June screening of Sci-Fi, Horror, and Fantasy short films from the Midwest and Other Worlds.
The following shows in this screening block have geographic viewing restrictions and may not be available in your area: Babel
An girl arrives in India, carrying her luggage off a rickshaw. She looks around and notices a booth where people are lighting diyas (oil lanterns). Awkwardly, she waits for the people at the booth to leave, and then excitedly approaches. Taking a deep breath, she goes through the ritual of lighting a diya, only for her flame to light blue instead of yellow. Surprised, she looks around, noticing that everyone else has yellow flames. She tries to cover her flame, only for it to come to life! It tries to show off and shine bright, but the girl is distracted by some aunties approaching. She quickly hides the flame behind her back as she gets bombarded by the aunties aggressive affection. The flame tries to get the girls attention, but is unsuccessful and turns around to sulk. It then notices the large bonfire and escapes from the girl's diya while she is distracted. The girl sees the flame heading towards the bonfire and panics! She excuses herself from the aunties, who shake their heads disapprovingly, to chase the flame. The girl awkwardly fumbles her way through a street and follows the flame into a sari store. She admires the space as she walks through, but she trips and spills fabric all over the place. As she cleans up, she tries on one of the saris, only for it to fall off her. At that moment, the flame appears from behind the mirror and runs behind some curtains. The girl hurriedly cleans up and runs after the flame. She chases the flame through people dancing, however she is too slow and the flame jumps into the bonfire. The girl is horrified as the bonfire turns from yellow to blue, and the crowd stares on in shock. As the girl sobs, someone from the crowd helps her up and shows her that she is not the only one with different coloured flames. Reassured that she is not alone, the girl approaches the bonfire and asks for her flame to return to her. It does, and she is surrounded by others who are just like her, with unusual coloured flames, and she is not alone.
Lors d'une pyjama party, une bande d'amies réveillent une sorcière par mégarde...
Oskar Salomonowitz, the 12-year-old son of filmmakers Anja Salomonowitz and Virgil Widrich, had drawn 206 frames of a flip book when he died in an accident. Using the remaining blank sheets, his father continued drawing the film.
Winner of 32 international film awards!
In the distant future, a community living in a desert universe remembers with melancholy the time when there were still trees, insects, birds...
The young butcher and cattle farmer Sonja works on her grandparents' small family cattle farm. She loves her animals, just like the roast beef on Sundays. When one of her animals disappears, she goes on a search and meets an unknown, highly intelligent creature from a foreign world in the forest. She panics and breaks her leg trying to run away. After the creature takes her to its shelter, an abandoned cabin in the woods, it seems friendly to her surprise. It heals her injuries and shares its food with her. It's curious and seems to enjoy communicating with Sonja in its own odd way. But when the creature realizes that Sonja is cognitively inferior to him, it slaughters the young woman and then eats her.
Layla decides to confront her noisy neighbor after one too many inconsiderate nights. On entering his flat she makes the grave discovery that there is far more going on than loud music. Now trapped inside, she must fight for survival from the threats of a haunted boombox and a terrifyingly possessed dancer in this family friendly horror-comedy.
The short film, which stretches the relationship between faith and peace, paints a utopian picture of the future.
After a devastating apocalypse, humanity is reborn and an entity is created that, through the transformation of its faith, saves humanity into a new world.
When a space captain (Carolynn Stouder) damages the navigation system after taking control of her ship from her AI companion, C.H.A.R.L.I.E. (Adam Rebora), she must overcome her fears and make repairs before it's too late.
A noise awakens a woman who finds something sinister looking for a MIDNIGHT SNACK.
UMPAN horror short film was inspired by the director's housing area at the jetty. Ah Qiang is a middle-aged man who likes to fishing at midnight. He meets himself as an UMPAN at the jetty, which will change the course of his karma.
A young father withdraws to a remote cabin to face his curse alone, but he's not the only one with a dark past in the woods tonight.
Maria reads the letters at home, David comes for the first time to get information about his future, but things don't go as expected.
Axmo Deus is an anthology series composed of 1-Minute films that run the spectrum from paranormal horror, gore, and every bloodcurdling thing in between. There is safety in fear.
After a night at the club, a man tries to enter his car but is blocked by the software that runs it because of his alcohol level. The man and the car discuss like a couple until his physical and verbal aggressions grow unexpectedly. The film is an allegory for gender violence, by representing the distorted vision of a possessive man.
Rafael, a seriously injured man, falls into the darkness of the Tlalpujahua forest, is found by Teresa and her sister Dolores who take care of him, until they discover his dark past and return him to the forest but now at the mercy of Tekenchu.
CHAPS AWAY is a revolutionary new product. One that will get rid of your chapped lips immediately. But there's a catch. When a man finds a mysterious bottle of Chaps Away, things are looking up...until the side effects start...
To exert more tyranny and suppression, the ruling power has done something to its dissenters that they exhale smoke when they breathe, and the agents must take into custody such people wherever they find them. Unaware of the law, a man meets one of the dissidents and it changes the course of his life, until he decides to immigrate to a better land with the dissident for a better life.
A stop motion adaptation of the novel by E. A. Poe 'The Black Cat'.
A struggling film writer seeks inspiration at the bar. But the bartender is more than he appears...
Two women who live isolated try to overcome grief, when suddenly a cat bursts into their lives, connecting them in a way they could never have imagined.
When Kiara, an AI satellite, is sent to observe a blackhole, she forms a friendship with Noelle back on Earth. Despite the growing distance, the two sprout an unlikely dialogue that examines humanity's greatest question.
In the depths of an underground parking garage, a woman realises she may not be the only one down there.
Nothing is ever really perfect, except the reviews for this 5-star secluded getaway under the stars.
A woman is haunted by a presence. Every night it comes back. But is it real, or just her imagination?
Cristina is desperate. Her co-star is gone and she has to perform for a very important agent in a matter of hours. Using her skills as an acting coach, Cristina resorts to the only available tool: her assistant, a clumsy and unimaginative robot named Golem.
In a burning world, wrecked by pollution, a survivor is heading toward his final destination.
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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