THE EUROPEAN PHILIP K DICK FILM FESTIVAL
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THE 2025 EUROPEAN PHILIP K DICK FILM FESTIVAL
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November 28, 2024
Opening Date
December 27, 2024
Earlybird Deadline
January 17, 2025
Regular Deadline
February 7, 2025
Late Deadline
March 1, 2025
Extended Deadline
March 7, 2025
Notification Date
April 11 – 13, 2025
Event Date
Categories & Fees
Best Science Fiction Short
Best Philip K Dick Short
Best Supernatural/Horror Short
Best Documentary
Best New Media
Best Sci Fi Screenplay
Best Trailer
WINNERS OF THE 2024 EDITION
Best PKD Short - Soulmate
Best Sci-Fi Short- Demon Box
Best Animation- Skinjob
Best Supernatural Short- The Unquiet Dead
Best Documentary- It's Not Up To Us
Best Trailer- Burner Face
Best Feature Sci-Fi Screenplay- Smart Seed
Best Short Sci Fi Screenplay -Contrast
The Philip K Dick Film Festival
LILLE, FRANCE
L’ Hybride
Address: 18 Rue Gosselet, 59000 Lille, France
Tickets are 4€ + 1€ annual membership.
Friday, October 25, 2024
8PM- 930PM
ACCELERATE THE SINGULARITY
Burner Face, 2023
Director John Gauntt
US, 2 min
Composed by a team of 3 creatives + Midjourney AI, this trailer tells a story in less than 2 minutes. It is not a tech demo but a taste of what's possible when Culture & Code come together.
Set a Date
Directors Elías Balda, Cosme Mañero
Spain, 11 minutes
Thanks to a new technology, Andrés, a young policeman, discovers that he will die in 20 minutes.
Skinjob, 2027
Director Steve Simons
UK, 15 min
A group of slave Androids steal a space shuttle and journey back to earth to find their maker.
AlgoDreams, 2023
Director Vladimir Todorovic
Australia, 11 min
Algodreams are made by prompting AI systems to imagine the future of life on planet Earth. They dreamt of time machines, memory machines, flamingos that can save the oceans, the AI civilization that destroys humans to protect the plane
Source Code, 2021
Director Mark Kiefer
US, 17 min
The year is 2065. Captain John Galatin's loss of focus cost lives on a remote-controlled battlefield. He has been ordered to see the compound's psychiatrist who will assess his continued fitness for duty.
I am Not a Robot, 2023
Director Victoria Warmerdam
Netherlands, 22 minutes
After several unsuccessful attempts to complete a Captcha, feminist Lara sets out to answer the disturbing question of whether she's a robot.
Q&A with Attending Directors
HUMANITY AT THE CROSSROADS
10pm-1130pm
Purgy’s, 2022
Director Robbie Ryan
US, 16 min
At a magical bar, spirits from the other side are able to take the form of another human and interact with those in their past who need closure and re-connection.
Starring Arnold Chun, Man in the High Castle
Meditations, 2023
Director Adolfo Ruiz
Canada, 10 minutes
Meditations is an animated film that revolves around a psychotherapy session set in a dystopian future. By probing the inner psyche, a novel form of technology produces a therapist in the image of a lost family member
Dandelion, 2023
Director Gillian Simpson
UK, 12 min
Alice lives alone in the middle of a field of wind turbines, the constant thump thump her only companion. She is haunted by the memories of the day her daughter Grace and her partner, Jamie died
Black Dragon, 2022
Director Alexander Thompson
US, 15 min
Vietnam, 1968. A feared American colonel nicknamed “the Black Dragon” by Vietnamese locals must face his inner shadow when his platoon presents him with a captured Vietcong girl who harbors some very unusual power
Soulmate,2023
Director Richard Fenwick
UK, 15 min
Ana, a lonely computer coder, has been nurturing an illegal romance with an AI in a computer simulation for the past six months. When her company uncovers the affair, she’s forced into a desperate battle to save her precious relationship.
Echoes of Juno, 2023
Director Reza Sam Mosadegh
Germany, 14 min
Juno is dead. She hasn't been around for two years now, but her mother Hanna still spends every day with her. There is an AI-controlled device, the "Echoehub", in Juno's nursery. This is able to calculate possible scenarios that the deceased could have experienced in the future from information fed into it about the dead. Is Hanna prepared to sacrifice everything for the illusion of a perfect family
Greed, 2024
Director Mike Hay
UK, 5 min
A lone battle-scared woman navigates the streets of a city in the future, where the populace is enslaved by the tyrannical GovCorp. As she moves further into the heart of darkness, Vita is determined to break the cycle of greed and repression.
Q&A with Attending Directors
Saturday, October 26, 2024
A PARALLAX VIEW
I Am What You Imagine, 2023
Director Matthew Modine
US, 7 min
Matthew Modine’s new short film, I AM WHAT YOU IMAGINE, is a sensual exploration of the unexplainable. Featuring the voice talents of Ruby Modine and long-time Kubrick collaborator Leon Vitali (in his final performance), the short uses sound, music, and expressionistic imagery to take viewers on a journey of the heart and mind
Bisected, 2023
Director Danny Pineros
US, 8 min
A couple witnesses a paranormal event that separates them into two distinct dimensions.
Berdyansk, 2023
Directors Tom Hopkins, Kateryna Paida
Ireland, Ukraine, 15 minutes
Lera, a young Ukrainian refugee who has recently reached Ireland, who, fearing the worst, uses dark-web séance software (The Orb) to discover that her sister Maryna has died in the conflict back home. Through The Orb she makes contact - and discovers that her sister Maryna is disoriented and stuck in an after-death limbo
Ada, 2023
Directed by Anaïs Vachez
France, 16 minutes
Ada, an eight-year-old girl, witnesses the ongoing tensions between her parents.
One evening, a particularly heated argument breaks out
Night Feeding, 2023
Director Sarah K Reimers
US, 6 min
Exhaustion and sleep deprivation begin to take their toll on a new mother, who struggles through the strange, dark stillness of the 4am feeding.
Antares, 2023
Director Maxence Schlenck
France , 22 min
Undertaking a mission to an uncharted planet, an astronaut finds his psyche unraveling, gripped by a mysterious affliction that intensifies the closer he gets to his destination.
Demon Box, 2022
Director Sean Wainsteim
Canada, 14 min
After festival rejections, a director revises his intensely personal short film about trauma, suicide, and the Holocaust, and transforms it into a painful, blunt and funny dissection of the film and his life.
The Unquiet Dead, 2022
Director John Gray
US, 12 minutes
A therapist treats an unstable young woman who claims to be harassed by an assortment of malevolent spirits - who are demanding something from her.
Q&A with Attending Directors
10pm- 1130pm
CRACKS IN THE COSMIC WALL
A Pasage, 2023
Director A.P. Bergeron
Canada, 6 min
A researcher uncovers an ancient entity in the High Arctic and is compelled into twisted servitude.
Half Samurai , 2022
Director Rashad Haughton
Japan, 11 min
A mysterious drifter wanders into a bar owned by a psychopathic yakuza gang on Halloween night.
The Name ,2023
Directors Renato Paone, Francesco Eramo Puoti
Italy, 20 minutes
The Dominican order has requested a special computer from an engineering laboratory capable of solving a complex algorithm, but only the monks know its real purpose
First Time Machine, 2023
Director Jay Woelfl
US, 17 min
African American scientist, Dr. Grainger gathers his closest friends to show them his invention: the world’s first-time machine. However, one of his friends has hidden and dangerous intentions for traveling back in time. An adaptation of the classic sci-fi short story by Fredric Brown
Suppressus, 2023
Director Grant Jones
US, 19 min
Two neuroscientists work to develop a device that regenerates memories blocked out by dissociative amnesia.
Its Not Up To Us, 2023
Director Anthony Werhun
US, 13 minutes
Legendary visual artist Nancy Burson sparked a technological revolution by using computer morphing techniques to blend art and science but claims she didn’t do it alone. The complex truth behind Nancy's beliefs and how they shaped her career evokes questions about the nature of creation and of reality itself.
Q&A with Attending Directors
THE PHILIP K DICK FILM FESTIVAL
COLOGNE EDITION
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 30, 202
Filmclub 813 e.V.
Kino 813 in der BRÜCKE
Hahnenstraße 6
Cologne, Germany
10 Euro/8,13* (Double block)
7 Euro / 5* Euro (single block)
* Filmclub 813 Membership Prices
8PM- 930PM
ACCELERATE THE SINGULARITY
Burner Face, 2023
Director John Gauntt
US, 2 min
Composed by a team of 3 creatives + Midjourney AI, this trailer tells a story in less than 2 minutes. It is not a tech demo but a taste of what's possible when Culture & Code come together.
Skinjob, 2017
Director Steve Simons
UK, 15 min
A group of slave Androids steal a space shuttle and journey back to earth to find their maker.
I am Not a Robot, 2023
Director Victoria Warmerdam
Netherlands, 22 minutes
After several unsuccessful attempts to complete a Captcha, feminist Lara sets out to answer the disturbing question of whether she's a robot.
Purgy’s, 2022
Director Robbie Ryan
US, 16 min
At a magical bar, spirits from the other side are able to take the form of another human and interact with those in their past who need closure and re-connection.
Black Dragon, 2022
Director Alexander Thompson
US, 15 min
Vietnam, 1968. A feared American colonel nicknamed “the Black Dragon” by Vietnamese locals must face his inner shadow when his platoon presents him with a captured Vietcong girl who harbors some very unusual power
Soulmate, 2023
Director Richard Fenwick
UK, 15 min
Ana, a lonely computer coder, has been nurturing an illegal romance with an AI in a computer simulation for the past six months. When her company uncovers the affair, she’s forced into a desperate battle to save her precious relationship.
Echoes of Juno, 2023
Director Reza Sam Mosadegh
Germany, 14 min
Juno is dead. She hasn't been around for two years now, but her mother Hanna still spends every day with her. There is an AI-controlled device, the "Echoehub", in Juno's nursery. This is able to calculate possible scenarios that the deceased could have experienced in the future from information fed into it about the dead. Is Hanna prepared to sacrifice everything for the illusion of a perfect family
Q&A with Attending Directors
10PM-1130PM
A PARALLAX VIEW
I Am What You Imagine, 2023
Director Matthew Modine
US, 7 min
Matthew Modine’s new short film, I AM WHAT YOU IMAGINE, is a sensual exploration of the unexplainable. Featuring the voice talents of Ruby Modine and long-time Kubrick collaborator Leon Vitali (in his final performance), the short uses sound, music, and expressionistic imagery to take viewers on a journey of the heart and mind
Source Code, 2021
Director Mark Kiefer
US, 17 min
The year is 2065. Captain John Galatin's loss of focus cost lives on a remote-controlled battlefield. He has been ordered to see the compound's psychiatrist who will assess his continued fitness for duty.
Berdyansk, 2023
Directors Tom Hopkins, Kateryna Paida
Ireland, Ukraine, 15 minutes
Lera, a young Ukrainian refugee who has recently reached Ireland, who, fearing the worst, uses dark-web séance software (The Orb) to discover that her sister Maryna has died in the conflict back home. Through The Orb she makes contact - and discovers that her sister Maryna is disoriented and stuck in an after-death limbo
Demon Box, 2022
Director Sean Wainsteim
Canada, 14 min
After festival rejections, a director revises his intensely personal short film about trauma, suicide, and the Holocaust, and transforms it into a painful, blunt and funny dissection of the film and his life
A Pasage, 2023
Director A.P. Bergeron
Canada, 6 min
A researcher uncovers an ancient entity in the High Arctic and is compelled into twisted servitude.
Half Samurai, 2022
Director Rashad Haughton
Japan, 11 min
A mysterious drifter wanders into a bar owned by a psychopathic yakuza gang on Halloween night.
First Time Machine, 2023
Director Jay Woelfl
US, 17 min
African American scientist, Dr. Grainger gathers his closest friends to show them his invention: the world’s first-time machine. However, one of his friends has hidden and dangerous intentions for traveling back in time. An adaptation of the classic sci-fi short story by Fredric Brown
Its Not Up To Us, 2023
Director Anthony Werhun
US, 13 minutes
Legendary visual artist Nancy Burson sparked a technological revolution by using computer morphing techniques to blend art and science but claims she didn’t do it alone. The complex truth I hope you are doing well
Greed
Director Mike Hay
UK, 5 min
A lone battle-scared woman navigates the streets of a city in the future, where the populace is enslaved by the tyrannical GovCorp. As she moves further into the heart of darkness, Vita is determined to break the cycle of greed and repression
