DUST 2021 Dominant Species

In a post-apocalyptic world, a man takes refuge in an arcade.

A man from another dimension loops through time in search of the ultimate answer, accompanied only by his unusual pets.

On a back street, a scrap monster makes a sudden lunge at a man. A pink-haired girl helps him, and their future is down to whether he remembers her.

As yet another superstorm bears down on a desperate, weary city in the year 2040, a young woman seeks to redeem her winning sweepstakes ticket for a better life in a low Earth orbit paradise.

An old man, with a receding memory, pays to view synthetic recreations of his mother and childhood.

Can an android have feelings? Can true love be resurrected through technology after death? When a family in mourning encounters a mysterious wandering service android, the family is forced to redefine its conceptions of humanity, relationships, and family.

Nigel is an elderly man living as a recluse, haunted by his past and memory of the family he once had, until an unexpected visitor arrives and disrupts his lonely routine.

Two anxious space couriers have to deliver an ominous package to an unfamiliar planet with unexpected results.

In a wild an inhabited desert, a team of rangers is in charge of rescuing people who got lost there.

When a passing asteroid begins to affect how people perceive time, one man struggles to keep up with a life that is quickly disappearing into the future.

After disappearing for over a week, River tries to put her fragmented memory back together, while teetering on the brink of insanity and questioning what's real vs a dream.

A disabled robot war veteran finds its home among humans in the tender care of an old lady, and her hair salon for cats.

When Aunt Drea solicits her help with criminal activities, young Jess's emotions spin out of control, releasing powers she'd rather keep hidden.

A man has a medical procedure done to experience love for the first time.

In a future world, restrictions on families create tension between lovers.

A self-conscious man tries to make a connection on a new dating app.

In a near future, a lonely man is addicted to a product called Best Friend which offers him perfect virtual friends.

When Matt accidentally shrinks himself and is captured by the ants whom he has unwittingly been squashing, he must find a way to escape their clutches and his impending death sentence.

In the future, dreams have been privatized. Carlos will risk anything to have one last dream to see his missing family.

WARNING: Contains Flashing Lights

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A self-absorbed teenager somehow contacts another universe after she's injured in a car accident.

When the captain of an isolated mining station near Saturn is murdered, Detective Lennox is sent to investigate the three remaining crew members. Centered around a series of interrogations and flashback, Lennox discovers that everyone has a motive to kill. With otherworldly threats approaching and the killer amongst them, will everybody make it off the station?

CONTENT WARNING: This film contains graphic depictions of self harm and suicide which may be extra sensitive for some viewers.

George works at a convenience store, desperately hoping for a friend. But George is a robotic service unit, and robotic service units do not have friends. Not yet, anyway.

CONTENT WARNING: This film contains depictions of suicide and may be sensitive for some viewers.

On the day of the apocalypse when the experimental world is about to be deleted, two girls, a human and an AI, fall in love.

A mother befriends a burnt-out hacker to help search for her son in virtual reality.

Even in the future, people are idiots, they're just in spaceships now.

Earth is no more. A new generation lives underground on Mars preparing to begin a new life as the colonists of a planet which is being terraformed into a new habitable world.

You are very qualifiied.

On a lazy Saturday morning, a young couple discusses their future, as one inexplicably tells the other that this is the moment that leads to their breakup.

One man's search for his kidnapped daughter causes his reality to unravel.

An artist turns to his android muse for help when trying to sell his newest paintings, but events take a dark and disturbing turn when the android learns what has inspired the work.

Heavy dreamer, Aris Fletcher, has been initiated into the Seechers. After reading a forbidden text on how to enter the Subconscious World, Aris dabbles in his own powers, which puts his life in great danger.

In a future where climate change and pollution have caused humanity to adapt, a father plans a heist to steal a prototype water filtration device from a tech company founder to help his ailing daughter.

Isolation is a tough time.

Two friends take a high tech risk for the chance to talk to their best friend one more time.

In the future, a Hawaiian astronaut makes the next great leap for his planet, his family, and himself. Tonight is his last chance.

A robotics company executive pushes for the development of an android companionship model and unexpectedly spends a week with her.

A couple living in the ruins of London 2056 must decide whether they should upload their consciousnesses into the mysterious Cloud 9.

A heartbroken woman must contend with a cheating boyfriend - and an incoming alien invasion.

Hired by a man who buys and sells time, a young bodyguard is torn between serving her master and fighting for the people he ruins with his power.

A scavenger discovers a valuable artifact deep within an abandoned facility on a desolate planet. Hoping for a big payout, he ventures inside, only to find something much more sinister.

An ex-slave trader struggles to live a reformed life as a lowly interplanetary cargo hauler. Stranded and broke, he faces his dark past and difficult ethical choices in a desperate attempt to provide a better life for his daughter.

In this Black Mirror-esque tale, a couple revisit key moments of their past, only for their memories to take an unexpected turn.

Captain Mira Bernhard is finally home after a lengthy mission to the new planet, GAIA - humanity’s last hope. But what’s only been a 5-year trip for her, has been 45-year wait for her husband.

Set in the near future where experimental technology allows two detectives to bring a murder victim back to life in a digital state in order to question him about his final moments.

In a future where telepaths are used by the government to monitor the public and root out insurgents, a non-speaking teen seeks to avenge her father by hunting down and killing the man responsible for his death.

An astronaut from an interstellar colony returns to Earth to determine why they lost contact.

Zoe and her father have lived in space all their lives. The space station they call home is about to explode. Their only chance of survival is an old escape pod but there's only room for one.

Content Warning: This film contains depictions of suicide that may be disturbing for some viewers.

An animated cyberpunk thriller centered around a motorcycle gang of traffickers in a world of autonomous vehicles.Yuri and her brother Nyx face off against the Metro Task Force as they transport an important package to a client.

A military supercomputer learns about poetry, love and fate.

An app designed to bring its users happiness helps a man build the perfect life, which he ends up destroying when he learns the app is faulty.

A fighter pilot tries to keep his squad together.

Lisa receives a butler A.I. to Turing test, and over the course of the procedure, she discovers the A.I. is not what it seems and her entire world disrupted.

An astronaut faces his mortality and what defines him as a son, a father, a husband and a human being.

In a not so distant future- a coalition of the old earth’s nations have sought and claimed the discovery of a new planet “Gaia” as the human race’s last hope for survival. However, when the human settlements rolled in, what awaited them was neither discovery nor pioneering but colonization and war against the planet’s original inhabitants. With an increasingly militaristic government that demands the settlers’ sacrifice for the good of all, one family is torn apart when the eldest daughter, Ara, questions who the real bad guys are. At a time where mass think seems to be the safest option, Ripple Effect asks us if we’re brave enough to go against the grain, and at what cost?

Set in the very near future, a virtual reality addicted girl must follow a government mandate to remove her VR headset for 3 hours. When her dismal reality sets in, she goes online and orders Perfect Man: a robotic humanoid love companion.

Young Lizzie must battle the monster that has possessed her mother, using the wisdom of her TV hero, Celeste Skygoode.

A scientist on a secret experiment to teleport humans grapples with a dire mistake.

A potato farmer connects with the injured alien that crash-landed in his field, much to the chagrin of the local authorities.

On a remote island in the future, people are training for an important mission. Take a look at the mechanics of this training facility and the creatures within.

3 Test Subjects, 2 Bullets, 1 Solution.

In a large space mining colony, Eve has to pass the most difficult test of all. With only one free hand and unable to use her emergency thrusters, she will have to do everything possible to survive.

The dark year 2204, in a world that has seen 73 years of continuous war. A Shaman is sent on a mission to convert the soul of a giant battle colossus.

200 years after humanity has abandoned the real world for a digital one, the system's most talented security agent is forced out of retirement to recruit and lead a team of talented warriors to eliminate a threat from a world no one has seen for centuries. The real world.

Willing to pay the price for a new, fancy life, a man stops his car in the middle of nowhere and forces his father out, leaving him all alone in the woods, Haunted by his regrets, he then tries to cancel the agreement and bring his father back.

God is a single parent and amateur programmer. He's working on project 'Earth' but never seems to get a break from the kids. One day though, he finally gets a breakthrough.

Time stands still as two old friends attempt to grapple with a question that defines their very existence. If you could live forever, would you?

After the end of the world, Merv's life in the lonely wastes is comfortably boring until an unexpected signal heralds the coming of a stranger.

When the diligent cockroaches build a rocket to fly to the moon, they accidentally wake up one of the last humans from his virtual dreams.

A former super soldier with chronic asthma fights to prove his worth.

In a world where the wealthy are inhabiting the bodies of the young, a teenager raises an underground resistance to fight back and reclaim what's hers.

A Russian astronaut wakes up after an accident to discover he's stranded on a space station module, but when a strange visitor arrives he begins to wonder if he's losing his mind.

Helen, a lonely and isolated woman, is given the opportunity to connect with people from her past using a new augmented reality device.

When the world has been pushed past breaking point, an aging neurobotanist collects and preserves what little of value remains.

Four kids start their journey to the moon with the mission of finding a mysterious place called The Redland but the gates of Redland are being guarded by a mischievous snake.

Content Warning: This film contains depictions of gun violence that may be disturbing for some viewers.

Three young misfits venture into the Australian outback to find what they believe is a meteorite that has crash landed near their country town, only to discover it's something far more mysterious.

A nervous job candidate is forced to show much more than a positive attitude to save the life of her competitor.

In 2071 Pakistan, citizens are mandated by law to smile at all times, holding together a tenuous peace after three decades of civil war. But at what cost?

A woman is faced with existential crisis after learning that the universe is an untitled simulation.

Federation Officer Shapiro crash-lands on a desert planet with no sign of water, life, or a way off. Her crew-mate Rand is no help, resigned to his fate on the hypnotic alien dunes. Locating the ship's emergency beacon is their only hope, but when a salvage crew answers their distress signal, it's already too late.

Claire's world is turned upside down when the chip implanted in her wrist notifies her that the love of her life is a nearby stranger.

On a quest to find the comic book he’s been searching for his entire life, an adventurous 17 year-old travels to Tokyo and discovers a world in which Japanese comics are real and that he’s one of the main characters.

A humble domestic servant awaits the return of his loved ones...

Set in the near future, a thirteen-year-old girl plays a deadly game of cat and mouse in a world where overpopulation has caused for a desperate law that forces citizens to kill their designated 'Soulmate'.

A couple's relationship takes an unexpected turn when a strange phenomenon in their backyard allows cloning to take place.

A shooting star falls down over the Arctic island of Svalbard and The Global Seed Vault gets an unexpected visitor.

A lonely 50s housewife undertakes radical atomic surgery to win back her husband's wandering eyes and to become the perfect wife in the process.

A cold world. Individuals whose head is replaced by cages with a balloon pass by each other in the streets of an immense city. All these individuals look alike and live in a standardized way.

A selfish man tries to alter his destiny when he receives an ominous phone call from his future self.

A lovelorn underdog buys a novelty meteorite as part of a romantic gesture to win his ex back, but when the mysterious gift proves to have a mind of its own, he must purge himself of the parasitic entity before it consumes him.

An American Chinese immigrant makes contact with his grandson in the future via a mailbox. Together they have to deal with their mutual enemies.

In a near future, in the heart of a forest in the North where anarchy reigns, a young girl Hawa and her father live as refugees along with other survivors.

An 11-year old girl’s loyalty to her parents is tested after an attack by her caregiver hints to a greater violent upheaval beyond their rural surroundings.

Moments before her son Satv'k's retrieval by the state, Parser makes one last attempt at bolstering his faith in the fabled Indigo Child."

A family game night turns ugly when a protective mother, desperate to keep her turn in the game a secret, is forced to commit a heinous act that holds a troubling, family-shattering secret.

A Time Enforcer must stop illegal time travel at any cost.

Jane Montana, a rough and tough law-woman, is in a pickle. A gang of outlaws led by a man named Buford has kidnapped a helpless damsel. Worse, Jane has two bullets and three bad guys to confront.

Three inmates awaken in a subterranean prison and must set aside their differences in order to escape, but things become complicated when a genetically modified creature breaches containment.

After tripping over her dog and dying, a young woman wakes up in a virtual purgatory and waits for her mind to be downloaded into a new body.

An accidental encounter with an uninvited guest disrupts Alice's life. As her husband Tom's hidden secret gradually surfaces, Alice finds herself one of the bio-mechanical substitutes of his deceased wife.

Izumi Ishimoto and Alex Morales were once in love and now cannot forget each other twenty years later. Now 20 years have passed and they have moved on with their lives, but so has the world. Set in a boring and bureaucratic version of NYC, Izumi and Alex go about their mundane existences while quietly refusing to give into mandates of the new dystopian society – namely undergoing a surgical treatment that renders the brain incapable of dreaming. A mysterious company called the Sandman Corp., led by the equally enigmatic Dr. Esperanza Haddid, who boldly claims to have developed a technology to create alternate realities or dreams by scanning people’s’ memories. The opportunity to reconnect with each other is a temptation the two haven’t felt in years.

Leaving for his dream job, a satellite technician keeps solitude at bay by constantly texting with his old friends. After neglecting his duties a satellite leaves its orbit which causes the worlds network to collapse.

Tonight, Paul pops the question to Amanda. Everything is perfect, then suddenly - chaos. Now the couple find themselves stuck between two worlds. Desperate to be free, they try everything they can to escape... Will they succeed?

A seeker finds himself distressed by his dependencies and is constantly searching for a way to survive without his life support.

Did you ever wonder what will the future of health-care hold? How will advances in medical A.I. change our lives? Will algorithms eclipse doctors entirely? We hope not. Instant Doctor is a short film to show appreciation for doctors and health-care human workers everywhere.

An astronaut travels through space alone and may be stranded in orbit forever due to his spacecraft malfunctioning.

Dominated by an Insect's totalitarian regime, the staff of a restaurant organizes a plot to knock down the established order.

A lonely gay man falls in love with an artificially intelligent car over the course of a road trip.

A woman travels in time to save another woman's life but the risk could be far reaching for her own reality.

When Dori's sister Fae returns from a recovery center, Dori begins to suspect someone is stalking her. But what's coming for them is not of this world.

Two lonely romantics go to absurd lengths to be anyone but themselves.

Two agoraphobic women find love via a virtual dating app.

In a primitive society, Bryana, a pregnant hunter, loses her husband to pestilence. Exiled from her home, she hunts their god to demand help.

A competitive mother orders a clone to outshine her flawless friend, but soon realizes she purchased an unbeatable rival.

A woman struggles to adjust to her new life in a human zoo exhibit on an alien planet.

A man tries to convince his skeptical friend that he has invented a trap for catching extraterrestrials.

In the near future, when all workers are replaced by humanoids, a Chinese chef, Pu, is ordered to pass on his cooking skills to a humanoid robot, William, and teach him Chinese cooking.

Desperate to escape from the mysterious house she's trapped in, a young woman learns that her only way out is by feeding a young, innocent girl to the house.

After her brother is fatally wounded, a naïve but ambitious scavenger, must learn to shoot down a futuristic military drone while avoiding a vicious group of hunters, in order to obtain life saving antibiotics before her brother succumbs to infection.

A lonely woman who takes care of her paralyzed husband saves an alien who cannot experience emotions. As she tries to teach it what it’s like to be human, she discovers that feelings can be misleading.

A short film about a young robot with a defective part, trying to find their way in the world.

Dave is annoyed the annoyingly exuberant team spirit of his robot colleagues

A desperately seeking outlander stumbles across a mysterious, reclusive hermit who may hold the secret that could change a lost world.

Space Vessel Iris and its crew encounter a troubling discovery as they embark to what they believe to be an uninhabited planet.

Liv Laika embarks on a solitary mission to a distant planet in search of her ancestors who fled the earth nearly a century prior. After days of radio silence, Liv begins to question whether or not they even want to be found.