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The sixth annual Apocalypse Later International Fantastic Film Festival (ALIFFF 2021) will be held in the 3rd Street Theater at the Phoenix Center for the Arts from Saturday 7th to Monday 9th October, 2021. TicketsTicket sales for 2023 are closed but they will be available at the festival! Price was $60 in advance for a full event pass. This includes access to all films over three full days. We will be selling concessions including our popular hot dog specials. Parking and popcorn are free! Safety ProtocolsThere will be no COVID restrictions this year. However, we do still recommend that you vaccinate to protect yourself and wear a mask if you wish to protect yourself and others.
Logo by Marty Freetage. Postcard by Jason Drotman. AwardsOur competition films are fighting it out for awards created and designed by the ever-fantastic Tom Deadstuff!
ScheduleDoors will open at 10:30am on each day, with the first set beginning at 11:00am.
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BLUE FiRE20:43, USA, Nick Ronan Deep in the snowy Blue Mountains, two damaged lives come crashing back together when they discover something in the forest not of this world. Official trailer at Vimeo.
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Go with Her15:41, China, Yushi Che In a lonely and distant space station, BAI, a female scientist and other partners spent five years inventing a chip that can convert human emotions into extraordinary physical performances. BAI and one of her partners, DU, have developed a certain chemistry between each other. But as a wife and a mother, BAI has kept her feeling for DU deep in her heart. When the head of the space station, AN, declares the successful development of the chip, everyone believes that they can fly back to earth and rejoin their families. However, the superior broke their dreams and ordered all the crew to remain in the station since he received a report of alien creatures being detected around the space station. But AN is planning to fly back to Earth alone. Potential danger is getting closer. BAI, struggling with choosing between passion and morality, also discovers DU’s secret.
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Crackpot17:29, Australia, Nicola Sercombe With the end of the world only hours away, a dippy doomsday prepper kidnaps her lonely neighbour to "save him" from the impending apocalypse.
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LifeQuest27:36, USA, Richard Lounello A young physicist lives out his life in search of his greatest scientific discovery and finds one extraordinary truth.
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Genre-Hopping ShortsSaturday, 6:25pm-7:53pm The Genre-Hopping Shorts set will run 1h 28m and include 3 films from 3 countries. |
| Title | Year | Director(s) | Country | Length | Première? |
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| Sights Unseen | 2022 | Jesse Terrell | USA | 29:53 | Arizona |
| Rose Hotel | 2020 | Nicolas Engel | France | 28:16 | Arizona |
| The Lord of the Woods | 2021 | Julia Bui | Poland | 29:59 | Arizona |
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Sights Unseen29:53, USA, Jesse Terrell A student's fascination with extra dimensions will lead to an obsession with the mysteries of what is beyond our comprehension. Is it math or is it magic?
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Les Mots Croisés28:16, France, Nicolas Engel A hotel at night. Coded messages. Tea.
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The Lord of the Woods29:59, Poland, Julia Bui Warrior Kriss meets a young girl in the forest, Mojmira, who escaped captivity. In the ruins of a hut, where they stop overnight, Kriss finds the Urobors, a magical object of time travel properties. Kriss is being entangled in a tragic love story of Mojmira-Valdemena and Derwan. The characters, constantly travel through time dimensions, trying to escape the vicious cycle and, in their own little ways, reverse the course of the tragedy.
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Edgier ShortsSaturday, 9:25pm-10:42pm The Edgier Shorts set will run 1h 17m and include 7 films from 4 countries. |
| Title | Year | Director(s) | Country | Length | Première? |
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| Entropic | 2020 | Bradford Uyeda | USA | 3:42 | no |
| Squish | 2020 | Xavier Seron | Belgium | 20:45 | no |
| Charlie the Cancelled Skeleton | 2023 | Joe Reilly | USA | 8:59 | Arizona |
| Exhaust | 2022 | Lucy & Jesse Velik | Australia | 8:43 | Arizona |
| The Task | 2021 | Trevor Alpert | USA | 8:54 | Arizona |
| Manicure | 2023 | Carluccio | USA | 9:59 | Arizona |
| Judge | 2022 | Nicolo Pozzali | Italy | 16:24 | Arizona |
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Entropic3:42, USA, Bradford Uyeda A man camping in the wild of Arizona has a close encounter that has terrifying results!
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Squish20:45, Belgium, Xavier Seron Flo has to go to Marrakech for work. So, it’s Tom who takes care of Sam, their 5-year-old son. Flo left him a list of tasks to complete during his absence. Despite this, Tom forgot Sam’s guitar course. From his ryad, Flo calls to blame him. Tom hates being caught. He picks up Sam. The car comes out of the garage at full speed. SPROTCH. Tom just crushed something...
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Charlie the Cancelled Skeleton8:59, USA, Joe Reilly Beware who you cancel. Bitter about a film firing him as an actor for not allowing him to work from home, one man plots out for revenge on a horror film, successfully running a successful cancellation campaign against the film. Unbeknownst to him, however, is the film he cancelled might just be out to cancel him in return...
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Exhaust8:43, Australia, Lucy & Jesse Velik Cut Ben some slack. Being a driver for criminals is his dream. He just needs a bit more practice.
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The Task8:54, USA, Trevor Alpert In a creative work environment in a corporate setting a low level employee must figure out what her boss wants her to do because he refuses to say what he actually means.
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Manicure9:59, USA, Carluccio Before her 30th birthday party, Elanor's anxiety and demand for perfection turn a pleasant manicure into a bloody mess.
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Judge16:24, Italy, Nicolo Pozzali Gianni, an eccentric Italian-American, is forced to hide out in a luxurious villa on Lake Como, Italy. He hosts a card game in the villa with a group of suspicious personalities and his old apprentice, Tim. The game turns sour when it is interrupted by an Interpol raid. However, neither the officers nor Gianni and his friends are what they seem.
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Horror Shorts BSunday, 1:05pm-2:16pm The Horror Shorts B set will run 1h 11m and include 5 films from 4 countries. |
| Title | Year | Director(s) | Country | Length | Première? |
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| Before We Leave | 2021 | Natalia Gurkina | Russia | 9:23 | Arizona |
| Tistlebu | 2022 | Simon Matthew Valentine | Norway | 18:00 | Arizona |
| Watch Over Me | 2021 | Angel Ruiz | USA | 6:08 | Arizona |
| Greed & Gore | 2023 | Adam Kirkey | Canada | 15:15 | Arizona |
| The Negative | 2022 | Tommy Bentz | USA | 21:57 | no |
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Before We Leave9:23, Russia, Natalia Gurkina A story about the memory of the dead, about life after death and about love after leaving forever. The family packs for the moving. Mom gets nostalgic sorting stuff out. Son indifferently throws books and toys in his backpack. Dad tries to slip away to say goodbye to his friends. And only the Youngest Daughter can not find her deal. She stares at others and mess with them. At the same time a strange Old Lady in black stares at the Girl attentively. But no one notices the Old Lady except Girl and it scares her. The Girl becomes frightened even more when she realizes that the whole family will leave her alone with the Old Lady in an empty apartment. And no one can help her, because her family is no longer alive.
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Tistlebu18:00, Norway, Simon Matthew Valentine As a young urban couple on a working holiday hopes to connect with nature at Tistlebu farm, a primordial power comes into play, changing them both forever.
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Watch Over Me6:06, USA, Angel Ruiz A young woman goes up to her house in the woods for the weekend only to be terrorized by an escaped convict.
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Greed & Gore15:15, Canada, Adam Kirkey After a bank robbery doesn’t go exactly as planned, a crew of five pick a last minute safehouse to lay low with their take and a hostage. But the safehouse isn’t so safe...
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The Negative21:57, USA, Tommy Bentz A struggling writer finds a fabled "Cabin of Success" in the woods, where anyone who stays there becomes everything they've ever wanted. But before his dream is realized, he comes face to face with the answer to the question: What would you sacrifice to be successful?
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Sci-Fi Shorts BSunday, 4:30pm-5:38pm The Sci-Fi Shorts B set will run 1h 8m and include 3 films from 43 countries. |
| Title | Year | Director(s) | Country | Length | Première? |
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| Entanglement | 2022 | Yashaswini Nath | India | 31:38 | Arizona |
| Desde el Cosmos | 2022 | Rebeca Arce | Puerto Rico | 6:52 | Arizona |
| Starship Impossible | 2021 | Greg McLeod | UK | 29:34 | Arizona |
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Entanglement31:38, India, Yashaswini Nath A couple struggles to make sense of the past, and their vastly different versions of the bizarre event that made their relationship spin out of control.
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Desde el Cosmos6:52, Puerto Rico, Rebeca Arce David, a boy obsessed with space, receives an alien egg for his birthday. David does everything in his power to protect the egg. What he did not know is that his biggest wish would become his worst nightmare. David needs to be brave to defend the planet against the alien.
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Starship Impossible29:34, UK, Greg McLeod Captain Quitter and his crew of misfits may have found the secret to eternal life. But only if you're prepared to live it out as a moose. A lo-fi sci-fi from the Brothers McLeod and Misfit.
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Other Shorts ASunday, 7:30pm-8:42pm The Other Shorts A set will run 1h 12m and include 5 films from 3 countries. |
| Title | Year | Director(s) | Country | Length | Première? |
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| Aww, Shit! | 2022 | Gibbs Ryals | USA | 6:27 | Arizona |
| Evenfall: Prologue | 2021 | Dustin Lee | USA | 20:23 | Arizona |
| Retribution | 2021 | Julia Grace Jones | USA | 14:16 | no |
| Eco | 2020 | Gilberto David Vázquez Gómez | Puerto Rico | 14:37 | Arizona |
| The Faun of Healwood: The Edge | 2023 | Stephane Artus | France | 15:57 | US |
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Aww, Shit!6:27, USA, Gibbs Ryals The Hitman (Jalen Smith) is the best contract killer in the city; not a single blemish on his resume. He faces his biggest challenge yet when a woman named Jessica Leary (Ellie Key) hires him to murder her wife Tabitha (Anna Jackson), and stage it as a suicide. In response, the Hitman devises an elaborate and intricate plan. One fatal mistake, however, compromises the entire mission and possibly his life.
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Evenfall: Prologue20:23, USA, Dustin Lee A woman struggles to protect her son from the ever-increasing dangers of the world around them.
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Retribution14:16, USA, Julia Grace Jones A man awakens to find himself restrained and recovering from an unknown procedure at the mercy of two mysterious women.
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Eco14:37, Puerto Rico, Gilberto David Vázquez Gómez Ariel will try to hold the reins of his life as he faces the instability of his emotions, accompanied by a strange Eye that has come out on his back.
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The Faun of Healwood: The Edge15:57, France, Stephane Arbus During a walk in the forest, a young woman, Jane, meets a wounded stranger pursued by strange hunters. She asks her to help her reach a dolmen in order to bring a magical object. Jane is reluctant to accept the adventure for which she seems destined. Official trailer at Vimeo.
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Sci-Fi Shorts CMonday, 12:55pm-2:13pm The Sci-Fi Shorts C set will run 1h 18m and include 4 films from 2 countries. |
| Title | Year | Director(s) | Country | Length | Première? |
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| Denali | 2022 | Alberto Ortega | Spain | 12:51 | Arizona |
| Bad Drones | 2021 | Sam Coale | USA | 25:49 | Arizona |
| Möbius’ Trip | 2022 | Matt Jaems | The Netherlands | 20:02 | Arizona |
| Artificial Existence | 2021 | John D. Marshall | USA | 19:28 | Arizona |
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Denali12:51, Spain, Alberto Ortega Marina hires the services of Soul Data, a company that creates digital consciousness through data generated in life, to claim her deceased father for his part of the inheritance until she comes across new secrets.
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Bad Drones25:49, USA, Sam Coale A young man is unintentionally set on an adventure to save mankind when he falls through a wormhole to another world only to discover an army of evil drones on the other side poised to invade Earth.
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Möbius’ Trip20:02, The Netherlands, Matt Jaems Jeremy Brandt is an agent on a mission to stop a man with a device containing a button that must not be pushed—but has been—resulting in an extensive chase. This leads to an electric struggle, against each other and ultimately for a solution to the greatest challenge anyone can face.
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Artificial Existence19:28, USA, John D. Marshall A mother desperately yearns to escape an oppressive dystopian society where humans have merged with machines and life is automated by artificial intelligence, but her family would rather live in technological comfort than escape with her into the unforgiving wilderness.
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Other Shorts BMonday, 4:50pm-5:44pm The Other Shorts B set will run 54m and include 4 films from 2 countries. |
| Title | Year | Director(s) | Country | Length | Première? |
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| OverKill | 2019 | Alex Montilla | USA | 14:46 | no |
| Even Monsters Sleep | 2022 | Cooper J | USA | 9:58 | Arizona |
| Monster in a Box | 2022 | Noah Weisel | USA | 9:15 | Arizona |
| The Operator | 2022 | Matt Riley | UK | 20:00 | Arizona |
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OverKill14:46, USA, Alex Montilla OverKill is a film with a comedic take on a familiar setup: when too-woke-for-their-own-good college kids are terrorized by an unstoppable masked killer, the final girl must outsmart him to survive. Only in this movie, the killer literally cannot be stopped (or killed).
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Even Monsters Sleep9:58, USA, Cooper J Inspired by the victims of Harvey Weinstein and the #metoo movement. An actress chases her dream role down a rabbit hole in this surreal and interpretive tale of terror.
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Monster in a Box9:15, USA, Noah Weisel He did it for the role. When carnival hucksters pull their act in the wrong town they get help from the most unlikely of performers.
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The Operator20:00, UK, Matt Riley The Operator follows Michael, a client contact associate as he starts another dull day of business as usual. Connecting long distance intergalactic calls from a remote satellite (not as exciting as it sounds); a bleary eyed and coffee fuelled Michael receives a distress call. No one ever receives a distress call. They barely touch on distress calls during the induction day.
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Final ShortsMonday, 7:50pm-8:58pm The Final Shorts set will run 1h 8m and include 7 films from 3 countries, then roll into the Award Ceremony. |
| Title | Year | Director(s) | Country | Length | Première? |
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| Midnight Bound | 2020 | Andrew Battaglia | USA | 7:24 | Arizona |
| Yo-Yo Dominance | 2022 | Lucky Meisenheimer, M.D. | USA | 2:43 | Arizona |
| The Gray | 2020 | Myra Aquino | USA | 9:35 | Arizona |
| Innermost | 2022 | Maing Caochong | China | 15:00 | Arizona |
| On/Off | 2022 | Jurg Slabbert | South Africa | 17:54 | Arizona |
| House of the Unholy | 2022 | Daniel Merlot | USA | 15:15 | Arizona |
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Midnight Bound7:24, USA, Anthony Battaglia As nuclear missiles are flying towards Paul’s hometown, he casually explains why he doesn’t want to find shelter or survive the apocalypse while chaos erupts around him.
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Yo-Yo Dominance2:43, USA, Lucky Meisenheimer, M.D. An experimental film done by artificial intelligence. Only the editing and prompts were done by a human. Artwork, voiceovers, animations, music and story was all created by AI.
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The Gray9:35, USA, Myra Aquino A former cop works in purgatory and processes people going to heaven or hell. One day, his 20-year-old son appears.
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Innermost15:00, China, Maing Caochong The background of the stop-motion animation short film Innermost is set in the future featured by highly advanced technologies but collapsed society and civilization system. The cyberpunk-style science fiction world coexists fantastically with the traditional oriental martial arts world. The story follows the emotional entanglement between a long-lost chivalrous couple and a person with regenerated organs starting from a fight for a mystic magic lyre. From the perspective of what regeneration technologies are able of, the short film will arouse the audience to think of how the value of emotions can be magnified or dissolved.
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On/Off17:54, South Africa, Jurg Slabbert An Afrikaans-speaking man helps his elderly German neighbour in a time of need, despite a language barrier. In the process, he learns volumes about himself.
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House of the Unholy15:15, USA, Daniel Merlot A bloodthirsty Princess puts out a bounty to hunt down the last of the Indigo Elf tribe. She is on a quest to attain a magical elixir that's hidden in his heart. The elixir will grant her the powers to reign over the Kingdom for an Eternity.
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Last update: 7th October, 2023
