Trip Upstate! (2023)

Paper Planes

A woman with agoraphobia and the Airbnb guest across the hall strike up a correspondence that becomes something more for the holidays.

Déjà-vu

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Snap

A couple of teenage boys decide to send a "dick pic" from the locker room. When the anonymously sent image is discovered, the culprits of the naughty image must choose to either hang out or stand together.

Crossing Over

Aris awakens in another world, happy that he finally managed to die. Despite the objections of Hades, that he is not yet ready, he begins his journey towards death.

Getting Fat in a Healthy Way

Bulgaria-based director Kevork Aslanyan’s European Short Film Festival-winning sci-fi short sees a man trying to overcome an obstacle of gravitas for love. In a dystopian post-communist world, Constantine and his father Atanas share a small flat in a run-down apartment block. A tragic accident has disturbed gravity on Earth beyond repair, so everyone weighing less than 120 kilos flies up into space. With only 60kg body weight, Constantine cannot go outside, nor does he want to. Stuck in the flat, at the mercy of the electrical mood swings of a household gravitational normalizer, Constantine leads an almost normal life. He is content spending the days looking at the world through his window. Until the beautifully plump stewardess moving in next door changes everything.

But Milk Is Important

A man with social anxiety gets followed by a naive and clumsy creature. Terrified the man tries to escape, unaware that the creature is actually a helper with slightly unconventional methods.

The Rage

A bio scientist becomes trapped in a testing lab when a deadly Rage virus is accidentally released. It's then a race against time to find his girlfriend and escape the lab before the Rage destroys everything in its path.

Un Chien Andalou

Un Chien Andalou is an European avant-garde surrealist film, a collaboration between director Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dali.

The Pit

Experimental gothic short, adapted from Edgar Allan Poe's 'The Pit and the Pendulum'.

Adoration

Based on the real life story of Sagawa, a Japanese student who killed, dismembered and ate a young Dutch girl in Paris.

A Matter of Perspective

A young teacher is the victim of a cruel joke. When she enters the classroom, all her pupils are naked, standing near their bench. Their clothes are heaped up on the podium

Inner Workings

This is the story of the internal struggle between a man's Brain—a pragmatic protector who calculates his every move, and his Heart—a free-spirited adventurer who wants to let loose.

When a Man Loves a Woman

Amanda awakes from a one-night stand with woman she can't get away from quickly enough. Her gay friend Nick calls telling her his mother is paying a surprise visit, bringing her Victorian values with her. Will Amanda play along and bury her pride by pretending to be his girlfriend?

No No, Homo

Alone at a matinee together, with a big, mouthwatering bucket of popcorn.

Clouzot : The Early Works

A master of suspense admired even by Hitchcock, Henri-Georges Clouzot is famous for acid-tinged thrillers about cold-blooded murder and ugly politics, whether in a French town or a Latin American oil field. But his early writing career was quite different: he provided the scenarios and dialogue for ten years’ worth of clever farces and affecting melodramas, often with musical numbers. My Cousin from Warsaw, Dragnet Night, The Unknown Singer, I’ll Be Alone After Midnight, The Terror of Batignolles, Tell Me Tonight, Dream Castle

Bakemono

In Japanese culture, the day before spring is known as Setsubun. For over a thousand years, it has been tradition to throw soybeans to summon good luck and cast out evil spirits. What if a young girl has different plans to those of her traditional parents?

Creswick

Sam's fear of her childhood home is brought to light when her ageing father claims there is another presence in the house.

Mónica e os Ovos de Chocolate

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Team Thor

Discover what Thor was up to during the events of Captain America: Civil War.

The Flesh

A debate arises between Jesus Christ and a beautiful nun about her nightlife and whether the scriptures address any punishment for her sins.

Tenants

Some very special tenants move into the María Teresa building.

The Victory of Charity

A music professor facing redundancy and a serious hoarding habit is pushed to extremes when he discovers his girlfriend has given a treasured 1960s band jacket to charity. He enlists a young ambitious musicologist to accompany him on a mission to retrieve the jacket.

Blood Drips Heavily on Newsie Square

Washed up actor Don Knotts shows up on the back lot of Universal Studios in Hollywood, California in hopes of landing a role in the new Disney movie, Newsies. Unfortunately director Kenny Ortega quickly dismisses Mr. Knotts and has him thrown off the lot. Mr. Knotts is quite upset by the turn of events, so decides to go on a killing spree, believing that if he can't have a role in the movie no one can. He knocks off one newsie after the next, each in a different and unique way.

When Susurrus Stirs

A body horror tale like no other. The story of one man's bond with a parasitic creature that could result in the end of us all.

Fear of the Deer

A festive horror short.

Gli Atomici Fotonici

Giacomo drags his son to a club for the selection of a musical talent. Will he be able to move his son out of his own insecurities?

When It Catches U

A young man finds himself pursued by a mysterious spiritual mask stalker who employs a haunting song to ensnare his prey. As tension mounts, he must confront the sinister forces threatening his existence in a battle of wits and willpower.

Straight

In a world where homosexuality is the accepted norm, and heterosexuals are the disgraced minority, a young boy must face a harsh reality after coming out as straight.

Rooster's Crow

Drowned in the chaos of a family reunion filled with testosterone and pig roast, Reynald will try to prove to his nephew, his family but mostly himself that he's still king.

The Table Serving

Felicia, a regular at the local fast food joint, gets tired of waiting for her order and decides to speed up the process.

A Day in the Life of a Bench

A short poetry film about A Day in the Life of a Bench and the various types of people who visit it throughout the day.

Martyris

In a dismal and decadent world, a little Saint cares for various beings with suicidal tendencies. A strange visit warns the Saint not to interfere with the supreme order of things, whereby the natural law of martyrs takes precedence over kindness and affection

Mood Boobs

A small chested woman wishes she had bigger boobs and her wish is granted.

Dead Crossing

The story of a group of Mexican immigrants who discover a horrifying secret about the US government while trying to cross the border.

Bla Bla Bla

Sharing car is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you're gonna get.

Apocalypse Runner

The world every movie has gone, the man who translates everything into movies shows up.

Yep

In a solitary existence, a man is unexpectedly gifted a plasmaball at his doorstep, unraveling a startling revelation. A gateway to an alternate realm situated on the opposite end of his world.