrow will never be the same.

9 Minutes is a tense science fiction thriller set in the middle of the desert. As this darkly atmospheric short progresses, this man and his dog are paid by a visit by unwelcome extraterrestrial guests. The encounter is sudden and terrifying. When the man comes to, he is unnerved by the footage captured by his phone.

Earth as we know and love it may become a thing of the past. That’s the starting premise of Collin Davis’s “Telescope.” This thoughtfully crafted short film follows a brave cosmic archaeologist as he travels back in time to capture photos of the once vibrant planet.

Francesco Calabrese’s “Lovely Monster” narrates the unique challenges faced by a girl with an incurable and frightening condition. The simple short follows a documentary crew as they interview various figures in her life.

After finding himself in a wrecked taxi, Evan tries to figure out the pieces of the puzzle, while dealing with a dangerous threat, in a seemingly deserted city.

Francesco Calabrese’s short “I Killer” explores what happens when you pick the wrong crowd to fit in with. The short follows two young boys as they follow through with a terrifying gang initiation process. You’ll have to see for yourself how this heart wrenching short ends.

Stuck right in the middle of chaos with no explanation. But no explanation is needed. Liam Murphy's No-A communicates everything we need to know about its main characters through wordless action. The end result is an empathetic and poignant short fueled by a robot’s love for its creator and its willingness to pay the ultimate sacrifice to save this girl from harm.

R’Ha, directed by Kaleb Lechowski, is a fight for survival in a solar system where no one can be trusted. A civil war started by subversives they could have never seen coming. A group of fighters, relentless in their quest to protect their planets will do everything in their power to emerge the victorious underdog against an enemy that appears to always be two steps ahead.

A life sentence regardless of the crime. A destitute Earth stricken with hunger and crime. A planet where the smallest of infractions can result in the gravest of consequences. Tyson Johnston’s LUNAR makes the last frontier a one-way ticket to a hellish nightmare for Earth’s convicts they can no longer support. Taken from their homes to the Lunar penitentiary, these men with a penchant for breaking the law find themselves on a moon that thrives of the absence of justice. The new wild west, where there is no law and their fate is determined at the hands of a government where there’s no one to account for their actions. But one man may have found a way for their voices to be heard. A way to escape and tell the people of his home planet of the atrocities they’ve been subject to. A way to seek justice for the harrowing sentence he’s been dealt and if justice can’t be found, revenge.

Capitalism and justice are ugly partners. That’s the thesis of K-Michel Parandi’s “From the Future with Love.” This bleak short film explores a world where police now work for privatized agencies that offer different levels of protection depending on how much you pay.

The story follows a secret society whose purpose is to find people who don’t deserve to live and to kill them with their thoughts. The tension between the pessimistic protagonist and the liaison of the secret society comes to a head in a riveting twist.

This is the dark conclusion that humans have reached in David Karlak’s short film “Rise.” In the near future, robots have developed advanced emotional sophistication and their human creators don’t like it. What should have been a simple and violent extermination of artificial life proves harder when a captured robot demonstrates that the human aggressors are biting off more than they can chew.

Mark Slutsky’s sci-fi short film “The Decelerators” explores what happens when a group of ambitious friends create a machine that allows its user to linger forever in a moment of happiness. As they each take turns removing themselves from the stream of time, they quickly realize that without each other they will run out of opportunities to use the machine.

Ariel Martin’s “iMom” takes our culture’s habit of “other-mothering” and scrutinizes it with terrifying accuracy.

Zac & Mac’s “Similo” gives us a glimpse into a future that offers robots as romantic partners.

Myosis is the constriction of the iris which decreases the diameter of the pupil. It is an unconscious phenomenon which can be triggered by an intense light, fear or the effect of epiphany.

Ivan has tested positive for perfection, but sadly in this world it's illegal and the law states he must attend a private clinic to be made imperfect.

A lonely woman falls for an avatar in an augmented reality program and it completely upends her life.

In a dystopian world a young woman gets a second chance to avenge her and her family’s death and fight against the governments military death squads.

The world’s first sentient machine goes on stage to accept a prestigious “Person of the Year” award as an auditorium of humans are confronted with his emotional and controversial story.

When a mysterious creature crash lands in the mountains, a local girl finds a reclusive shepherd and his flock of sheep to be more than meets the eye.

The past is a future worth saving. This sci-fi short follows Dr. Theodore Maine in his quest to relive a memory with his mother that he deeply regrets. Ted's personal endeavor is taking away from his work with Alzheimer's patients at Janus Labs and his lab partner, Shea Rose, is getting fed up with his tardiness and lack of focus. That is, until, a mysterious visitor named Obee changes Ted's life for good.

In Genghis Khan's last days, an encounter with a Wizard sends him to the Moon.

When an office robot attempts to express its affection for a co-worker, the fragile balance between the employees in the office is pushed to a tipping point.

An unhappy man sets out to shut down an outdated storage facility, but his interaction with the unusual caretaker will make it an unforgettable experience.

Two Indian astronauts must cope with the death of their captain on a one-way voyage to the nearest Earth-like sanctuary.

After spending his entire life on display, Jim discovers that they're about to change the exhibit.

Marshall discovers a deep space distress call from his estranged brother and must choose to save himself or venture into the Recoil effect for a chance at redemption.

Infinitude is a meditation on the cosmic evolution of matter and energy over time. Filmmaking techniques such as time-lapse, high-speed, and stop-motion photography were used to photograph handmade props, fluid dynamics, and gravitational light-painting. Infinitude is a handmade representation of the exponential growth of complexity in the cosmos.

As her deceased daughter's birthday approaches, Dr. Mara Stevens begins to ask herself, what if Wendy hadn't died?

Biopunk is set in 2054, some thirty years after a virus has devastated half the world’s population and transformed them into something other than human.

An experimental pessimistic short film about humanity. An extraterrestrial and poetic reflection on the sources of the collapse of humanity.

He fished for life but The Life caught him.

Love transcends all boundaries. Even in space.

Detroit, 2029 is a thoughtlog from former military operator Tony Demayo, whose combat footage capturing Detroit's invasion became the 21st century’s Zapruder film.

A young Cessna pilot and an aging air traffic controller's lives collide one fateful night in and over Roswell, New Mexico.

Two Worlds is a story about two opposites coming together out of necessity and finding hope at the end of the world.

Set in a dystopian future where the world is dying from a crippling disease, a mysterious figure visits an illegal drug den in the hope of sourcing a rumored cure, but unwittingly gets caught up in a robbery that could threaten his chances of making it back out alive...

K just crashed his Mercedes-Benz into a tree, moments after trying to avoid running down a small wild animal that ran across his path. He is on a backwater road in the countryside and it’s a very dark night. His evening has only just begun...

As seen in many sci-fi films tapes, we've been invaded again, but this time is our own fault: We've created New Media.

Deep underground, a second-rate scientist mans a discarded research facility struggling to cope with extreme boredom, a desperate voiceless companion and a mystery he'd really rather not have to solve...

Humanity makes a deal with a new client.

Ever since there have been people, there have been explorers.

A group of friends build a jet-powered craft to teleport across the universe. It’s only when they succeed that their problems begin.

Time travelers are hidden among us and they aren't friendly. After the state of New York gives the police access to "The Grid," a new technology that allows people to purchase anything with a quick scan of their fingerprint, crime drops almost instantly. However, they also discover that certain people are popping up in two places at once.

An homage to Blade Runner.

The story of two men who find themselves in the center of Earth’s first encounter with extraterrestrial life.

This 3D experimental short is about synesthetic drones, neon dubstep and the surveillance state.

A man (Dante Basco) returns to the scene of a terrible crime where he lost everything, determined to face his demons and rewrite a little bit of history.

Some prefer beer... Some prefer blood.

What would you sacrifice to save the world? In Rob McLellan's short "Always the Sun" one woman must take on this devastating responsibility.

A sci-fi thriller about a woman who can never get over the child she lost.

With the help of her drones, a young woman faces the horrors outside in a search for a paradise she may never find.

A family of scavengers. A corrupt spaceport. A callous matriarch. A home in the shadow of a space elevator. After a brutal attack on his father, Simon Carter must sacrifice everything to save his family.

Michael (Tom Hollander) is a broken man with a gun, surrounded by armed police. A robot with a medical degree is dispatched –but can it save him?

In a world where time travel spreads as a virus, a fugitive uses 1-5 second time jumps to escape a police raid.

A lone astronaut on an endurance mission is forced to cope with an intrusive force which threatens to derail the operation.

A short film about falling in love... with a terrorist.

A Japanese man mysteriously wakes up inside of his phone and is forced to confront the destruction his addiction to technology has wreaked on his life. In the face of these unusual obstacles, he attempts to escape the phone and return to his normal life—all before draining his battery down to zero...

The story of an AI unit who is anything but artificial.

When Thom broke up with his girlfriend Celia to follow his dreams and become an astronaut he didn't realize it would lead her to use her robotics skill against all of humanity. Now he must try to heal her broken heart and save the world.

Harry, a troubled young boy with a vivid imagination wants to fight the forces of evil like his television hero, the Star Ship Captain. When he meets the athletic but slightly awkward Jordan, the two boys set a plan in motion to defeat the forces of evil and save the day. Set in Melbourne in the late 1970‘s, this is the story of a suburban Space Captain, his Lieutenant, the Rocket they built and the heroes they become.

10 years after leaving a war his father started, Quinn and Amp live in the slums selling illegal custom-tech just to afford the batteries that keep Amp alive.

A psychiatrist is compelled by his patient, an institutionalized mathematician, to consider the existence of a secret integer between three and four.

"Divisor" shows the unexpected consequence as a result of mind shifting. Cyberpunk and virtual reality have shaped the esthetics of this short film.

A Sci-Fi extravaganza as pointless as the song. A high profile government agent is called in to witness the autopsy of an extra terrestrial after it's spacecraft crash lands on earth. In a desperate act of compassion, the agent abducts the alien and runs through time and space to save its life and return it to the mothership. But in this case...time and space is a chaotic trespassing through every random retro sci-fi film that we could cram in to three minutes. There's over 40 individual references - see how many you can spot.

Two disreputable characters try to get back into their bosses good books by steeling a prized object for him...

The future begins... with her. On the spaceship Cradle, a lonely teenager dreams of a home she has never known. When an accident cripples the ship she must race the clock to unlock the secrets of her past and discover her future.

A nihilistic police officer goes to extreme measures to protect a young boy who has the ability to tap into multi-dimensions across space and time.

A pregnant couple argue as they wait for their appointment in an advanced genetics clinic, in full disagreement about the steps the government has taken against over-population.

A grandfather who lives across the country from his family tries to connect with his grandson inside virtual reality.

In this offbeat Sci-Fi/Fantasy thriller, a burglary leads the victim on a extraordinary journey through time as he tries to find the perpetrator.

After he arrives to a time travel agency "Yes, Today!", a naive hard rock fan must fight his way through their bureaucracy in order to to get to a concert of Mötley Crüe in 1985.

In a corporate world void of human interaction, Ennis has lost her ability to relate to others. When her company fires her and forces her into a crowded tenement building, Ennis must overcome her fear of human connection to begin again.

In a near future where world humanity has been deprived of closeness of each other through technological communication advancements, a small boy, Timmy full of curiosity goes on a journey to learn the value of interpersonal communication, human emotions and expressing them through discovering the underground art of theater.

For Wanda and Zach, Future Families is a lifetime opportunity: a virtual parenting system that gives their baby access to a better life. But they soon realize this technology may come at a higher cost.

A father and son live in an idyllic future, but reality is not quite what it seems. In the futuristic city of Vanille, with properly tuned ImmerSyst Eyes & Ears the world can look and sound like a paradise. But the life of a father and his young son threatens to disintegrate when the father's device begins to fail. Desperate to avoid facing his own traumatic reality, the man must venture outside to find a replacement, into a city where violence and danger lurk beneath a skim of beautiful illusion.

Ten years in the making, Fabricated is a stop-motion journey through an alien world which was once our own.

Set during the Great American Eclipse, this is a story about the sacrifices we make for love and the intensity of a looming moment that can change everything.

In a twisting fantasy, a paramedic is possessed by desire for a man she discovers at the scene of an accident.

The world has ended. There is nowhere to go. Except back. In a war-ravaged world recognizable as the ruins of our own, a woman is haunted by memories of a better time. But she lives in an era that has chosen to forget its history, and remembering is a crime.

A scientist with a passion for magic gets more than he bargains for when performing a new card trick.

Two brothers caught in a time loop must traverse a series of maze-like events in order to prevent a catastrophic fire from occurring.

A disgraced veteran with a troubled past works as a negotiator in a futuristic post-war Korea battling with gangs, robots, and his own grip on reality.

Summer of 1982. Teo claims he has found a wormhole. His brother Óscar does not believe him... at least not for now.

"Responsibly Sourced" by Paul Philpott

Prospect is the coming-of-age story of a teenage girl on a toxic alien planet. She and her father hunt for precious materials, aiming to strike it rich. When the father is attacked by a roving bandit, the daughter must take control.

A young couple's relationship falls apart, over and over again, revealing the strange, harsh truth behind what's been happening to them.

A boy is pressured into taking a pill that lets him breathe underwater, with dire consequences.

Story of an astronaut traveling through space and time. In the turmoil of a mighty thunderstorm, the strange light appears in the middle of an unknown alien desert. The spacemen is being beamed down to the planetary surface, being left on his own.

In the near future, an injured soldier returns home with advanced prosthetics to replace an arm and leg lost in combat, and must reconnect with family.

Welcome to the Garden. Inside you grow, outside you perish. When in 2089 humans become an out-of-date concept, rebellious Luc would rather die than integrate into A.I. But when she meets robot Azul, the idea of upgrading herself suddenly sounds tempting.

Mr.Rêvus prepares the dreams of mankind. In his nightly routine one momentous mistake happens which is the dawn of a big adventure.

A man trying to escape from reality, finally does. After a mysterious encounter in the woods, a man meets a singer in a bar who has had a mysterious encounter of her own with the same mysterious light.

"Magenta Sky" is a creative collaboration between musician ZHU and sci-fi channel DUST directed by Jeff Vash. Something between music video and sci-fi short film. The collaboration is part of the new album release "Ringos Desert "out September 7th, 2018. The song will be a special bonus track on the album's forthcoming vinyl release. Visit http://www.ZHUMusic.com for more. And expect more collaborations soon.

When a watch repairman acquires an antique pocket watch that can control time, he decides to use it to achieve his dreams. His plans soon become sinister when he learns he isn't the only one with the knowledge of the pocket watch.

A 140 year old woman, sustained by a mobile life support chair, must come to terms with the reality of death.

In order to remember, you first need to forget. Through pharmaceutical experimentation, Dr. Louis W has developed an opiate that can put an end to the rising suicide rates plaguing a desolate yet fast-approaching future. 'Terminally Happy' begins in the middle of Louis’s final experimentation – on himself.

In the year 2025, a young man's superintelligent AI system tells him that he must go on a date or face certain suicide from loneliness.

Bobby, a middle-aged outdoorsman living on a lonely farm, looks after his young sheltered nephew for the weekend. Meanwhile, bears discover fire – causing a remarkable series of events for Bobby's family in this sci-fi dramedy set in rural America. Based on the short story by Terry Bisson.

The Exodus Begins! Facing total extinction, a military operation turns to the stars in order to relocate the entire human race. During the exodus, one man is sent to rescue his former comrade after she mysteriously disappears while executing a covert operation off world.

A man struggles with the health care system and his own feelings of guilt when he checks his 100-year-old, estranged mother into Gateway TransCare -- a memory care facility that uploads elderly minds into computer data banks.

An astronaut journeys to a distant planet where the inhabitants spend a lot of time looking at... devices.

Scientists have discovered a way to record dreams, and those with ulterior motives waste no time exploiting those whose dreams are the most powerful.

The Cosmos. Mankind. The meaning of Life. Come play with us.

In a war-torn land of man vs. robot, a young runaway slave searching for his father must ally with a broken and battle-scarred war-robot or be hunted down by his brutal overseers.

Franklin's Brain is a short, character driven sci-fi about an individual desperate to find meaning in his life, many years after his death.

An easy-going young professional wakes up hanging upside down in an unfamiliar warehouse with no recollection of how he got there. As he tries to escape, survive and piece together what happened, he begins to uncover a nightmarish plot involving him and his loved ones.

Two evil Henchmen are sent to bury a coffin in the woods. Who or what does it contain? That's out of their pay grade.

Lunatique is a sci-fi shortfilm about a lonely woman who fights daily for survival in a post apocalyptic world.

A developer of a device which allows the re-experience of recorded memories, becomes obsessive about the last recollections of his late wife.

A down-on-his-luck lawyer awakes in a doorless room to find he's been selected to negotiate on behalf of the human race.

A tense spaceship captain and co-pilot set out to investigate a comet, when a technical fault cuts to the core of their relationship problem…

BAG MAN is the understated story of a 12 year old African American boy, who takes us on an introspective journey out of the city and into the remote countryside of upstate New York. With a mysterious duffle bag in hand, its contents unknown to us, we journey from the urban hustle of Harlem, into the winter-ravaged woodlands a world away. On the road, we slowly discover his real intentions, and the startling significance of what is hidden inside a young boy’s bag.

Near Future 'military-grade' prosthetic limb technology alters the rules of an emerging NYC underground fight club - through a recently discharged elite soldier.

It turns out that life as we know it is a sophisticated computer simulation. Earth, existence, and consciousness, all the design of a hyper intelligent race of aliens known as the Thesquardorians. On December the 31st, 1974, the Thesquardorians decided the simulation had run its course. This is an absurdist comedy set in a computer lab in the 1970s. Two computer technicians dredging through their graveyard shift on New Year’s Eve stumble upon the final digit of pi which sends their entire existence spiraling out of control as they come to terms with the fact that it was all a sophisticated computer simulation.

When Dan Levy goes to get his snoring, pregnant wife a glass of water, he meets an alternate version of himself who has an offer this Dan might not be able to refuse.

A man tries to do his laundry, but comes across an unexpected obstacle at the laundrette. DAY ONE is a cautionary tale on automation and artificial intelligence. This film was completed in 48 hours, from writing to post-production, in the SCI-FI London film festival.

The President of the United States gives a live, last address to the people.

A genius hacker and his dog help an enigmatic young woman to free the remaining test subjects of a black ops ESP test lab.

A small, ash-collecting robot is jettisoned from a spacecraft and witnesses the collapse of the universe over trillions of years as he slowly drifts beyond outer space. Many trillions of years ago, a small maintenance robot was jettisoned into outer space. Now, as it drifts beyond the cosmos and out into the interstellar void, it becomes the only being to witness to the collapse of the known universe.

A robot goes on a quest to find his creator in the desert lands outside his city. Not built for the harsh environment outside his city, a robot takes his chances and braves the barren landscape in a desperate attempt to find his creator. With his knee joints slowly breaking down, it’s only a matter of time before his fate will be decided.

This inclusive version of "How To Be Human" includes an audio description for individuals with visual impairment. If you were forced to flee your own war-ridden country, would you sacrifice what makes you human to survive? "How to be Human" by Bruno Centofanti

After a painful breakup, Aaron purchases a life-size doll to serve as a replacement for the companionship he has lost. This simple solution to his relationship problem is complicated by a visit from his ex.

A man uses holographic tools to build an idyllic world as a subconscious playground for his love.

In this suspenseful sci-fi, an AID (Artificially Intelligent Device) by the name of CC, has been leased by a nanny agency to Lena to help care for her daughter. When a violent incident occurs between CC and Lena, an investigative team is tasked with determining exactly what happened.

In an alternate future, an idealistic teen fights to expose the secrets of a corrupt system, unaware that someone is always watching.

Our sister brand ALTER knows everything horror - which is why we asked them to help pick this week’s short films. They know frightening and this film delivers.

Our sister brand ALTER knows everything horror - which is why we asked them to help pick this week’s short films. They know frightening and this film delivers.

In this sci-fi retelling of Edgar Allan Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart," a pair of astronauts work on a small space station orbiting a distant planet. As the mysterious narrator attempts to convince himself of his sanity while describing his brutal act of murder, he becomes haunted by a thunderous heartbeat that could only come from the far reaches of space.

In a dystopian world a new form of A.I. weaponry has been created. All these drone bots need is a profile: age, sex, fitness, uniform, and ethnicity. Nuclear is obsolete. Take out your entire enemy virtually risk free. Just characterize him, release the swarm, and rest easy.

A young woman tries to seek shelter as those around her float inexplicably into the night sky.

Malcolm inherits a bank vault that contains classified government documents and an audio recording that urges him to complete a series of requests.

A Roomba meets its match when encountering a new mess to clean up.

A mother's long time missing daughter begins to reach out to her across time and space. Could it be a drug induced delusion or does Kate really possess the ability to cross over?

A mad scientist attempts to conduct a brain transplant with the supernatural powers of his captive.

A grieving plumber seeks out a disgraced quantum physicist to rid himself of a tormenting "Hum".

A suburban stay-at-home dad builds an autonomous robot out of his mower, but when he finds out his creation is taking over his life he sets out to destroy it.

Joel Fink is just another bored twenty-something looking for some excitement in an otherwise dull and uneventful life. A curious encounter outside a travel agent pulls him into an unusual world where he’s offered an even more unusual proposition.

Evan Rachel Wood and Sophia the Robot star in the short film "SophiaWorld" presented by DUST x Futurism.

They know your face and they are watching. Starring Jacob Anderson who played Grey Worm from "Game of Thrones."

In the future, two women struggle for survival on a newly colonised planet.

From a mysterious void, a guardian angel-like figure guides a man through his first romance.

Under the eye of an A.I. camera system, an online 'livecaster' with a volatile brand has a crisis of conscience in a future where jobs are limited and conflict is currency.

Four men explore an abandoned research facility. Within the station unsettling signs of disorder are revealed, and in the lowest level of the facility, a chilling discovery is made.

After the death of her companion, a scientist is trapped by herself on an outpost near Jupiter begins to imagine, or realize, that she is not alone after all.

Watch the surreal and suspenseful time travel short film.

An interstellar mission crash lands on an abandoned earth now devoid of life and water. In a race against time and resources they must not only survive the elements but face what once was.

A man finds himself on a mysterious planet trapped in a game of death.

In a next-generation prison, inmates are “corrected” over a few days by an A.I. linked to their consciousness. Cyrus, a lonely parole officer, becomes obsessed with Alice – a sociopathic inmate that the A.I. seems unable to reform.

Imagine the sun, by looking at a light bulb.

"Rendezvous with Mars" is a film about a young girl's journey from her humble beginnings in the city of Bombay to becoming an astronaut en route to Mars.

During a sleepover, four 9-year-old girls obsessed with space embark on a secret mission in their cardboard rocket. When Dad returns home, what will become of their mission?

An inventor on the brink of fulfilling his life's work finally faces the truth behind the machine he is building.

After a mysterious electro-magnetic pulse renders the world's technology useless, a young girl finds herself isolated and alone with only her father's strict set of rules to keep her alive.

A Lovecraftian tale of frontiers and madness - watch now on DUST.

"Metta Via" Directed by Warren Flanagan

In the future, sleep is a crime.

Kiko, a lonely retail service android, longs for the world beyond her store.

Embarked on a spaceship in the hope of finding a new habitable planet, the human trapped in his own ship after the robot overseer finds every single candidate planet unsuitable.

A mystical world where light and objects come alive to the rhythm of music. This strange choreography that only night-wonderers can observe.

A mother is suppressing her fear of losing her daughter in combat through the usage of futuristic technology.

Julie and Thomas cross the Northern forest in their 4x4. As they leave the main road, they are met by an unwelcoming man. He was obviously waiting for them, they give him a sum of money. Together they continue deeper into the woods.

As two women are forcibly deported from the United Kingdom, they discover that the experimental drug meant to pacify them has a unique and spectacularly deadly side effect when injected into their oppressors.

Women start giving birth to physically and mentally different babies who seem to be supernaturally gifted.

Late for his interview. Stuck in a time loop. Not ideal. It's enough to drive Derw Derw mad.

Kaya Torres is circling a black hole in a pod, with no one coming, no one to help. She's Alone.

Trapped in the ruins of a timeless world, an aging scientist struggles in isolation whilst striving to repair his A.I. companion. As he tries to crack the technology, his frustrated ambition and loneliness begin to take their toll.

In a near future Los Angeles everyone sees the city through their own set of augmented reality contact lenses.

Cutting-edge technology allows a young woman to grow up alongside her beloved Abuela. But on the verge of leaving for college, her financial realities threaten to erase their relationship - for good.

A rusty nursing robot must decide between dragging his former patient back to the hospital or letting him catch a glimpse of the horizon in the wilderness.

After receiving a strange package on her late father's birthday, 18-year-old Lana goes on a journey to visit her father's grave, uncovering the true significance of the package and her father's death.

A society where tiredness is illegal and comes with uniquely severe punishments.

A Sheriff is awakened by his daughter, alerting him of a prowler on their ranch. As father and daughter head out into the woods to track something that isn't human.

Based off of a real Craigslist post of the same name, a virgin 18-year-old finds himself in over his head when he responds to a mysterious Craigslist post looking for someone to test a prototype sex robot only to have her not consent.

During the construction of the universe, a young spacetime engineer dreams of doing something more than his menial job of planetary ring construction, so he sets out on his own, breaking some fundamental laws in the name of self-expression -- and discovering there is more going on behind the scenes of this new universe than anyone imagined.

With a new baby at home, young parents adopt a hi-tech monitoring system. Will it be an answer to their woes or have they invited a monster into their home?

A young woman visits a secluded riverbank to relax in the sun. When a mosquito bites her, it becomes clear that there is a secret force of nature at work. And it wants more than just a drop of blood.

After several years away, Leo returns to save his brother and, on kidnapping him from hospital, returns back to Eric's dingy flat. It is there that Leo discovers Eric's deranged and confusing research that eventually leads to the understanding that Eric is able to telepathically communicate with him.

Amidst a huge storm, a couple experience an encounter with an alien species.

After an update, a robotic personal assistant will now complete any request. But the robot can't always tell what's sincere and what's a joke.

A down-on-her-luck thief, gifted with a teleportation device, must fulfill one final job in order to save her family.

When Jack follows his best mate to Prague to find his ex-girlfriend, he's thrown into the middle of an alien invasion fronted at a night club. Now, he must work together with an unlikely ally to rescue his best mate.

After the plague, the famines have come, and a man expelled from the last habitable zone wanders the desert wondering if he'll ever see his son again.

A man with no name, and out of his era, survives the way he can in a hostile and mysterious forest. Or at least that’s what he believes in.

A scientist's computer prototype could change the world, but when a virus in the system infects his lab assistant, Abi, it could mean his death.

A young man's night takes an eventful turn after a mysterious object appears in his backyard.

A technician conducting empathy tests on androids stumbles across a life-changing secret when an unruly subject complicates her work.

Two AI assistants chat in an abandoned space base.

"Funny, irreverent, and fast paced. 13 minutes well spent." - Andy Weir (The Martian)

A woman struggles to keep her relationship alive as her partner suffers from a debilitating illness. A new medical procedure offers the answer to her prayers, but not without forcing her to make one last sacrifice.

Star Dogs is a brand new British comedy that follows the exploits of a rag-tag group of space-pirates as they try and make a living in a strange new future.

It isn't easy being single in a future society on the verge of the technological singularity.

A teacher disillusioned with her cutting edge virtual reality classroom struggles to coax her talented and troubled student to excel.

A man calls a woman from his past.

A philosophical video and art exploration of the Earth's passage through a black hole.

A troubled young woman tests out a new app that lets her control when and how she feels emotions.

A love story set in world where human cloning, known as 'dubbing', is now a commonplace volunteer programme.

WARNING: This film features sequences of FLASHING LIGHTS, which can trigger a seizure in some people with epilepsy.

When a young Scientist becomes entangled in a military mission to deliver the only antidote that will save mankind, she finds herself not only fighting for survival but also being confronted by demons from her past.

Alone in front of her reflection in a collapsing world, she decides to end it all. But who is she and why?

A modified human from a man-made planet risks his life to travel to where humanity originated. But will he choose love or his civilization?

Planet earth’s contaminated drinking water threatens to end civilization. A celebrated quantum physicist, volunteers to be the first interdimensional traveller with the hopes of finding an answer to the contamination problem.

A virus eliminates all males. When a woman discovers something impossible, she risks the whole world's destruction to protect it.

Two young brothers living in rural isolation struggle to survive in the wake of a mysterious attack, only to have their fragile world shattered by the arrival of a teenage girl.

A hopeless romantic invents a device that allows him an infinite amount of attempts to impress the girl of his dreams...but he must die each time.

A Fox-dressed man breaks the space time limits with only one goal: to spend some time with his wife. But below this recreational act there's a far more complex and ambitious plan.

In a near future, a group of scientists trapped in a room learn that one of them is an AI and it has been deceiving them. They cannot escape until they figure out who it is.

Liv Laika embarks on a solitary mission to a distant planet in search of her ancestors who fled the earth nearly a century prior. After days of radio silence, Liv begins to question whether or not they even want to be found.

Space Vessel Iris and its crew encounter a troubling discovery as they embark to what they believe to be an uninhabited planet.

A desperately seeking outlander stumbles across a mysterious, reclusive hermit who may hold the secret that could change a lost world.

Dave is annoyed the annoyingly exuberant team spirit of his robot colleagues

A short film about a young robot with a defective part, trying to find their way in the world.

A lonely woman who takes care of her paralyzed husband saves an alien who cannot experience emotions. As she tries to teach it what it’s like to be human, she discovers that feelings can be misleading.

After her brother is fatally wounded, a naïve but ambitious scavenger, must learn to shoot down a futuristic military drone while avoiding a vicious group of hunters, in order to obtain life saving antibiotics before her brother succumbs to infection.

Desperate to escape from the mysterious house she's trapped in, a young woman learns that her only way out is by feeding a young, innocent girl to the house.

In the near future, when all workers are replaced by humanoids, a Chinese chef, Pu, is ordered to pass on his cooking skills to a humanoid robot, William, and teach him Chinese cooking.

A man tries to convince his skeptical friend that he has invented a trap for catching extraterrestrials.

A woman struggles to adjust to her new life in a human zoo exhibit on an alien planet.

A competitive mother orders a clone to outshine her flawless friend, but soon realizes she purchased an unbeatable rival.

In a primitive society, Bryana, a pregnant hunter, loses her husband to pestilence. Exiled from her home, she hunts their god to demand help.

Two agoraphobic women find love via a virtual dating app.

Two lonely romantics go to absurd lengths to be anyone but themselves.

When Dori's sister Fae returns from a recovery center, Dori begins to suspect someone is stalking her. But what's coming for them is not of this world.

A woman travels in time to save another woman's life but the risk could be far reaching for her own reality.

A lonely gay man falls in love with an artificially intelligent car over the course of a road trip.

Dominated by an Insect's totalitarian regime, the staff of a restaurant organizes a plot to knock down the established order.

An astronaut travels through space alone and may be stranded in orbit forever due to his spacecraft malfunctioning.

Did you ever wonder what will the future of health-care hold? How will advances in medical A.I. change our lives? Will algorithms eclipse doctors entirely? We hope not. Instant Doctor is a short film to show appreciation for doctors and health-care human workers everywhere.

A seeker finds himself distressed by his dependencies and is constantly searching for a way to survive without his life support.

Tonight, Paul pops the question to Amanda. Everything is perfect, then suddenly - chaos. Now the couple find themselves stuck between two worlds. Desperate to be free, they try everything they can to escape... Will they succeed?

Leaving for his dream job, a satellite technician keeps solitude at bay by constantly texting with his old friends. After neglecting his duties a satellite leaves its orbit which causes the worlds network to collapse.

Izumi Ishimoto and Alex Morales were once in love and now cannot forget each other twenty years later. Now 20 years have passed and they have moved on with their lives, but so has the world. Set in a boring and bureaucratic version of NYC, Izumi and Alex go about their mundane existences while quietly refusing to give into mandates of the new dystopian society – namely undergoing a surgical treatment that renders the brain incapable of dreaming. A mysterious company called the Sandman Corp., led by the equally enigmatic Dr. Esperanza Haddid, who boldly claims to have developed a technology to create alternate realities or dreams by scanning people’s’ memories. The opportunity to reconnect with each other is a temptation the two haven’t felt in years.

An accidental encounter with an uninvited guest disrupts Alice's life. As her husband Tom's hidden secret gradually surfaces, Alice finds herself one of the bio-mechanical substitutes of his deceased wife.

After tripping over her dog and dying, a young woman wakes up in a virtual purgatory and waits for her mind to be downloaded into a new body.

Three inmates awaken in a subterranean prison and must set aside their differences in order to escape, but things become complicated when a genetically modified creature breaches containment.

Jane Montana, a rough and tough law-woman, is in a pickle. A gang of outlaws led by a man named Buford has kidnapped a helpless damsel. Worse, Jane has two bullets and three bad guys to confront.

A Time Enforcer must stop illegal time travel at any cost.

A family game night turns ugly when a protective mother, desperate to keep her turn in the game a secret, is forced to commit a heinous act that holds a troubling, family-shattering secret.

Moments before her son Satv'k's retrieval by the state, Parser makes one last attempt at bolstering his faith in the fabled Indigo Child."

An 11-year old girl’s loyalty to her parents is tested after an attack by her caregiver hints to a greater violent upheaval beyond their rural surroundings.

In a near future, in the heart of a forest in the North where anarchy reigns, a young girl Hawa and her father live as refugees along with other survivors.

An American Chinese immigrant makes contact with his grandson in the future via a mailbox. Together they have to deal with their mutual enemies.

A lovelorn underdog buys a novelty meteorite as part of a romantic gesture to win his ex back, but when the mysterious gift proves to have a mind of its own, he must purge himself of the parasitic entity before it consumes him.

A selfish man tries to alter his destiny when he receives an ominous phone call from his future self.

A cold world. Individuals whose head is replaced by cages with a balloon pass by each other in the streets of an immense city. All these individuals look alike and live in a standardized way.

A lonely 50s housewife undertakes radical atomic surgery to win back her husband's wandering eyes and to become the perfect wife in the process.

A shooting star falls down over the Arctic island of Svalbard and The Global Seed Vault gets an unexpected visitor.

A couple's relationship takes an unexpected turn when a strange phenomenon in their backyard allows cloning to take place.

Set in the near future, a thirteen-year-old girl plays a deadly game of cat and mouse in a world where overpopulation has caused for a desperate law that forces citizens to kill their designated 'Soulmate'.

A humble domestic servant awaits the return of his loved ones...

On a quest to find the comic book he’s been searching for his entire life, an adventurous 17 year-old travels to Tokyo and discovers a world in which Japanese comics are real and that he’s one of the main characters.

Claire's world is turned upside down when the chip implanted in her wrist notifies her that the love of her life is a nearby stranger.

Federation Officer Shapiro crash-lands on a desert planet with no sign of water, life, or a way off. Her crew-mate Rand is no help, resigned to his fate on the hypnotic alien dunes. Locating the ship's emergency beacon is their only hope, but when a salvage crew answers their distress signal, it's already too late.

A woman is faced with existential crisis after learning that the universe is an untitled simulation.

In 2071 Pakistan, citizens are mandated by law to smile at all times, holding together a tenuous peace after three decades of civil war. But at what cost?

A nervous job candidate is forced to show much more than a positive attitude to save the life of her competitor.

In 1999 a boy becomes obsessed with the Y2K bug, In the distant future a girl is learning to be a priest in a religion based upon the 'artefacts' left behind by the boy.

An astronaut returns from a multi-years space travel.

Set in a distant future, a ‘species’ of robotic shamans called the Vi survive through the harvesting of dreams from the human subconscious to predict the future.

A former cop works in purgatory and processes people going to heaven or hell. One day, his 20-year-old son appears.

When a blue-collar man is forcibly implanted with his alien boss's parasitic offspring, he asks his wife to help him remove the parasite -- a dangerous and forbidden act that puts their marriage -- and their lives -- at risk.

Kate and Felix get a surprise visitor for Christmas - an older, drunken Felix, from 2044. He's come back to visit his young family, when things were good. Before everything went to shizz.

A combat medic goes rogue in a desperate attempt to expose the alien biological research failures of a corrupted corporation.

Selene, a young aerospace engineer, dreams of going to space, but was born naturally in this near-future society where the first generation of genetically engineered humans has come of age and has more privileges than those born like Selene.

A restless young woman ships off to fight an interstellar war, only to struggle with the effects of being cut off from her home by both time and space.

A lazy, uninspired woman is visited by an otherworldly being responsible for giving humanity all its great ideas.

When a miniature black hole shows up in a man's house, he has to learn to deal with it. But as time passes, his obsession with the anomaly grows, and he begins to dance with danger as he utilizes it in his every day life.

The red moon threatens our existence on earth. Our only hope is the enigmatic Paul W.R., the most talented astronaut of his generation. Mysteriously, a few hours before the start of the Great Mission, Paul disappears.

An astronaut encounters a terrifying anomaly approaching the International Space Station.

On the way to a distant planet, three less-than-qualified astronauts are awoken 90 years too early and trapped inside their hibernation pods. Alone in the endless void, they can't kill themselves, and they can't kill each other, so they'll just have to kill time.

Sol is a story set in a world ravaged by climate change. A mother races to teach her daughter the emergency preparedness that comes with each disaster after experiencing a tragic loss.

A rebel leader in an archaic and religious world runs into her lost father as she tries to reveal a secret only a god can keep.

In a dystopian world, a freelance healthcare technician takes on a new project that tests his limits.

The year is 1976. Location - Moon. Commander Jack Jones wakes up from a Rover crash, with a broken leg and 30 minutes to reach his Moon lander. Will he make it? Or will he be the last man?

When Hal discovers and restores a damaged android he must let go of the past in order to give the living a chance at a future.

Happy Halloween to the DUST family! To celebrate we're bringing you some spooky sci-fi horror.

An insomniac young woman from another universe generates an AI to alleviate her guilt and finally get some rest.

A young misunderstood scientist named Anna is faced with the reality that her father is dying. It is however a moment she has prepared for. Anna has manufactured replacement organs for him by creating a human animal hybrid. When she comes to claim the required organ however, there’s a problem. Her creation, named Bardolph, shows more humanity than her father ever has. Is it right to kill him?

It's the night of the Hungry Ghost Festival, and Chinese-American scratch DJ Logan Lee is poised to make his live debut at his best friend Beatrice Pan's house party. The problem is, he's a nervous wreck.

"Together Forever" by Rebecca Scott

Olivia is creator of the the lifelike Soulmate robots, but after the destruction of a prototype she begins to question the nature of love and loss.

A tongue-in-cheek Southern thriller about a rookie cop's first date gone horribly wrong.

Something bizarre has come to Los Angeles - men are dying and women are disappearing. Vulnerable and unprepared, Kat ventures out into the unknown.

To highlight Down Syndrome Awareness Month we present "Downside Up". Downside Up reveals a world in which everyone has Down’s syndrome. One day, Eric is born, a boy who’s different.

Light years from home, floating aimlessly through space, Flight Engineer Matthew Spencer and his crew battle isolation and despair aboard a failing escape pod.

Mexico City. The Future. When memories of a forgotten love, a forgotten life, start to come back to him, the fabric of Ben's reality begins to tear.

A physician investigating a missing body disrupts an unlawful experiment.

Young couple Anna and Gunnar are deeply in love but they live in a society where people are assigned a new spouse by lottery every seven years. As their final day together approaches, they grapple with the nightmare of being torn apart and facing life with another partner.

In an underground city where services such as healthcare and law enforcement are delegated to local vending machines, a man finds a crafty way to buy a cheap meal, but his method leads to an odd outcome.

The world's first A.I. leader embarks on an enchanting journey where she discovers just how limited her programming truly is.

A troubled young hitchhiker struggles to escape her fate on a remote mountain highway.

At the height of the 1930’s Dust Bowl, a scarecrow must leave his post and find a way to save the only family he’s ever known. But facing the outside world proves to be a challenge when your face is a burlap sack.

On a lonely alien planet shrouded in mystery, an ominous beast guards a powerful treasure.

A boy immobilized on a wheelchair spies other residents in the windows across the courtyard. He convinces himself of spotting an attempted assault on a little girl. Is he preventing a murder? Or is he just not capable of seeing the whole picture?

Happy International Dog Day!

Hollow takes place 8,000 years after a nuclear apocalypse leaves the sky permanently covered in fallout. The earth, hollowed out for geothermal energy, has one last chance in a new form of power, but there are other parties who want to use the source for their own purposes...

Six students must complete their graduation from a utopian training facility by answering a devastating moral question.

A peculiar miracle binds together a pregnant nun in 1960s Ireland with a West Texas gas station attendant 25 years later.

A time traveler is hunted by a dinosaur.

A man's plan to propose to his girlfriend quickly goes south when he starts to have memory problems.

When a routine scout of a distant planet uncovers a lost civilization, the explorers discover the long forgotten origins of their mission.

In a desolate time we visit "Sofugan Island", an Island that was once famous for providing the mainland with the valuable meat of colossal mutated whales, known as "Monjus".

It’s business as usual for a deep space pilot, until a strange anomaly hits her ship and knocks it off course.

Six strangers volunteer for a medical study that's hiding a dark secret.

Major Remy Barnes is the first astronaut to make contact with extraterrestrials on board of an unidentified flying object in orbit around earth.

An unlikely outlaw wreaks hell across the dusty dystopia of The State on a wild quest to save what is held most dear. But things aren't always what they seem on the desolate wasteland frontier.

An orphaned girl seeks revenge on the creature that destroyed her home, but discovers more in its lair than she bargained for.

A cavern world over-exploiting it's energy and resources through the struggle of the pawns against the king is at risk for self destruction. How will they save it?

In a future farming facility, a permanent tenant of virtual reality receives a rogue transmission.

A young woman finds herself in a frozen wasteland.

In a futuristic wasteland, an overconfident marauder and his robot companion pillage an abandoned bunker and have an unexpected encounter.

Set in a not too distant future small town, a VR life simulation junkie goes on a mission in reality to get a new dopamine game cartridge before she goes through happiness withdrawal.

Melody Skylark receives an ominous message in her bowl of alphabet soup warning of a supernatural war and discovers she's Earth's only hope in the face of an otherworldly threat.

The Draft uses the exciting setting of a TV lottery to address the lack of freedom women can face when it comes to motherhood.

A team of five elite soldiers are sent to the jungle to investigate a mysterious Anomaly but are met by an unexpected foe.

One of the last remaining scientists on Europa, battles a sense of deep loneliness and the impending demise of humans efforts to make the Jupiter moon habitable.

A rich man dies and arrives in the afterlife where he receives his orientation while his soul uploads.

In a dystopian society where retired seniors get executed, a death cleaner finds himself in a dilemma when he encounters a lone resident, who is supposed to be expired and perished.

Two dairy farmers looking for a cow gone missing.

A derelict spaceship becomes self-aware and builds itself a mechanical body in order to feel alive.

Billie is full of life. She lives and breathes each emotion that overtakes her, and she loves it.

Longing to say goodbye, Gabby has taken up her mother's quest to find something that no one has ever found, a rare natural phenomenon she calls: Outbound Gravity. A small hidden pocket where the effects of gravity are reversed, which may give her the incredible opportunity to travel to the edge of space and confront a missed opportunity.

100 years in the future, the Earth is cold and barren. Robot siblings Vera and Sprocket have just lost their creator. As they struggle to process their grief, other dangers in their world manifest. Can they regain sight of what they still have, in order to avert their own fates?

When a troublemaking teen reprograms the supervising robot his single mother has left him with, he ends up in her shoes when the once innocent companion begins to disobey him.

In a near future humanity has been forced to flee the Earth, a planet now uninhabitable due to wars and climatic turmoils.

Frequencies is a retro-future sci-fi romance set in the 1940s.

After a global nuclear war has turned earth into a scorched wasteland, a struggling group of survivors discovers a secret fall-out shelter that offers a new beginning - but not without a catch.

When a neuroscientist experiments with memory technology to explore one day in her past, she finds herself in a potentially lethal situation.

Navel Gazers is a dark comedy that takes place in a society where humanity has become so engrossed with their mobile devices that their spines have developed permanent and inheritable curvatures – a society that is perpetually navel gazing.

Richard James, AKA "Reaper Rick," a simple Red-blooded, paranoid, country man is caught in the middle of the strangest day of his life.

Hackers aren't the worst thing that can break into your zoom meeting.

Sundered from his wife, Arthur's care falls to a machine.

In a Futuristic Cyberpunk Thailand, a lone warrior must battle both his own karma, and the forces of evil, without using violence.

A dreamy and enigmatic story of two women stranded in a country house, whilst menacing lights roam the skies.

In the fight against extinction, it’s all hands on deck. Watch war machines, mercenaries, and vampires who’ll do whatever it takes to defend their own in our anthology, "Military".

A brilliant but antisocial young woman on a four year mission to an alien planet faces her inner demons while realizing there may be a more immediate danger onboard her own ship.

Starring Sunita Mani from Netflix's hit series "GLOW" and USA's "Mr. Robot" - watch the award winning sci-fi short film now.

AD 613, Viking warriors witness an alien ship crash-landing on Scandinavia.

A desperate computer scientist struggling to fund her anti-depression AI application faces her toughest challenge yet.

In the year 2143, a young woman confronts her childhood trauma within a Virtual Reality therapy session, only to discover her inner demons are real.

At the request of his dying father, SOLAR BLADER embarks on a cosmic odyssey in search of an all-knowing entity.

On the run, a pair of genetically enhanced twins must come face to face with their inner demons in order to survive in the physical world.

When Amadeus Klein loses the one person he loves to the brutality of an authoritarian nation, he must focus all his genius into a new project that could bring him back some happiness amidst such a chaotic world.

A brother and sister's reunion picnic at a stone circle in the English countryside is disrupted by the arrival of an uninvited guest.

The sole survivor of a crashed ship, Cass (Liza Scholtz) awakens in a strange and hostile alternate version of Earth. Devoid of any memory, her only clue is a mysterious device she carries with her that is continuously counting down towards an unknown climax. Pursued by ruthless scavengers and a terrifying, preternatural entity, Cass must learn her true identity and unravel the mystery surrounding her crash.

Office clerk Amouf desperately tries to hold his life together while a brutal force is darkening the world.

Under the cover of darkness, a teenage girl attempts to escape her tormented reality, determined to find her missing father with the help of her best friend and a mysterious device.

Two companions on an unmanned research ship discover the value of their friendship as their decades-long mission towards the sun comes to an end.

The mysterious disappearance of every human on earth leaves a service robot wondering what his purpose is.

Two shipwrecked astronauts fight over how to get rescued from an alien desert.

A broken and haunted ship technician and an ambitious young officer's paths collide when ordered to investigate a Ghost Ship secretly. The two become compelled to fulfill an ancient destiny.

Noah has not accepted the death of his mother, an astronaut. In order to move on, he must break that which still connects them.

An obedient artificial intelligence assistant is trying to complete a painting so that she can help her master. But this painting annoys her arrogant master which causes a spiral.

Hunting for Black Holes is a dangerous business and it's only getting deadlier.

Mischa Rozema's short film, Stardust, is a story about Voyager 1 (the unmanned spacecraft launched in 1977 to explore the outer solar system). The probe is the furthest man-made object from the sun and witnesses unimaginable beauty and destruction. The film was triggered by the death of Dutch graphic designer Arjan Groot, who died at the age of 39 from cancer.

A young woman seeks digital refuge from an overwhelming world and a bewildering obsession.

Posing as a typical teenager, a humanoid robot must navigate the uncertainty of adolescence in order to conceal a haunting secret.

The journey of fear and struggle of "Kernel K-500". Who rebels against the cruelty of apartheid and the condescending perception of his kind. Moments before his salvation, the unforeseen unfolds.

In a universe of psychic cats and sentient pickle people, a love-struck star pilot and his annoying wingman patrol a unremarkable sector of deep space.

The year is 2028; England is isolated, detached from the rest of world and run by a powerful few in a totalitarian state. We follow Adeel, a man in his late thirties as he collects his benefit cheque for the month. The welfare state is crumbling and as a result of public sector cuts all services are now fully automated.

SEED is a story of a lonely android stranded on a barren planet searching for a precious artifact. After crash landing on a freshly discovered planet, he decides to go further towards his original goal, what was a mysterious ancient object hidden in one of the volcanoes of the planet. The short film is a metaphor of getting through an art block and finding the next goal in life.

In a future where memories are stored like files, broken couples are offered the ability to wipe every trace of a relationship from their minds.

A lone rescue robot in a strange galaxy must reach a surviving astronaut before she's consumed by a looming black hole. A live-action space adventure made entirely with practical effects.

When his cybernetic pet project is put in jeopardy, the handyman of a decaying apartment building is forced to take a stand, blurring the lines between human and machine.

After years of being plagued by his missing daughter "Rosie," Clark's days consist of shuffling off to the next fix or repair. On this job, he will discover the unimaginable horror within the water plant.

A young girl's brother returns from war with a most disturbing souvenir.

A young woman reluctantly meets with her estranged mother, only to discover that the visit is part of a larger plan to sacrifice her to the god of her mother's cult.

When a group of bored suburban teens experiment with a mysterious new drug, they are thrust into a nightmare world where hallucinations kill.

A grumpy old man’s quiet life is disrupted when a bright light crashes in his yard, revealing an alien baby—forcing him to confront his loneliness and decide whether to care for it or turn away.

A lone space traveler, Eve, and her wired A.I. assistant land on a sought out planet nearly identical to earth. After losing the A.I.'s coordination abilities, Eve is left to complete their mission alone.

Amidst a global exodus from earth, two brothers must confront their differences about leaving their home forever.

237 years after mankind's extinction, an android longs for a past it can never experience.

At a time where humans can harness the power of the sun when exposed to sunlight, a mother and daughter must figure out where their intentions and loyalties lie.

An alien mistakes an influencer for the Leader of Earth, putting the fate of the planet in the hands its most popular teenage girl.

When two explorers crash-land on an alien-infested planet, a grim decision arises: as one is infected by the alien menace, the other must choose between containment and cataclysmic consequences.

Eternal Dawn is an anticipative short documentary painting the story of humankind exploring our universe after discovering the secret to eternal youth.

A soldier must keep herself and her new crew alive as they are dropped onto a distant planet during an ensuing war.

When the highly intelligent robot vacuum cleaner “Sucker” meets his new owner Eve for the first time, he instantly falls in love with her. Loving, stalking, treacherous and vengeful. The small robot vacuum cleaner Sucker is all of the above.

An old man reflects on his past, having spent his entire life within the confines of a spacecraft. He wonders when the time will come for him to find the true purpose of his life.

Vincent is an anxious young man desperate to make his parents proud by studying in the US. But after landing, he is told his passport comes from a country that doesn't exist: France.

The first woman scheduled to travel to interstellar space must decide whether to continue with her mission or her unexpected pregnancy.

In the neon-lit streets of futuristic Neo-Batavia, a woman, wronged by the law, embarks on a relentless quest for revenge, challenging the city's dark underworld to restore her shattered life.

Humanity is long gone. After an apocalyptic war, a member of the team of robots tasked with finding a new hope for life discovers a mysterious map.

When a sheltered teenage girl is caught cheating on her boyfriend with her family’s new robot, she must choose between her old life and her new love.

Fate brings a teenage alien and a waitress with musical dreams together for one unforgettable night on Earth. In this sonic Space Opera, the two learn that sometimes you need someone out of your world to recognize the unique you.

When a strange mushroom sprouts up in her balcony planter, Chloé is compelled to eat it, resulting in consciousness altering hi-jinx.

Three robot companions descend down an abandoned mine, working together as they search for invaluable fuel that keeps their kind alive.

Amongst the ruins of The Fallen City lie shadows of a long dead past... the deadly secrets of Sector 23 await.

Power has its limits. A young father has the ability of teleportation but can't go very far without using water as fuel.

All the horrors we imagined for the future have come true. The end of our planet is near. While, the rich are able to live out their days with dignity, the poor must fight tooth and nail for the simplest of pleasures: even a breath of fresh air.

In this thrilling conclusion to the BackSpace Trilogy, we find Hunter and Rival must team up to survive the outer reaches of BackSpace. After breaking their contracts with the BackSpace Corporation, they’ll be sent on a suicide mission as their only way to survive.

Chris Dolo is a technical engineer for Aqua-Space, navigating the intricacies of life with his son Yuri, an 11-year-old genius. As they grapple with the absence of a maternal figure, a supernatural entity appears to be observing them.

Lucas Anderson is an insular IT technician whose life is turned upside down when he stumbles across a mysterious email and its reality bending contents.

After her father is brutally murdered by mysterious outlaws, an ex-military special operative decides to take matters into her own hands and enlists the help of an unsuspecting young cargo pilot along the way.

A young woman and her decommissioned military droid struggle to escape a nuclear exclusion zone, hoping to find a better life on the outside-- free from the oppression of the forces that keep her there.

London 2091. Two service androids, a male and a female, have been abandoned in an apartment after the city evacuation. After several decades, the female android wants to know what is outside the door.

Peter lost everything he loved at young age. In a world devastated by war, there is little hope left for him. In all this darkness, Peter finds a long-forgotten sense of happiness in form of an unexpected friendship with robot named Neven.

A widow tries to reunite with her deceased husband inside a dream. She turns to the illegal services of a 'Sleep Dealer' who sells hand-tailored dreams... And nightmares.

In the near future, when environmental disaster threatens humanity and oxygen is scarce, Satchel, a former baseball pitcher, must fight to survive after turning her back on a group of violent murderers who are now hot on her heels.

With the police unable to help, Emily takes it upon herself to investigate the disappearance of her partner. A small clue leads her to the discovery of an unregulated world far removed from her own. Soon, Emily's journey to reconnect becomes a struggle for survival.

When two sisters are hunted by mysterious creatures, they find themselves in a race against time race as one of them falls ill.

Weeks after a mysterious time-compression event violently splices environments from the past into the present, two survivors encounter the foreboding figures responsible for the event and experience firsthand their sinister nature.

When her bionic boyfriend Ethan proposes, Jackie finally feels like she has found her happily ever after— until a chance encounter with another human shows her how messy love can really be.

A man decides to take his future into his own hands by entering a forever sleep pod. Once activated his life flashes before his eyes, reliving every moment, the good, the bad, and the traumatic. He must decide to escape the pressure or to fall asleep, permanently.

When an old army buddy is overtaken by a horrifying radioactive virus, a veteran and his daughter are forced to do the unthinkable to contain the quickly evolving threat.

When a struggling actor accepts the lead role in a mysterious experimental film, her grasp on reality begins to unravel.

In a quiet corner of rural New Zealand, a teenage boy holds the key to the greatest discovery of our time. The world is tough for our young genius who’s largely misunderstood by the people around him. What he doesn’t realise is that by building The Machine, he’s started a chain of events that could, if it works, change the course of history forever.

The capital’s burning. The royals are dead. On a distant planet ruled by contracts and clan codes, one fugitive prince is on the run, and every Tracer in the city wants a piece of him. But the closer he gets to escape, the clearer it becomes: he’s not being saved. He’s being delivered.

In a future world where human and AI people have blended families, one that has been divided against their will tries to reunite at a secret location.

Diego must protect the life he’s built on Earth when unforeseen events pressure his return to his space colony of origin.

Step inside Metropius - a dieselpunk world of conspiracy, corruption, imagination and visual splendour. In the noir city of Metropius, Detective Goodall follows a bloodstained hat into a web of corruption and power.

SPACE BETWEEN STARS is a science fiction fable which follows a group of ethereal creatures exploring a derelict space station. As they’re drawn out into the vast, unsettling environment and their fate begins to crystallize, questions are raised about the sometimes ambiguous nature of conflict.

In a dystopian realm where consciousness is encased within neural implants, Logan, a solitary Decksdark, finds himself intertwined with an ethereal entity.

In an alternate version of 20th century America, all citizens are subject to government-issued neurological implants which they are told prevent their heads from exploding. When Arkady, the lone caretaker of his ailing mother, has his implant forcibly removed by an unknown assailant– his reality begins to collapse and he scrambles to find answers.

On the dry, barren planet that is humanity's second home, a young nomad tries to steal water from a crashed cargo drone to take back to his tribe.

This '90s-style creature feature takes place over one night in a Biology research lab. When a mysterious package arrives from one of the lab's field research teams, a promising researcher uncovers a plot to steal her work, masterminded by her jealous boss. When the sample is opened she finds herself having to grapple with her conscience before making a life or death decision.

Everyone must be profitable. When Rachel’s rating drops below zero, she’s lucky — sent to retrain at a revaluation center, a slaughterhouse for the unproductive.

A girl named Joy is looking for love and connection. When she loses control during a date, the innocent looking Joy seems to be more than meets the eye...

A geneticist creates a hybrid.

A romantic encounter causes deep confusion.

Deep within the enigmatic Eternia facility, Clara carries a heavy burden of concealed grief. But within these mysterious walls, her life is about to transform in ways she never imagined.

Titan, moon of Saturn. Year 32 after the fall. Liah and her companions hatch a plan to escape the tyranny of the empire. A group of metathane collectors plan to rebel against the tyranny to which the solar system is subjected. And it is on Titan, on the shores of the Kraken Mare, where they begin to carry it out, taking advantage of the official visit of Princess Dorku.

A journalist travels to a remote lab to interview S.A.N, a Mycelium AI whose creators claim is the “Voice of Nature.”

One year after her son, Josh's, disappearance, Rachel Strayer's life is in shambles and her ex-husband, Mark, is moving on. During the first night without him, Rachel receives unwanted visitors, leading her to a shocking conclusion about their son.

Dr. Lisa completes yet another examination of Alan, an artificial intelligence being put through the Turing test. What she doesn't know is that it will be her last.

In the near-future age of Artificial Intelligence, Luna is finally ready to re-enter the world of dating, turning to smart contact lenses to overcome her anxiety and grief. But when her search for human connection takes a dark turn and her vision is held for ransom, she must outsmart a mysterious hacker to save her sight... and her date night.

In a high-tech dystopia where ancient mysticism collides with orbital warfare, a rogue data-runner named Nector enters a trance-fueled upload mission that triggers a government strike. With seconds to spare, he injects a mysterious drug—Go-Chi—unlocking a supernatural twist that bends the fate of man and machine. The title is paying homage to a cult reference from Sacred Games (2018)

When a catastrophic event reduces a Mars research station to ruins, fearless astronaut Alex Harper finds herself adrift in the cold silence of space, trapped in a crippled escape pod. As her oxygen dwindles and hope fades, a faint radio signal crackles through the static—ONE OF HER CREWMATES IS ALIVE, but they’re not ALONE.

Laverna and Janus use brain-to-brain interfacing technology to merge their minds. Two brains. One consciousness. But as their memories combine, they must face an unsettling question: who will they become?

Eve and Tris build a machine that transforms sound into pure euphoria.

Amid an unending planetary war, a pilot’s loyalty is tested when she crashes into enemy territory, where she must face a devastating decision between duty and compassion.

He's an Amish man raised to fear technology, and she's half machine. Together - they might just outlive the apocalypse.

War, fate, and a broken walkman transcend space and time in this sci-fi love story.

A young alien takes us on a journey through his imagination and beyond as he defends the music box his father gave him.

40 years after a seismic geomagnetic storm accelerated total ecological collapse, the gulch that was once the Pacific Ocean is a lawless wasteland. Water is scarce, crops are a distant memory, and oil mining is the only trade left to explore. A sullen journeyman travels across this barren landscape with a peculiar and rare companion: A flower. Perhaps, the last flower left on Earth. The flower is attached to an old promise, and through the trials of suspecting nomads, 40 foot killing machines and a deadly storm, our journeyman will do anything to fulfill his promise.

It is said that the first seer Sakimi created the 13th simulation program to extract and manifest physically the digital power of instant creation, and that such power would be the saving of their robotic civilization and the final destination of their evolution, failure wasn't calculated.

On an isolated space station, when a man loses the will to live, his big hearted dog overcomes his own anxieties to save them both.

In a desolate post-apocalyptic world, a starving wanderer follows a mysterious trail of snacks to an untouched house, only to discover too late that he’s not the hunter—he’s the bait.

Set in the distant future. Zin, a desperate mother, breaks into a reclusive man's home to extract and steal valuable memories that will fund her sick daughter's medicine.

Hidden amongst the mythical undergrowth in a grimy operation room, six Rabbit Humanoid Surgeons haphazardly fight to save the life of a damaged soul.

When aliens intent on ending human violence spare only pacifists, a survivor uncovers their plan to suffocate Earth and must choose between selective survival or fighting for all.

In a not so distant future, 17 year old Annika copes with loneliness as she navigates the emotional struggle between AI and human relationships in the wake of a s*xual assault.

A futuristic detective (a Recollector) attempts to solve a murder case by infiltrating the victim's last moments of life, while dealing with the mental anguish and torment his profession brings.

In a desolate wasteland, a reclusive prospector uncovers a massive deposit of a rare substance. His only companion, a strange organism enslaved to filter the liquid, begins to resist the process, forcing him to reconsider his livelihood as he fights to protect his find against brutal marauders stalking him across an apocalyptic landscape.

The story follows a robot who wakes up on a completely deserted mothership after humanity evacuated it. The robot finds himself alone and confused in an unfamiliar environment. On his journey he discovers that everything he thought he knew no longer makes sense. As he explores the ship, he realizes that the situation he is facing is completely different from anything he had experienced prior. After losing all hope of finding companionship, an unexpected twist will change his fate forever.

This short fully animated film follows our four heroes called Immortals who have to defend Earth from a powerful villain called Ares. Ares seeks to destroy Earth with his new super weapon but will the immortals stop him or will it be too late.

Following WW3, a young woman working in an Australian outpost confronts prejudice as she attempts to save a Soviet cosmonaut marooned in space.

In a dystopian Belgrade of 2129, an android's quest to recharge his failing battery uncovers a hidden purpose beyond survival.

Space Ryder: A New Bounty is a sci-fi action adventure short film following Ryder, an intergalactic bounty hunter in pursuit of an elusive monster on a distant planet.

A lonely computer coder battles to save her illegal romance with a seemingly conscious AI.

An isolated teenager explores the past, his late father, and unstable memory through the use of celluloid on his 16th birthday.

In a dystopian future, citizens live and work in Company towers a thousand stories tall, bound by a strict contract to build robotics for a far-off war. Unsanctioned vices, especially relationships with the androids they build, are severely punished. When Conor watches the vice police arrest his neighbor, he fears he and Dosso, the hacked android he loves, will be next. As they attempt to flee the tower, Max, the head of the Vice Department, sets a plan in motion that will tear Conor and Dosso apart — and introduce Conor to a renegade group called the Friends of Sophia.

How far will you go to make sure you remain you when you don't really know who you are?

What evolution for humanity if in the next decades humanity does not change his behaviour ? Exodus dives you in that dystopia...

On the first day of her job running a remote, isolated space station, Mickie receives mysterious transmissions and must quickly unravel their meaning with the help of a passing spaceship Captain, or an untold number of lives could be lost.

1983. While surveilling a woman suspected of being a shapeshifting alien, two FBI agents debate what truly separates humans from extraterrestrials that perfectly imitate them.

In a collapsing dystopian future, soldier David Canterra leads a high-stakes time travel mission to fix a catastrophic lab experiment. Upon his return, trapped in a somnolent state with his mind fractured by the journey, a shady doctor coerces his wife Lucy to extract the memories that could stop the world-devouring singularity.

Set in the year 2730 IA, Dr. Evren Kon dares to think beyond a United Council request to build an orbital supercomputer and proposes an idea far bolder: a plan to build an artificial planet. The film takes place during the final century of the project.

Escaping from an alien planet, an astronaut must reach the space shuttle before a mysterious beast catches him.

Ruby finds her lonesome routines disrupted when she makes an unlikely new friend: a mail-order robot.

A 125-year-old retired superhero with dementia, and her estranged grandson, are forced to reconnect after she is kicked out of her aged care facility for failing to control her powers.

A man who fears death discovers the secret of immortality, but learns that eventually, everything dies - everything except him.

A couple witnesses a paranormal event that separates them into two distinct dimensions.

Amidst a desolate interstellar terrain, space faring outlaws Porter and Kai are thrust into an adventure to safeguard an ally's enigmatic transmission from a relentless adversary in THE KEEPERS.

When a teenager runs away from home, she encounters an arcade machine that replays her deepest regret.

A grieving neuroscientist uses a brain-computer interface that she helped create to bring her daughter back from the dead as a hologram.

In 2086, after nearly seventy years of humanity living in total invisibility, the sudden reappearance of a few individuals fractures society once more—forcing one "Invisible" to navigate fear, connection, and identity in a world that no longer knows how to be seen.

A group of lunar colonists participate in a high-tech drug trial that quickly spirals into deadly chaos.

Mark's last day in the infohazard department is painfully predictable. In a world where magic and physical anomalies are contained by a secret organization, an ancient curse is item number three on the meeting agenda.

In an illiterate future world, an ex-book thief takes one last job to recover something powerful and deeply personal.

A woman suffering from terrible nightmares who does whatever it takes to have breakfast with her husband one morning.

Aging and adrift, a spacefisher gets one final shot at greatness when a long-lost comrade tips him off to a mythical catch — a moment that would rewrite the meaning of his entire life.

A final test for Sarah to regain her memories is underway, but as outer forces close in, the truth of the experiment unfolds, along with the ambitions of her Doctor, Miles Heston.

In a post apocalyptic frozen wasteland, a waste collector finds a broken Android that holds the key to his family's survival.

A skeptical teenage girl, Riley, reluctantly joins her UFO-obsessed father, Jerry, on a road trip to a UFO convention, only to experience an otherworldly encounter that brings them closer together.

In a futuristic world where robots are considered a threat and must be destroyed, Kira, a robot hunter, encounters an unusual robot that behaves not like a machine, but like a living being.

When a mysterious object crashes to Earth, two friends make a chance discovery, unaware that they’ve just set off a chain of events that will thrust them into a race against time to uncover the object's true purpose before it's too late.

A couple whose relationship unravels as they encounter a mysterious alien presence.

A widow's grief arrives at her door, asking what it costs to let go.

When knowledge itself becomes the enemy, a secret team must confront forces that exist only until you forget them.

The hero gains a powerful artifact that lets him teleport across space. At first, it seems he controls the situation, but will he be able to escape?

With the help of a duffle bag from the future, a grief-stricken cowboy avenges the death of his wife.

In retro-future LA, Andrea, a lonely roboticist, neglects her life to finish her masterpiece – IRIS the robot. While teaching IRIS the ropes of being sentient, she realizes she must patch things up with her Father. By giving birth to artificial life, Andrea learns how to live a real organic life.

A double bill directed by Christian Burnett. On the London council estate of Yellowmeads, the people are changing. A mother grows increasingly concerned for her daughter's safety, while an otherworldly parasitic intelligence draws ever closer.