Best Short Movies of 2017

Inspired by an actual 911 call placed during a school shooting incident in Atlanta, Georgia.

A woman and an engineered man are sent in a gigantic sentient starship to search space for a place to start a new life cycle. Raj decides to take a look around the ship. He comes across a gigantic robotic cleaner. Combat ensues.

Edith and Eddie, ages 96 and 95, are America's oldest interracial newlyweds. Their love story is disrupted by a family feud that threatens to tear the couple apart.

Dave, a NASA astronaut, and his co-pilot, a genetically-engineered intelligent melon, yes a melon, are preparing for the launch of the first-ever expedition to Mars.

This Inception prequel unfolds courtesy of a beautiful Motion Comic, and explains how Cobb, Arthur and Nash were enlisted by Cobol Engineering. Diehard fans of the film will be especially interested in this one.

After a sudden and utterly devastating attack by the Klum, the technologically superior reptilian alien race, the Earth of the not-so-distant 2020 suffers from extensive terraforming, severe atmosphere altering--and above all--an almost complete extinction of humanity. With the last resilient survivors scattered over a nearly dead planet, mankind's last hope rests in a heroic resistance movement and in the hands of its leader, Jasper; however, before the hordes of the brutal and seemingly unstoppable extraterrestrials, the future is bleak. Is there a way to end the genocide?

Federation trooper, Johnny Rico's ordered to work with a group of new recruits on a satellite station on Mars, where giant bugs have decided to target their next attack.

A young smuggler by the name of Han Solo is on a mission to rescue his pal Chewbacca. Which of course brings some trouble along the way...

Through an experimental session of attempted mass hypnosis, a unique triptych comprised of three autonomous, yet inextricable acts unfold in front of our very eyes with the use of an unobtrusive and subconscious video-transmission. Life-long dreams, celluloid pleasures, irrepressible aspirations, Ingmar Bergman and three babies later are all intertwined with the camera's reality. Concentrate hard enough, and you may lose your subconscious.

A family on a camping trip to Big Rock National Park, about 20 miles from where Fallen Kingdom has ended, take part in the first major confrontation between dinosaurs and humans.

Caught in a large-scale and endless war, the sophisticated and utterly unstoppable machines seem to be winning the battle against their adversaries: a proud alien species. As a result, a technologically perfect robot interrogates a captive alien with the intention to locate the rest of his race's survivors, pressing on with more and more unrelenting and horrible tortures. But the alien knows that he holds his species' last chance of survival and he won't go down without a fight.

In a ravaged post-apocalyptic Earth of a distant future, an animated rag doll struggles to survive against the perils and the creatures of a monstrous world. To be more specific, the relentless Cat Beast, a towering and murderous automaton, is decimating 9's clan, and pretty soon, there will be no one left. The robot is after their proud souls and it is unstoppable. Is this the end of 9's people?

Wanderers is a vision of humanity's expansion into the Solar System, based on scientific ideas and concepts of what our future in space might look like, if it ever happens. All the locations depicted in the film are digital recreations of actual places in the Solar System, built from real photos and map data where available. Without any apparent story, other than what you may fill in by yourself, the idea with the film is primarily to show a glimpse of the fantastic and beautiful nature that surrounds us on our neighboring worlds - and above all, how it might appear to us if we were there.

In a busy life, Copi is a father who tries to teach the right way to his son, Paste. But - What is the correct path?

In an alternate reality, 4% of the world's population is born with special abilities. Most of these "specials" live under poverty line. Taylor, a "special" living way under the poverty line takes different construction jobs in order to support his family. One day after work, over payment issues, Taylor intentionally damages his employer's property. The police goes after Taylor and his friend, and just when the police is about to arrest Taylor, a fight erupts.

In the future, a few homeless men are interviewed in a squat house, explain to camera their experience with virtual reality, expressing their frustration and deception with real life and the intense emotions they feel passing all days in the First Person Shooters, killing the different targets and winning ranks and experience in the games. With their open nose ring device that they put below of the septum as only one material possession, they access to a world of unlimited possibilities where life is exciting and dangerous, turning their days in a daily adventure to survive and kill the enemies. At the same time a doctor, caring them as social worker, comments the impossibility to integrate them in a society that they feel as uncomfortable in its slowness and extremely bore, using virtual reality to free their violent instincts without to be imprisoned in jail. But during one of his missions, one the players discovers a glitch in the game (a malfunction in the simulation), noticing not only that the game is more real than he expected, but the truth hidden behind the own game and its real purpose.

In futuristic 2048 Los Angeles, the combat medic Nexus-8 replicant, Sapper Morton, heads to the city centre to sell his high-protein artificial nematodes, one year before the events of

During a space battle with the seperatists R2-D2 ends up blasting out of Anakins ship and end's up getting lost with precious data. Now the Jedi and the sith are hunting down the droid. Who will win?