The Philip K Dick Science Fiction Film Festival Announces 12th Annual Lineup in Manhattan and Brooklyn

New York, NY (March 6, 2025) — The Philip K Dick Science Fiction Film Festival returns for its 12th season. With a lineup of screenings, panels, screenplay and graphic novel completions and interactive games. The event will be held from April 4-6 at locations across Manhattan and Brooklyn, with virtual screenings from April 2-14. Passes are available here.

This year’s schedule takes a step beyond typical gatherings. “Our goal is to create an immersive experience,” said founder and director Daniel Abella. “Audiences crave more than just good movies, and we have provided an opportunity for them to participate and engage.” Attendees can take part in interactive games, such as ‘The Search for VALIS: Philip K. Dick’s Divine Transmissions,’ which offers clues through movies, texts, and enigmatic puzzles. With a social media tie-in, further levels are accessed by joining the creator’s Facebook group. Abella further explained, “Philip K. Dick brought forth mystical worlds centered on humanity’s relationship with technology. He taught us to embrace our full capacity, and this festival represents that vision.”

The festival will feature The Unseen Realm, a presentation of films screened at past events. “Many shorts from previous years deserve more attention,” said Abella. “We are committed to helping them reach more people since many are no longer on the festival circuit.” The festival partnered with Dystopia Media and will secure distribution and streaming rights. A live virtual introduction will be held on April 2 at 7pm, with all films available online from April 3-14.

Friday, April 4, 2025
Producers Club Theaters
358 W 44th St, New York, NY 10036

Visionary and Experimental Sci-Fi
2:45pm- 4pm

Apollo 11 Dream, 2023
Director Alain Thibault
Canada, 18 min
Inspired by the unconventional form and pacing of Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey, the dreamlike and unconventional storytelling of Lynch and Japanese Noh theater, Apollo 11 Dream is asking the question: did the astronauts return to earth, or did they remain on the moon.

The Dance of the Nain Rouge, 2023
Director Eric Millikin
United States, 3min
The Dance of the Nain Rouge” is an experimental decolonial Detroit demonology deepfake dream dance documentary, based on the legend of the Nain Rouge (“Red Dwarf”) of Detroit.

Absorber of the Supreme Sun, 2024
Director Claus Arthur Breda-Gulbrandsen
Norway, 9 min
Absorber of the Supreme Sun is a visceral film that deals with the ebb and flow of time, space, emotions, biology, and physics. The film is an experimental film with music that attempts to convey certain non-verbal notions about the hidden structures in human behavior, memory, evolution, and our search for a higher meaning in a world in turmoil.

Intruders, 2024
Director Jan Locus
Belgium, 10 min
In an elongated pan, mountain landscapes and misty images of animals are presented in an ethereal, ghostly way. Locus uses found footage black and white photographs of UFO observations from the 1950s and 60s.

Telepathic Letters/HP Lovecraft and Fernando Pesso, 2024
Director Edgar Pêra
Portugal. 70 min
Howard Philips Lovecraft and Fernando Pessoa were among the most influential writers of the first half of the XX century. Pessoa and Lovecraft did not know each other despite having lived at the same time, but there is a huge complementarity between their lives and works. Telepathic Letters is a film, whose images were created exclusively through Animal Intelligence, in which a dialogue is established between his letters and essays, poems and fictions, an imaginary correspondence between the two authors, made exclusively from their texts, forming a new universe of artistic and literary possibilities, merging the Sensationism of Pessoa with the Weird Realism of Lovecraft.

Japanese Sci-Fi
4pm-5:15pm

Who Said Death Is Beautiful?, 2023
Director Ryo Nakajima
Japan, 70 minutes
In a zombie-infested Japan, Rika, an infected intern, cares for genius Rei and sister Yuna. Yuna turns into a zombie; Rika and Rei flee. Rika suggests escaping abroad with Takashiba for hope; Rei wants to return home. At Rei’s, they face a transformed Yuna’s confession. Amid despair, is hope alive?

International Sci-Fi Shorts
5:15pm-7:15pm

Shift
Director Gulnaz Galimullina  
Russian Federation, 23 min 
In search of confidence, the protagonist goes to the Master to buy a sample of a bold movie character. As it turned out, this is “the most popular product” and there are few characters left. In addition, there is a “side effect” – the acquisition of unpredictable traits, getting into an unexpected series of events. Despite this, the Guest agrees.

Bug, 2024
Director Filip Momirovski
North Macedonia, 10 min
An unemployed cellist turned software tester, tries out a smart speaker that generates music based on the listener’s feelings. Things take a turn when the speaker blares ominous sounds in the middle of the night.


Do Bangladroids Dream Of Electric Tagore?, 2024
Director Aleem Hossain
United States, 3 min
In the year 2065, a Bangladeshi-American documentary explores what the Bangladroids recall of their homeland.

The Fourth, 2022
Director Johnny Kirk
United States, 10 min
Eager to celebrate the 4th of July, a group of young black and Latino friends experience a police encounter that shatters the meaning of the holiday.

Portti, 2024
Director Tuomas Järvenpää 
Finland, 10 min
A satirical sci-fi short film about the encounter between a frustrated man and an advanced artificial intelligence. The AI offers the man a new alternative. A tale of human curiosity, greed, and the coldness of artificial intelligence.

The Shaver Mystery, 2024
Director Dean Bertram 
United States, 14 min
Was sci-fi writer Richard Shaver really abducted and tormented by a malevolent underground race of hideous humanoids, known as the “Dero”? Regardless, his “true” stories – known collectively as “The Shaver Mystery” and sometimes ghost written by editor Raymond A. Palmer.

Deepheist, 2024
Director Glen Vivaris
United States, 10 min
Four activists race to steal the program of the first A.G.I. CEO.

Ovo, 2023
Director Stiv Spasojevic
France, 6min
This is the story of a meeting between an astonishing robot from outer space and an adorable little bird just hatched from its egg.


Factory Drop, 2024
Director Petja Pulkrabek
Germany, 15 min
In a bleak future in the year 2118, a gigantic skyscraper called the Factory rises above the ruins of the old world. In the dark lower floors, forced laborers toil tirelessly to produce diamonds. Emotions and contact are strictly forbidden.


Sci-Fi and Supernatural Shorts
7:15pm-9:30pm

Chthonic (Teaser), 2025
Director Tremayne LaMont
United States, 5 min
Hearing chatter and gossip. Hearing light whispers leaving sensual lips. They are doing this, they are doing that, they say this happened at night. They say that happened on this fateful day. All these rumors and old wives’ tales. That’s what they say. Whispers coming from the underground. Riding the wind saying something that might be profound.

Verflechtung, 2024.
Directors Philip Hofmänner, Simon Jonas Pflanzer.
Switzerland, 18 min.
In the near future, Susana’s fiancé Marco decides to have a chip implanted in his brain. Marco, who suffers from severe depression and has professional problems. As a result, sees this new technology as his only chance, not to lose touch. Susana, who originally drew his attention to the chip, soon begins to have doubts.

Bad Seed, 2024
Director Karan Sridharan 
India, 6 minutes
A man meets his maker and doesn’t like what he sees.

Interference, 2024.
Director Lila Woodbridge.
United States, 25 min.
The story of one teenage boy’s struggle with paranoia and identity amidst the start of the AIDS epidemic in the early 1980s.

Stephan’s Computer Parts, 2024.
Director Ari Aleksander Miller Miller.
United States, 11 min.
A lonely owner of a computer store seeks to physically connect to the internet via self surgeries. Along the way he meets a writer, who becomes witness to his ultimate project.

Jirba, 2024.
Director Sebastian Gonzalez.
United States, 16 min
Based on the short story “Piper in The Woods” By Philip K. Dick, Dr. Henry Harris, is an alienated industrial therapist who works for an interstellar water bottle company. Harris is sent to investigate a strange phenomena happening at one of the company’s filtration facilities on the moon of Jirba

Monster, 2024
Director 乔 乔治
China, 10 min
A zombie plagues Beijing.

The Last Zombie, 2022
Director Adam J. Vaughn.
United States, 10 min.
At the conclusion of a zombie apocalypse. A lone zombie wanders the planet, isolated and threatened by every human in sight. When Nova, the last zombie, comes across a little girl who knows no fear. The two form an unlikely – and tragically short lived – friendship.

Demons, 2023.
Director Adesh Prasad.
India, 15 min.
A man shares a newly found ‘cure’ to help his friend get rid of what haunts him. The haunting does stop, but at a gruesome cost.

Second Harvest, 2023
Directors Victoria Gayer, Naythan Smith  
United States. 5 min.
A grieving widow attempts to renegotiate a corporate contract that sets the terms of her husband’s burial.

Rodent, 2024.
Director Joe Fereday.
United Kingdom, 8 min.
A rat transports us through the last vestiges of humanity as it forages for food for its family. Confronted by a formidable threat, we discover the true magnitude of recent global events.

See the complete list on here.

About The Philip K Dick Science Fiction Film Festival.
“The core of my writing is not art but truth.” – Philip K. Dick. The Philip K Dick Science Fiction Film Festival. Which launched in 2012 as New York City’s first and only festival of its kind. Honors the enduring legacy of novelist Philip K. Dick. His enormously effective works composed of fictional universes, virtual realities, dystopian worlds. And, human mutation served as a significant observation into the current state of society.

Organized by individuals and filmmakers. Who understand the difficulties and challenges of presenting unique narratives in a corporate environment. The festival embraces original concepts and alternative approaches to storytelling. Since 2013, the festival has held additional gatherings in France, Germany, Poland, Rotterdam, and Los Angeles. The event was named one of the “25 Coolest Film Festivals in the World” by MovieMaker Magazine in 2022.

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