As we enter not only into a new year but also a new decade, it is time for our look back at the best independent science fiction and genre short films we covered in 2019.

The year featured breathtaking speculative works boasting jaw-dropping production value, as well as powerful, timely themes ranging from women’s reproductive rights to the affects of addiction on familial bonds.

Many of these films also serve as the official coming-out for talented and exciting new filmmakers with singular voices.

The previous year bore witness to extraordinary speculative shorts produced with boundless vision, diversity of perspective, narrative ambition, and cinematic sensibilities. Not since I founded The 7th Matrix in 2013 have I been this excited about the future of independent speculative filmmaking based on the quality of the shorts we covered in 2019.