Science Fiction + Fantasy Short Film Festival

Dir.: Joey Ciccoline (USA, 14 min.)
Pacific Northwest Premiere

88:88

When rendered powerless by an outside force, a young woman must find a way to fight back.

Dir.: Robert Dastoli and James Dastoli (USA, 2 min.)

Cats in Space

Space, the final frontier. A feline starship embarks on a mission to boldly go where no cat has gone before.

Dir.: Minka Farthing-Kohl (USA, 9 min.)
Pacific Northwest Premiere

Cheap Extermination

For Ernst, the perfect disguise was to play himself.

Dir.: Dale Nicholls (USA, 12 min.)
World Premiere

Evelyn

Charlie is an old-school technician at one of the last independent suicide firms. He and his apprentice visit a former child-star named Evelyn, a charming recluse with a dark secret.

Dir.: Lorcan Finnegan (Ireland, 16 min.)

Foxes

A young couple trapped in a remote estate of empty houses and shrieking foxes are beckoned from their isolation into a twilight world—a world of the paranormal or perhaps insanity.

Dir.: San Charoenchai (USA, 5 min.)

Frankie Rulez!!!

A narcissistic space alien attempts to plant his flag on every planet in the galaxy.

Dir.: Greg Pope (USA, 12 min.)
Pacific Northwest Premiere

Giant Monster Playset

A young boy receives a mysterious package. Upon opening it, he innocently plays with its toy monster contents. Simultaneously a gigantic beast appears, bent on the destruction of the boy's small town. His older brother discovers their connection and realizes that only he can stop it.

Dir.: Bridget Palardy (USA, 14 min.)

OowieWanna

While doing laundry, a misfit seven-year-old girl tumbles into an alluring other-world where she must decide the fate of her birthmark.

Dir.: Stefan Leuchtenberg and Martin Wallner (Germany, 15 min.)

A Lost and Found Box of Human Sensation

When his father dies unexpectedly, a young man seeking to cope with his grief goes on a powerful emotional journey through time and space.

Dir.: Thierry Uyttenhoven (Belgium, 7 min.)
North American Premiere

Motorhome

In the middle of a scorching hot summer, Yann drives along the Belgian seashore in his motorhome. When he stops to have a rest, Marie, who was sleeping in the passenger seat, goes out to take a couple of pictures. Suddenly, time turns upside down and everything goes haywire...

Dir.: Kevin McTurk (USA, 15 min.)
Pacific Northwest Premiere

The Narrative of Victor Karloch

Victor Karloch receives a journal from a colleague involved in a salvage operation for missing sea freighters in the North Sea. In this journal, Karloch's friend describes his descent into the abysmal deep with the use of a diving bell, and his encounters with the ghosts of a lost Templar Knights’ ship.

Dir.: Cole Drumb (USA, 6 min.)

PostHuman

Set in an adrenalized future of espionage, assassins, and out of control super science, PostHuman follows a genius hacker and his dog as they help an enigmatic young woman to free the remaining test subject of a black ops ESP test lab.

Dir.: Brad Schaffer (USA, 7 min.)

Thumb Snatchers From the Moon Cocoon

A short-tempered Texas sheriff uses his cowboy logic to recklessly defeat a race of condescending, cocoon dwelling critters.

Dir.: Trevin Matcek (USA, 11 min.)
North American Premiere

You, Me + We

You, Me + We is a group therapy session for human clones coping with social anxiety. Topics include: self-awareness, anger management, and what to do when you bump into other versions of yourself.

Dir.: John Roberts (USA, 14 min.)
World Premiere

The Wheel

This whimsical, visually imaginative tale concerns a dutiful young man, fated to maintain a large wheel that balances the entire world, and a rebellious sister determined to mischievously tempt that fate.

Dir.: Kyra Buschor & Cynthia Collins (Germany, 8 min.)

Zing

Day in, day out, Mr. Grimm is busy with his job as The Reaper, harvesting people's lives. One day, his monotonous existence is interrupted by the doorbell. It's a little girl. She wants her cat back. Little does she know that she's the next life on Mr. Grimm's list.