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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 darkness descends and changes the lives of a series of people living in a decaying tower block.

Annelida

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

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.

Axmo Deus


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 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

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

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...

Chaps-Away

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

Cicada

In the depths of an underground parking garage, a woman realises she may not be the only one down there.

Clap

Curtis, a gleefully sadistic serial killer who preys on young women, follows Leslie home one night and terrorizes her only to discover he may have bitten off more than he can chew.

Compulsion

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

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

A teenage cutter in recovery and her overbearing mother are haunted by a ghost who seeks to keep them at odds.

Cutter

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

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

Genres

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 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 short neo-noire thriller centered around a mysterious druggist visited by Sangstrom, a seemingly ordinary man in search of an undetectable poison. Yet, Sangstrom winds up getting more than he bargained for from the sagacious alchemist.

The Hobbyist

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

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 Internet Remains Undefeated

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

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.

A serial killer works in his studio. Until he's disturbed by the visit of his biggest fan. The killer wants to kill him but changes his mind by discovering his admiration. Flattered, the killer offers him to see his studio. The fan finds himself doomed to admire the killer for eternity.

My psycho Fan

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

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

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

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

A little scarecrow lives his days between the sun and the ears of corn. The visit of evil ravens reveal the true nature of the place.

The Scarecrow

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

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

Randall, flat broke and in debt, discovers golden treasure in an ancient strong box. The treasure can be his...if he grants one small request.

The Strong Box

Sophia, a fearful young woman, accidentally lets a demonic entity loose while moving to her new house. She has to face the entity who reflects her personal struggle with insecurity.

Stuck

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

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

📖 Josh, a 6 y.o. kid living with his mother and sister, discovers that for each tooth lost he receives five dollars. He makes a quick calculation and understands that an entire bike is sitting in his mouth.
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🏆 With 50+ festival selections and 8 awards in United States, Romania, Colombia, Iran and Poland, THANK YOU FOR YOUR TEETH! is proving to be a festival favourite.

THANK YOU FOR YOUR TEETH!

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

Mehran has invited a special guest tonight, but he doesn’t know what expecting him!

Triplex

Twins Lake and Lucas hate each others’ guts. One day after school, their sibling rivalry gets out of hand.

The Twins

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

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.

UMPAN

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!
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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

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

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 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

SAM wanders around dark, grey woods when he runs into a big man who turns out to be SANTA CLAUS. Sam is not too convinced the man in the woods is Santa and Santa does not like not to be believed in. After a little discussion this escalates.

The Christmas Horror Story

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

The film tells the story of Sidney, a failed pianist who comes into the possession of a pair of enchanted gloves. Upon wearing them he soon finds himself playing the piano like a maestro and all his dreams are quickly realised! However just when he thinks he has everything he has ever wanted fate deals him a cruel hand...

The Dead Hands of Dublin

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

Out for a run, Gary's night takes an unexpected twist when he comes face to face with a garden gnome.

The Gnome

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)

While driving late at night, a young woman mistakenly hits a dog with her car. Terrified, she quickly puts the injured dog in her car and sets out to take him to the vet. Unbeknownst to her, the creature begins a gruesome transformation in her backseat. Chaos ensues as the girl's concerns become split between the wild road and the beast behind her.

New Tricks

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

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

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

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

He wants to keep the room in blue color

RGB

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

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

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

Splendor

Two roommates discover they have a magical microwave.

Spud

Paula is a Young influencer who has organized a crazy new challenge. It consists on people trying to find out where she lives and calling the police before she drinks a glass of hydrochloric acid.

Spyglass

A girl purchased a second-hand table. She witnessed something paranormal about it. She tries to find out, but...

The Table

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

A young guy named Paul tries to survive the zombie apocalypse. Together with his Bavarian taxi driver, Karl, he has to fight several zombie attacks. Unfortunately Paul is in a hurry because his love awaits him.

The Taxi Dead

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

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

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

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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