English sci-fi short films

4 min · English · Science fiction · Thriller

A four-minute English sci-fi thriller in which an office worker's daily routine slowly becomes something unsettling.

20 min · English · Science fiction · Thriller

A selfish executive is trapped in a restroom time loop and has to face other versions of himself to get out. Twenty minutes of clever, funny sci-fi.

16 min · English · Science fiction · Thriller · Action · Fantasy

A rescue mission crosses into the spirit world. Try Kodama for an action-fantasy short about a samurai SWAT officer fighting to bring his father home.

16 min · English · Science fiction · Thriller · Drama

An English sci-fi thriller: two estranged brothers caught in a repeating chain of events try to stop a tragedy. Fifteen tense, emotional minutes.

17 min · English · Drama · Science fiction

During a lethal epidemic, a quarantined father faces an impossible choice when his daughter falls ill. A sixteen-minute English sci-fi drama that lands close to home.

36 min · English · Science fiction

Jason Carman's ambitious sci-fi for DUST, set in the year 2730: a scientist proposes building an artificial habitable planet. Thirty-six minutes in the project's final century.

12 min · English · Science fiction · Thriller

Mark Slutsky's English sci-fi for DUST: a struggling lawyer wakes in a doorless room, chosen to negotiate for the whole human race. Eleven tense minutes.

18 min · English · Science fiction · Horror · Thriller

A missing body leads a physician to a secret experiment on the edge of life and death. A seventeen-minute English sci-fi horror.

7 min · English · Science fiction · Drama

A grieving mother brings home a synthetic child to fill the silence, unaware of the robot's hidden purpose. A seven-minute English sci-fi drama.

7 min · English · Science fiction

David Lea's sci-fi for DUST: every Sunday an old man and his dog walk to the Cornish clifftops, but this time they're not alone. Six quiet, wondrous minutes.

15 min · English · Science fiction · Romance · Drama

Space becomes the setting for a search for connection after loss. Try this if you like science fiction that makes room for memory and love.

15 min · English · Science fiction

One astronaut, one experimental spacecraft, and the possibility of going too far. Try this if space exploration leaves you wondering what might lie beyond the next leap.

32 min · English · Science fiction · Drama

A thirty-one-minute English sci-fi drama: an interplanetary hauler trying to provide for his daughter is forced to face his past and some hard choices.

13 min · English · Science fiction

Karl Redgen's English sci-fi for DUST: two explorers crash-land on an alien-infested planet, and when one is infected the other faces an impossible choice.

17 min · English · Science fiction · Thriller

Nguyen-Anh Nguyen's sci-fi thriller for DUST: two astronauts wake adrift in space and return to their ship to learn why the mission failed.

20 min · English · Science fiction

Andrew Zane Allen and Gavin Bradley's sci-fi for DUST: a prospector strikes a rare deposit in a wasteland, while the creature he enslaves to process it begins to resist.

25 min · English · Science fiction · Fantasy · Drama

An English sci-fi fantasy: a teenager believes a mysterious plant can save his dying brother, while a government agency wants it destroyed. Twenty-five adventurous minutes.

19 min · English · Science fiction · Thriller

Two isolated brothers barely surviving after a mysterious attack meet a stranger who threatens their fragile world. A nineteen-minute English sci-fi thriller.

9 min · English · Science fiction · Fantasy · Comedy

A burglary sends Dave on a search that takes an unexpected turn through time and space. Try this for a little everyday trouble with a science-fiction twist.

17 min · English · Science fiction · Comedy

Two farmers get a visitor from beyond their familiar world. Try this sci-fi comedy for a small-town routine disrupted by something extraordinary.

11 min · English · Animation · Science fiction

A surreal, deliberately open-ended story about trust and the worlds people construct for one another.

22 min · English · Science fiction · Action

Calvin Sander Romeyn's English sci-fi for DUST: in a walled nuclear exclusion zone, a young woman and her decommissioned military droid plan their escape. Twenty-two minutes of retro-future action.

5 min · English · Science fiction

Try a brief science-fiction short about the weight we carry inside. A pick for viewers interested in emotional ideas told through futuristic imagery.

11 min · English · Science fiction · Romance · Comedy

Dating is complicated enough without a visitor from the future. Try this for a playful collision between romance and time travel.

6 min · English · Animation · Science fiction

A traveller searches across space and time for the origins of the universe and life, arriving alone at a difficult realisation as the cosmos ages.

21 min · English · Science fiction · Thriller

A routine repair turns into a family rescue in space. Try Icarus for a science-fiction short that puts a mother and son's bond under pressure.

20 min · English · Science fiction · Comedy

Justin Kruse's English sci-fi comedy: Reaper Rick, a paranoid veteran living off the grid, has the strangest day of his life when something arrives. Twenty minutes for conspiracy fans.

12 min · English · Science fiction · Comedy · Drama

A recliner that turns back time sounds convenient—until ordinary responsibilities catch up. A pick for science fiction that begins right at home.

22 min · English · Animation · Science fiction

Two girls find a way to keep moving through a broken world. A pick for an animated train journey through post-apocalyptic days.

32 min · English · Science fiction · Thriller

A disaster cuts a couple off from the world they built underwater. Try this for a science-fiction survival story with an ocean setting.

26 min · English · Comedy · Science fiction

Michael Heaton's retro sci-fi comedy: in an alternate 1950s where people grow from seeds, a lonely woman plants herself a husband. Twenty-six minutes on what perfect really means.

9 min · English · Action · Science fiction

Corridor Digital's Niko Pueringer and Sam Gorski direct this effects-heavy sci-fi action short starring Jimmy Wong and Mary Kate Wiles.

14 min · English · Science fiction · Thriller

A search for riches becomes a test of a daughter's resourcefulness. Try the original Prospect short for a tense science-fiction journey on a hostile planet.

6 min · English · Science fiction · Animation

A robot workforce becomes a way to look at exclusion in a city. Watch for an animated short that echoes Brixton's history through a futuristic world.

24 min · English · Science fiction

Hashem Al-Ghaili's English sci-fi: an advanced alien civilisation runs a simulated reality where countless beings, humans included, are prisoners without knowing it.

22 min · English · Science fiction · Thriller

Alone on the red planet, one commander starts questioning what happened to his crew. Try Thalamos for a compact science-fiction mystery about isolation and an uncertain mission.

20 min · English · Thriller · Horror · Science fiction

Two students create a short-cut to induce hallucinogenic visions of God, and find themselves hunted by a deadly religious sect.

18 min · English · Science fiction · Thriller

A man returns to the Midwestern farm of his childhood on a desperate mission to unearth the horrifying truth of what landed there in the summer of 1960. View trailer: https://vimeo.com/55338337

18 min · English · Science fiction · Action

A battlefield is not the only place this war is being fought. Try this science-fiction short for its collision of vast machines and an inner, spiritual struggle.

28 min · English · Documentary · Science fiction

Roman Kroitor and Colin Low's Oscar-nominated 1960 NFB documentary, a voyage through the universe that Stanley Kubrick drew on for 2001: A Space Odyssey.