DESAFFECTION
Dir. Thomas Charles
(17 min, France)
Specialists team of doctors places in quarantine a patient affected by a disease supposed to have disappeared: Love. Facing the threat, they proceed to a serial of tests on the patient to elaborate a vaccine.
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TURN-ON
Dir. Mat Owen
(14 min, U.K.)
Valencia, an android repair man is woken by a phone call in the middle of the night and is forced to travel out to an emergency break down job. He arrives at a night club and is led down to the basement where he is confronted by a brothel hidden in the basement. The madame meets him and leads him to a malfunctioning female android that has been rewired as a prostitute, and she tells him to fix her as quickly as possible to avoid a large repair cost. Through the course of fixing the android however, Valencia’s personal feelings begin to encroach on his diligent work ethic and he develops a bond and moral obligation towards the broken female android.
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DEAR LUCAS
Dir. Winnie Cheung
(19 min, U.S.)
A directionless young man finds the love of his life, and suddenly his whole world seems to make sense. But a message from his future self warns him to stay away to avoid a lifetime of pain and misery- will the love he’s found be worth it?
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A Girl, A Cat, A Bomb
Dir. Laura Maxfield
(11 min, U.S.)
A young Brooklyn woman wakes up one morning to discover a nuclear bomb going off over Manhattan.
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ROOM 731
Dir. Youngmin Kim
(18m, U.S.)
In this supernatural mystery, an amnesiac girl wakes up in what appears to be an abandoned jail, where she is haunted by spirits who want to torture her. Wei (YOO JUNG KIM), a fifteen-year-old Chinese girl, has no memory of where she is or who she is. Upon waking in a barred room, she encounters Dr. Ken (TIM KANG) and a ghostly young woman (NIKKI SOOHOO) who both seem to want to help her. Soon, Wei realizes she was a victim of the infamous Unit 731, the Japanese torture camp of World War 2, but where is she now … and why?
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VIMANA
Dir. Faroukh Virani
(17 min, U.S. /INDIA)
VIMANA is a film about three Indian astronauts who are a product of India’s ambitious new deep-space program. Set in the near future, the astronauts are on a one-way trip to a distant planet, Gliese. Unfortunately, the ship’s captain, Rishi, passes away after an adverse reaction to the hyper-sleep. Now it’s up to the two remaining astronauts, Pankaj and Naaz, to come together and land the vessel in his memoir.
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THE DISAPPEARED
Dir. Aldo Romero
(12 min, U.S.)
A private investigator encounters the enigmatic apparitions of people reported missing while investigating a case of corporate espionage involving alien technology.
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KEPLER X-47
Dir. Erin Li
(11 min, U.S.)
A woman volunteers to live in a human zoo exhibit on an alien planet but soon realizes that life is not what she expected. She attempts to rebel against the status quo, but will she succumb to her own need for security and remain a caged animal?
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THE ATOM BOMB
Dir. Vanessa Gould, Artist, Jascha Hoffman
(5 min, U.S.)
After helping to usher in the nuclear era, a female physicist flees to China to live out her days on a Maoist farm, in this sweeping and lyrical music video edited from archival footage.
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