Brooklyn SciFi Film Festival

2023 Winners Announced

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Schedule of Events

MONDAY 10/9/23

Opening Night

Festival Preview Show

With Keith and Mike from the K&M Geekly Podcast

Available online with streaming pass

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INCLUDED WITH ONLINE PASS

TUESDAY 10/10/23

Animation Exploration

Online Panel Discussion & Selected Animated Shorts
Tuesday October 10th - Starting at 7:00 pm EDT

This Event Has Concluded - Recording Available In the Archive

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A Tree Once Grew Here

“A Tree Once Grew Here” combines captivating visuals, animation, and artificial intelligence derived imagery, to tell a tale that transcends language.

Astrogolem

"Astrogolem" is a film about a love triangle set in a fantastical world where science and the supernatural collide. The story follows the brilliant inventor, Nikola Tesla, as he and Alan Turing accidentally release demons into our dimension.

The Dark Odyssey 2 - Ice Nexus

A skeptical astronaut discovers a lost spaceship and gets tangled up in a dangerous journey to a mythical space-time portal, the Ice Nexus, in search of the Inventory of the Mind, essential knowledge for ending the Eternal War.

Don't Let Kids Play With Slime

WINNER! Best Animated Film for Shorty Shorts Competition - Blobfest - 2023

Frostbyte

In a snowy, mountainous region, a laboratory sits at the side of one of the tallest mountains. Scientists worked in the lab alongside their robots who took care of a powerful orb.

The Green Planet

An interdimensional traveler visits a flourishing green planet abundant with strange life.

Innermost

The background of the stop-motion animation short film Innermost is set in the future featured by highly advanced technologies but collapsed society and civilization system.

Resource:Full

Resource without recourse is the creation of extinction. Change cannot be sustained without action, intention is merely a fraction of transformation. Source is our breath, and depletion inescapable.

The Space Between Us

A lonely spaceman's desire for company may be fulfilled when a mysterious ship arrives at his space station.

Space Case Cadets

Two young space cadets yearn to pilot a spaceship. But their curiosity gets the better of them.

The Spirit Seam

The Spirit Seam is an animated short film by Ashley Gerst that mixes practical sets, 3d and 2d animation. It takes place in 1950's Appalachian mining country, and tells the story of Pap-Paw and his granddaughter, Pollywog. The two are inseparable until an illness threatens to fracture their family.

Yellow Dove Aftermath

The surreal experiences of Yellow Dove in his bunker within the world of Hour Blue

WEDNESDAY 10/11/23

Best of Brooklyn

Wednesday October 11th - 7:00 to 10:00 pm

12 SciFi Short Films from Brooklyn

Stuart Cinema & Cafe | 79 West Street, Brooklyn, NY

SOLD OUT

Awake

Farmers, John and Betty, can sense something’s not quite right on their farm in New York’s Wallkill River Valley. They are disturbed to discover their beloved cow has been mutilated and their crops wrecked again - all while someone (or something) stalks them just out of reach.

Be Nice To Fish

Two roommates fight about whether they should let the pizza delivery man use their bathroom, and the ethics of enjoying anchovy pizza in front of their new pet goldfish.

Body Prison

A young woman living in a body-positive matriarchal space cooperative is sentenced to try a vicious new punishment on a correctional satellite.

Consolation

Mankind faces the consequences of climate change and technological reliance when oxygen runs out in a future society's safety bubble. A young woman reflects on her life inside the bubble and makes a profound decision in her final moments.

InVade

An undocumented scientist and his son try to stop an environmental disaster.

It Was Up There

The true story of a couple who are driving through an unpopulated region of the New Mexico desert when they see something unexplainable up in the night sky.

Keepers

Three scavenger kids searching the wilderness for scraps in the distant future, stumble upon a hidden treasure from the distant past.

Post Infest

Two friends try to find love during a murder hornet infestation.

The Green Planet

An interdimensional traveler visits a flourishing green planet abundant with strange life.

The Joys of Running

Local jogger Adam Joggerman is harassed by a not so little green man from outer space, will he be able to outrun this imminent threat or will he fall prey to this extraterrestrial menace?

Wilting

When a burnt-out dishwasher tumbles into a labyrinth of despair, he must overcome his fear of change or else succumb to a life of mundanity forever.

Zero Method

It's 2082, and a renegade chrono-refugee joins a cult of rogue time travelers, risking everything in a desperate attempt to break the prime rule of time travel that separates him from his old life; going to the future is permanent, but travel to the past is only temporary.

THURSDAY 10/12/23

CINEPLEX

Thursday October 12th - 8:00 to 10:00 pm

5 Fantastic SciFi Feature Films

Streaming Online Tonight at 8:00

EVENT CONCLUDED

FRIDAY 10/13/23

Kino Lorber Presents

A Special 10th Anniversary Screening of

Computer Chess

Friday October 13th - Starting at 7:00 pm EDT

With an exclusive interview with the films writer and director Andrew Bujalski

Streaming Online - Included with Online Pass

EVENT CONCLUDED

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SATURDAY 10/14/23

Alamo Drafthouse Cinema Night

Saturday October 14th - 6:00 to 9:00 pm

12 SciFi Short Films / Awards & Recognition / After Party

Alamo Drafthouse Cinema - Downtown, Brooklyn

SOLD OUT

WINNERS ANNOUNCED

A Tree Once Grew Here

“A Tree Once Grew Here” combines captivating visuals, animation, and artificial intelligence derived imagery, to tell a tale that transcends language.

Clone

In the future, every U.S. citizen has the right to own one clone of themself. Clones have no rights and can only become citizens if emancipated by their original human.

Connected

EXELCIA and ANGLE love each other even If they do not know it yet, Ben their owner mistreats ANGLE, his Al (artificial intelligence) daily, which acts as his personal assistant, while he always has a kind word for the sophisticated EXELCIA.

Dark Cell

Two convicts in an orbital prison are doing what they usually do, which is to say, not much. Suddenly, two panicked guards armed to the teeth burst into their cell.

The Dark Odyssey 2 - Ice Nexus

A skeptical astronaut discovers a lost spaceship and gets tangled up in a dangerous journey to a mythical space-time portal, the Ice Nexus, in search of the Inventory of the Mind, essential knowledge for ending the Eternal War.

Oldmen Rule

In the near future, where old people are subjected to a test for society, an investigator encounters a couple who are in no hurry to die.

Archive & The Storyteller

On the brink of human extinction, a young couple struggles to secure a spot on the ‘Archive.’

Restore

A post-apocalyptic, sci-fi drama about the last man on earth. Jason employs holographic tech to recreate a special memory with his partner, Brian. But, to rebuild his old world, he must connect all of the pieces.

SILEO

A robot after working for years in a factory and being repaired and replaced bit by bit realizes that he doesn't want to loose his identity and sets out to find his creator.

Starman

Bugs, a farmer kid who has ended up alone after the end of the world, after years waiting for signs of life from other survivors, encounters an extraterrestrial cosmonaut lost on earth.

Tell Him

In the gripping sci-fi short film "Tell Him," a couple's home becomes the stage for a series of bizarre and unsettling events. As the story unfolds, a mother's deception begins to unravel, leaving her with no choice but to confront her husband and reveal the truth. However, the question lingers: has she waited too long to tell her son?

The Orb

A suburban couple clash over a mysterious product.

Turing Test

In an interview with an AI, testing its development, the boundaries between human and tech-made consciousness are questioned.

Unidentified Female Object - Feature Trailer

A psychology student discovers that her dance therapy class is a cover for an alien abduction support group. Aurora must piece together the missing clues of her mother’s disappearance before she falls too far down the rabbit hole.

Once upon a time in the future: 2121 - Feature Trailer

In the future, the earth becomes uninhabitable due to climate crisis and famine. The few survivors form colonies and start to live in underground blocks. According to The Scarcity Laws of the Young Administration which controls this system, old generations must be destroyed in exchange for new lives.

The Founder Effect - Feature Trailer

When a young boy goes missing in the town of Hope, his grandfather must grapple with their family history and navigate mysterious phenomena as he sets out on a quest of conscience to save his grandson from the shadows.