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Midwest Sci-Fi Short Film Festival 2022

Bob and Mia are discontent with their alienated lives - until they meet at a neglected gallery. The film is a journey through time into a future of the past not too dissimilar to our present.

2083

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.

Artificial Existence

In their workshop on top of a wooden tower, Power and Media manufacture and animate automatons.Once animated, the automatons become workers with the purpose of raising the tower. When Power crushes an automaton between his fingers, Media and the automatons turn against him and try to overthrow him

The Automaton Factory


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.

Babel

After a freak accident in space, a mechanic crash lands on a barren ice planet unaware his ordeal is only just beginning.

Beacon

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

Lucía and Ulises are a couple that live around an environmental crisis. A massive migration is coming. He thinks everything’s lost, she still has hope for a better life. Now it's the moment to decide whether they stay or leave, one might surrender or each one would take it’s own way.

Calypso Island

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.

Captain

Nothing is ever really perfect, except the reviews for this 5-star secluded getaway under the stars.

Cicada

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

Inside a curiosity cabinet, a failed taxidermy journeys through the night to rebuild itself. During its travelling, it will meet another taxidermy that will changes its perception of beauty.

Crappy Taxidermy

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.

Empath

Paul is sleepwalking. Eyes closed and in pajamas, he goes for a walk in the city. His awakening will likely be a fall.

The French Kingdom

No one knows why the aliens came or why they never made contact. But when their true intentions are revealed, unspeakable tragedy unfolds.

The Gift

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.

Golem

In order to stay tethered to the Earth, Zoe wears bricks and blocks to weigh her down. Why? Gravity doesn't affect her. While she tries her best to live a normal life, she constantly feels like an outcast. Then, she decides to open herself up to the world and celebrate her different-ness!

A Grievance With Gravity

A man lives isolated from society in a rural house. Every night he feeds a wild creature that inhabits the forest that surrounds his home.

HOSTE

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

In a dystopian society where human emotions have almost been abolished the meeting between a woman and an agent will light a spark in this cold world. 2084, an inspector interrogates a suspect about an incident that happened at the Etherium station on the Line 21.

Line21

Sexuality and gender norms are explored when a chronically ill teen meets her new A.I. nurse, LEM.

Maeve in the Dark

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

The man who played too much

A failed engineer seeking multiversal travel encounters his younger self from an alternate timeline — a successful inventor with secret intentions.

Miller

Nao’s daily life is guided by MOM, an advanced artificial intelligence capable of adopting an overprotective role in people’s daily activities to the point of controlling and manipulating their lives.

M.O.M.

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.

Night fell upon me

An ordinary day of an office worker changes dramatically when an unknown force picks her up and takes through space and time, and she no longer understands who is playing the game.

Oneiros

In a burning world, wrecked by pollution, a survivor is heading toward his final destination.

Respirations

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

It’s the future, Norman’s wife is dying. In these final moments, he calls for guidance - but it’s not what he asked for.

Saint Android

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

Secret

In the distant future, a community living in a desert universe remembers with melancholy the time when there were still trees, insects, birds...

The Sky Above the City

While housesitting, Tom encounters a supernatural sourdough that takes hold. A 90 sec. comedic thriller.

Sourdough

Just as an astronaut successfully lands on the moon and prepares to plant his flag, the astronaut discovers that a rival astronaut has the same goal in mind.

Space Race

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

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

SUPERSCOPE

Natural selection says that only those who adapt will survive. What if humans have become stupid?

Survivers

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

Tab ur et

A survivor without modern education, a military robot born for war, they met in the ruins after the destruction of civilization, but became the starting point of a new civilization.
Human beings created poetry in the most difficult times of survival. Poetry has no meaning for survival. But what is the meaning of survival itself? Taking the doomsday wasteland as the cloak, exploring the meaning of life and civilization, is the soul of this story.

Teacher

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

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.

To Err

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

Enya is preparing to meet up with a new friend. He wants to make a good impression, but his buddy Jonesy complicates things in a major way

Un-Portalable!

A woman is haunted during the night by a spirit in her home.

The Witching Hour
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ACID
The film presents an electronic music genre, which was born in the early ‘90s.
It was the musical and cultural boom of our youth, and it had a great impact on our peers.
This fake documentary is trying to give the robots’ perspective on the so called ‘machine music’.
Compressed into a few minutes we gain insight to the transience and cyclical nature of musical genres, and

ACID

Mike, Bob and Frank land on Earth for a scientific expedition. A routine mission for these aliens, but this time,
everything won't go as planned...

THE ALIEN NIGHTMARE

A lonely alien is unable to come to terms with the loss of a loved one and goes to extreme lengths to avoid accepting reality. He puts on a smile and pretends everything is fine, but until he learns to move on, he will be stuck in a peculiar endless loop, his life dominated and defined by the loss he suffered.

Alienated

What looks like an ordinary day turns out to be anything but as we follow two friends sitting together during their nature time slots they discuss how they will celebrate their upcoming appointments. What seems like an average interaction soon takes a sinister turn as another friend joins them.

The Appointment

After a cataclysmic event on Earth, 2 strangers wake up on a deep space vessel headed to a new habitable world. Soon they have to make a choice that could determine their survival.

Arbitrium

Archibald is born with some curious curse : he can't make a move without everyone around doing the same.
Now grown man, he robs by despair a bank and, there, meets Indiana, a young woman who always escaped every form of control...

Archibald's Syndrome

A wife tries to rekindle her dying marriage with her husband when she learns a life changing secret.

Black Box

A short story about a struggling high school senior who comes across an amazing item with a glaring drawback. Will he be able to resist using it, or will he be blinded by temptation?

Blind With Temptation

An office worker's lunch break becomes a struggle for survival in the subterranean depths of a futuristic city.

Clarence of Tomorrow

A young Navy pilot’s life is shattered after being shot down by a UFO in World War II. Consumed by obsessive fear and hatred, he sets out on a quest to find and kill the creature that put him burning into the sea.

Colossus

A seemingly gigantic spaceship crashes towards earth, but things are not always as they seem.

The Crash

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

Our story takes place in a cyberpunk universe. We follow a character named Esis, who one day come across a robot in an alley. The latter being inert, she decides to conduct an experiment.

DEAD END

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

The film about Mieczysław Bekker is the story of a man who managed to fulfill his childhood dream. As a child, observing the moon, he did not guess that in his adult life he would become one of the designers of the Lunar Roving Vehicle.

Dream Vehicle

Jeremy, a down on his luck cinematographer, takes on a craigslist gig to film an eccentric man named Eddie as he "exits the stratosphere".

Eddie Goes to Space

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

A music video about an alien sent to infiltrate Earth, but accidentally becomes a film professor with a cult following instead

Hugh Manon

Human TrashA boy is thrown into a trash container from the future. In his frantic search for the exit, he runs into a misterious man, who will make him doubt the origin of his own existence.

Human Trash

Pierre, a very shy genetician gets to work with the girl he secretly loves. He decides to test a chemical product in order to stop blushing when he's in the same room as her. But the experiment goes wrong, and Pierre becomes invisible. And this is how he is going to become truly visible to her eyes.

Invisible

Life gets lonely in a post-apocalyptic world. Is there anybody out there? Holding onto her hopes with unflinching optimism, Katie keeps posting on her vlog, eager to get some response that will prove she's not the last person still alive. Can the near-extinction of our species reveal what makes us human? Stay tuned to Katie's Post-Apocalyptic Vlog and find out the answer.

Katie's Post-Apocalyptic Vlog

Alone in the middle of the forest, Solal, eleven years old, equipped with a magnetic field detector, is looking for his missing mother, convinced that she was abducted by aliens. His meeting with Lena, a runaway teenager intrigued by his behaviour, will disturb his quest...

Magnetics Fields

MAHI is the name of a girl who works in a fish farming complex and has been called a fish for many years because she suffers from hyperhidrosis and her hands are constantly wet. One day, MAHI accidentally notices the theft of several workers, and this is the beginning of a big event.

Mahi (Angel of Water)


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

A young superheroine must make a great sacrifice to protect her secret identity when a caring educator takes note of her mysterious injuries and becomes suspicious.

Midnight Rose

In a room closed off from the world, a climber prepares to scale mountains through VR simulations. When they take on the final assessment of their training, a glitch in the system forces them to push their limits and grapple with their doubts, both in and out of the simulated world.

Mountain Climber

When professor of entomology, Dr. West, is confronted by the Dean of his school over a missing colleague and possible embezzlement, he takes it upon himself to seek out the professor in question. Arriving at the remote research cabin of Dr. Rhodes, West uncovers haunting clues that slowly reveal the true nature of Rhodes' latest research venture.

Nesting Grounds

"Once in a Lifetime"

"Once in a Lifetime"

Year 2065. Charly is a gray man in a world without hope dominated by large corporations, where everything has a price, even to rest without being besieged by publicity. Charly habitually sleep in an old holographic booth, POLVOTRÓN 500, where you arrange so that nobody bothers. One night he accidentally activated the resident sexual hologram, «Niky», without knowing that it is

Polvotron 500

How can a reverse mermaid compare to a beautiful mermaid? Long answer short: she definitely can't. Saddened by the Mermaid Queen's rejection, the reverse mermaid swims off and finds an old sea witch with a promise she can't turn down.

Dedicated to my older sister, Melody Miller.

Queen of the Sea

In a crowded, yet lonely suburban neighborhood, Jacob (Benjamin Ainsworth - "Haunting of Bly Manor"), a boy immobilized in a wheelchair, fights boredom by spying on his neighbors across the courtyard. Sarah, a girl of the same age, spots him out and says hello with a piece of paper. The new friendship is suddenly interrupted when a menacing man approaches the girl and attacks her from behind with a screwdriver. Jacob, even though he is stuck in his chair, will try everything to help the little girl. But is the boy really witnessing a murder with his binoculars, or is he just not seeing the whole picture?

The Recycling Man

He wants to keep the room in blue color

RGB

Michael, an alcoholic in recovery, is working a twilight shift as a ride share driver. He picks up Angie, a mysterious nurse. Unbeknownst to Michael, Angie has sinister plans for the ride.

The Ride of a Lifetime

On a rainy night, a young man is binge-watching horror and sci-fi movies while he fall asleep on the couch with the company of his cat, Saturno. Suddenly, he receives an unexpected visit. It seems to be looking for something it hast lost.

Saturno

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

The Sky Below

SPiN is a surreal sci-fi story about a kid who explores and plays in an ancient biome. His world encounters a strange, spinning artifact that sparks his curiosity.

SPiN

Two roommates discover they have a magical microwave.

Spud

After investigating an Elder cult's meeting place, a professor wakes to find himself in an interrogation room with a grotesquely scarred hand.

The Statement

A baby, the firstborn, comes into this world. Though her parents are human, the baby is a fish - and into the lake she is thrown.
Another baby is born. This little girl knows not of her older sister, but the two will meet, over shared blood and history, and through the future generation. This is the story of a common occurrence - a stillborn - told in an uncommon way, and the journey a sister will make to meet her kin.

A Tasty Fish

This space themed stop motion film uses vintage tin toys along with clay puppets. "Television Spaceman" features the music of Detroit garage rock band, Rock 'n' Roll Monkey & the Robots.

Television Spaceman

1967: IV Reïch. The Germans won the war. ISAAC, a survivor of the concentration camps, is sent by Max, a Nazi officer, in the middle of the Second World War to recover a strange mechanism. But during his quest, he will be facing his worst nightmare ...

Transfert

An inventor sends a man through space and time with unplanned results

Vacation

Iris, torn out of her idyllic digital world and uploaded into a stolen synthetic body by her grieving mother, must face her body's objectification and violent potential in a dark future.

Venus

While scavenging around an empty city after a water-borne virus has killed off most of the Earth’s population, a lone survivor finds a sliver of hope when she encounters a young Mandarin girl who may be able to chemically manufacture clean water.

Watershed

Ana and David say goodbye like any other day. The young lady has plans, but she won't be late. However, something extraordinary happens; something that alters her reality and changes everything completely.

You Will Never Be Back
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