Over 100 SciFi films streaming online October 9th - 15th. The 2023 Brooklyn SciFi Film Festival will feature films, watch parties, panels, and online events. All available with the online pass.
Each episode of The Sixth Borough features three short festival films of note selected by the BSFFF’s team.
Computer Chess
Kino Lorber presents a special 10th anniversary of COMPUTER CHESS exclusively for the Brooklyn SciFi film festival. A film about a nostalgic moment when the contest between technology and the human spirit seemed a little more up for grabs.
“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
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
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.
Alamo Drafthouse Cinema Night
Saturday October 14th - 6:00 to 9:00 pm
12 SciFi Short Films / Awards & Recognition / After Party
“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.
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.
Welcome to the Sixth Borough! A daily dose of curated science fiction brought to you from our festival automotons. Each day of the festival we will release a new episode containing three stories so check back daily and enjoy!
