Hellbound Laments (2020)

Garden Party

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

Wrath of God: Confrontation

WRATH OF GOD: CONFRONTATION is the first in a series of films with overarching stories that take us from the dawn of human civilization all the way to its technological epitome. A mysterious relic lies at the heart of their pursuit. Some want power to dominate. Others want peace and freedom. In the end, the choice is our own... Adam is a man with a violent past and a desire to escape the terrible wrath he has wrought on many others. Hurt and betrayed, he turns his anger on those who gave him up in search of the relic he helped steal. Kruger is a man whose allegiance lies to whomever pays him the most. Having lost his family to war early in life, Kruger's innocence was twisted into a solitary desire for self preservation at any cost.

Tekenchu

After escaping a brutal attack, Rafael, a young miner, loses his sense in the forest where he is found by two sisters, Dolores and Teresa.

The Doll's Revenge

A boy breaks his sister's doll and it mends, grows, tears him up and eats him.

David Rose

Ten year old Stella Stewart's world changes when a strange young man enters her life with heartbreaking consequences.

Hiker

On a dark, isolated road, James, a retired truck driver, picks up Robbie, a young man walking alone. Their conversation starts innocently but quickly turns uneasy as James grows suspicious of Robbie's knife and the blood on his pants. As tension builds, it becomes clear that not everything is as it seems. What begins as an act of kindness twists into a deadly encounter, leaving unsettling questions about who the real danger was all along.

Hell's Bells

The demons of hell play music for Satan, whose delight turns to wrath when an insubordinate refuses to become food for Cerberus.

Nocturne

At night the forest creatures gather to gamble, putting their innermost valuables at stake.

Cirque du Soleil: Journey of Man

A child is born. We see underwater swimmers representing this. He is young, in a jungle setting, with two fanciful "instincts" guiding him as swooping bird-like acrobats initially menace, then delight. As an adolescent, he enters a desert, where a man spins a large cube of metal tubing. He leaves his instinct-guides behind, and enters a garden where two statues dance in a pond. As he watches their sensual acrobatics of love, he becomes a man. He is offered wealth (represented by a golden hat) by a devil figure. In a richly decorated room, a scruffy troupe of a dozen acrobats and a little girl reawaken the old man's youthful nature and love.

Mortys

An emotional and generational conflict between mother and son in the twenty-first century, except for one detail: Mother is none other than death.

The Continuing and Lamentable Saga of the Suicide Brothers

A sinister fairytale depicting the lives of two brothers and their daily suicide attempts.

Aska

Two young sisters take on the dangerous task of feeding their mother's sacred ashes to the Fire Serpent before it brings death to their desolate land.

Last Exit Home

Leonard is a man of routine, as is his journey home from work. Everyday is the same. But today is an exception, when he meets a stranger who causes his fantasy and reality to collide.

A Bed Story

Hypnotherapist Hans enters the dream of Suin, a girl suffering from mental illness, and her mother, Jinkyung, who died. Witness the truth about a murder involving her father.

Escort

An escort confronts a blackmailer looking to take down the organization she works for.

Mask of the Evil Apparition

A young woman lost in a nocturnal, dreamlike city, with her twin psychic brothers who try to help her find her way home as she is pursued by a shadowy cult known as The Mysterious Ones.

Date with the Dead

All high school cheerleader Jenny wants to do is spend a romantic evening with her boyfriend, the dreamy captain of the football team, Jack. And all Jack wants to do is break up with Jenny as quickly and painlessly as possible. But when the quarrelling couple is suddenly caught in the midst of a zombie invasion, the fate of their relationship (and their lives) rests in the hands of one man: Jenny's eccentric father, Professor Corpsinski. And although the professor may not know much about love... he sure knows a lot about zombies.

Prime-Age

Hector comes back home after being away for one year. As he looks in the rooms for his father, his childhood memories are awakened...

Harvey's Dream

Harvey and Janet Stevens are living the perfect life in the perfect house or so it seems. Janet has been secretly having an affair with Harvey's best friend Frank. What they don't know is Harvey may not be as in the dark as they suspect.

I Am the Doorway

A short movie inspired by Stephen King’s science fiction short story “I Am the Doorway”.

Reverb

Helia Millville wants nothing more than to maintain an ordinary life after a sudden romantic break up. However, when a mysterious visitor disrupts Helia’s daily habits, the true horrors of her past become harder to repress.

Mater and the Ghostlight

Mater, the rusty but trusty tow truck from Cars, spends a day in Radiator Springs playing scary pranks on his fellow townsfolk. That night at Flo's V8 Café, the Sheriff tells the story of the legend of the Ghostlight, and as everyone races home Mater is left alone primed for a good old-fashioned scare.

BOB

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

Echoes Of Ivory

Deep in the frigid valleys of northern rural Canada, two survivors atop a desolate peak run thin on supplies and hope. The only remaining from their group, they wait naively for help to come. Fighting long days of paranoia and an unidentifiable entity lurking in the darkness of night, their situation grows bleaker by the minute. What follows are the last 24 hours spent on their mountaintop campsite.

The Night I Dance With Death

Jack is having a party with some friends. Disused, he decides to take a psychedelic drug. With a lighter mind, he enjoys the moment, his belly rejecting his visceral anguish as the evening progress. Arrives the time when he confronts a too big anxiety of which he cannot get rid of.

O Construtor de Anjos

Gothic film in a monastery, where sensual monks murder the children they receive, with images of fantastic, painted from the author own painting and also from the Hammer films and the Saxon plastic tradition of romanticism.

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.

Spacca La Testa

Antonia and Zeno struggle with their marriage during a surreal dinner - while a mysterious Aztec whistle seems to be influencing their actions.

Arabesque

The film’s visual structure is principally composed of variations on the arabesque: arcs of light, water spouts, spider webs, burgeoning trees, flowers and foliage, a woman’s smile, arms stretching, an arm giving rhythm to a rocking chair. It uses natural elements (light, mirrors, water, and wind) and photographic techniques (multiple exposures and lenses) to distort the various elements, or to intensify their design.

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.

Polycephaly in D

Informed by an underlying sense of anxiety and anguish, Michael Robinson’s Polycephaly in D nestles fragments of narrative within a collage of sound, image, and text that oscillates between the elegant and the discordant.

The Widow

Through her stream-of-conscious testimony, 40-something widow, Tomoko Tanai, recounts her experience of dating a man 15 years her junior, Satoshi, a handsome prince-charming who may not be what he seems.

Harvey's Dream

On a quiet Saturday, Harvey shares a nightmare about their daughter's death. Then, the phone rings. Based on the story of the same name by Stephen King.

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.

Fisheye

A fishing village falls prey to a nightmare revenge from the sea. Award-winning Yugoslavian animated short film.

The Music of Erich Zann

Charles Dexter Ward, a young student of metaphysics, befriends Erich Zann, an elderly violinist who lives on the floor above him. Ward is fascinated by Zann's sinister yet wonderful music, which he hears late at night drifting down from above. But he discovers more then he bargains for when he peers at what beckons beyond that strange curtained window in Zann's room...

Hands of Purple Distances

A distressed young woman, possibly on the run is surrounded by nothing but barren landscapes of forests and fields. As she progresses to an indiscernible denouement, the film contorts shape into a circular series of pulsating images that touches on the horror and the metaphysical.

The Last Nap

During a summer afternoon, the thin line that separates dreams from wakefulness blurs into obscurity during a long nap.

Tuck Me In

Alex asks his father to tuck him in, but that's not the only thing he asks for.

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.

Badger!

In a small town in England, chaos ensues when a mischievous killer badger goes on a rampage, terrorizing the unsuspecting locals. With humour, mayhem, and lots of gore, this short promises a wild ride through the absurd and the macabre.

Black Sugar

When a group of bored suburban teens experiment with a mysterious new drug, they are thrust into a nightmare world where hallucinations kill.

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.