For more information on the films below, click here. All films are listed in alphabetical order.
Films marked with a * indicated participating in the digital festival.
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 5th, 2021
7 PM: SCI-FI Feature
Occupants
OCCUPANTS
'Occupants' is a film about Annie Curtis, an award-winning documentarian and her husband Neil. Annie and Neil embark on a '30 Days of Clean Living' documentary, setting up cameras all over their house to document, via the Internet, their new eating habits. By doing so, half of their cameras capture a parallel version of themselves - a version that ultimately unravels and threatens their very existence.
9 PM: SCI-FI Shorts
Strange Places Near and Out of this World
FILM LIST: INFINITUS, GENESIS, ALIEN THEORY, O.U., H.APPINESS, SOL, OXYGEN, ZEALANDIA, UNDERPASS, 33 FLOORS
11 PM: SCI-FI + FANTASY SHORTS
HUMANS AND DROIDS WITH HEARTS
FILM LIST: ALIVE*, THE TURING TEST, PEW! PEW! PEW!, GREEK GOSSIP, HERE CUT SALON, KNIGHTMAN*
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 6th, 2021
11 AM: SCI-FI Webseries and Star Wars Fan Film Shorts
FILM LIST: THE SNAKE PIT, HOOD: A STAR WARS STORY*, PALLIDUS, THE PATH OF THE GREYS, GODS GAME, STAR WARS: THE LOST PATROL, THE BEGINNING, SIL AND THE DEVIL SEEDS OF ARODOR
1 PM: SCI-FI Shorts
TECHNOLOGY: FRIEND OR FOE
FILM LIST: BODYHACKERS*, (DYS)FUNCTIONAL, JANUARY 18, 2022, GAILIELO, PERMITS AND APPROVALS, DREAMTECH, TRANSFERT*, SUPER SCIENCE FRIENDS
3 PM: Fantasy Shorts
IMAGINED AND MANIFESTED
FILM LIST: FOREST SOUL, MIDNIGHT ROSE*, CHILDREN OF CHRONOS, UNADVENTURES, POWER*, LOST TREASURE OF THE VALLEY*, LIVING IN CRIME ALLEY*, YAAX CHE
5 PM: Sci-Fi Shorts
THROUGH A BLACK MIRROR
FILM LIST: A BETTER YOU, VIRTUALLY HAPPY*, uTRANSFER, CONSUME*, ROUGHNECK, UNPLUGGED*, ROAM
7 PM: Sci-Fi Feature
PARALLEL MINDS*
In the near future, technology firm Red-Eye is on the verge of developing a revolutionary contact lens that records human sight to replicate memories. The device uses an artificially engineered intelligence known as U.R.M.
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When the company’s lead researcher is strangely murdered at the time of the technology’s release, Thomas Elliot (Greg Bryk), an old-fashioned police detective investigates with intrepid researcher Margo Elson (Tommie Amber Pirie) who are drawn into searching deeper to apprehend the illusive digital shapeshifter.
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Both soon are terrifyingly threatened by memories of their past the deeper they continue to seek in uncovering what this dangerous artificial intelligence is trying to consume.
9 PM: Sci-Fi + Fantasy Shorts
THE HORROR BLOCK
FILM LIST: ENCHANTED, SANG DEL DRAC, SKETCHBOOK, THE BLOOD BRIDE, BLACKOUT, DIBBUK
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 7th, 2021
10 AM: Sci-Fi Shorts and a Fantasy Feature
FILM LIST: ZETA*, THE PHARMACON*, FLASH BACK, KHARAKH ODY
12 PM: Sci-Fi + Fantasy Shorts
FUN AND GAMES
FILM LIST: GUN METAL MAX, THE MIRROR, BELLA AND THE SLASHER, POLYBIUS*, ARTEMIS*, AN INVITATION TO TEA, PLAY NICE*
2:30 PM: Fantasy Feature
JIM BUTTON AND THE ENGINE DRIVER
Based on the bestselling novel by Michael Ende (The Neverending Story), this epic fantasy adventure follows a young orphan boy JIM BUTTON, his best friend LUKE and a magical steam engine called EMMA as they travel across the world in search of the truth about where Jim came from. Battling pirates and dragons, outsmarting make-believe giants, they must travel through the Forest of a Thousand Wonders, beyond the End of the World to find the hidden Dragon City.
4:30 PM: Fantasy Feature
THE CANDLE AND THE CURSE*
When a witch places a curse on the day-dreaming, stubborn Princess Savitri (Ashwini Ganpule), she must grapple with her deep-seated belief in the magical reality of the curse, which is diametrically opposed to her true love Prince Satyavan’s (Miles Tagtmeyer) staunch belief in fact-based inquiry. When it turns out that the curse is real, Savitri must act quickly to save her true love – before it’s too late!
6:30 PM: Fantasy Shorts
THINGS DARK AND STRANGE
FILM LIST: THE FLAME, AD LIB*, ABSENCE, AFTER ASHES, FRUIT FLY, SNAKE DICK, EXODUS: THE ENDLESS VALLEY, THE GIFT, MOMENT
