Now or There (2024)

Juliet in Paris

A young student, alone in Paris, is engaged in strange and bloody experiences of which she is both the authorizer and the victim.

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Carol lives alone with her friendly AI helper, Vicki, who's sophisticated data-gathering anticipates her every need and desire. But who is in control?

Double Helix

Late at night, KONG Xianyun and her younger brother Yuanyuan escape from their family house. They trek into an abandoned school, where Yuanyuan’s memories are awakened – the sound of books, piano, and laughter. Fire! Fire! Fire! Fire engulfs everything. Adapted from The Song of Life by the worldrenowned sci-fi writer WANG Jinkang, this speculative short contemplates on the future of AI. Soaked in a never-shredding atmosphere and accompanied by the secret tune of a piano, DOUBLE HELIX tells a gripping story of intelligence robot, family trauma and a pair of run-away siblings who trek into an abandoned school.

Iblard Time

A quiet stroll through the imaginary world of Iblard, originally depicted in the paintings by Naohisa Inoue, influenced by Impressionism and Surrealism.

Closet Space

A couple moves into their new apartment and experiences the horrors of... their closet space.

Trapped

Short drama film made in 5 days on the BFI Film Academy at Film Oxford 2024. Two uni students go to their accommodation for the first time, but is all as it seems?

Long Distance Train

A living person and a ghost balance their long distance relationship.

The Strange Ones

A man and a boy, traveling to an unknown destination, find respite in a motel swimming pool. On the surface all seems normal, but nothing is what it seems to be. Short film not to be confused with the 2017 feature film with the same name.

Night Fishing

In the early dawn, a man fishing by the riverside pursues a mysterious tracking sound to a charging station. Rigging fishing rods, he patiently awaits his target. As night falls, the hanging batteries sway, signaling the commencement of a covert operation. With a net in hand, the man stealthily moves into action, unfolding a tale of intrigue and suspense.

The Bastard Son

A young man is going through a deep dilemma between killing his brother to keep his father's inheritance or leaving him alive, so he decides to meet a lawyer in a cafe to ask him for advice. The story is intertwined with an event in his family past, because when the boy decides to act, he is surprised by the consequences of an infidelity that occurred 25 years ago.

Willa

A railway station in the middle of nowhere. David is looking for his girlfriend: Willa. They were on their way to their own wedding, when an accident made them stuck at a small railway station. Now Willa is missing and none of the other fellow passengers know where she is. Although the next train is so supposed to come any minute, David leaves the railway station to search for Willa... An adaptation of Stephen King's short story Willa.

The Selkie's Lover

A seal in water and human on land, the mythical selkie cannot return to their true home in the sea if their seal skin is stolen. In this modern adaptation a selkie woman trapped on land in human form, longing to return to her underwater realm, unwittingly falls in love with a young fisherman.

Vindicta

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Immaculata

The assistant of a creepy power couple inexplicably finds herself pregnant. Immaculata feels like an unexpected offshoot of Rosemary's Baby, between its half-open doors and a phobia of fluids.

The Flying Man

A new superhero is coming, only this time it's on his terms. Will he still be considered a hero?

The Heretic

The Heretic is a short film created by Unity’s Demo team. With ”The Heretic”, the team used every aspect of Unity’s High Definition Rendering Pipeline, created advanced effects with the VFX Graph, and undertook the challenge of creating a realistic digital human.

Brenda and Billy and the Pothos Plant

Two estranged siblings, a botanist and a magician, come together to try and raise their mother’s body from the dead.

Boomerang

Black public figure Jim Taylor is pursued by the police. He dies from a bullet in the head. In a private clinic, he is transplanted with the brain of Sheriff Maclain, who died in a car accident. While remaining black, he begins to think like a racist Maclain.

Uncle Otto's Truck

One man’s guilty conscience will soon breed a world of insanity.

Grantham Overgrown (Infinite Regression)

A near-dead town, an encroaching overgrowth, a mysterious tower, a camera, a voice. Across 299 photographs a man who may be the filmmaker, and yet might not be real, relays a story that may not have happened, about a place that almost definitely exists.

Wake Up

A debt collector has a nervous breakdown at work on the anniversary of his wife's suicide. He is pulled between reality and a hallucinative journey into his subconscious as he desperately searches for a way out of his misery.

The Lone Wolf

One night on Viva FM's late night show, host Vitor Lobo gets a phone call from an old friend.

Boy Waits

A boy waits in the same street every day with his bags packed. What is he waiting for?

Simonetta's eyes

Walking in her home, Evelia experiences the past, the present and the future at the same time. In the symbolic life she leads, governed by the god Janus, everything around her seems to speak to her, until random visions are born poetic. Through the trance state that awakens the inner gaze, Evelia's anima connects with the anima mundi. Simonetta's eyes is about the memory that a person will leave behind; Evelia tells the viewer, with the language of the gaze: "one day, we will only be memory".

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A detective delves into a chilling case involving a double homicide that unfolded overnight.

A Walk in Winter

When Conrad returns to his hometown to identify his mother's body, he is forced to confront the painful memories of his childhood.

Kryo

A man who cheats death through the help of cryonics has to learn the hard way that death is a undeniable part of life.

Dedication

A young maid enlists supernatural help in order to escape her past.

HEY ELLIE!

Megan (Marieann Real) unwittingly awakens a haunting from the past after buying an old scrapbook. Inside, she discovers an item belonging to a mysterious young girl name Ellie (Eliana Lopez-Aguirre), triggering eerie paranormal experiences. As the line between past and present begins to blur, she is drawn into a chilling mystery where every clue brings her closer to uncovering a dark and forgotten truth.

Descenso

Ivanna finds herself dazed, confused, and with no recent memory in the middle of the road. Along the way, she encounters a mysterious and menacing-looking man who offers to give her a ride. As she starts regaining her memory during the journey, the tension builds and the suspicion grows that this man could be both the answer to all her questions and her downfall.

The Last Priest

After being forsaken, a doubting priest goes out on a symbolic journey to find his faith.

Creep

A tape is found with no clue as to when it was made or by whom. In its content, scenes related to a crime that they believed had already been forgotten.

Nest

In early-colonial Australia, a timber feller, kept awake by his infant child’s cries of hunger, encounters something perturbing in the woods.

Investigation Held by Kolobki. The First Investigation

Detectives Kolobok and Bulochkin work at an emergency good deeds center and help a grandmother find her grandson.

Myth

Collaborating with Australian circus company Gravity & Other Myths, 2020 BAFTA Newcomer and Berlinale Talent Campus alumna Alies Sluiter crafts a disquieting, quasi-surrealist tale of bravery and grief.