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The 1st edition FANTASY SCI-FI SCREENINGS FILM FESTIVAL
The 1st live screenings of fantastic & science fiction films of any subgenres
March 24th-25th, 2023
Venues:
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OFFICIAL SELECTION
COWEED - FIRST WAVE
Slovenia
2023
Runtime, min
33
Short
Director:
Timotej Mimo Istenič
Ažbe finds himself without money and job in the middle of the covid closure of the
country and life. In order to reduce his own living expenses for the duration of the
closure, he moves in with his grandmother in Koper. Time goes by very fast. Bored Ažbe
falls into the embrace of marijuana and alcohol. The combination of everything leads him
to a strange mental breakdown. In his imagination he plays a game with his past for his future.
Just when he thinks he has won, he realizes that someone else is running the game...
The line between imagination, hallucination and nightmare is completely blurred.
VENUE
JACKED
United States
2021
Runtime, min
5
Short, Sci-Fi, Horror
Director:
Jennifer P. Jackson
A little boy wakes up in the middle of the night to find his family gone. His brother is missing. His mother's room is empty. Even the family dog is nowhere to be found. What happened to them? He's about to find out as he ventures into the darkness to find answers.
VENUE
LAST DAY ON EARTH
Serbia
2023
Runtime, min
13
Short, Horror, Drama
Director:
Rajko Radovic
In this dystopian fairy tale taking place against the background of cataclysmic climate change event and anti lock down social unrest boy meets girl. He then loses her with further freak weather-related accidents that usher in the horror genre motifs. But, in the final act he finds the same girl once more. Yet, this time, as all hell breaks loose, she is accompanied by none other but the apocalypse itself.
VENUE
CODE 12
United States
Runtime, min
87
Documentary, Future, Technology
Directors:
Helen Greenia, Brendan Gabriel Murphy, Kieran Murphy
As the world nears a precipice of suffering, technology has become the answer to our problems. It seems that even with the greatest discoveries we still haven't figured out how to fix some of the main problems that plague humanity. Some people refer to this ceiling as the matrix, an invisible hand that puppets our every move on this planet. Melissa Tittl, investigative journalist and filmmaker never really thought anything of this concept until a personal experience that haunted her. It became a journey to unravel an ancient code in the tombs of the pharaohs, the temple walls and ancient sites all over the world. She uncovers not only one code but two. One code that we use today in our current mathematical systems and a second code that hints at something more ancient and much more profound. A computer programer warns her, "If you are in a simulation and you are asking these questions who ever simulated you, isn't going to let you get this far. " Putting danger aside, she pursues her mission. She interviews geneticists, archeologists, biblical scholars, quantum physicists that have all picked up the same code in all their work. Could this be the next part of our evolution? Melissa weaves together profound evidence that our greatest human potential is hidden in plain sight, waiting for us to understand how the universe really works.
VENUE
LAST TRIAL - A STAR WARS COLLATERAL STORY
Spain
2023
Runtime, min
11
Short, Sci-Fi
Director:
Marino Darés
18 years after the great Jedi purge and the rise of the galactic empire, a lost padawan acting as a rebel spy and a rookie stormtrooper face the hardest and most important trial of their lives whilst surrounded by a storm of smoke, fire and thousands of blaster bolts.
Last Trial is a nonprofit unofficial Star Wars fanfilm shot in El Teide, Canary Islands with the collaboration of the official administration of the Teide national park and the Star Wars fan group Fuerza Imperial de Tenerife. It is not intended for commercial use and it is not associated in any way to Disney or Lucasfilm.
VENUE
DARK CELL
France
2023
Runtime, min
25
SCI FI THRILLER
Director:
Jean-Michel Tari
Two convicts in an orbital prison are doing what they usually do, which is to say, not much. Suddenly, two panicked guards armed to the teeth burst into their cell. The guards tell them that the orbital prison has just been invaded by blood-thirsty zombie-type creatures. If they want to survive, their only solution is to eject their cell and return to Earth. But when the ejection order is entered into the computer, it refuses it. The cell, designed for two occupants only, now holds four people. There can only be two lucky winners… and there’s not much time to pick them.
VENUE
THE FIREFLY JAR
United States
2022
Runtime, min
29
Short
Director:
Gary Fierro
A magician, some magic, and a wish. A walk down Reverie Rd. brings a young boy on a magical journey as he learns to cope with the recent passing of his mother in this wondrous telling of life after loss.
Audience Choice WINNER - Open Gate International Film Festival
VENUE
WINNERS
OLDMEN RULE
Director:
Alexander Gavrilov
WINNER
DARK CELL
Director:
Jean-Michel Tari
BEST SHORT FILM
OLDMEN RULE
Director:
Alexander Gavrilov
BEST SCI FI FILM
THE FIREFLY JAR
Director:
Gary Fierro
BEST MAGICAL FANTASTIC FILM
AQUAE VITAE
Director:
Jay William Thomas
BEST FANTASTIC HORROR
CODE 12
Director:
Helen Greenia, Brendan Gabriel Murphy, Kieran Murphy
BEST DIRECTOR
LAST TRIAL - A STAR WARS COLLATERAL STORY
Director:
Marino Darés
FAN AWARD
LAST DAY ON EARTH
Director:
Rajko Radovic
CHANNEL AUDIENCE AWARD WINNER
I LEFT MY HEART IN PLUTO
Director:
Dario Antepara
LIVE-ONLINE AUDIENCE AWARD WINNER
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