The Philip K Film Festival- Online Edition

TICKETS $20

VALID APRIL 3- APRIL 14, 2025

Starting Thursday, April 3

Ticket Buyers will receive a password that will go into effect 9am PST, April 3 and run until April 14. All films will be screened on this server.

Q&A on Zoom with Directors 7pm, EST, April 3

BLOCK 1

International Sci-Fi Shorts

Portti, 2024                                      
Director Tuomas Järvenpää 
Finland , 10 min

A satirical sci-fi short film about the encounter between a frustrated man and an advanced artificial intelligence. The AI offers the man a new alternative. A tale of human curiosity, greed, and the coldness of artificial intelligence

The Fourth, 2022
Director Johnny Kirk
United States, 10 min

Eager to celebrate the 4th of July, a group of young black and Latino friends experience a police encounter that shatters the meaning of the holiday.

Absorber of the Supreme Sun, 2024                         
Director Claus Arthur Breda-Gulbrandsen 
Norway, 9 min

Absorber of the Supreme Sun is a visceral film that deals with the ebb and flow of time, space, emotions, biology, and physics.

Deepheist, 2024
Director Glen Vivaris
in The Singularity, The Eschaton and Beyond
United States, 10 min

Four activists race to steal the program of the first A.G.I. CEO

Ovo, 2023
Director Stiv Spasojevic
in Best Animation
France, 6min

This is the story of a meeting between an astonishing robot from outer space and an adorable little bird just hatched from its egg…

Verflechtung, 2024
Directors Philip Hofmänner, Simon Jonas Pflanzer
Switzerland, 18min

In the near future, Susana's fiancé Marco decides to have a chip implanted in his brain.Marco, who suffers from severe depression and has professional problems as a result, sees this new technology as his only chance, not to lose touch. Susana, who originally drew his attention to the chip, soon begins to have doubts,

Bug, 2024                                                              
Director Filip Momirovski 
North Macedonia , 10 min

An unemployed cellist turned software tester, tries out a smart speaker that generates music based on the listener's feelings. Things take a turn when the speaker blares ominous sounds in the middle of the night


Factory Drop, 2024
Director Petja Pulkrabek
Germany, 15 min

In a bleak future in the year 2118, a gigantic skyscraper called the Factory rises above the ruins of the old world. In the dark lower floors, forced laborers toil tirelessly to produce diamonds. Emotions and contact are strictly forbidden.

Paint, 2024                                                  
Director Mora Carew 
United States , 16 mi

A brilliant but disturbed artist struggles to connect with his audience


BLOCK 2

Sci-Fi and Supernatural Shorts

Apollo 11 Dream, 2023                                 
Director Alain Thibault 
Canada, 18 min

Inspired by the unconventional form and pacing of Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey, the dreamlike and unconventional storytelling of Lynch and Japanese Noh theater, Apollo 11 Dream is asking the question: did the astronauts return to earth, or did they remain on the moon,

The Shaver Mystery, 2024                      
Director Dean Bertram 
United States, 14 min

Was sci-fi writer Richard Shaver really abducted and tormented by a malevolent underground race of hideous humanoids, known as the “Dero”? Regardless, his “true” stories – known collectively as “The Shaver Mystery” and sometimes ghost written by editor Raymond A. Palmer

Monster, 2024
Director 乔 乔治
China, 10 min

A zombie apocalypse plagues Beijing

Shift                                        
Director Gulnaz Galimullina  
Russian Federation, 23 min 

In search of confidence, the protagonist goes to the Master for buying a sample of a bold movie character. As it turned out, this is "the most popular product" and there are few characters were left. In addition, there is a "side effect" - the acquisition of unpredictable traits, getting into an unexpected series of events. Despite this, the Guest agrees.

Jirba, 2024
Director Sebastian Gonzalez
United States, 16 min
Based on the short story "Piper in The Woods" By Philip K. Dick, Dr. Henry Harris, is an alienated industrial therapist who works for an interstellar water bottle company. Harris is sent to investigate a strange phenomena happening at one of the company's filtration facilities on the moon of Jirba

Chthonic (Teaser), 2025
Director Tremayne LaMont
United States, 5 min

Hearing chatter and gossip. Hearing light whispers leaving sensual lips. They are doing this, they are doing that. They say this happened at night. They say that happened on this fateful day. All these rumors and old wives' tales. That what they say. Whispers coming from the underground. Riding the wind saying something that might be profound



The Last Zombie , 2022                       
Director Adam J. Vaughn 
United States, 10 min

At the conclusion of a zombie apocalypse, a lone zombie wanders the planet, isolated and threatened by every human in sight. When Nova, the last zombie, comes across a little girl who knows no fear, the two form an unlikely - and tragically short lived - friendship

Q&A on Zoom with Directors at 6pm, EST, April 3