Shemergency (2025)

The Flight of Paloma

A short film narrated by the drag queen Paloma, in interview with the filmmaker.

Garden Party

In a deserted rich house, a couple of amphibians explore their surroundings and follow their primal instincts.

Mecha Meraki

In a robotic society moved by the consumption of colorful mechanic members, an insecure gray robot faces the pressure to find the perfect piece for himself.

The Final Day

Yadira, a creative young Cuban girl, struggles packing on her final day home. Embarking on an immigration journey alone, her suitcase feels too small to carry everything her heart holds.

In the Box

A character is inside a cubical room; there is a hole in the roof, which is too high to reach. But pushing on the walls distorts the room in various ways, always appearing to bring the hole closer while still leaving it tantalizingly inaccessible.

Pato Maybe Pato

A duck accidentally eats a radioactive burger that turns him giant. Shenanigans ensue when the people of Smallville panic and will do everything to demonize and destroy this innocent duck without realizing the damage they themselves do.

Bacchus

Alex, a young woman bored with modern life, is lured by Bacchus into a colorful and mysterious world to explore her deepest desires.

A Paw Over Dark

A washed up actor performs night after night in a grimy theater to a nearly empty audience. However, everything changes when a clueless dog jumps on stage.

Bring Me the Head of Charlie Brown

Charlie Brown is on the run from the Peanuts Gang after the Great Pumpkin puts a bounty on his head in this wild animated student short by Jim Reardon.

Code Rose

A flamingo lands on the runway of an aircraft carrier out on the open sea.

Lighthouse

The protagonist is a young man – imprisoned for life. His past, however, remains unclear. He comes to live on a deserted island in a lighthouse filled with books. Apparently, his life's only meaning now is to read them. Only reading them could somehow set him free.

Monomania

An obsessive fan breaks into the dressing room of her idol Irene after a show, and has her worldview called into question after finding out the singer’s just a regular person.

Bloody Fairy Tales

From fairy tales or funny gore games - it could be characterized by a black-and-white review of folk tabernacles involving sex with a pig, frowning, and the painful fall of the princess from her prison in the high tower.

A Letter On A Bicycle

Narrated as a letter to a mother, this short film traces the emotional undercurrents of leaving home and adjusting to a new environment, blending inner transformation with the changing landscape.

Blue Dreams of the Wind

A chase encounter between a wild woman and a rabbit. It is a union with otherness in a forest bathed in blue shadows.

En Prise

An epic battle between a knight and a pawn is about to start!... Except it doesn't, they're actually chess pieces

The Genie

When a young boy tries to write the perfect song, the tip of his pencil breaks and frees a Genie who will only grant him one wish

Bodies of Water

When Lake is drowning in his own thoughts, Mac takes him on a lake break. With all the leisure and chill, he definitely won’t be stuck in his head anymore.

The Library

It's closing time at Nina's library. Goodnight, patrons!

Cuticule

Violette lives in an apartment with her boyfriend. A tension has long driven them apart, the dialogue seems worn-out. While she is in the bathroom brushing her teeth, Violette is called out by a strange silhouette which looks right at her through the drain (of the sink): a living finger, which has taken up residence in the pipes. The finger seems to show itself only when Violette is alone. Her boyfriend, who seems now to hold nothing more than contempt for her, is no source of support. Refusing to tolerate the strange creature's intrusion, she is going to make every effort to put an end to this psychosis. But are things more real than we might think?

Mum's Sweater

After her mother's death, Kim finds solace in wearing her mother's old sweater. However, the sweater begins to itch and even hurt her, but she still can't bring herself to take it off.

Safe.

A short animated film about censorship.

Down To The Bone

Little Michael has vicious allergies, and when babysitter Meredith arrives for a night of no-nonsense, he's swiftly dispatched to the yard...where his delicate condition takes a turn for the worse.

It’s Nice in Here

A fragmented portrait of a moment, a person, and a place, seen through the subjective memories of a young Black girl, Imani, and a rookie police officer, David, who both have wildly different recollections of the same fateful moment in a corner store that will leave their lives altered forever.

The Wooden Ghost

An adaptation of one of the most famous horror poems of all time. How, in a fever dream, a carver finishes the portrait of a young woman. Then suddenly something flies into the workshop and strange things start happening. Stop-motion animation is combined with live action to create a terrifying experience from flesh, blood, wood and feathers.

Clicker

Two boyfriends take a tour of their dysfunctional relationship through the magic of television.

Sh_t Happens

The caretaker exhausted by everything, his frustrated wife and one totally depressed deer. Their mutual despair leads them to absurd events, because... shit happens all the time.

The Last Stop

A lone Commuter trapped in a speeding MRT train has to push against the force of the speed and escape before it crashes into the LAST STOP.

The Unnamable

A cryptic young creature takes the train from Dublin to Sandycove, confronting ideas of a splintered self-image, loneliness, and being seen in a fundamentally blind world.

The Kite

A little boy likes to visit his grandpa and go kite-flying with him. But as the seasons change, grandpa seems to change too.

MILO

Milo sees a monster and starts chasing it while his owner, Ekin, is not taking care of him but with the character she designed.

Dolly Baby - Twilight Fugitives

First entry for Dolly Baby, an upcoming animated franchise. In a dystopian future, Dolly, a reconditioned and outlawed human, seeks refuge in a bar after a bloody fight against several guards. As she tries to catch her breath while pouring a drink, the door of the bar suddenly opens behind her...

Fall Apart

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Rosetta

An extroverted, cheerful, dreamer, Rosetta was raised in the “Traveling Circus of Pitibiribas”. From a very young age, she dreamed of following her parents' profession and become a circus clown, but when offered the opportunity to perform in public for the first time, she gets nervous and gets her number wrong. Consumed with the feeling of failure, she runs away before she could fulfill her dream

A Spot for Frog

Locked out of the school art room, a creative non-binary teen named Frog grapples with anxiety as they seek a new place to eat lunch. Imagination blurs with reality in this hybrid work of live action and animation about finding a place to belong.

Framed

An art student faces an art block while deadlines are getting closer. Through her frustration, she's going to dive into the psychological issues that threaten her work.

Happy End

A splendid chain of unlikely encounters. Hunters, a tractor driver, a disco boy, and a corpse.

The Shadow over Prague

The Nazis decided to awaken the dark forces of the Old Prague legends in order to use (and abuse) them to destroy the world. The only one who can stop them is Perak.

A Hair Short

A lensless exploration of hair on 35mm film.

The Messenger

A dragon deliveryman starts his dream job and discovers that sometimes people will just hate you, no matter how hard you try.

GRIP

Ollie, a passionate young skater, practices alone in an abandoned shopping mall, where she faces her own failures and self doubts. She begins to hone her tricks, transforming her universe into a unique visual and spiritual experience.

After fire

A boy confesses his love to a girl — and turns to stone forever.

Palomita

A hungry pidgeon finds a box of popcorn, down on a bench, and tries to reach it. The only thing it stops him to get it it's the rain.