The Beckoning (2022)

The Day I Bought a Star

The short film is about a boy who lives and works on a farm. One day when going to sell vegetables at a market, his cart breaks down. Two strangers, a frog and a mole, offer him a strange seed in exchange for the vegetables. The boy accepts and finds that the seed grows into a miniature planet. It continues growing as he tends to it, forming an atmosphere, weather systems and life. After being taken back to the city, he meets the stranger who sold the seed to him, and they release the planet into a galaxy of similar planets, where it will grow for years until becoming a real planet.

The Parasite

A young couple is terrorized by a seductive psychic woman. A David Lynch Master's in Film thesis, based on the novelette by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

Echo

A reframing of the classic tale of Narcissus, the director draws on snippets of conversation with a trusted friend to muse on gender and identity. Just as shimmers are difficult to grasp as knowable entities, so does the concept of a gendered self feel unknowable except through reflection. Is it Narcissus that Echo truly longs for, or simply the Knowing he possesses when gazing upon himself?

NSFW

When a blogger pretends to be a child online, his attempts to uncover a predator lead to unexpected and horrific consequences in a nearby woods.

El Cuco Is Hungry

A babysitter fulfills a request on short notice and finds herself in a strange house with a young boy all alone.

Road to Moloch

While on a mission to locate three missing soldiers, a team of reconnaissance marines encounter a blood-spattered Iraqi stumbling through the desert. After following the distraught man into the depths of an insurgent cave, the marines make a horrifying discovery bringing them face-to-face with an ancient evil.

I Am a Forest

A winged creature begins the precarious return from the city to the forest. There she will meet a group of mysterious beings who guide her to the heart of the forest. Step by step, they push her to transform, to leave herself behind. What happens when you decide to return to the forest?

Nebula

In a forest in the mountains, a little girl makes a mysterious encounter.

OSARU-CHAN

When two brothers steal a valuable heirloom from an elderly Japanese woman, they unknowingly awaken her demigod son, Osaru, who does not take kindly to thieves.

The Other Side of the Witching Hour

Short Film: A spellbinding journey into the mind of an insomniac, who spends each night haunted by strange and wonderful illusions from another world.

Bad Dreams

A boy in bed thinks something’s escaped the cellar. Suddenly, a deformed face looms over the boy with a harrowing scream. This bad dream is remembered by a man as he shaves, making him cut his neck. As he bleeds, he wonders "How many shaving cuts would it take to bleed to death?" He decides his guest locked downstairs needs a shave.

Rising

A kid begs to stay home while his older sister runs to the store. After she leaves, he wishes he would have gone because he doesn’t feel comfortable being at home in the dark as strange things start to happen...

The Cold Dark

Erica has to confront her past as she gets stuck in a cabin during a dark storm with two dangerous men.

The Sleep of the Dogs

Night falls in the wasteland. Esther tries to protect her son Caesar, who has been attacked by a creature of the night. But the boy disappears and Esther goes off to search for him with her hunting dogs and crossbow.

The Light

Spain, 19th century. In a small coastal village, Olalla and her family prepare to live a very special night, during which it is mandatory to comply with a single rule: no light must remain on.

Under the Ice

After losing his father in an accident, Edur wakes up in the middle of a nightmare. A certain presence will haunt him with his worst memories.

Sucesión

Javier, a man traumatized by his daughter's recent death, returns to his former home with the intention of winning back his ex-wife, unaware that something awaits him there.

Small Talk

A young phone sex operator named Al's career takes a strange turn as her more unpleasant clients begin dying under mysterious circumstances after speaking with her. Al is left with sudden, intense headaches after each incident, the likes of which she has never experienced before. Is this coincidence, or is she somehow causing these deaths? Al attempts to keep her grip on reality and enlists her best friend investigate--battling violent ex boyfriends and the horror of the service industry along the way

Hymn

As a faithful child of God, Mary regularly repents for her sins. Over time, her faith drives her crazy as she pushes herself to the extremes.

Shuteye Hotel

A film-noir murder mystery that takes place in a sleazy hotel. As cops investigate the gruesome murders, they become victims of this evil force.

Fèlix at the Sant Cebrià's Mountain

Fèlix is a farmer who lives in the quiet vineyards of the Catalan Penedès. One day, he receives a visit from his grandfather, an old wizard, who asks him for help. Fèlix's sister, Sara, has been kidnapped by the dark wizards who live in the castle of the Sant Cebrià’s mountain. She will be sacrificed to the evil Wizard King Morden, who thousands of years ago was imprisoned by Fèlix's grandfather in that castle. Being Fèlix the only one able to save Sara, he will arm himself with his grandfather's ancient stick; he will walk to the wizards' castle and will cope with Morden.

Remembering

A writer loses a very important idea when her phone rings. Personified as golden light, this lost idea is found by the writer’s inner child, who takes us on a journey through The World of Imagination. It is easy to lose touch with this world, but each of us can be inspired by it—if we just remember.

Slash-O-Lantern

It's been 3 years since a mysterious killer murdered Kevin's brother on Christmas Eve. This Halloween, Kevin faces a terrifying showdown when the masked madman returns. -- but this time, he's ready for him.

Campfire Creepers: The Skull of Sam

Long before written language, cinema or television, there were campfire stories. Youth scaring the living bejeezus out of each other on dark nights at summer camp is a tradition as rich and eternal as the earliest campfire tales.

Itch

A psychological horror about a novice nun who develops a severe skin condition which continues to worsen along with her mental state as she struggles with her feelings for another nun.

Soup

A neurotic young man tries to care for his sick sister.

The Atomic Dream

Set against the aftermath of President Kennedy's assassination and the era's pervasive nuclear fears, Frank and his estranged mother-in-law, Sophia, must confront the strange and otherworldly realities of their fast-changing existence.

Elefante

Manuel is stuck in a monotonous job, has only one friend that he cannot stand, and his family despises him. Everything will change when the doctor diagnoses him with a rare disease - Manuel is going to turn into an elephant.

Chowboys

Three stupid cowboys are lost in the woods without any food on the coldest night of the year. Will they succumb to the cold, cannibalism or the Christmas Spirit? Canada's infamous Astron-6 return to short form to challenge the very idea of storytelling. Grotesque. Absurd. Buñuel by way of the Zuckers and Abrahams.

TiCK

In a post-pandemic society, a vampire in hiding is forced to make a stand when confronted with the oppressive regime who kidnapped and enslaved her family.

Heart of Mold

On a historical grave site, a teenage girl with low self-esteem, a white rapper, and the ghost of a confederate soldier become entangled in a love triangle.

Mist

A man and his daughter, living in an isolated log cabin built in an open field near an inhospitable forest, are terrified by the mysterious mist rising from the trees.

The Ravishing of Frank N. Stein

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

Vuelven

Carolina is bitten by a zombie and Bruno, her partner, must decide between killing her before she converts or abandoning her.

Tenoch

Abandoned, a woman about to give birth arrives with an elderly woman seeking help for her delivery, but she will soon learn that every action will have its consequences ...

Yulia's Birthday

A modern fairy tale about a girl who is looking for her lost soul. First love, jealousy, death – everything can be found in this fantastic animation movie. Julia's fiance died tragically. Having grieved a little, Julia decided to get married again. But the dead bridegroom returned for Julia's soul. In order to save her soul, the girl had to go to the other world.

Camille

Camille, a shy little girl, realizes that the cupcakes she likes to bake can help her make friends. The children begin to get excited about the cupcakes, but the situation does not turn out as she expected and she will have to bake a mountain of cupcakes to not feel alone again.

Follow the Sun!

While we have a few minutes before the show, stop by our refreshment stand! We have all kinds of tasty treats! Popcorn for all eternity! Hell's on it's way!

Runaway

Runaway is an animated short film about a misunderstanding between a man named Stanley and his treasured 1950s refrigerator, named Chillie.