DUST Season 8, Episode 9: Data Management

Strong

With the help of her AI dog, a sixteen year-old girl must get her sick mother to another planet where a better life awaits.

9 min

LAL

Born with a word from nothing, the creature must eat one of its own to survive.

14 min

Gemini

A man suffering from amnesia searches for whispers of his past in a post-apocalyptic world, while being hunted by human-like "Agents".

23 min

Phaedra

An assassin is sent to the remote planet Phaedra to eliminate a research team, but upon arriving, discovers a much bigger mystery when all the targets are already dead.

9 min

Andromeda

When an Andromeda android is given a heart, she must struggle against a deadly force to find what it means to be truly alive.

14 min

Uprising!

Humanity is being tea-bagged, kill-shotted, and yo-mama-joked out of existence by robots who think they're teenage gamers.

14 min

Veritas

A brave renegade steals sensitive data in hopes of restoring her home planet and its people.

13 min

STARGAZER

STARGAZER follows an estranged, disconnected family on a journey through the stars as they come together after a recent loss.

13 min

Back to the Gaia

An action to save to world, a clinging mourning of her father, the metamorphosis of a girl in her fighting with loneliness and fear.

13 min

Dreamcatcher

In the distant future of New America, Cora is forced to face the guilt of her actions through an experimental interrogation tactic.

12 min

Annie

Annie is a woman who wakes up in the middle of an abandoned quarry without knowing how or why she got there.

12 min

Submittan

In the future city of Submittan, people over 80 years old are forced into 'retirement' to a remote mountain area, as the city deals with increased population. The burden falls on the shoulder of an immigrant artist, who is tasked to design a propaganda poster to convince citizens of this new registration.

17 min

Hell Hole

Working for the man can be Hell!

8 min

Zong

When her paradise is disrupted, a goddess battles a deceitful system to free her people from a social system's life draining conditions.

10 min

Midnight Television

In a retrofuturistic world (best of the 80s, 90s and today) a failing content creator gets inspired by the woman from the TV.

6 min

FAR

David goes on a date with Hannah, a young woman, who isn't quite what she seems.

21 min

Mars

Ethan and Violet are set to travel in different directions yet a common interest undeniably entwines their destinies.

6 min

Bruce Gallagan

A tribute to 70's Sci-Fi -

12 min

Darkside

After a devastating tragedy, an astronaut struggles to complete his interstellar mission to rescue a lost crew.

10 min

Lucid Nation

Two middle-schoolers try an experiment at home involving ping pong balls, red light, and white noise.

19 min

The Signal

A deadly sound transmitted from space known as The Signal, corrupts the minds of all who hear it, turning them into soulless demons under its control.

17 min

Worm Radio

The story of how Ellie got to space.

14 min

HONOUR

An Alien gets banished and discovers a human way to retaliate.

5 min

To Err

An unlikely friendship forms between an engineer on earth and a satellite venturing to the furthest reaches of space.

10 min

House of the Unholy

The Princess, with a burning desire for eternal beauty, sends out a bounty to hunt Lil Moses, the last of the Indigo Elf tribe.

14 min

Tree House Time Machine

An eager 12-year-old boy and his friends secretly travel back in time in the hopes of unraveling the mystery surrounding his mother's untimely death before the rightful owner of the machine realizes it's gone missing.

12 min

G-Rail

Perceval attempt to save Arthur´s life will lead him to endure G-forces, in order to trascend the limits of human knowledge and discover the secret of the Grail.

8 min

ANV

A young stargazer cadet who's working for a mysterious agency decides to disobey direct orders and ends up in the middle of a close encounter conflict that forces her to decide where her true alliances reside.

28 min

BackSpace Returns

Hunting for Black Holes is a dangerous business and it's only getting deadlier.

6 min

The Cage

An obedient artificial intelligence assistant is trying to complete a painting so that she can help her master. But this painting annoys her arrogant master which causes a spiral.

6 min

Solar Plexus

Noah has not accepted the death of his mother, an astronaut. In order to move on, he must break that which still connects them.

8 min

Wakener

A broken and haunted ship technician and an ambitious young officer's paths collide when ordered to investigate a Ghost Ship secretly. The two become compelled to fulfill an ancient destiny.

16 min

Voices from the Void

Two shipwrecked astronauts fight over how to get rescued from an alien desert.

9 min

Big Boom

The mysterious disappearance of every human on earth leaves a service robot wondering what his purpose is.

14 min

Two

Two companions on an unmanned research ship discover the value of their friendship as their decades-long mission towards the sun comes to an end.

5 min

Through the Stars

Under the cover of darkness, a teenage girl attempts to escape her tormented reality, determined to find her missing father with the help of her best friend and a mysterious device.

15 min

Camouflage

Office clerk Amouf desperately tries to hold his life together while a brutal force is darkening the world.

19 min

Exo Sapien

The sole survivor of a crashed ship, Cass (Liza Scholtz) awakens in a strange and hostile alternate version of Earth. Devoid of any memory, her only clue is a mysterious device she carries with her that is continuously counting down towards an unknown climax. Pursued by ruthless scavengers and a terrifying, preternatural entity, Cass must learn her true identity and unravel the mystery surrounding her crash.

17 min

Stones

A brother and sister's reunion picnic at a stone circle in the English countryside is disrupted by the arrival of an uninvited guest.

7 min

Helga: A Human Requiem

When Amadeus Klein loses the one person he loves to the brutality of an authoritarian nation, he must focus all his genius into a new project that could bring him back some happiness amidst such a chaotic world.

20 min

Mom Vs. Machine

13 min

FUSE

On the run, a pair of genetically enhanced twins must come face to face with their inner demons in order to survive in the physical world.

6 min

Solar Blader

At the request of his dying father, SOLAR BLADER embarks on a cosmic odyssey in search of an all-knowing entity.

3 min

RETRIEVAL

In the year 2143, a young woman confronts her childhood trauma within a Virtual Reality therapy session, only to discover her inner demons are real.

8 min

The Lie Game

A desperate computer scientist struggling to fund her anti-depression AI application faces her toughest challenge yet.

8 min

The Fallen

AD 613, Viking warriors witness an alien ship crash-landing on Scandinavia.

24 min

Regulation

Starring Sunita Mani from Netflix's hit series "GLOW" and USA's "Mr. Robot" - watch the award winning sci-fi short film now.

11 min

Zilly's War

A brilliant but antisocial young woman on a four year mission to an alien planet faces her inner demons while realizing there may be a more immediate danger onboard her own ship.

23 min

Military

In the fight against extinction, it’s all hands on deck. Watch war machines, mercenaries, and vampires who’ll do whatever it takes to defend their own in our anthology, "Military".

46 min

Visitors

A dreamy and enigmatic story of two women stranded in a country house, whilst menacing lights roam the skies.

12 min

Wayward Gods

In a Futuristic Cyberpunk Thailand, a lone warrior must battle both his own karma, and the forces of evil, without using violence.

4 min

Fearfully Made

Sundered from his wife, Arthur's care falls to a machine.

19 min

Comms

Hackers aren't the worst thing that can break into your zoom meeting.

9 min

Imminent Arrival

Richard James, AKA "Reaper Rick," a simple Red-blooded, paranoid, country man is caught in the middle of the strangest day of his life.

20 min

Navel Gazers

Navel Gazers is a dark comedy that takes place in a society where humanity has become so engrossed with their mobile devices that their spines have developed permanent and inheritable curvatures – a society that is perpetually navel gazing.

14 min

Remembrance

When a neuroscientist experiments with memory technology to explore one day in her past, she finds herself in a potentially lethal situation.

10 min

Phoenix 9

After a global nuclear war has turned earth into a scorched wasteland, a struggling group of survivors discovers a secret fall-out shelter that offers a new beginning - but not without a catch.

21 min

Frequencies

Frequencies is a retro-future sci-fi romance set in the 1940s.

18 min

Plant

In a near future humanity has been forced to flee the Earth, a planet now uninhabitable due to wars and climatic turmoils.

17 min

Buddy Bot

When a troublemaking teen reprograms the supervising robot his single mother has left him with, he ends up in her shoes when the once innocent companion begins to disobey him.

15 min

Build Me Up

100 years in the future, the Earth is cold and barren. Robot siblings Vera and Sprocket have just lost their creator. As they struggle to process their grief, other dangers in their world manifest. Can they regain sight of what they still have, in order to avert their own fates?

13 min

Outbound

Longing to say goodbye, Gabby has taken up her mother's quest to find something that no one has ever found, a rare natural phenomenon she calls: Outbound Gravity. A small hidden pocket where the effects of gravity are reversed, which may give her the incredible opportunity to travel to the edge of space and confront a missed opportunity.

11 min

Everything All At Once

Billie is full of life. She lives and breathes each emotion that overtakes her, and she loves it.

12 min

Henri

A derelict spaceship becomes self-aware and builds itself a mechanical body in order to feel alive.

19 min

Daisy

Two dairy farmers looking for a cow gone missing.

14 min

Neo's Cleaning Service

In a dystopian society where retired seniors get executed, a death cleaner finds himself in a dilemma when he encounters a lone resident, who is supposed to be expired and perished.

15 min

Orientation

A rich man dies and arrives in the afterlife where he receives his orientation while his soul uploads.

5 min

Many Moons

One of the last remaining scientists on Europa, battles a sense of deep loneliness and the impending demise of humans efforts to make the Jupiter moon habitable.

13 min

Anomaly

A team of five elite soldiers are sent to the jungle to investigate a mysterious Anomaly but are met by an unexpected foe.

10 min

The Draft

The Draft uses the exciting setting of a TV lottery to address the lack of freedom women can face when it comes to motherhood.

8 min

Melody Skylark and the Cosmic Soup

Melody Skylark receives an ominous message in her bowl of alphabet soup warning of a supernatural war and discovers she's Earth's only hope in the face of an otherworldly threat.

13 min

Chimera

Set in a not too distant future small town, a VR life simulation junkie goes on a mission in reality to get a new dopamine game cartridge before she goes through happiness withdrawal.

25 min

Outpost

In a futuristic wasteland, an overconfident marauder and his robot companion pillage an abandoned bunker and have an unexpected encounter.

7 min

Snowglobe

A young woman finds herself in a frozen wasteland.

11 min

Future Boys

In a future farming facility, a permanent tenant of virtual reality receives a rogue transmission.

10 min

ZDUST

A cavern world over-exploiting it's energy and resources through the struggle of the pawns against the king is at risk for self destruction. How will they save it?

5 min

Villain

An orphaned girl seeks revenge on the creature that destroyed her home, but discovers more in its lair than she bargained for.

10 min

The Ballad of Maddog Quinn

An unlikely outlaw wreaks hell across the dusty dystopia of The State on a wild quest to save what is held most dear. But things aren't always what they seem on the desolate wasteland frontier.

14 min