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Midwest Sci-Fi Short Film Festival 2022

A stop motion adaptation of the novel by E. A. Poe 'The Black Cat'.

THE BLACK reCAT

A young woman wakes up in the middle of an apocalyptic, deserted world. As she meanders through the abandoned remains, she encounters a looming presence.

Bygone

Juan Siegman is a film director who is not at his best. He is working on his new script with the help of a robot. What could go wrong?

Conversations with a monkey

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.

Crack

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.

Diya

A struggling film writer seeks inspiration at the bar. But the bartender is more than he appears...

Genres

A faint-hearted priest must exorcise a demon from the body of a teenager whose possession seems to have changed his life... for the better.

The Hellish Family

A powerful shadow organization offers its agents ‘eternal life’ in exchange for their brain matter, in order to create a super intelligence that could spell an end to war and conflict.

Launch at Paradise

The story of a man who does not want to grow, but being a "child" carries its risks.

The man who played too much

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.

NAFAS NAKESH (Don’t Breathe)

A disturbing Skype call turns a young couple's morning into a nightmare that could alter their lives forever.

One Minute

A thin line separates life from death. Today, Gotzon, between shots of whiskey and surrounded by the particular fauna of his usual bar, travels through the sinister passages that connect them, guided by the magical skills of Ixabel and her crossword puzzle.

Pasaia

Some people feel the rain. Others just get wet.

Rain

A kid creates space adventures with his toys.As summer break arrives,he travels with his parents to the Scottish highlands,but a storm puts his imagination to the test,and his fate will depend on it.

S.A.D - The Movie

A young girl has to tell her boyfriend that she is an alien.

Secret

In the land occupied with the sprayers army, no one has the right to grow any kind of plants either in public or private.
So many of the people and soldiers do not even know how dose a plant grows or look like, until one day one of the soldiers finds a seed buried deep down in the dust and his curiosity is just the beginning of something extraordinary, something big, something revolutionary

THE SPRAYER

To save his dying wife from the curse, Luke must train himself and go back in time to kill his wife's past self, a deadly assassin.

String of Fate

An astrophysicist discovers infinite zooming capabilities in his telescope which diverts his research into a completely new direction.

SUPERSCOPE

Abuse, excess, overconsumption; the rise and fall of life.

Tab ur et

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.

Tekenchu

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!

There is exactly enough time

Two kids play with their imagination while living around automation.
A Surrealist journey of kids through colors, textures, shapes and Blue Line mixed with their playful sounds and the rhythm of automation.

This film is an allegorical representation of animation and automation.

TOYING BOX

A night marked on the calendar, two friends, a lot of food and the hope of seeing a UFO. Between bites, Lorena and Cristina chat about human relationships, their fears and extraterrestrials. Will thes

UFO

Lors d'une pyjama party, une bande d'amies réveillent une sorcière par mégarde...

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A Fly frozen frozen inside of a piece of amber is brought back to life after it is struck by lightning. The Fly mutates into a larger Fly with a crystalized amber exoskeleton. A Spider ambushes the Fly and attempts to eat it, but the Spider fails to penetrate the Fly's armor. The Spider then hatches a plan to turn the Fly's new strength to the Spider's advantage...

The Amber Thief

Dash McCabe vs. The Evil
Devil Woman From the Moon is a parody of the cliffhanger shorts of the 1940's and 50's. It involves a powerful moon alien invading the earth while a team of adventurers attempt to stop her

Dash McCabe vs. The Evil Devil Woman From the Moon

James is on his own for the night, as his girlfriend is away. He orders pizza, which is delivered by a cheery delivery man named Gee. When a delivery mix-up means Gee gets fired, James takes pity on him and invites him in. But when James asks Gee what his real name actually is, he gets a response he really wasn't expecting...

Deliver Us From Gee

At first glance, Daisuke is just a dirty and undernourished Japanese homeless man, suck in a badly patched parka. Actually the man carries with him the weight of a thousands lives spent at a crossroads halfway between everyday reality and mystical dimension, out of time and space: there, Daisuke plays the role of an ancient Ronin of the past, whose guilt has forced him to an eternity of expiation and wandering both physical and spiritual. When Daisuke’s life intersects with Anna’s story, a young mother who tragically lost her son and is unable to “go on”, the tramp receives a “call”: a distress call that seems to come from another world. Trying to help her, Daisuke will have a hard fight with Eric, a young and powerful director of a company of construction whose life is destined to have a “point of contact” with those of Anna and Daisuke. The struggle and the fight of Ronin, however, represents something deeper and transcends the earthly dimension: Daisuke will be forced to deal with the inherent evil in the human soul, and make a radical choice that will mark his path to redemption.
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Ad un primo sguardo, Daisuke è solo un senzatetto giapponese sporco e denutrito, sprofondato in un parka rattoppato malamente.   In realtà, l’uomo porta con sé il peso di mille vite trascorse in un crocevia a metà strada tra la realtà di tutti i giorni e una dimensione mistica, fuori dal tempo e dallo spazio: lì, Daisuke veste i panni di un antico Ronin del passato, la cui colpa lo ha costretto ad un’eternità di espiazione e vagabondaggio tanto fisico quanto spirituale. Quando la vita di Daisuke si incrocia con la storia di Anna, giovane madre che ha tragicamente perso suo figlio ed è incapace di “andare avanti”, il vagabondo riceve una “chiamata”: una richiesta di soccorso che sembra provenire da un altro mondo. Per tentare di aiutarla, Daisuke dovrà scontrarsi duramente con Eric, giovane e potente amministratore di una società di costruzioni la cui vita è destinata ad avere un “punto di contatto” con quelle di Anna e Daisuke. Lo scontro e la lotta del Ronin rappresenta però qualcosa di più profondo e trascende dalla dimensione terrena: Daisuke sarà costretto a confrontarsi con il male connaturato nell’animo umano, e compiere una scelta radicale che ne segnerà il percorso verso la redenzione.Ad un primo sguardo, Daisuke è solo un senzatetto giapponese sporco e denutrito, sprofondato in un parka rattoppato malamente.   In realtà, l’uomo porta con sé il peso di mille vite trascorse in un crocevia a metà strada tra la realtà di tutti i giorni e una dimensione mistica, fuori dal tempo e dallo spazio: lì, Daisuke veste i panni di un antico Ronin del passato, la cui colpa lo ha costretto ad un’eternità di espiazione e vagabondaggio tanto fisico quanto spirituale. Quando la vita di Daisuke si incrocia con la storia di Anna, giovane madre che ha tragicamente perso suo figlio ed è incapace di “andare avanti”, il vagabondo riceve una “chiamata”: una richiesta di soccorso che sembra provenire da un altro mondo. Per tentare di aiutarla, Daisuke dovrà scontrarsi duramente con Eric, giovane e potente amministratore di una società di costruzioni la cui vita è destinata ad avere un “punto di contatto” con quelle di Anna e Daisuke. Lo scontro e la lotta del Ronin rappresenta però qualcosa di più profondo e trascende dalla dimensione terrena: Daisuke sarà costretto a confrontarsi con il male connaturato nell’animo umano, e compiere una scelta radicale che ne segnerà il percorso verso la redenzione.

Dharma Bums

Ori, the eternally vexed keeper of a living lighthouse, struggles through his daily chores in order to maintain himself, his home, and his best friend -- a chipper cat named Clam.

Fáros


In a madcap musical, a catstronaut travels around the galaxy in search of the meaning of life. On one planet, she meets a space pup who'd like to help her, but instead gets her involved in a chain of catastrophes that include tasting hallucinogenic weed and meeting with a tribe of marshmallows!

Meow or Never

Mentally disabled driver and tired stewardess traveling with bus on the road of life. The affection of a loving mother to fulfill her disabled son's dream by playing a game that gives him the opportunity to live in the world of fantasy in where he is so happy, also fulfills the goal of surviving and preserving peace in the family. How far can they drive?

The Next Stop

1957, New York. A Tibetan monk rents an automatic sequence computer. The monk seek to list all of the names of God. They hire two Westerners to install and program the machine in Tibet...

The Nine Billion Names of God

A young girl gets so scared by the horror movie her older brother watches that she can’t sleep at night. Worse, the creatures from the film torment her, and she has to find a way to get through the night in this dialogue-free stop-motion film.

No Monsters Allowed

Dolores, one of the last sorceresses, will try to pass on Amalur's legacy to her son Julián. The addictions of Inazio, father of the family and agnostic, will lead them to a difficult situation, in which even the magic of the mother could save them.

Ospel

Pimento! Follows a tiny goblin’s misadventures as she’s sent out on a special errand: stealing from the sprawling human-populated metropolis Ballyhoo! Only time will tell if she’s enough of a monster to commit heinous crimes—or if her moral compass will stand in her way!

Pimento!

Manuel, a desperate shaman incapable to cure his daughter Zianya, decides to go against his principles and practice a ritual of nahualism to save her.

The Quetzal's Feather

This girl has special powers and it seems like she may be the only one that doesn’t see the problem with it. Maybe she’s right, maybe that’s part of the problem. We’ll just have to wait and see.

Riled Child

There is a war between two tribes on claiming the sun in the sky. As a result to that war, sun annihilates and the volcano erupts. Those two tribes now are dead and a new sun is made, both by that lava. Several century will pass and the humans are still in a war to claim the sun in the sky.

The Rotation

After unwittingly unleashing an ancient horror, a timid, hungry cave dweller's only hope is his greatest fear– the surface.

The Sky Below

One day, in Samuel apartment, a lighbulb magically switch on. People around Samuel become fascinated by the object, it's a miracle.

Splendor

Sea level rise has ravaged the city which is still achingly recognisable. Nature has reclaimed the city, with life teeming in the urban ruins. The Sundarbans forest, a massive mangrove ecosystem to the south of the city has been submerged too. From this point on, a film that began as a prerecorded elegy to the city turns into a breakneck race for survival.

Wade

The year is 2054 and 99% of the world's population is now zombie. Luis and Miguel, two 35-year-old dead men, venture down the dusty routes of Buenos Aires to help the ghost of one of their victims to reunite with his family. After surviving an ambush that takes Miguel's life, Luis manages to reach his destination, where he witnesses how the ghost and her family transcends to re

Zombies & Ghosts
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