Young Liars

Inspired by the Stephen King short story, this short film features a man who wakes up lost and confused in the middle of a place he doesn't recognise. Searching for answers, he makes a mistake he may end up regretting, if he manages to escape alive. The terrible truth he discovers will end up dismantling his entire universe.

A meditative teenager contemplates the rooms of the future. Just one wrong choice will change the course of her life. Life and death are determined by her chosen faith. Can it?

In a dystopian future where the world has devolved into a pre-industrial state, the Purists rule supreme. The Purists blame technology for all the world’s past ills, and have deemed it to be inherently sinful. A handful of Companions, human-like artificial intelligence, have managed to make it through the apocalypse. They survive the only way they can –by hiding in plain sight.

During an unfortunate series of events, a friend of Kung Fury is assassinated by the most dangerous kung fu master criminal of all time, Adolf Hitler, a.k.a Kung Führer. Kung Fury decides to travel back in time to Nazi Germany in order to kill Hitler and end the Nazi empire once and for all.

A mysterious interplanetary diplomat arrives at a post-apocalyptic planet earth in order to facilitate the adoption of a member of an ancient royal family.

'Lost Boy' is an ambitious sci-fi concept heavily influenced by the American action classics and Japanese samurai films. It instantly captures viewers with its highly visual and unparalleled sci-fi world.

Two couples vacationing at Maury Island, sitting on the back porch of their cabin, happen to see flying discs in the sky.

A killer is set loose on a mystery revolving around a group of malicious extraterrestrial entities.

The story takes place in a dystopia deprived of freedom of making choices and begins as the protagonist, decides for the first time in his life to escape to Yass Land where any decisions are celebrated. He escapes a fictional land in which the civilians' actions are controlled and monitored by the government. The actor deviates from the controlled community for freedom in YAASS land. As he flees, viewers are given two actions that the actor could take. The story continues on from the actions they choose, leading to different endings.

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.

M.A.M.O.N. (Monitor Against Mexicans Over Nationwide) is a satirical fantasy sci-fi short film that explores with black humor and lots of VFX the outrageous consequences of Donald Trump´s plan of banning immigration and building an enormous wall on the Mexico - US border.

Based on a text from the recent Egyptian novel The Revolution of 2053 by Mahmoud Uthman, and referencing a scene from Chris Marker’s La Jetée (1962), a time-traveller recounts his vision of the future of the Pyramids area, and by extension Egypt, in the year 2026 – a vision that strains to reach beyond, yet remains severely confined by the present’s imaginal constraints.

Stuck in his endless loneliness, a man wanders in a post-apocalyptic world... Only to discover he is not alone.

With kitschy sets and campy glamour, this short follows two astronauts attempting to overpower an alien spaceship... if the ship’s pleasure-based defences don’t overpower them first.

When Catarina finds out that she is pregnant, she questions the responsibility of bringing a child into this world.

A group of aliens searching for a new planet on which to make home, with little success. Promotional short for Dreamworks Animation's forthcoming feature, Home.

Humans use technology to improve their lives, to forge connections, to create time that doesn’t exist, to replace real interactions. When we devise a second version of ourselves on social media, do we lose a piece of our true selves in the process? Do our digital connections threaten our real life relationships? What happens if the filtered characters we’ve imagined take on a life of their own?

Arthur, a retired astronaut, tells his neighbor Richard that strange, inexplicable things are happening to him after his return from space. Based on the short story by Stephen King.

Due to the recent arrival of undocumented immigrants, the city of Simpletown holds a special session city council meeting to determine if the town should officially ban the newcomers.

Sometime in the future: Amy and Christophe are a couple living in a functional and materialistic world. When their android "daughter" has to be shut down due to technical problems, Amy seeks an unconventional way to overcome her grief. A gripping science fiction short film by Swiss director Luc Walpoth. Amy cannot accept that her android "daughter" has technical problems and has to be shut down. Her husband Christophe promises her a new child. But in a moment of rashness, Amy picks up the human child Sophie from the street, thereby upsetting the strictly segregated social order.