SFFSFF 2026 FILMS

April 18th - Main Track

Content Warnings: Discussion of Racial Violence, Racial Slurs, Language, Animated Gore, Graphic Violence/Gore, Explicit Sexual Situations, Sexual Assault

SFFSFF 2025 Winner

My Only Friend is a Robot Named Beans

Anika Kan Grevstad

USA

13 min.

Ruby finds her lonesome routines disrupted when she makes an unlikely new friend: a mail-order robot.

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Play Again?

Rita (Rui) Chen

USA

4 min.

Faced with the end of their world, two time travelers say their last goodbyes.

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The Burden

Tish Arana

USA

15 min.

When culture vultures apply for citizenship on a new planet founded by Black Earthlings, three judges must decide how to deal with folks who want everything but the burden.

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En Memoria

Roberto Fatal

USA

11 min.

In a dystopian future, a mother struggles to finish making her daughter's quinceañera dress.

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Redman

Edith Morris

United Kingdom

1 min.

I went to Lofoten, Norway and captured a giant red man on Super 8.

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Detlev

Ferdinand Ehrhardt

Germany

13 min.

A constantly freezing man in his forties drives to a lonely petrol station every evening to perform a bizarre warming ritual. When he is observed by a stranger one night, his world begins to crumble into shameful pieces.

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Empano Gleasium

Joe Bowden

USA

10 min.

A couple uses their love for each other and a magical spell to summon a galactic deity, but when they recite the spell's magic words, they learn there's more to magic than love...

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Butterfly Kiss

Zohar Dvir

Germany

10 min.

After an argument over an unexpected marriage proposal, Carol is left horrified to discover that their partner Ray has turned into a butterfly. Will love win?

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I Metaman™

Chester Travis

New Zealand

5 min.

A lonely woman turns to a cutting-edge dating service, hoping technology might succeed where love has failed.

Animated scene of three people sitting at train tables with a scenic mountain view outside the window.

SFFSFF 2025 Winner

God is Shy

Jocelyn Charles

France

15 min.

During a train ride, Ariel and Paul pass the time sketching their deepest fears. Their game takes an unexpected turn when Gilda, a mysterious passenger, intrudes on their exchange. Yet, her relationship with fear seems far less innocent than their playful drawings.

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Skin

Urvashi Pathania

USA

12 min.

When an Indian American woman visits a mysterious skin-lightening clinic, she discovers its horrifying true nature.

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ÅTERSÅDD

Emanu Garnheim

Sweden

14 min.

The Traveler tries to create new life on a dead planet, inhabited only by the mysterious dust worms. But life only seems to be possible through sacrifice.

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Milkshake

George Tsereteli Ortiz

USA

4 min.

Flying through outer space in a beat-up pickup truck, a man convinces his younger brother to stop at an asteroid gas station for a milkshake.

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Enseñame Como Morir (Show Me How to Die)

Gerardo Maravilla

USA

14 min.

After her grandmother passes away, a grieving Mexican American woman becomes fascinated with learning what it feels like to die, leading her to a mysterious facility and a strange journey.

SFFSFF 2025 Winner

Breadsong

Katariina Aule

Estonia

16 min.

In the 19th century, a rural family hears a pop song from the future. Each replay comes at a cost that eventually threatens to break them apart.

Hands holding a retro digital pet device with pixel art animal on the screen.

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Ultra Juice

Carl Conway Maguire

USA

4 min.

A lonely man finds friendship in an unexpected place: his new vape.

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Rouge

Zoé Arene

Belgium & France

16 min.

In this adaptation of Little Red Riding Hood, nothing goes as expected: "Hoodie" boldly asserts her desires without fear or shame, the Wolf is far from a predator, and Grandmother is losing her mind. But the Narrator hasn’t had the last word yet…

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Space Daddy

Stephen Carruthers

United Kingdom

10 min.

Twenty-something twink Andy has a hookup with a mysterious hunk he meets on the dating app Strangr—with some… out-of-this-world consequences.

April 19th: Next Generation Filmmakers

Content Warnings: Language, Gore, Discussion of Sexual Situations, Frightening Images

SFFSFF 2025 Winner

Check Please

Shane Chung

USA

10 min.

Two headstrong Koreans can't agree on who's treating who to dinner, causing their casual restaurant outing to spiral into a martial arts deathmatch.

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Alienated!

Andrew Erbskorn

USA

3 min.

After his home is attacked by monsters, Gary, the janitor, is forced outside to fix the damages, but hijinks ensue when the monsters start hunting him!

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Tom's Alien Space Adventure

Grahm Molloy

USA

11 min.

A young ambitious astronaut makes an emergency landing on an unknown planet. Little does he know that the aliens waiting there are just as crazy as him!

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Genesis and the Seeds

Rowdy Stephens

USA

11 min.

Hundreds of thousands of years ago, a suffering humanity lived on Mars. Genesis, a rogue cosmic dreamer, pushes to send two humans to Earth with strong hopes of preserving humanity’s grace.

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Hungry Hollow

Sarah Ruyle

USA

6 min.

A gaggle of forest sprites mingle and cavort at the local watering hole, so to speak.

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Ancora

Rocío Granillo Posse

Argentina

14 min.

A boy seeks to find himself in a world in the not too distant future where people have forgotten their spiritual dimension until he meets a girl who shows him that there is still hope.

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The Parking Ticket Fairy

Lily Andrews

USA

12 min.

A hopelessly earnest fairy battles the brutal reality of being assigned the humiliating job of "Parking Ticket Fairy."

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My Last Day on Earth

Pauliina Leskinen

United Kingdom

4 min.

A lonely astronaut’s final day on Earth.

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Gale

Sean Kim

Canada

9 min.

When her village is inadvertently destroyed by an ever-earnest gentle giant, Gran, the lonesome town matriarch, will have to let her guard down if she ever hopes to befriend the hulking construct and rebuild what has been lost.

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Goddamn's Great Big Adventure: The Dating Crisis!

Lulu Mckown

USA

3 min.

Goddamn —an adorably naive sock —ventures out to find love and runs into a few problems along the way.

SFFSFF 2025 Winner

Unwound

Keira Grace Schehl

USA

2 min.

An engineer is obsessed with recreating a wind-up ballerina from his childhood music box. As he struggles to perfect his creation, he finds himself trapped in a deadly dance.

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Dysmorphic

Saul Pena

USA

2 min.

In suburban silence, a boy struggles with the negative perception of himself.

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Forbidden Feast

Hank Swift

USA

10 min.

Bill and Lewis try out a new dinner spot in this Lunchian horror classic.

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Meet the SFFSFF 2026 Winners

SFFSFF 2026 FILMS

April 18th - Main Track

April 19th: Next Generation Filmmakers

Schedule of Events

April 18th: Main Track

April 19th: Next Generation Filmmakers