The Norwescon Speculative Film Fest is a great way to see some of the best cutting edge science fiction, fantasy, and horror short films from around the world.
Norwescon’s Speculative Film Fest embraces and fosters new voices in Speculative Fiction, including those of BIPOC, women, and LGBTQ+ creators. We have judges who represent these voices, and we waived entry fees for BIPOC directors.
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Awards & Prizes
Filmmakers of the films selected to play at Norwescon’s Speculative Fiction Film Fest will be invited to attend Norwescon 46. Attending filmmakers will be able to speak to the audience directly through Q&As following their film screenings.
This year we will be giving out six awards: audience choice, best short film under 10 minutes, best short film under 30 minutes, best science fiction, best fantasy, and best horror.
Winners will be announced on the last day of the convention.
The Films
A Nightcare on Elm Street
![SFF24 A Nightcare on Elm Street A white woman with straight black hair, wearing a white blazer over a pink jacket, stands behind a chair. Seated in the chair is Freddy Krueger, with iconic black hat, red and green striped sweater, knife glove, and burn scars over his skin.](https://www.norwescon.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Nightcare-poster-226x320.jpg)
- Director: Michael Marie, Anthony Légal
- Country of Origin: France
- Description: A psychoanalyst receives Frédéric, a patient in full doubt who needs to talk. Like everyday life. Except for one detail: this man turns dreams into nightmares, massacres teenagers for fun and prefers to be called Freddy Krueger.
All Eyes
![SFF24 All Eyes An instant photo of four teenage women of various races lies on top of a white folder, itself lying on top of more photos of the group of young women. The tagline is 'Dreams come true'.](https://www.norwescon.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/All-Eyes-poster-228x320.jpg)
Aracne
![SFF24 Aracne Two figures lie curled around each other in a white bathtub. One is nude, the other is fully covered in a knitted beige bodysuit.](https://www.norwescon.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Aracne-poster-204x320.jpg)
Archive & The Storyteller
![SFF24 Archive A white man with short brown hair, wearing beige shirt, jacket, pants, and shoes, stands in a featureless white room. Text says 'Archive: Get yours today'.](https://www.norwescon.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Archive-500x281.jpg)
Astronauts
![SFF24 Astronauts The face of a young woman with straight black hair looks out from a window; the image is black and white with scan lines as if seen on an old TV screen.](https://www.norwescon.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Astronauts-213x320.jpg)
- Director: Pedro Murad
- Country of Origin: Brazil
- Description: Is solitude between a human and a machine possible? A couple meets in an unexpected way on a dating app. They live their love through a game of impossibilities.
autopsI.A.
![SFF24 autopsIA A classic disc-shaped UFO hovers a few feet over an empty field.](https://www.norwescon.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/autopsi-213x320.jpg)
Bird Drone
![SFF24 Bird Drone A seagull sits on rocks near an ocean at sunset, bathed in pink and purple light, next to a white drone. The tagline is 'The gull of his dreams'.](https://www.norwescon.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Bird-Drone-217x320.jpg)
Closing Time
![SFF24 Closing Time A business sign lit in blue under strings of white twinkle lights says, 'Closing Time. Est. 1998. Proudly serving whatever you bring.'](https://www.norwescon.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Closing-Time-213x320.jpg)
Ellipsis
![SFF24 Ellipsis A blurry androgynous figure backlit in blue.](https://www.norwescon.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Ellipsis-227x320.jpg)
- Director: Greg Purcell
- Country of Origin: Ireland
- Description: “What is your first memory?” Ellipsis awakens, abandoned and seeking answers in a haunted dystopia where nothing is what it appears to be.
Five
![SFF24 Five The title 'Cinq' over an image of forest ferns disappearing into darkness.](https://www.norwescon.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Five-226x320.jpg)
- Director: Jérémy Prudent
- Country of Origin: France
- Description: In the middle of the night, at the foot of the tree where Annie died, four of her friends, Camille, Flora, Lucie and Marion, invoke her in order to make her appear. But can they really?
FOREIGNER
![SFF24 Foreigner A mountainous landscape with two alien figures, one above with glowing eyes and one below with glowing mouth.](https://www.norwescon.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Foreigner-216x320.jpg)
Genre
![SFF24 Genre A photocollage of various people tinted in pastel colors makes up the figure of a bearded male with curly hair wearing a t-shirt and jacket.](https://www.norwescon.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Genre-226x320.jpg)
- Director: Nicky Smit
- Country of Origin: United States
- Description: A cautious man attempts to win back his girl by trying the psychedelic new drug GENRE, but when he unwittingly takes a massive dose, he must find his way back to reality through a genre-bending trip of epic proportions.
Ghost Song
![SFF24 Ghost Song A darkly-lit figure looks up and raises their arms up above their head in front of shrouded windows.](https://www.norwescon.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Ghost-Song-500x281.jpg)
- Director: Joseph Keckler, M. Sharkey
- Description: A narrator reveals the details of a mysterious, transformative encounter that took place in a remote locale.
Grogans Lodge
![SFF24 Grogan's Lodge A black woman with braided hair and an apprehensive expression stands in dark woods, wearing a dark blouse under a white apron printed with an old map of east Africa.](https://www.norwescon.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Grogans-228x320.jpg)
I came from the future
![SFF24 I Came From the Future A man is seen in profile, slightly transparent before a city skyline, and with a second image of a figure in a suit seen from behind.](https://www.norwescon.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/I-Came-From-226x320.jpg)
Megaville – After Hours
![SFF24 Megaville After Hours A man dressed in black and wearing a black leather trenchcoat looks towards the ground. Behind him is an image of a different, bearded man, and behind that are a series of kanji characters in glowing cubes.](https://www.norwescon.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Megaville-227x320.jpg)
- Director: Tim Cürlis, Christian Skibinski
- Country of Origin: Germany
- Description: On a restless night in the cyberpunk city “Megaville” a disillusioned ranger encounters a washed up chef called Jack. They reach an agreement and a culinary duel to the death follows. A lethal supper that only one of them will survive.
Overtime // The Love Project
![SFF24 Overtime Two Japanese women, one holding an origami crane while standing behind the other and looking down over the seated woman's shoulder, both wearing grey suits.](https://www.norwescon.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Overtime-216x320.jpg)
Promise Me
![SFF24 Promise Me Two young children sit with crossed arms and cross-legged on grass in front of a playset, apparently deep in conversation.](https://www.norwescon.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Promise-Me-240x320.jpg)
- Director: Paula Rhodes
- Country of Origin: United States
- Description: When an oddly familiar boy mysteriously appears in Elliot’s yard with a warning, this preschooler will face a decision that could throw him for a loop.
Pur Sang
![SFF24 Pur Sang A menacing looking bearded man with a glowing red implant on his temple stands in the rain; in front of him is a figure wearing a jacket with the hood pulled up and a backpack, face covered, holding a gun.](https://www.norwescon.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Pur-Sang-240x320.jpg)
- Director: Hugo Poisson
- Country of Origin: France
- Description: In the near future, society is managed by strict sanitary rules. Clara, 26, a former resistance figure and notorious criminal, is actively sought and hunted by the police. When she decides to break into the home of Amir, 55, a security guard at a state laboratory, it is to save Léa, her daughter of a few months.
SCRIPT
![SFF24 Script The title 'Script' with a number of film festival award logos.](https://www.norwescon.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Script-228x320.jpg)
- Director: Piero Cannata
- Country of Origin: Italy
- Description: Two screenwriters, a ghost story, the night that goes on. Who will put an end to this?
Scrum Wars • Episode 1: A New Sprint
![SFF24 Scrum Wars Episode 1 A New Sprint A Star Wars style Death Star under construction.](https://www.norwescon.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Scrum-179x320.jpg)
- Director: Jaz Garewal
- Country of Origin: United States
- Description: Ha’nah Bilbraxia-Stevens gets a crash course in Imperial Agile on her first day as project manager for the galactically past-deadline Death Star. She quickly learns that design critiques can turn deadly when the interim scrum master is the Dark Lord of the Sith.
Sincopat
![SFF24 Sincopat A person's arm is just visible on the edge of a white bathtub against white stone walls.](https://www.norwescon.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Sincopat-216x320.jpg)
Spiral to the Center
![SFF24 Spiral A white man with curly brown hair wears headphones and looks surprised, behind him is a vinyl record with light reflecting off the grooves. The tag line is 'How far would you go?'](https://www.norwescon.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Spiral-240x320.jpg)
- Director: Alisa Stern, Scott Ampleford
- Country of Origin: United Kingdom
- Description: Rick reviews records and talks about music online. After his reaction to a strange record goes viral, a documentary filmmaker follows Rick down the rabbit hole where he uncovers twelve albums, a record label that disappeared in the 70s, and a dark secret.
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STIGMATE
![SFF24 Stigmate A bald figure in old religious garb holds a rosary and kneels in front of a window in a whitewashed room.](https://www.norwescon.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Stigmate-320x320.jpg)
- Director: Sélim Atmane, Hugo Barral
- Country of Origin: France
- Description: In the middle of the Black Plague, Simon comes back to his monastery after a long pilgrimage. But as he struggles to find his place among the monks, an intruder breaks into the monastery. It is too late to understand that a new evil followed him here…
The Astronaut
![SFF24 The Astronaut A young girl with long brown hair and an excited expression stands in front of a home hallway on one side and galactic nebulas on the other.](https://www.norwescon.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/The-Astronaut-496x320.jpg)
- Director: Damian Apunte
- Country of Origin: United States
- Description: Seven-year-old Aura loves everything space. She looks out her window, wishing she could escape the surrounding smog that’s causing her asthma. Her vivid imagination keeps her spirit alive.
The Capsule
![SFF24 Capsule Two astronauts stand in space suits on the surface of a moon, looking at a planet as the sun rises.](https://www.norwescon.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Capsule-226x320.jpg)
- Director: Kamil Keenan, Agnieszka Żaglewska
- Country of Origin: Poland
- Description: Two astronauts in a space capsule realize that they won’t have enough oxygen until help arrives. In this extreme situation, they suddenly have to face the ultimate questions.
The Indulgence of Viv le Vac
![SFF24 The Indugence of Viv le Vac The title 'The Indulgence of Viv le Vac' is presented in black on yellow as if on caution tape over a floor-level view of a room in a home.](https://www.norwescon.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/The-Indugence-2-500x214.jpg)
- Director: Danny Shaw
- Country of Origin: United Kingdom
- Description: Viv le Vac is a robot vacuum cleaner with an insatiable hunger that soon gets her in trouble
The Miners
![SFF24 The Miners A dark, black and white image of a person wearing an industrial grade breathing mask.](https://www.norwescon.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/The-Miners-211x320.jpg)
- Director: Morgen Whiteman
- Country of Origin: United States
- Description: In the not too distant future- where America’s era of technological unemployment is ending- a proud, fourth-generation miner’s search for her father leads to an unexpected truth that forces her to question her morals and her purpose.
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The Nightmare Adorable
![SFF24 Nightmare Adorable A sculpted figure of a creature with three eyes, antenna, three spikey teeth at the end of a snout, tentacles for feet, and bat-like wings under its arms, holds a jagged knife. Everything is lit in bright purple as if by a black light.](https://www.norwescon.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Nightmare-Adorable-213x320.jpg)
The Painting
![SFF24 The Painting A person's face, bloodied as if just after a fight, with the image torn across the eyes to show the title 'The Painting' with a demonic figure in the center.](https://www.norwescon.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/The-Painting-211x320.jpg)
- Director: Krause Cruz
- Country of Origin: United States
- Description: During an interrogation, Scott must fend for his life against Klein, however, something else might be lurking behind.
The Path of the Greys
![SFF24 The Path of the Greys A person, slightly blurred, reaches towards the viewer with spread fingers.](https://www.norwescon.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/The-Path-216x320.jpg)
The Retreat
![SFF24 Retreat Three images, one of two young Asian men on a porch, one of a black man and a white woman sitting next to each other and waving as they take photographs, and one of a figure just seen through a doorway of an apartment hallway.](https://www.norwescon.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Retreat-207x320.jpg)
The Right Vintage
![SFF24 The Right Vintage Illustration of a black shape dripping into a cup in a blue circle; the drips have piled to form a silhouette of someone's face.](https://www.norwescon.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Rigth-Vintage-226x320.jpg)
The Wayfarer
![SFF24 Wayfarer Illustration of a young child sitting on a rock overlooking hills on either side of a body of water under grey skies, with small furry creatures sitting nearby.](https://www.norwescon.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Wayfarer-216x320.jpg)
The Weight of Data
![SFF24 Weight of Data A person is seen from behind sitting at a table with a laptop computer and second screen under a ringlight, bathed in blue light, with numbers visible on the screens.](https://www.norwescon.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Weight-500x281.jpg)
Three Houses Down
![SFF24 Three Houses Down A young woman with stringy brown hair, splattered in green and with several bloody injuries on her face, stands in front of a graphic of several switchblade knives arranged in a circle.](https://www.norwescon.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Three-Houses-232x320.jpg)
Will Ye No Come Back Again?
![SFF24 Will Ye No Come Back Again A figure wearing a helmet stands in front of a circular window. The tagline is 'A remove planet, a lone technician, and a betrayal'.](https://www.norwescon.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Will-Ye-216x320.jpg)