Drama

In a near future where memories are treated as commodities, a solitary clerk works in a place where other people’s lives pass through his hands every day. Beneath the routine, something fragile is eroding until one sale quietly changes everything.

In a world depleted of natural resources, Sasha must protect her impulsive younger sister after she runs away in search for a magic orange tree wearing a cracked oxygen mask.

In a near-future world where consciousness can be scanned and sold, a man submits to a corporate experiment that forces him to confront the machinery of his own mind. BRAINSTARE is the world’s first “live-action” feature film entirely realized by Artificial Intelligence — yet written, directed, and edited by human beings. This psychological sci-fi thriller from filmmaker Steve Balderson and writer Dr. Joseph Suglia explores the war between human consciousness and machine intelligence.

Claire lives alone at night, with a phone she's emotionally attached to. A phone that needs to be kept alive - no matter what.

Creturs is an award-winning debut feature seeking its world premiere. Featuring her real family of four on a Pennsylvania farm, Carrie King wrote, directed and acts alongside her family in this deeply personal creature feature, exploring the fears and anxiety of the unknown. Set in the stillness of pandemic isolation, a Lancaster County farm becomes the entire universe for a fragile family trying to hold themselves together. Shot with elements of found-footage and starring a real-life family on their own farm, Creturs blurs the line between fiction and lived experience as it captures the quiet unraveling of a home under pressure. When their young son discovers a cluster of otherworldly eggs and nurtures them in secret, his small act of hope collides with a world already destabilized by fear and uncertainty. As the eggs hatch, the family must confront not only a mysterious new lifeform encroaching on their land, but the terrifying realization that they cannot fully control, protect, or preserve the life they’ve built. Intimate and poetic yet deeply unsettling, Creturs asks what kind of creatures we become when survival is no longer a given.

Dor has a very special ability with a deadly side effect. When a new patient disrupts her 6-year stay in a secret medical facility, Dor's desire to be 'normal' is amplified, as are the lengths she'll go to pursue it.

A middle-aged man afflicted with a sensation of floating seeks the curative powers of a mysterious alien healer.

After her grandmother passes away, a grieving Mexican-American woman becomes fascinated with learning what it feels like to die, believing it will allow her to feel close to her grandma in death in a way she never felt in life. Her grief leads her to “The Death Lab”, a mysterious medical facility that claims to recreate the sensation of dying without actually killing you. Here she embarks on a surreal and deeply personal journey that stretches beyond the confines of life itself.

After the death of his son, a grieving father seeks out new technology that promises to rid him of his emotional pain.

A young man wakes up trapped in a mysterious room with no exit. The only thing inside with the young man is a computer that displays a cold, blue screen. Eagerly, he searches for an escape, any escape. With no way out, he gives up until he hears a soft voice. Someone, or something, is there with him. This short sci-fi drama, FELIX, witnesses the drastic yet close possibilities of what humanity could face with this ever-growing technology in the world today. Dir: Esperanza Benavides

Alone aboard a crippled transport drifting through deep space, Commander Elias Walker records what will become humanity’s final message. Earth is gone, and the ship, once a vessel of hope, now carries only failure and silence. As oxygen fades, Elias begins a calm mission log, clinging to duty and procedure. But as systems die around him, the truth surfaces. He isn’t just facing his own death, he’s witnessing the extinction of mankind. In his final moments, the soldier becomes a storyteller, offering not a plea for rescue but a quiet eulogy for the human race. As the ship falls silent, his voice becomes the last echo of humanity, ending with a single, hopeful line: “I hope the stars remember us.”

An imprisoned artist must paint his way to freedom.