2019

A skeptical high school student is thrown into a night of adventure after he sees a UFO.

A lone astronaut testing the first faster-than-light spacecraft travels farther than he imagined possible.

A street smart smuggler Marky is on the run from a bounty hunter and his infected henchmen. Marky flees to the only family he's ever known, former superhero Ma Jones AKA Thunder.

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A hacker named Quinn infiltrates a cult, who are slowly killing off its members, in order to save her estranged sister, Harper.

With death never more than a misstep away, two hunters must decide whether to embrace the inevitable or fight against their fate.

In a world where the ground is lost to legend, a traumatized fighter pilot must defend her floating city from mysterious, godlike monsters beneath the clouds.

Take Us Home.

When Jason's companion suddenly vanishes before his eyes, he realizes the world around him may be starting to unravel.

When a man takes a mysterious street drug to repair his injured body, a shocking transformation consumes him, threatening his very existence.

After waking up in a bizarre facility, Anna is forced to work together with her literal past lives in order to escape.

A young woman goes back to redo a broken relationship with a lost love. Can they change...or will they be stuck in an endless cycle of repeating the past?

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In a dystopian future, the last human is raised by a machine. He struggles with the loneliness of no human interaction and questions the teachings of a mysterious religious 'Manual' which the machine claims is holy.

A recreational virtual reality user falls victim to the malevolent nature of her personal A.I. system.

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A surrealist look at the romantic comedy and how each choice creates a new world.

A pair of astronauts are trapped on orbital space station because of nuclear war on the earth below.

A woman is trapped in a temporal loop. Will she be able to break it?

A robot named "Oono" cares for his owner while mysterious creatures lurk in the strange world outside.

A new law mandating the public’s use of nanotechnology meets resistance from hacktivists who are conspiring to thwart the impending roll-out of a dangerous hardware upgrade.

With the help of an experimental technology, a young woman returns to Sonoma County in order to re-live an important encounter.

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With Earth on the brink of an inexorable alien invasion, can one desperate young girl call for help before its too late?

A likeness of humans, robots are a reality in the future. The only thing that distinguishes us from them is that we can still control them - but for how long if they have assumed the characteristics that seemed to identify us as human beings? How long? if we exceed by them in physical force. The promise is a short film that looks at the future reality of a world in which those things created by man are a step to be confused with us.

Two friends seek spiritual salvation in India away from their hedonistic lives, in advance of the impending collapse of the Cosmos.

Sometimes to work out what is beautiful about life we must look to someone who exists to work.

RL7 is an eight-foot tall combat robot that goes on the run after malfunctioning with vivid memories of once being human. As its creators and the military close in, RL7 battles its way to uncovering the shocking truth behind its mysterious visions and past.

An unfinished game of hide and seek becomes a race against the clock for Liam. In a futuristic rural village filled with archaic machines, he must become a ruthless vigilante to find his missing sister.

An intelligence agent spying on a nearby apartment building gets his observations terribly wrong.

A space bounty hunter travels to a lonely planet to kill a terrible monster.

Obsessed by a mysterious voice message, astronaut Meredith will face its paradoxical condition in order to stay connected to her humanity.

One Planet's Future Takes Root In Earth's past.

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Set 6000 years the future, Robbie charts the existential reflections of an aging robot drifting alone through space on the last of his battery life.

A Peacemaker, who rejects his final mission to save an endangered planet, is believed to be cursed when a solar storm hits his spaceship.

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A 1960s space-race drama.

A story of emotional weight one carries within, and the hardships when striving to rid oneself of it.

This road crew is hiding a secret about what lurks below the city streets.

A man's eagerness to deliver his consciousness and unconsciousness in the hands of an application for the sake of a better life.

A lonely old man works on a mysterious project... hoping to relive the not-too-distant past.

This technology has horrific consequences.

A band struggles with a radioactive energy in their music they can't control.

In the near future, a woman must make a life changing decision after a mind bending procedure.

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In a world where cutting edge robots are coveted, a fledgling human technician is torn between pursuing his feelings towards an outdated android and placating his abusive, android-aversive father.

The dawn of artificially intelligent androids is upon us, and one man must choose between synthetic freedom and the future of humankind.

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In the future, sleep is a crime.

"Metta Via" Directed by Warren Flanagan

A Lovecraftian tale of frontiers and madness - watch now on DUST.

After a mysterious electro-magnetic pulse renders the world's technology useless, a young girl finds herself isolated and alone with only her father's strict set of rules to keep her alive.

An inventor on the brink of fulfilling his life's work finally faces the truth behind the machine he is building.

During a sleepover, four 9-year-old girls obsessed with space embark on a secret mission in their cardboard rocket. When Dad returns home, what will become of their mission?

"Rendezvous with Mars" is a film about a young girl's journey from her humble beginnings in the city of Bombay to becoming an astronaut en route to Mars.

Imagine the sun, by looking at a light bulb.

In a next-generation prison, inmates are “corrected” over a few days by an A.I. linked to their consciousness. Cyrus, a lonely parole officer, becomes obsessed with Alice – a sociopathic inmate that the A.I. seems unable to reform.

A man finds himself on a mysterious planet trapped in a game of death.

An interstellar mission crash lands on an abandoned earth now devoid of life and water. In a race against time and resources they must not only survive the elements but face what once was.

Watch the surreal and suspenseful time travel short film.

After the death of her companion, a scientist is trapped by herself on an outpost near Jupiter begins to imagine, or realize, that she is not alone after all.

Four men explore an abandoned research facility. Within the station unsettling signs of disorder are revealed, and in the lowest level of the facility, a chilling discovery is made.

Under the eye of an A.I. camera system, an online 'livecaster' with a volatile brand has a crisis of conscience in a future where jobs are limited and conflict is currency.

From a mysterious void, a guardian angel-like figure guides a man through his first romance.

In the future, two women struggle for survival on a newly colonised planet.

They know your face and they are watching. Starring Jacob Anderson who played Grey Worm from "Game of Thrones."

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Evan Rachel Wood and Sophia the Robot star in the short film "SophiaWorld" presented by DUST x Futurism.

Joel Fink is just another bored twenty-something looking for some excitement in an otherwise dull and uneventful life. A curious encounter outside a travel agent pulls him into an unusual world where he’s offered an even more unusual proposition.

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A suburban stay-at-home dad builds an autonomous robot out of his mower, but when he finds out his creation is taking over his life he sets out to destroy it.

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A grieving plumber seeks out a disgraced quantum physicist to rid himself of a tormenting "Hum".

A mad scientist attempts to conduct a brain transplant with the supernatural powers of his captive.

A mother's long time missing daughter begins to reach out to her across time and space. Could it be a drug induced delusion or does Kate really possess the ability to cross over?

A Roomba meets its match when encountering a new mess to clean up.

Malcolm inherits a bank vault that contains classified government documents and an audio recording that urges him to complete a series of requests.

A young woman tries to seek shelter as those around her float inexplicably into the night sky.

In a dystopian world a new form of A.I. weaponry has been created. All these drone bots need is a profile: age, sex, fitness, uniform, and ethnicity. Nuclear is obsolete. Take out your entire enemy virtually risk free. Just characterize him, release the swarm, and rest easy.

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In this sci-fi retelling of Edgar Allan Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart," a pair of astronauts work on a small space station orbiting a distant planet. As the mysterious narrator attempts to convince himself of his sanity while describing his brutal act of murder, he becomes haunted by a thunderous heartbeat that could only come from the far reaches of space.

Our sister brand ALTER knows everything horror - which is why we asked them to help pick this week’s short films. They know frightening and this film delivers.

Our sister brand ALTER knows everything horror - which is why we asked them to help pick this week’s short films. They know frightening and this film delivers.

In an alternate future, an idealistic teen fights to expose the secrets of a corrupt system, unaware that someone is always watching.

In this suspenseful sci-fi, an AID (Artificially Intelligent Device) by the name of CC, has been leased by a nanny agency to Lena to help care for her daughter. When a violent incident occurs between CC and Lena, an investigative team is tasked with determining exactly what happened.

A man uses holographic tools to build an idyllic world as a subconscious playground for his love.

After a painful breakup, Aaron purchases a life-size doll to serve as a replacement for the companionship he has lost. This simple solution to his relationship problem is complicated by a visit from his ex.

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This inclusive version of "How To Be Human" includes an audio description for individuals with visual impairment. If you were forced to flee your own war-ridden country, would you sacrifice what makes you human to survive? "How to be Human" by Bruno Centofanti

A robot goes on a quest to find his creator in the desert lands outside his city. Not built for the harsh environment outside his city, a robot takes his chances and braves the barren landscape in a desperate attempt to find his creator. With his knee joints slowly breaking down, it’s only a matter of time before his fate will be decided.

A small, ash-collecting robot is jettisoned from a spacecraft and witnesses the collapse of the universe over trillions of years as he slowly drifts beyond outer space. Many trillions of years ago, a small maintenance robot was jettisoned into outer space. Now, as it drifts beyond the cosmos and out into the interstellar void, it becomes the only being to witness to the collapse of the known universe.

A genius hacker and his dog help an enigmatic young woman to free the remaining test subjects of a black ops ESP test lab.

The President of the United States gives a live, last address to the people.

A man tries to do his laundry, but comes across an unexpected obstacle at the laundrette. DAY ONE is a cautionary tale on automation and artificial intelligence. This film was completed in 48 hours, from writing to post-production, in the SCI-FI London film festival.

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When Dan Levy goes to get his snoring, pregnant wife a glass of water, he meets an alternate version of himself who has an offer this Dan might not be able to refuse.

It turns out that life as we know it is a sophisticated computer simulation. Earth, existence, and consciousness, all the design of a hyper intelligent race of aliens known as the Thesquardorians. On December the 31st, 1974, the Thesquardorians decided the simulation had run its course. This is an absurdist comedy set in a computer lab in the 1970s. Two computer technicians dredging through their graveyard shift on New Year’s Eve stumble upon the final digit of pi which sends their entire existence spiraling out of control as they come to terms with the fact that it was all a sophisticated computer simulation.