Valérie Leclair
After Alex wanted to surprise Catherine for her birthday by taking the staff of a restaurant hostage, the two unrepentant and hot-tempered women argue in an epic argument about how to use their metapsychic...
Antony Webb
Australian writer/director Antony Webb’s striking CARMENTIS (Canadian Premiere) is an affecting mix between futuristic survival thriller and melancholic tone poem. An intergalactic miner overwhelmed by gri...
Mercedes Bryce Morgan
The U.S.A. brings us four. Based on an actual Craigslist’s post, Mercedes Bryce Morgan’s COME F*CK MY ROBOT (International Premiere) depicts a shy teen virgin answering an inventor’s call for volunteers to...
Anthony Scott Burns
Dreams twist. Nightmares come true. A distinctive and compelling work of dark science fiction/horror that haunts the space between wakefulness and sleep.
Sofian Khan
Sofian Khan’s provocative DOPPELBÄNGER (International Premiere) is a smart tale of sex work and the singularity, set in a future world where people have robotic doubles of themselves.
Chung Jae-hoon
From South Korea, Jae-hoon Chung’s FALL-OUT (International Premiere) is white-knuckle storytelling at its most urgent. In a devastated near-future Korea, a family venture through their apartment building h...
Noah Hutton
Noah Hutton’s speculative LAPSIS is an alt-present sci-fi thriller most relevant to the horror of our current, late-capitalist moment.
Adam Zimny
Germany graces us with Adam Zimny’s compelling LIGEIA MARE (World Premiere), a visually sumptuous futuristic drama set on one of the deadliest places in the solar system, where artificial intelligence is u...
Eric Schultz
Unlock the puzzle that is MINOR PREMISE and confront a plethora of fascinating questions of self and psyche.
Esteban Pedraza
When Rebecca begins believing that she can change the world with her video game controller, Octavio, her concerned boyfriend, attempts to erase her belief but risks losing her.
Justin Daering
When a blue-collar man is forcibly implanted with his alien boss's parasitic offspring, he asks his wife to help him remove the parasite -- a dangerous and forbidden act that puts their marriage -- and the...
Myriam Guimond
Three atypical teenage girls who are avid readers of horror and science fiction novels, self-proclaimed "Les Ratées" in tribute to the club of failures in Stephen King's IT. They discover the meanders of t...
Ethan Corston
In an alternate earth, the apocalypse has wrecked havoc on Tyler’s whole reality.
Julie Roy
Jenny leads a boring life. She’s a workaholic who collects old sports cars. Then one morning she wakes up in a yellow field, not knowing how she got there. As she flees, her belly begins to grow abnormall...
Bridget O'Driscoll
Pavel learns English on audiocassettes every day when he gets up. Today it is his 78th session. But has he really made progress? ...
Colin Levy
In SKYWATCH (Canadian Premiere), two young teens devise a way to hack into the system of an Amazon-like shopping empire, tricking its drone delivery system into swapping people’s orders for fun. The system...
Faye Jackson
Esther and Miriam are being forcibly deported from the UK to Jamaica when there’s an outbreak of a deadly virus that makes you feel calm and only kills white people.
Hannah Welever
The USA is represented by an eclectic trio of works this year: A virtual dating app opens unique windows of possibility for two agoraphobic women in SWIPE UP, VIVIAN! (World Premiere). A lighthearted yet p...
Marco Baldonado
Canadian filmmaker Marco Baldonado’s TOTO is the charmingly bittersweet story of a 90-year-old grandmother being given a robot companion. Both a celebration of traditions passed down through generations an...
Chino Moya
The film's narrators maneuver through a deserted, crumbling, grayish-blue city, gathering bodies as they go and sharing nightmarish stories of a long-ago abandoned past.
Marc Martínez Jordán
In Spanish filmmaker Marc Martínez Jordán’s darkly comic and unconventionally poignant YOUR LAST DAY ON EARTH (Canadian Premiere), a man in a fox costume works with time “hacktivists” for a last glimpse of...