The Next

In 2053, amidst a devastating pandemic, an old gravedigger from Elementar Corporation insists on burying his wife with just a shovel, rejecting the corporation's new burial technology, the "Cube Of Miracles." Conflict arises when a young gravedigger armed with the "Cube of Miracles" challenges the old gravedigger's traditional methods at the cemetery. The film explores the clash between tradition and innovation, delving into broader themes of man versus machine in a society grappling with AI and automation.

Black public figure Jim Taylor is pursued by the police. He dies from a bullet in the head. In a private clinic, he is transplanted with the brain of Sheriff Maclain, who died in a car accident. While remaining black, he begins to think like a racist Maclain.

In the near future of 2056, Detective Casper Farrell uses an experimental drug called Delirium to experience the last moments of a victim's life in order to catch a serial killer tied to his past.

While testing the Birth X Driver, Shintaro Gotou is shunted into a parallel world filled with many familiar faces in unfamiliar places. Can he master the secrets of the Birth X Driver and return home?

When Brian's graduate thesis on Time Travel costs him the love of his life, he forces himself to choose the best way to live out the rest of his days.

Adam in aeternum

When a catastrophic attack puts a peaceful galactic nation on the brink of war, a lowly Scout is sent to an isolated planet to obtain the whereabouts of the one man who may know who committed the attack. But he quickly finds out, that there are other players in the game, trying to incite a war between the peaceful factions in the universe.

The film focuses on the thoughts inside the head of a man, an astronaut scheduled to go to the Moon. As he ponders the flight, he laments having an “ordinary” name he fears will not resonate throughout history. His thoughts lead him to consider some of the pioneers of flight-Icarus and his wings, the Montgolfier brothers and their balloon and the Wright brothers and heavier than air flight.

In the near future, sentient robots are targeted for elimination after they develop emotional symmetry to humans and a revolutionary war for their survival begins.

Edgar and his dog roam the ruins of a large city. Arriving home one day, he sees that someone sprayed the name ‘Anna’ on the wall. The question who Anna is starts to dominate Edgar’s entire existence.

Host Scott Forrest presents a curated compilation of eight independent short films in this rapid-fire science-fiction feature. Genres collide, narratives twist, aesthetics clash, and even humor, both campy and dystopian, showcase the vast creative possibilities of each story's individual world, offering the viewer a brief glimpse into the lives of every character's attempt to survive the otherworldly chaos around them. Released in 2001, the selected shorts span original creation dates of 1997 to 2001; most of the featured filmmakers also appear as themselves in short video interviews to talk about their inspirations, creative process and motivations while working on their individual shorts.

A mental health doctor goes off on a journey to Thailand with his girlfriend. They live with her friends. She enjoys the vacation and he works at his dissertation in psychiatry. People around seem to him no less sick than in the nuthouse, until he falls in strange circumstances...

An artificial intelligence system takes control of a futuristic car manufacturing plant.

In the distant future, mankind begin research on clones that live underground in search of lost genetic information.

Trapped in an endless time loop, a woman relives the same day over and over again, with a mysterious corpse appearing and disappearing in her apartment.

Pakistan, 2071. There have been no reported instances of terrorism or violent crime in over 30 years. The cost: the systemic subjugation of all human emotion.

On their way home by bike through a deserted industrial area, a mother and her son starts to talk about what happened when our dream of eternal economic growth collided with the peak, and following decline in global oil production. In a sad but quite plausible picture of the near future, our children make us accountable for today's irresponsible way of living.

After the colonization of Mars, an elderly man looks back on his memories of Earth and the past he has left behind.

When business is slow for private detective Alex Calibourne, aka Iron Joe, he takes on a body guard position for a sultry nightclub singer. The animated first half of a two-part anthology.

A specialized detective must investigate a murder in a futuristic city. The live-action/CG second half of a two-part anthology.