Root (2020)

Grantham Overgrown (Infinite Regression)

A near-dead town, an encroaching overgrowth, a mysterious tower, a camera, a voice. Across 299 photographs a man who may be the filmmaker, and yet might not be real, relays a story that may not have happened, about a place that almost definitely exists.

The Flying Man

A new superhero is coming, only this time it's on his terms. Will he still be considered a hero?

Uncle Otto's Truck

One man’s guilty conscience will soon breed a world of insanity.

Immaculata

The assistant of a creepy power couple inexplicably finds herself pregnant. Immaculata feels like an unexpected offshoot of Rosemary's Baby, between its half-open doors and a phobia of fluids.

Long Distance Train

A living person and a ghost balance their long distance relationship.

A Private Session

Amidst a series of female kidnappings, Samantha has a date with a mysterious man she knows very little about.

Another Luna

A gap in the relationship with her mother causes Luna to seek affection from a mysterious doll.

Dereliction

Elias is an I.T. technician preparing for an overnight gig. He thinks he's totally alone in the building and is about to find out he's wrong.

Hysteric

A mysterious sound, a mother stricken with madness, and two daughters caught in a fight for survival.

The Selkie's Lover

A seal in water and human on land, the mythical selkie cannot return to their true home in the sea if their seal skin is stolen. In this modern adaptation a selkie woman trapped on land in human form, longing to return to her underwater realm, unwittingly falls in love with a young fisherman.

Kindness

"I'm the ship's scientist, for God's sake."

WHAT DID JACK DO?

In a locked down train station, a homicide detective conducts an interview with a tormented monkey who is suspected of murder.

The Author

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Juliet in Paris

A young student, alone in Paris, is engaged in strange and bloody experiences of which she is both the authorizer and the victim.

The Lone Wolf

One night on Viva FM's late night show, host Vitor Lobo gets a phone call from an old friend.

Closet Space

A couple moves into their new apartment and experiences the horrors of... their closet space.

Proyecciones del Limbo

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Double Helix

Late at night, KONG Xianyun and her younger brother Yuanyuan escape from their family house. They trek into an abandoned school, where Yuanyuan’s memories are awakened – the sound of books, piano, and laughter. Fire! Fire! Fire! Fire engulfs everything. Adapted from The Song of Life by the worldrenowned sci-fi writer WANG Jinkang, this speculative short contemplates on the future of AI. Soaked in a never-shredding atmosphere and accompanied by the secret tune of a piano, DOUBLE HELIX tells a gripping story of intelligence robot, family trauma and a pair of run-away siblings who trek into an abandoned school.

Under the Bridge of Fear

Hard-boiled private eye Hamilton Drake is called in by notorious society dame Georgia Thurlow to chase down the rat who's been blackmailing her and a famous movie star. But in this sapphic underworld, nothing is ever black and white.

The Glitch

After discovering his mother crying, a boy is stalked by unknown presences.

The Strange Ones

A man and a boy, traveling to an unknown destination, find respite in a motel swimming pool. On the surface all seems normal, but nothing is what it seems to be. Short film not to be confused with the 2017 feature film with the same name.

Is It A Plaisir

'Is it a plaisir' is an experimental short film that explores femininity and the body as a sharp territory, crossed by the tension between desire and imposition. Through symbolic, sound and visual saturation, the film acts from pleasure (plaisir), revealing a liberation that emerges in the midst of excess, where intensity and lightness, dark and light, intertwine, collide and converge.

Knock Knock!

A young lady is about to hang her new antique mirror to the wall when someone mysteriously leaves a box on her doorstep. As she gets ready to open it, knocks start to spread around in her apartment. Who is it? Or should we say what is it?

Iblard Time

A quiet stroll through the imaginary world of Iblard, originally depicted in the paintings by Naohisa Inoue, influenced by Impressionism and Surrealism.

Hertzienne Connexion

The man reads his newspaper on a toilet bowl. The woman presents the newspaper behind a television. In fact, he's a prisoner, she's a spy. But what terrible secret is he hiding?

The Stranger

In cargo handling areas where a lot of foreign employees work, the managers are always Korean. The class imbalance between Koreans and foreign workers causes inevitable conflicts.

M - Fantasia Dramática

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Salton

An uptight grad student reluctantly inherits his grandfather's property in Salton Sea but when he meets an offbeat local woman, he gets pulled into the sea's biggest mystery.

The Ravishing of Frank N. Stein

The slow construction of an image, to the rhythm of steps, ends when the monster meets his Bride.

Vandits

A teenage posse, known as the Vandits, attempts to pull off a ridiculous heist.

Wake Up

A debt collector has a nervous breakdown at work on the anniversary of his wife's suicide. He is pulled between reality and a hallucinative journey into his subconscious as he desperately searches for a way out of his misery.

A Matter of Loaf and Death

Wallace and Gromit open a bakery, accidentally getting tied up with a murder mystery in the process. But when Wallace falls in love, Gromit is left to solve the case by himself.

The Tunnel

In an overpopulated future, a family travels home from the beach in heavy traffic; between them and the gigantic city in which they live, is a tunnel with a horrifying purpose.

The Necrophile

A story of a very ordinary man who just happens to be necrophile. (He is also like to eat cockroaches.) Problems begins when his pretty orphan cousin came to live with him...

The Phantom Hour

Four strangers meet in a mysterious home. There for different reasons, they slowly begin to realize something is terribly wrong with their host… and their chef.

Nest

In early-colonial Australia, a timber feller, kept awake by his infant child’s cries of hunger, encounters something perturbing in the woods.

Project U Move

Popular music artist CG5 vanishes after a New Years livestream, leaving behind nothing but a color of red. Meanwhile, around the world, a mysterious VHS tape is causing chaos by using him to entrance people with a bright and intoxicating red glow.

Avesso

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Myth

Collaborating with Australian circus company Gravity & Other Myths, 2020 BAFTA Newcomer and Berlinale Talent Campus alumna Alies Sluiter crafts a disquieting, quasi-surrealist tale of bravery and grief.

The Fourth

While house-sitting, a young boy falls into the hands of his own imagination and conscience.

Alma

Alma, a little girl, skips through the snow covered streets of a small town. Her attention is caught by a strange doll in an antique toy shop window. Fascinated, Alma decides to enter.

HEY ELLIE!

Megan (Marieann Real) unwittingly awakens a haunting from the past after buying an old scrapbook. Inside, she discovers an item belonging to a mysterious young girl name Ellie (Eliana Lopez-Aguirre), triggering eerie paranormal experiences. As the line between past and present begins to blur, she is drawn into a chilling mystery where every clue brings her closer to uncovering a dark and forgotten truth.