When an ambitious young artist hits a wall, he resorts to an artificial intelligence program to help him creatively. As he tumbles down a cyber rabbit hole, the integrity of AI is questioned.

Beefart & Cheenkaw, the world's greatest crime fighting super heroes are up against their greatest challenge. Together with their new partner in paranormal investigations, Marla, and her boyfriend Silk, they try to unravel the mystery behind Silk's bizarre new job on a local TV show. Little do they know That the show's producer and host is in reality the most diabolical villain in the history of the world, and plans to take over the entire planet by sending every last person to another dimension.. a dimension of souls.. a world of the uncanny. Meanwhile a space ship heading back towards the planet Spidapple is having troubles of their own, they are transporting a prisoner, the inhuman killing machine known as Bo-Bo, little do they know there is no cell that can hold him. Between the Diabolical Nathanial Weisberg, Bo-Bo, The mystic woman known as Kate, and her superhero champion, "The Mosquito" This is easily the greatest adventure our heroes have ever gone on.

Set in the near future, a collective of queer-feminist superhero*ines make use of their different identities, backgrounds and experiences to fight back against sexual and gender-based violence – a fusion of science, technology, magic, and ritual. Clashes and conflicts arise as they negotiate and try to come to a consensus on their aim of disrupting toxic hierarchies. The project is currently in post-production.

After an accident, a young woman has muddled memories of her past, and when she tries to access them via a chip to recover her memories, she discovers someone has tried to delete them. Who would do this to her most precious moments?

Stop-motion animation about a scientist in a computerized cave.

A post-apocalyptic survivor and his unlikely ally journey through a barren, disease-ridden wasteland searching for safe haven.

Gia, our planet’s organics-engineer, must decide if we are a species worth salvaging or if eradicating all life on Earth is the answer.

Billy explains how he sacrificed his life and learned to cope with the lack of acceptance he gains from his soulmate's family. Billy suffers from the lack of love he receives when meeting Lilly's family but will do anything just so that he's not known as the odd one out.

Using found footage, several members of royalty inform the citizens of an impending doom from space coming toward Earth.

Aporia is an experimental short film following a girl in the near future who rents out a portion of her brain to a data startup in order to pay her hydro bill.

Created by Nick Clarridge, a grade-six student from Toronto, Sam Digital is a 21st century computer virus detective in the year 2050. When a giant virus monster tries to destroy Internet World, everyone in the future can't do their daily activities, and Sam must go into the digital world to stop the virus once and for all.

An informercial salesman reconciles his loneliness after 5 years spent in the post apocalyptic ruins by creating an infomercial about killing giant bugs, but the thing is, he's really just lost it after a year in quarantine.

Using a Mayan coin to travel through time, a wisecracking young explorer travels to the future where he finds Earth an apocalyptic wasteland besieged by neo-Nazis and mutants. A regional SOV film made in Ontario by a local cast.

In a virtual reality world, the introverted Syrus 86 meets the more outgoing Zoe 03 and Kaari 25, where they bring out the best in him.

A man wakes in a sea of sand dunes. He clutches a metal suitcase as if it holds something of great value. In the distance looms a distorted and inhuman city from which the man has apparently fled. An experiment in science-fiction/mystery, Flee wonders how many possible histories and possible futures can be implied in a single minute. This film was made as part of the 8th edition of the NFB's Hothouse apprenticeship.

Like many youngsters, Cindy believed there was something ominous lurking within her closet. Unfortunately she was right.

DJ, a mentally-plagued electronica musician, stumbles upon the “Master Frequency”—a dangerous sound wave that distorts the body and mind. As DJ falls deeper into the frequency’s grasp, they must save their mind and loved ones.

Government authorities tell their citizens that decades ago, a virus killed most of the humans living on Earth. To prevent the eradication of the human species, the government has imposed the permanent isolation of adults, two by two, in cement chambers located in the heart of underground facilities. Locked up together for years, an ambitious young man and a good-natured old man have the daily task of turning valves fixed to the wall to distribute drinking water to a thirsty population. A chance reunion with a childhood friend could allow the young man to realize his dream of escaping their cell... and lead them to finally see the light of day.

In a world where love and connection have dire consequences, a young couple must navigate their relationship and decide whether their love is worth the cost.

A woman is caught up by what she cannot ignore anymore.

Plot unknown at this time

During a karate class, two students start an important debate: What is the best superpower for a superhero? Soon they are not the only ones asking this question.

Mashup/homage to 50s/60s sci-fi films about alien invasions.

In a chamaleonic and confined space lives the perfectionist Eva, however an anomaly progressively humanizes her by showing her fears and doubts. Suddenly her instinct is all she has in her boxed nightmare.

A mechanized colossus created in a military laboratory is set free by a mysterious organization looking to start a civil war.

A mother isn’t sure she can accept her daughter’s new paramour in this animated short originally created for last year’s Nickel Sci-Fi Challenge. St. John’s comedian Veronica Dymond made this one, so you know it’s funny and a little bit weird.

Beefart and Cheenkaw, the world's greatest crime-fighting team, face their greatest foe of all time. Who is this mysterious villain? And what has caused Cheenkaw, Beefart and Laura McKnees to be separated?

Five years after the carnage that took place in the woods.... Rolf is still dead, and Bo-Bo is gone...

After many years of inhumane 'treatments' at the EverLove mental institute, Larry Johnson (Bo-Bo) escapes and returns to Calgary to punish those who have made him suffer - all humans.

A hitman is seduced by a dancer that he had been tasked to kill.

An experimental exploration of media manipulation within Western society.

"The Coldest Day of the Year" takes place in a future where a cataclysmic event has made tracing a coherent meaning of the past and recounting a narrative of the present impossible. The narrator believes she has seen another being in this destroyed landscape. She attempts to find this figure and recounts a journey that traces the shadows of her presence. Using temporary sets, props and collaged images, "The Coldest Day of the Year" recounts an attempt to understand an ever shifting horizon and possibility of dwelling.

A man tries to escape in a virtual reality of his own creation. Engineer meets his own Creation.

Space oddities cruising the radio waves have a chance encounter via TV antenna and strike up some weird romance.

All the land has been sold and the wealthy live in mobile luxury homes, suspended from a network of cables covering the earth. With this super-sophisticated technology, the slightest malfunction can be catastrophic.

In this sci-fi tale of conquest and empowerment, sex-toys become beacons for a new species of colonizers.

After Lance Davis' girlfriend is kidnapped by mutants, he must fight through the bureaucracy to get an expedition to save her. Led by ranger Joan Smith, Davis enters the Badlands to find his girlfriend, encountering a host of strange situations along the way. But, in the Badlands, things are not always what they seem.

An Ex Military specialist is called in one last time to recover deadly military experiment (PHOBE) who has escaped. Tracking the PHOBE to a small planet called Earth, Dapp must stop the Phobe and destroy the egg within 72 hours.

A shadowed man splices together super 8 filmstrips of an overdosed junkie’s memories, causing her life to flash fragmented before her eyes in this incredible experimental deathtrip that would have made Stan Brakhage proud. Canada / Directed by Guillaume Fortin

The forest watches as two sisters confront personal truths - and what lurks in the dark (originally released as a television series, this is a theatrical release edit).

A stranded astronaut searches a distant planet for the cure to her illness. Instead, she finds an unexpected life form who offers her a deal.

Expelled 87 is sent to earth with the mission of saving his species from immanent extinction. As he gets accustomed to a new world he is haunted by his old home.

Part 3 of an upcoming cyclical sci-fi satire trilogy written and directed by Daniel Duffy. Plot TBA.

Part 2 of an upcoming cyclical sci-fi satire trilogy written and directed by Daniel Duffy. Plot TBA.

An astronaut struggles with survival after receiving heavy damage to his ship.

During an investigation into the disappearance of her cat, lonely teenage Freya Lundstrum begins to uncover the gruesome history of her house. Each new piece of information points to one conclusion -inhuman precedence lurking within the walls of 230 Briar Rd. realizing that she cannot defeat the enemy alone, Freya seeks the help of two former occupants. But time is running out for Freya to save herself and her mother from becoming the house's latest victims.

Part 1 of an upcoming cyclical sci-fi satire trilogy written and directed by Daniel Duffy. Plot TBA.

Leave Chromebook Signed in Man strikes! Will Sign Out of Chromebook Man be ready to stop him?

Sam, a grieving brother desperate for answers about his missing sibling, turns to an artificial intelligence program, for assistance. This reveals unsettling truths and offers cryptic insights into Sam's past and the lines between reality and delusion blur. With tension mounting and secrets unraveling, Sam confronts the haunting consequences of his quest for closure.

Eva, an early-thirties hacker, wakes up in a deserted world where a dull threat is terrorizing and stalking her. She crosses paths with Matt, dropped there a few weeks earlier and just as disoriented as she is. There, weapons are at hand, self-service. Even more accessible than a pizza. There, Eva and Matt seem to be in the grip of an external force. A force that controls them and from which they cannot escape. In this chaos, has their good old technology remained a friend or turned into an enemy? While breathing spaces are rare moments, together they need to fight back for their freedom.

150 years from now, two warrior siblings document their community who survived climate change and become the focus of an event that will change them forever.

Two friends goes to an abandoned basement with one goal: bring an old friend back from the past.

Beefart is still at home running his private detective agency and dreams that Bo-Bo attacks him. What he doesn't know is that Bo-Bo's soul has come out of hell and returned to his body on Earth, escaping from the institute where he was confined and killing everyone who crosses his path.

In a near future powered by wireless energy, a private detective is hired by a renowned inventor’s estate, after he spontaneously combusts in a hotel hallway -- all the while the world searches for the first airliner to go missing in a generation.

quirky journey through recent time to an ethos of futurity, which explores the potential ramifications of technology on human beings while leaving us with choices.

'Piña, Why is the Sky Blue?' brings us into multiple futures, where technologies have been re-routed to create a spiritual guide steeped in matrilineal knowledge. Here, we learn that Piña is a digital vessel who lives in the distant future and uploads, stores and shares the familial knowledge, dreams and desires transmitted to them from the past. Messengers from various realms and places around the world use digitally altered pineapple fabric to upload their data for the deity, who lives to receive, care for and disseminate the information for its continued preservation.