CINEMA 1,2,3 BY ANGELIKA
March 14, 2026
5pm-7pm
A SCI-FI SHORT FILM BLOCK
NEOSHIN - EPISODE 03: DISTANT LOVE
Director Sebastian Selg
Germany, 4 minutes
After the invention of CRYONIC REALITY (CR) by EDEN Association, world leaders chose to discontinue the counting of time in 2073 and proclaimed the final year 2073X. CR is a virtual world of utopia that people can access to escape the bleak reality.
EDGAR: Enhanced Data Gathering Analysis Robot
Director Virginia de Witt
United States, 14 min
In a near-future desert-scape, a suicidal woman discusses life, love and loss with an AI Android which resembles her estranged father, meanwhile her neighbor focuses on his passion for tap dancing.
Music of the Storm
Director River Rainbow O'Mahoney Hagg
United States, 4 min
Music of the Storm is a three-minute experimental short by Hawaiian filmmaker and combat veteran River Rainbow O’Mahoney Hagg. The film blends poetic voiceover, symbolic imagery, and immersive sound design to explore the long shadow of war and the rhythm of recovery
Don't Watch This
Director Daniel Pineros
United States, 15 minutes
A woman slowly realizes she's a character in a movie. As she spirals in terror, everyone around her dismisses her as delusional-unaware that she's the only one who knows we are watching.
LAWYERED UP
Director Tatiana Blackington James
United States, 19 min
A betrayed woman hires a divorce lawyer, who seems to be the perfect man. Is he too good to be true?
Em & Selma Go Griffin Hunting
Director Alexander Thompson
US, 15 minutes
From BAFTA-winning Exec Producer Roy Lee (Weapons, How to Train Your Dragon, Barbarian, It, Welcome to Darry) comes an allegorical 1930s-set coming-of-age fable about mothers, daughters & the beasts they hunt. Starring HEREDITARY's Milly Shapiro and WALKING DEAD's Pollyanna McIntosh.
Director Brenden Hubbard
United States , 16 min
From the Academy Award winning team behind "Curfew." Still reeling from an incredible loss, a father (Shakey Graves) and daughter cling to a bedtime routine keeping them safe in a town where an unfathomable horror visits its inhabitants night after night.
HYPERBURN
Director TRAVIS DUBRIDGE
US, 12 min
In a post-apocalyptic wasteland, a comedic, action-packed sci-fi unfolds as our reluctant hero teams up with his newly implanted A.I. companion. Together, they embark on a quest across the unforgiving desert
Are you a human being ?
Director Matthieu Moerlen
France, Switzerland, 29 min
Lucie and Jean-Michel are grappling with an existential crisis and a computer crash.
In this dark comedy blending poetry and artificial intelligence...
They search for the meaning of their lives!
Treasure Imagination
Director Scott Rice
in Best Shorts Competition
United States, 5 minutes
A city boy is distraught when his beloved tablet is taken away by his mom. But when he finds a mysterious fedora left on a park bench, his temptation to place it on his head leads to adventure.
7pm-9pm
INTERNATIONAL FEATURE PRESENTATION
PAST LIFE
PAST LIFE
Director Simeon Halligan
United Kingdom, 92 min
Jason (Aneurin Barnard), a journalist traumatised by his time in the middle east, is dragged to a TV show by his pregnant wife Claira (Pixie Lott). A celebrity Hypnotist (Jeremy Piven), is making audience members experience their glamorous past lives. Sceptical Jason thinks it's all a con, until Tim, the hypnotist, takes Jason under with a click of his fingers, and he experiences the world through the eyes of a 1980s serial killer.
Starring
Jeremy Piven ( ENTOURAGE), GROSS POINT BLANK, SPYKIDS
Pixie Lott, English singer, songwriter, and actress. Her debut studio album, Turn It Up (2009), reached number six on the UK Albums Chart and sold over 1.5 million copies
Q&A with Director and Lead Actors followed by a Panel past Life Regression