KWD-07

a bounty hunter discovers secrets about his identity, society, and the powers that control everything!

The Residence

In the near future, during a health crisis, novelist Clarissa Katsef visits the Ludovico Foundation housing complex in search of inspiration. With the help of her AI assistant Dalloway, she finds fresh inspiration as she immerses herself in her writing.

Afterlife

In a near-future where grief can be outsourced, a bereaved artist considers a new outpatient procedure: an AI implant that can copy her mind, replace her with a digital copy, and spare her loved ones the pain of loss. But one unsettling discovery forces her to ask what, if anything, makes us truly irreplaceable. Set one product launch from today, Afterlife is a quiet sci-fi thriller about art, identity, and the slow erasure of the self in the age of artificial intelligence.

Moon

With only three weeks left in his three-year contract, Sam Bell is eager to return to Earth. Stationed alone at a Moon-based facility with his computer assistant GERTY, an unexpected accident sets off a series of unsettling events that shake his isolation.

Future Glasses

A meditative teenager contemplates the rooms of the future. Just one wrong choice will change the course of her life. Life and death are determined by her chosen faith. Can it?

Smash Cuts! Super Sci-Fi Shorts Fest

Host Scott Forrest presents a curated compilation of eight independent short films in this rapid-fire science-fiction feature. Genres collide, narratives twist, aesthetics clash, and even humor, both campy and dystopian, showcase the vast creative possibilities of each story's individual world, offering the viewer a brief glimpse into the lives of every character's attempt to survive the otherworldly chaos around them. Released in 2001, the selected shorts span original creation dates of 1997 to 2001; most of the featured filmmakers also appear as themselves in short video interviews to talk about their inspirations, creative process and motivations while working on their individual shorts.

Romance Reboot

When a struggling couple brings home an AI companion to fix their lives, love unexpectedly blooms again-until tragedy strikes. What follows is a twist of memory, grief, and second chances.

Archive

2038: George Almore is working on a true human-equivalent AI, and his latest prototype is almost ready. This sensitive phase is also the riskiest as he has a goal that must be hidden at all costs—being reunited with his dead wife.

Claire

Lara, a young musician is force isolated by a smart house system in the hopes that she will create a masterpiece.

ADA

An A.I. therapy tool helps a lonely and depressed man confront the darkest parts of himself.

ROSA

Desperate to help her father get over the death of his wife, a girl turns to an AI that mimics her, unaware of the disturbing attachment he will develop toward her.

The Correction Unit

A group of violent and misguided young offenders are experimented on using brutal AI technology at a sinister institute.

Levels

After witnessing his girlfriend's murder, a man risks everything - including reality itself - to discover the truth.

G.A.I.A.

The Red Queen

A young software engineer ventures into a vivid journey to study a newly developed A.I. interface.

Ex Machina

Caleb, a coder at the world's largest internet company, wins a competition to spend a week at a private mountain retreat belonging to Nathan, the reclusive CEO of the company. But when Caleb arrives at the remote location he finds that he will have to participate in a strange and fascinating experiment in which he must interact with the world's first true artificial intelligence, housed in the body of a beautiful robot girl.

As A Joke

Owen is trying to circumnavigate the safety parameters of a smart home device when he’s trying to dispose of a corpse.

In the Flesh

A depressed tech worker begins experimenting with AI after his girlfriend leaves him for a politician.

Colossus: The Forbin Project

The U.S. has handed over control of its nuclear defense system to the Colossus supercomputer designed by scientist Dr. Charles Forbin. It soon becomes clear, that the now-sentient Colossus is far more intelligent than its creator realized—with the fate of the world hanging in the balance.

Terminator Salvation

All grown up in post-apocalyptic 2018, John Connor must lead the resistance of humans against the increasingly dominating militaristic robots. But when Marcus Wright appears, his existence confuses the mission as Connor tries to determine whether Wright has come from the future or the past -- and whether he's friend or foe.