Popsy (2013)

Refused

Frieda Liappa in this short film casts an alternative gaze on the notion of historicity. Loukia is a teenager currently staying at her cousin’s house in Athens. Unlike her cousin she is timid and quite stressed for the school exam. She studies history. Between the lines of her book the historical events sprung up in a multidimensional way. Liappa transverses the dimensions of the real the imaginary and the symbolic. She invites the viewer to consider the construction of the filmic as well as the historical text. She succeeds in making a film with an open end and to leave room for our own contingent constructions.

Swirlee

Tells the story of Mr. Softee, a mutant hybrid with an ice cream cone for a head, who was the victim of the anti-miscarriage drug "Nodroppinum" which changed the pregnant mother's child into whatever food she craved at the time (a parody of the Thyladimide scandal from the 60s.) Softee was the head of an ice cream company, until he was forced out of business by the artificial ice cream mafia, led by Don Tofutti.

Run!

Sometimes you're caught in the moment. Sometime you're just caught!

Can I Be Your Bratwurst, Please?

A newly arrived guest of a Hollywood hotel charms and amazes the regulars, and they decide to invite him to their Christmas dinner.

Crash

Three men. From different corners of the crime world: A hired gun, Musta; a con man, Cem; and a thief, Ali. By a twist of fate their paths crosses at Central Station and start to work as a team. But their past won't let them go too faraway...

Good Business

Humanity makes a deal with a new client. Based on the comic "Good Business" by Simon Roy

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.

Night of the Living Dread

When a power-cut ruins Ruby's bedtime routine she finds herself haunted by embarrassing past versions of herself. The only way for Ruby to get a peaceful night of sleep is to confront her visitors and accept herself just as she is.

Violent Trash

Jimmy lives through a nightmare of blood and violence. Surreal images are replaced by brutal splatter. An inferno from which Jimmy is only too eager to wake up. Young director Lars Cramer presents his first work, accompanied by dark Italian sounds.

Paycheck

Michael Jennings is a genius who's hired – and paid handsomely – by high-tech firms to work on highly sensitive projects, after which his short-term memory is erased so he's incapable of breaching security. But at the end of a three-year job, he's told he isn't getting a paycheck and instead receives a mysterious envelope. In it are clues he must piece together to find out why he wasn't paid – and why he's now in hot water.

BLOOD STREET

It's Halloween and monsters of all kinds come out of the shadows in the quiet town of Crystal Wood. Follow the locals as they survive the night of the Blood Street festival and the echoes of the neighborhood's eery past.

The Lawnmower Man

A simple man is turned into a genius through the application of computer science.

Children of the Corn

A traveling couple end up in an abandoned Nebraska town inhabited by a cult of murderous children who worship a demon that lives in the local cornfields.

BOB

A painter in a creative crisis gets help from a monster behind a door in her studio.

Blood Ties

A young woman is forced to confront her past when her family is attacked. She quickly learns she can’t run from her roots.

#YoureDead

A woman is targeted by an unknown entity after witnessing gruesome acts of violence on social media.

Bath Bomb

Beware the dangers of bath bombs...

Night Stop

Asad, a 16-year-old Black boy, whose first language is Finnish sign language, is on his way home on a rainy night when his bicycle breaks down in the middle of a quiet highway.

Vortex

An alienated man, has no idea of what's going on outside his decrepit apartment in Burbank. When surrealistic events start happening around him, an inner struggle begins in which he'll have to figure out whether there's a strange presence haunting him or if it's just all inside his head.

Sunday Morning

A high school student's journey to discover his sexuality in a conservative area is made harder as he struggles with sexual abuse, manipulation, and fear.

Paradise Lost?

After discovering that John Milton is buried within London's Barbican grounds, Iain Forsyth & Jane Pollard reimagined his epic poem ‘Paradise Lost’ as part of Doug Aitken's Station to Station project. The piece uses the architecture and atmosphere of the Barbican to update the story, which is told in three parts.

Bleeders

A man with an unknown disease travels to an island with his girlfriend where his relatives once lived, hoping to find a cure to his illness. Although his relatives were all thought to be dead, he finds them living underground.

Wade

In a version of Kolkata, India rendered unliveable by sea level rise, things take a dark turn when a family of climate change refugees are ambushed by a tiger on the flooded streets.

The Last King

A world famous Iranian detective Shahriar and his ward Vahid are called upon the murder of a shipping magnate. His list of suspects, short but close to him, his three daughters and wife stand by as they tell their version of the events leading up to the patriarchs death.

The Dedication

Upon receiving her son's first published book, Kiko tells her best friend Midori about a shameful secret from their childhood, how she "made a deal with the devil" for her son's future.

Fuelled

Fuelled tells the story of a housewife on the path of revenge for her late husband.

Secrets

Derek, divorces his violent wife Grace and remarries Lena. However, after remarrying Lena, Derek discovers that some secrets were never meant to be revealed.

Closed

Closed follows restaurant manager Hana, who becomes trapped inside the kitchen’s freezer room overnight, immediately after a spat with one of her co-workers. As she tries to survive the freezing conditions, she begins to question whether she’s the only one locked inside.

His Regeneration

A rough criminal gets a second chance at life thanks to a kindly (and wealthy) lady saloon patron. But he hasn't gone straight yet, as he and a partner attempt to rob the home of a rich homeowner-- whose wife is asleep in the next room.

Nice and Friendly

This short was made as a wedding present for Lord and Lady Mountbatten. In it, Lady Mountbatten has a valuable pearl necklace, which a very large number of crooks wants to steal.

exposer

A man battling drug addiction is stalked by an ominous masked photographer.

The Listener

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MOVING DAY

A young woman moves into a new house she finds on Craigslist - only to discover her new roommate has been murdered.

Donald's Crime

On the night he promised to take Daisy out, Donald Duck discovers he's broke. Desperate for spending money, he gets it in the last place he knows: his three nephews' piggy bank. After their night out, Daisy thanks the 'rich' big spender, which only makes Donald remember how penniless and remorseful he is. What ensues is Donald's guilt (and imagination) taking him on a nerve-wracking ride in the role of a wanted man.

Bulletproof Anand

Two small-time goons Bada Bruce Lee (Bruce Lee Senior) and Chhota Bruce Lee (Bruce Lee Junior) grab hold of the dreaded gangster Anand, hailed in the underworld as Bulletproof Anand. Anand earned that title because of his notorious history of escaping death despite more than 27 attacks on his life. Starring Festival Favorite Actors Sanjai Mishra, Anshuman Jha and Jaaved Jaafery in a never seen before avatar Bullet Proof Anand is an ode to the verbose 90s Gangster films. This is the story of three misfit gangsters, an elusive femme fatale and a lit dynamite in a hapless location.

Big Wheels: A Tale of the Laundry Game

Two men fueled by alcohol and rage force a mechanic into giving their car a last minute inspection. As the process continues, shifts in power start to emerge and tensions start to run dangerously high.

The Chair

After Reese brings home an antique chair, a series of horrific events follow, leading him to question if it's a malevolent spirit the chair possesses or the darkness inside his own mind.

Sneakers

Recording studio executive John Tell notices a pair of old dirty sneakers in an adjacent stall while using the restroom at work. He, at first, assumes that the shoes belong to a fellow employee or a delivery person. However, when he visits the bathroom again throughout the week, he notices that not only have the shoes not moved, they are now surrounded by the bodies of dead flies and other bugs.

Hybrid Hazards

A teenage rock band performs their music for a small audience. At the end of their performance, lead singer Lacy who is in love with one of the members, gets a text from her mother to invite the band to her family’s factory, possibly for jobs. However, the family has a dark secret that will forever transform or fatally devour their friendship.

Adjuration

Grace is recovering from her brother's suicide and, while trying to fill up the void, she's haunted with the memories of the one she loved the most.

Dark Galaxy

"They are combinations of fragments. There are no stories, it is possible to mount these fragments in many ways. »Cine-eye or cine-voice-eye. The text of the Galaxies goes straight to the image. »A text rewritten for the eye» (H. de Campos). A short film that is more than experimental and that is based on a dark aesthetic that takes from the work of poet Haroldo de Campos its "dark matter" to combine it with the filmmaker's rarefied images and the puppet-like markings of actresses Bete Coelho and Mariana de Moraes.

The Shout

A traveller by the name of Crossley forces himself upon a musician and his wife in a lonely part of Devon, and uses the aboriginal magic he has learned to displace his host.

Gray Matter

Through a series of strange events, Henry and Bertie discover that Ritchie Grenedine has been undergoing a sinister biological change. After consoling Ritchie's distraught daughter, The men set out on an errand to uncover the grizzly truth of Ritchie's transformation and eventually learn what's behind the disappearance of two local girls.

There Will Be Monsters

Monsters exist. They live inside us. And sometimes, they win.

Cassandra

Do you remember? Last summer, Illinois was confronting a series of bizarre murders. At each crime scene, police found a sketch of a house which turned out to be the location of the next murder. But detectives couldn't identify the houses in time, and the murders continued, becoming more violent until someone recognizes the latest sketch as the old Wilson farm up in Monroe. As we open, a policewoman named Crawley is being interviewed by an unseen authority figure. She tries to remember what exactly happened at the Wilson farm. She explains she was patrolling in the area and went there quickly, intending to find out what the owner knew and get him out. Instead. . . what happened was. . . if only she could remember. . .

Brick Boy

A bullied teen conjures a building block golem to exact vengeance on her oppressors.

The Pit and the Pendulum

Set during the height of Spanish Inquisition. The beautiful and kind-hearted Maria is arrested as a witch when she inadvertently cries out in horror at the public whipping of a child. As Maria’s husband Antonio tries to save her, Torquemada, the Grand Inquisitor, determines to punish Maria with torture for the desire she inflames in him. Loosely based on Edgar Allen Poe's classic short story.

I Am Your Punishment

An avid moviegoer sees several films depicting grisly murderers and decides to commit a crime himself, only to discover that there's quite a difference between fantasy and reality.

Chaperone

An unnamed figure picks up a young man in his car. As the two drive together, and settle into an austere rental house in the country, the details of their arrangement become guttingly clear.