• A World Imagined

    109 minutes |

This eclectic mix of inventive films boasts arresting visions of whimsical and dystopian worlds spanning science fiction and fantasy, from Steampunk romance to mind-reading police to interplanetary transportation.

Short Films

Between the Shadows

Natália, trapped in a tedious job, engages in a search for a stolen heart. In a world where hearts can be deposited in a bank, the protagonist faces a dilemma: give her heart or keep it to herself?

Boléro

In the near future when the United States government has recruited natural-born telepaths to be their secret police, a mute teenage girl stops at nothing to hunt down the telepath responsible for her father’s death.

The Bumbry Encounter

While on a road trip to Oregon, the Bumbrys, an interracial newly wed couple, encounter something extraterrestrial. But when they report it to the authorities, what follows is unexpected.

The Colour of Your Lips

In an atmosphere grown suddenly impossible to breathe, a diver and a woman appear to be the only survivors. As their reserves of air run out, will they make love or war?

The Shipment

Stranded with his daughter on a wretched spaceport and unable to afford repairs on the family ship, an interplanetary transporter is coerced into choosing between a promise and a way out.

Widdershins

The life of a pampered gentleman is seamlessly automated by machines, but his orderly existence is thrown into chaos when he chooses to pursue a free-spirited woman, against the advice of his robot butler.

film details

Running Time: 109 minutes

2019 ShortFest Archive