Enter into the Sixth Borough!
New Episodes Each Day - Oct. 9th through 15th at 7:00 PM ET
Each episode of The Sixth Borough features three short festival films of note. The films are selected by the BSFFF’s producers and curators, and bring additional attention to the dynamic work of filmmakers from all over the world. In The Sixth Borough, you’ll meet lonely robots, mysterious mutants, out-of-this-world renegades, and many more compelling characters. You don’t need a passport, a driver’s license, a MetroCard, or a landspeeder. Just hit click and you’ll enter The Sixth Borough.
Turing Test
Directed by Magnus Taljaard
In an interview with an AI, testing its development, the boundaries between human and tech-made consciousness are questioned.
Dark Cell
Directed by Jean-Michel Tari
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 guards tell them that the orbital prison has just been invaded by blood-thirsty zombie-type creatures. If they want to survive, their only solution is to eject their cell and return to Earth. But when the ejection order is entered into the computer, it refuses it. The cell, designed for two occupants only, now holds four people. There can only be two lucky winners… and there’s not much time to pick them.
Astrogolem
Directed by Thorsten Fleisch
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. Desperate to find a solution, he turns to the renowned scientist, Robo-Marie Curie, for help. On his way he completely forgets about his mission as he has a huge crush on her and wants to seize the moment to confess his love. However he is shocked to learn that Robo-Marie Curie is in a relationship with the Astrogolem.
Fridge
Directed by Sam Lucas Smith
A hyper-critical smart-fridge fat shames her owner after catching him eating ice-cream.
Oldmen Rule
Directed by Alexander Gavrilov
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.
Sileo
Directed by Demeter Lorant
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.
The Orb
Directed by Josh Kirk
A suburban couple clash over a mysterious product.
Innermost
Directed by Maing Caochong
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. The cyberpunk-style science fiction world coexists fantastically with the traditional oriental martial arts world. The story follows the emotional entanglement between a long-lost chivalrous couple and a person with regenerated organs starting from a fight for a mystic magic lyre. From the perspective of what regeneration technologies are able of, the short film will arouse the audience to think of how the value of emotions can be magnified or dissolved.
FEMAI
Directed by Mingjun Zheng
Analía, a recent college graduate and aspiring assistant faces a sexual assault while she is working at the office alone. Can FEMAI help her to take a stand after the abuse?
Hot Local Singles Are In Your Area
Directed by Peter Sreckovic
A reclusive PhD Student, Alex, becomes infected with a computer virus during the course of her research into Brain Computer Interface. She then begins to experience the classic symptoms of a computer virus: Corrupt processor, logic, memory, txt and jpg files overheating, and more. But the infection doesn’t just manifest itself in this way. It also appears in the literal interpretation as we blend life and metaphor. As an infection. Infestation. As literal computer ‘bugs’.
CLONE
Directed by Ryan M. Kennedy
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. After 30 years together, Alex suddenly elects to emancipate his clone Richie, but his closest friends begin to question his true intentions.
Boob Cockpit
Directed by Erin Orion Kay
Titillating Wonders! Mystifying Frights! Astounding Discoveries! Boob Cockpit, a long-lost American science fiction television series follows the adventures of a gravity-defying, Double D class spaceship and it’s plucky Pilot; escaping booby traps at every turn.
Glitch
Directed by Shunsuke Ichida
A man stands up to defeat the monster that lives in a girl's heart...
Post Infest
Directed by Justin Van Voorhis
Two friends try to find love during a murder hornet infestation.
Body Prison
Directed by Cameron Kit
In the future, aboard matriarchal space cooperative “Liberty”, women are born and live their lives without the shadow of the patriarchy over them. So when Sasha Rivera arrives at the correctional facility station to receive chastisement for public nudity, she is stunned at the form of her punishment: 1 hour of body dysmorphia, administered by a new, wicked customized AI program. Having grown up completely loving her body, her first experience feeling bodily shame leaves a bitter taste in her mouth.
A Tree Once Grew Here
Directed by Johnnie Semerad
“A Tree Once Grew Here” combines captivating visuals, animation, and imagery, to tell a tale that transcends language. We are reminded that we must rebalance harmony and nurture our planet; because we can no longer afford not to.
The Dark Odyssey 2 - Ice Nexus
Directed by Michael Lavine
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.
Border
Directed by Khalifa Al Thani
In an abstrusely dystopian future, a man wants to go back to his family. But bypassing the latest system becomes a near impossible journey.
Be Nice to Fish
Directed by Samuel B Russell
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.
Awake
Directed by Francesco Paolo Cordaro, Andrea Cordaro
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.
Resource:Full
Directed by Paul Robinson
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.