STRANGE FUTURES SHORTS

Take a journey through these peculiar visions of the future. From dystopian game shows and futuristic cities, to robots and duels - nothing is beyond the imagination in these strange new worlds.

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Presented in Multiple Parts

DON’T F*CK WITH BA

In Chinatown slum, THAO discovers her grandmother, beaten to death and robbed of her collection of gold jewelr...
17 min | Sally Tran | | HAWAI''I PREMIERE | Vietnamese, Mandarin, Japanese, Korean | English
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I’M NOT A ROBOT

After several unsuccessful attempts to complete a Captcha, feminist Lara sets out to answer the disturbing que...
22 min | Victoria Warmerdam | | HAWAI''I PREMIERE | Dutch | English
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MIS-ALIGNMENT

When an engineer who destroys malfunctioning androids encounters a shocking abnormality in a rebellious patien...
19 min | Pablo Riesgo Almonacid | | HAWAI''I PREMIERE | English | English
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PRIMETIME MOTHER

Minda, a 45-year-old mother, wants nothing but to join and win in a popular and high- paying television game s...
14 min | Sonny Calvento | | HAWAI''I PREMIERE | Filipino | English
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SUMMONS

This is the story of a woman and a man who may have never met, much less seen each other as romantic partners,...
16 min | Ken Cheng | | HAWAI'I PREMIERE | English
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THE SECOND

In an alternate version of today’s world where dueling is still acceptable, Philip, a man of tradition, must...
16 min | Taylor Ramos, Tony Zhou | | HAWAI'I PREMIERE | English | Closed Captions
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