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I Want Pluto to Be a Planet Again

October 2016 •French

A transhumanist romance in the near future. A young boy of modest origins, Marcus, an H- , falls madly in love with an H+.

Flip

October 2019 •English

Some fifty years in the future, a mother and daughter are held captive in a refugee compound, their lives in imminent danger.

Get Street Smart: A Kid's Guide to Stranger Dangers

January 1995 •English

An alien named Corny fights off repeated attempts at abduction/molestation. Featuring such wisdom as: "There are so many ways to kidnap kids"

Breaker

May 2017 •Japanese

In tomorrow's Tokyo, the technologically-enhanced body of a young mercenary hacker is overrun by a sentient data weapon. Wanted, the parasitic A.I becomes her only ally as she is chased across the city by those seeking to salvage it.

F for Freaks

November 2019 •German

An empty, undefined world. Gabriela (70) is seriously ill. By all means she tries to keep alive, to escape from her own death. In her suppressed and rising fear of death she refuses any moral argument. Gabriela becomes an animal.

To Carry Underneath

June 2021 •English

A harvester must safely carry her eggs across a difficult and threatening landscape.

Godzilla vs. Gigan Rex

November 2022 •Japanese

When army of Gigans tries to invade and destroy the Earth, the only one who can stop them is Godzilla.

I See What Is Here

November 2013 •English

The shots used in this piece were from first test shots with the Mobile Phone 60x microscope. Subjects included the fur of a cat, hair of a girl, a cutting board, and a ball of cat fur that was burned with an incense stick. Unfortunately, during the final shot the flame melted part of the microscope lens.

Pelano!

November 2019 •Portuguese

Raquel has been dripping for six months, but it seems that today everything will melt.

The Black Sun

October 1992 •German

Based on Samuel R. Delany’s short novel ‘Aye, and Gomorrah...’, where the sci-fi premise of radiation-resistant state-neutered space travellers allows the author to explore androgyny, sexual identity, etc. Hammel uses Delany’s story to create a spookily beautiful world where asexual bodies live in the contradiction between their unarousable loneliness and desire for intimacy and contact.

The Tom Machine

November 1980 •English

100 years in the future: Tom is both bored and worried in the humdrum, violent times. Also he is unable to remember what his job is and thus decides to leave. But everyone keeps telling him that is impossible ...

Outbreak Generation

June 2017 •English

In the midst of a global epidemic, Annie finds herself the sole carer of her eight-year-old nephew, but he has questions only a mother can answer.

Diva Viva

January 2008 •

Once upon the time on a small island named Taiwan, a neighborhood magistrate receives a secret message from space. 'The apocalypse is near...' the magistrate warns his people, however nobody seems to take his words seriously...

Custom Order

August 2017 •English

After a painful breakup, Aaron purchases a life-size doll to serve as a replacement for the companionship he has lost.

Firebase

June 2017 •English

Set during the Vietnam war, Firebase follows American soldier Hines through an ever-deepening web of science fiction madness.

The End of the Crisis

January 2010 •German

Susanne is called to her boss's office. There she drinks from a cup containing a paralyzing liquid. When Susanne regains consciousness, she has already become a will-less, controllable puppet of the system.

Rakka

June 2017 •English

A story of broken humanity following the invasion of a technologically superior alien species. Bleak, harrowing, and unrelenting, the humans must find enough courage to go on fighting.

Quarantine

February 2015 •English

Clark has been quarantined his whole life and inundated with selective media. As the monotony of his minimal environment weighs on him, Clark starts to crave one thing - touch.

Luna 13

August 2016 •Portuguese

A few days after his grandfather's death, young Igor decides to make a documentary about the history of his family in an attempt to understand why his grandfather, Guilhermino, was obsessed with strange facts that had happened in his city. Thus, in 1990, in the interior of the state Rio Grande do Sul, Igor and his father Nilson interview relatives, friends and people involved in the case in an attempt to undo the bad name of his grandfather, but what they find out is a part of the story of the state, unraveling mysteries related to extraterrestrials, failed space programs and a muddled mission of the Cold War.

The Cathedral

March 2002 •Polish