The editors of Stash Magazine transport you into six alternate futures with a selection of outstanding sci-fi short films by an international group of visionary young directors.

An ex-firefighter in Cape Town wakes up next to his murdered wife, with no recollection of what transpired. On the run from both the police and a mysterious third party, he must fight for his life and find out who killed his wife.

After two long years of hard work, Billy Coleman saves up enough money to buy a pair of redbone hound pups, and it's love at first sight. Before long, Billy trains "Old Dan" and "Little Ann" to be the finest hunting team in the valley. As the inseparable trio chase the wily "ghost raccoon" and confront danger together, Billy learns the meaning of loyalty, courage, and perseverance.

Director Josephine Decker's highly-acclaimed second feature unfolds with the lyricism and inexorable sense of tragedy of an ancient Appalachian murder ballad. Indie icon Joe Swanberg (director of *Happy Christmas* and *Drinking Buddies*) delivers a beautifully understated performance as Akin, a soft-spoken farmworker who takes a summer job working for the belligerent, domineering Jeremiah (Robert Longstreet), who lives in incestuous isolation with...

An elderly man, Octav Petrescu (Marcel Iureș), returns to his childhood mansion in Romania with the intention of selling of it. Arriving there after a decades-long absence, Octav wanders through the estate and is confronted and transformed by the memories and spectres of his childhood, eventually finding answers to questions which have cast a shadow over his adult life.

A battle between real estate moguls and environmental activists takes an unexpected turn into affairs of the heart in this satiric update of Henry James' The Bostonians. Gavin Ransom (Noah Wyle) is a successful real estate developer who has made a tidy fortune putting up gated communities filled with expensive suburban homes all over California.. Ransom intends to put up another such development in the as-yet-untouched hillsides of Northern California's...

A Nigerian father with a steely resolve begins a reluctant search to find his estranged son, leading him on an unexpected emotional journey that will change him forever. A powerful independent short selected at TIFF, BFI London, Palm Springs ShortFest, Clermont-Ferrand ISFF, Uppsala ISFF.

Desperate to escape the trappings of her small coastal farming town, 16-year-old Abby falls for the lead singer of a touring rock band and must decide whether to leave her family and lifelong friends behind or let the music take her home.

Vince Lombardi High School keeps losing principals to nervous breakdowns because of the students' love of rock 'n' roll and their disregard of education. The putative leader of the students is Riff Randell, who loves the music of the Ramones. A new principal, the rock-music-hating Miss Evelyn Togar, is brought in and promises to put an end to the music craze. When Miss Togar and a group of parents attempt to burn a pile of rock records, the students...

This award-winning Scandinavian drama focuses on Ingrid, a woman contending with the loss of vision. In trying to navigate a world without sight, she spends her days attempting to reconstruct the visual world as she once knew it. As she struggles with her new found predicament, she begins writing salacious fictional stories that slowly morph into fantasies of what her husband does when she's not around. When real-life events seamlessly give way to...