SCI-FI
Prague
Aliens, cyborgs, and astronauts - all of them in shorts! No, we are not bringing you the latest fashion trends for interplanetary summer but a selection from the youngest generation of sci-fi filmmakers. Come and guess who will be the new Scott, Cameron, and Lucas!
State Zero (Sweden)
Director: Andree Wallin | Producer: Claire Fleming |
Star: Charles Babalola, Nicklas Hansson, Kayla Meikle |
Year: 2015 | Length: 17 min | Live Action |
In the near future, the capital of Sweden has turned into a post-apocalyptic wasteland. we join four soldiers on a routine mission in 'zone 3', with the assignment to investigate an old surveillance tower that just went offline.
R'ha (Germany)
Director: Kaleb Lechowski | Producer: Kaleb Lechowski |
Star: David Masterson |
Year: 2013 | Length: 6 min | Animation |
A member of an alien species is being interrogated and tortured by a machine.
One-Minute Time Machine (USA/UK)
Director: Devon Avery | Producers: Devon Avery, Brian Dietzen |
Star: Brian Dietzen, Erinn Hayes |
Year: 2014 | Length: 5 min | Live Action |
James is all too eager to put his one-minute time machine to use in winning the heart of Regina, until he discovers the unexpected consequences of his actions.
I am bigger and better (CZ)
Director: Martin Duda | Producers: Tomas Rychecky and FAMU |
Star: Matěj Hádek, Ondřej Pavelka, Miroslav Krobot |
Year: 2007 | Length: 17 min | Live Action and Animation |
Can the robot subtitute an actor in the theatre? The story of this short lenght sci-fi film with impressive atmosphere and rafined 3D animation held in Prague in not far future. The theatre director decides to feature the robot for the main role instead the actor. The robot gets out of theatre to the streets of city after intervention of angry actor. The robot is starting to play his life role.
Prospect (USA)
Directors: Christopher Caldwell, Zeek Earl | Producer: Brice Budke |
Star: Thomas Castle, Tony Doupe, Callie Harlow |
Year: 2014 | Length: 14 min | Live Action |
Prospect is the unusual coming-of-age story of a teenage girl on a toxic alien planet. She and her father hunt for precious materials aiming to strike it rich. When the father is attacked by a roving bandit, the daughter must take control.
Zari (USA)
Director: Courtney Marsh | Producers: Jerry Franck, Kristof Zoltan Ruzics |
Star: Laura Quesinberry Uchida, Chris Connell, William Joseph Hill |
Year: 2014 | Length: 18 min | Live Action |
A housemaid robot in the near future begins to adapt to the world around it.
I'm You, Dickhead (Australia)
Director: Lucas Testro | Producers: Renee Crea, Lucas Testro |
Star: Anthony Gooley, Alan Flower, Olivia Pigeot |
Year: 2014 | Length: 12 min | Live Action |
A man travels back in time to force his 10 year old self to learn guitar, so that he can get more action with the ladies in the present day.
The Landing (Australia)
Director: Josh Tanner | Producer: Jade Van Der Lei |
Star: Henry Nixon, David Roberts, Tom Usher |
Year: 2013 | Length: 18 min | Live Action |
A man returns to the Midwestern farm of his childhood on a desperate mission to unearth the horrifying truth of what landed there in the summer of 1960.
Total length of the screening 107 min. In original language with Czech and English subtitles.
