Refúgio (2025)

Forgotten Waters

A boy in Xochimilco steals a precious necklace, unaware of the serious mistake he's just made.

Islands

A sexual reverie unfolds over the course of one ethereal night. Characters wander through an erotic maze of love and lust, blurring the lines between wet dream and lucid nightmare as a macabre, erotic stage performance sends a ripple of lustful desires through its audience and performers.

Bad Bunny

Wayward boy punishes his mother’s lover. Beauty and horror fondle each other. Young gods callously abjure conventional morality. Death goes whoring in child’s guise.

The Sweet Advance of the Knife

A gore story about a girl who learns to use sharp machetes to avenge the death of her beloved murdered by religious fanatics.

NO LITTERING

While enjoying a date in a park, a man carelessly tosses an empty bottle onto the ground. His selfish littering promptly summons an imposing figure wearing a white hockey mask. The gruesome events that follow tell an admonishing tale about the importance of preserving the outdoors and defending the environment from the ugly menace of litter. The short was made for the tve YouTube Relay project, but wasn't included because it's too violent.

What We Found Out There

Two friends find more than they bargained for while hiking out in the treacherous wilderness.

The Amphibian

In a dark subterranean landscape, the Amphibian has lost its way.

Unlucky Charms

Late one night, a bored cashier collects all three toys from a box of Magic Munchos and unwittingly unleashes the ancient evil that lies within…

SIN PIEDAD

Under the relentless sun, a killer stalks through the mountains, where the innocence of a young couple becomes prey. With no shadows to hide their fate, the hunt is a macabre game in broad daylight, where fear is not hidden in the darkness, but burns with the rawness of the unperturbed noon.

Harvey's Dream

On a Saturday morning like any other, Harvey slumps into his chair and tells his wife about last night's nightmare. Fear takes hold when Janet notices the tiny details of Harvey's dream bleeding through into the real world around her.

Nona

Fidi is aimlessly hitchhiking on a snowy winter's night and ends up being seduced by Nona into murdering several innocent bystanders.

the birth of the journey before death.

The journey before the inevitable, the clock starts ticking, life begins and ends.

Demon Gate

A newlywed couple's life is torn apart when a demon abducts Robert's the wife, leading the him on a perilous journey between the opposing worlds of science and magic to save her.

Dylan

When Nick asks his long-time girlfriend Maritza to let his old college buddy, Dylan, spend the night after not seeing him for a few years, she acquiesces without anticipating that she will be alone with their unpredictable guest.

Brooding

When wildlife photographer Tara returns home from a photo trip to the California mountains, she's beset by violent agoraphobia. Her boyfriend Matthew tries to get her into treatment as she escalates episodes of self-harm, convincing herself that her house has become home to a dark insect brood.

Junior

A pimple-faced 13-year-old tomboy starts morphing in bizarre ways after catching stomach flu.

The Lookout

When a fire lookout gets a strange call for help over the radio, she ventures into the forest to investigate.

Verônica

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The Audition

Florence Walker is an aspiring actress who's barely getting any auditions. After finding a sketchy casting call for a horror movie, she takes the opportunity in her desperation, but nothing is how it seems. On top of that, she experiences the horrors of anxiety and mental illness in this situation of complete presssure.

The 3rd Eye Murders

In 1975, the "3rd Eye" was one of the most heinous cult families on the FBI's most wanted list. Newly released footage will show you why.

The Sleepless Girl

Chinese filmmaker François Chang studies in Paris. One day, he saw on YouTube a video of a Japanese girl involved in a paranormal event. He decided to look for her in Japan and to record everything. The film is entirely shot by iPhone and Go-pro.

Skulk

Two lone survivors must find a way to beat an unknown pursuer while maintaining their sanity.

Pinocchio

Pinocchio, an animated wooden puppet tries to escape from his father, Gepetto in a creepy and dark toy factory.

The Madame in Black

After playing the infamous urban legend game "Madame in Black", Alex and his sister, Emma, experience the wrath of the evil witch Madame in Black.

Embarrassment

After she found out about her unwanted pregnancy, Angelica lives a nightmare for seven months, in which instead of killing the fetus she languish herself, trying all sorts of abortion methods.

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.

Down the Feathered Trail

A young farm boy turned murderer tries to escape his troubled past and finds himself in the center of a forbidden place cursed with an unknown creature.

The Man Who Loved Flowers

A man who appears to be madly in love buys flowers for his girlfriend, but it is soon revealed that he is a murderer who has gone insane after the woman he loved has died years ago.

The Man Who Loved Flowers

A young vibrant man stops at a flower vendor to buy some flowers for his wife. When his wife arrives, the young man seems confused and instead delivers a bouquet of terror.

I Have Sinned

Pablo confesses a crime to Anders, who has a hidden agenda.

Tuck Me In

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

One More Time

A young woman decided to make a show of her death she is going to look at during the whole film. We will see the progressive and long descent of a murderous machine which may pierce her throat.

A Fistful Of Pebbles

A Fistful of Pebbles won the 3rd prize in the SEA Tropfest Film Festival 2015. The story is about a mysterious man who finds himself in the muddy monsoon in a village terrorized by a local gangster. When he’s unwittingly drawn into the village’s problem and the beautiful daughter of the village Chief is about to be taken, the hero takes matters into his own hands… with a fistful of pebbles.

Tenoch

Abandoned, a woman about to give birth arrives with an elderly woman seeking help for her delivery, but she will soon learn that every action will have its consequences ...

Yulia's Birthday

A modern fairy tale about a girl who is looking for her lost soul. First love, jealousy, death – everything can be found in this fantastic animation movie. Julia's fiance died tragically. Having grieved a little, Julia decided to get married again. But the dead bridegroom returned for Julia's soul. In order to save her soul, the girl had to go to the other world.

Seconds

A murder is about to occur in the apartment of an old building and Beto and Inés can prevent such a tragic event, although their opportunities to avoid the misfortune are limited.

Sumala

An evil spirit seeking vengeance returns to plague the town that wronged her sister. Based on a chilling urban legend.

The Road Ahead (Where do we go from here?) Director's cut

Leo gets abducted and carried around in the trunk of a car. The man who is holding him captive has a sinister plan. He gets Leo to bury corpses for him. In the process, Leo gets to speak with his ego and gets glimpses of his higher self. Will Leo get out of this alive?

DAN

WHAT IS THE BEST FOR HIM? HIMSELF? THEM? HER? A twenty-year-old young man sees himself as someone who struggles in social life. One day, while looking in the mirror,he sees a change in himself, and from then on, everything started to change.

The Paleface

A butterfly collector unwittingly wanders into an Indian encampment while chasing a butterfly, but the tribe has resolved to kill the first white man who enters their encampment because white oil tycoons are trying to force them from their land.

Fatal Lane

Paul is visibly confused after a meeting, late in the night. He drives through the night, experiencing a chaos of his feelings and emotions. He celebrates, cries, laughs and screams. But why all this? Again and again his mood is interrupted by strange seeming incidents, in his immediate vicinity...

Nadador

Lucas discovers that his new student is an old schoolmate, the boy who put him through the worst time of his life. The time for revenge has arrived.

I Wanna Be Adored

A girl's crumbling friendship sends her spiraling.