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Is the Dogman real or just a legend? Well, the teens from Camp Faith soon find out when a werewolf-like creature makes an unannounced visit to their summer camp. Now, it could all be just a prank, but this short story is sure to make us all think more about our faith and our fears.
A young film director invites a friend to his home to propose him to participate in his next short film, a free adaptation of the painting: The Passage of the Styx Lagoon.
While hunting for pitcher plants, a taciturn poacher encounters an unexpected object in the middle of the forest and finds himself listening to someone grieving about their hair.
5 short films, from 5 directors and 4 different countries on the theme of the Alter-Ego. The "Alter Ego Film Project" is inspired by the spirit of Maya Deren and her way of making films. Between double personality, secret identity, doppelgänger and impossible love we have discovered several unconventional stories halfway between narrative and experimental.
A heart transplant surgery is performed. What the doctors didn’t expect, however, was to find a furry heart.
In a dark and lonely forest lives Camilla, an old and ugly witch who longs for beauty and love. One morning, she stumbles upon an unfamiliar object and is confronted with her distorted reality. Determined to change, Camilla turns to dark magic-but the price is heavier than she expected. Is beauty worth the cost?
Hank gets ready. He has the money with him, he just has to fill out the form with Eddie. Then everything is ready for his appointment with Dr. Gale Gustberg, a very peculiar woman who plies her "trade" in a white truck and solves crossword puzzles in her very own way. A few final instructions and off we go for the thoroughly skeptical Hank. He gets two minutes.
The wanderer Rascal embarks on a psychotic and contradictory journey to break out of the ego bubble in which his self-loathing and isolation have inserted him in. After his metamorphosis, his soulmate, Paloma, makes him realize that life is as complicated as it is simple - and that all that's left to do is to live.
Two lifetimes from now the world hangs in the balance. Dove, a young, enigmatic, gender-shifting warrior, discovers the gifts and burdens of their Inkwo (medicine) to defend against an army of hungry, ferocious monsters. Dove’s courage, resilience and alliance with the Earth culminates in a battle against these flesh-consuming creatures, who become stronger with each body and soul they devour. Inkwo for When the Starving Return is a call to action to fight and protect against the forces of greed around us.
ZONE is a melodrama about a girl with paranormal abilities who fights against a system that tries to calculate and completely record people in a hermetically sealed area. In a time torn from chronology the rebel sets off with a bundle of hope in search of counterspaces and a life that feels like her own. Time and space collapse into each other. A country can be experienced through the pain, sadness and desire of its inhabitants.
Katie, Craig, and Mikey are the final three members of a cult that has prepared for years to achieve transcendence by stepping through a luminous portal in the woods. After completing their final duties, the trio enter the portal... only to find themselves back at the start of the previous day. In an attempt to transcend, the trio must figure out why they are unable to get through the portal as their fellow cult members did. Will adhering closely to the cult's teachings help them finally achieve perfection, or will they need to learn more about themselves - and each other?
Fifteen-year-old Klara is raped by a masked boy during Wet Monday. A year later, just before the first anniversary of the incident, she becomes paralyzed by a fear of water. Looking for support and understanding, Klara turns to her new, somewhat esoteric friend.
Teresa is a surfer who lives a full love life until the day when, using an app that allows surfers to analyze the state of the sea in real-time, she realizes that something strange is happening on the beach. Intrigued by what she sees in the images, Teresa is faced with a decision that has been on hold for too long. At the same time, she realizes how she might not accept for others what she claims for herself…
An unemployed gamer gets sucked into an evil, possessed video game, where he is hunted by a pack of wild witches while frantically searching for the "reset button" to exit. Grab your favorite wig and watch the perilous journey of the Video Game Guy, who soon finds himself lost in between the world of the real, and the world of the pixels.
Tony is the ultimate good guy, sometimes to a fault. From nabbing the smallest slice of cake in grade school to guiding lost strangers in the city, his kindness knows no bounds. He also lives with an angel.
Orphan sisters Clarice and Beatriz are in debt and have no prospects for the future, when they miraculously inherit the house of a distant aunt named Pietra. Then Beatriz finds a magical artifact that takes her to other spiritual dimensions, until she decides to perform a blood ritual to resurrect her deceased mother. What Beatriz doesn't know is that the spirit of her evil aunt is manipulating her to return to life.
Bashaar, a gift delivery worker, enters the VR world of FANZO, befriends the Fanzo gang, and faces the villain Dajoor. When Dajoor escapes into reality, Bashaar, with his sister Zainah, must stop him and protect their new friends.
In an authoritarian world, a young worker is promoted to handle the most valuable item in existence when a mysterious woman appears and offers an escape.
Through a child's imagination, it tells the story of a man who, after falling prey to his fears, must cross a strange world, a universe full of magic, where he will be presented with his fears and conflicts from the past and where he must find solutions to his destiny in order to discover his own identity.
Astrid lives torn between two worlds: a boundless, sterile office and a desolate blue realm composed of trash she struggles to recollect. When she finds a door to her childhood bedroom, she feeds what’s left of it to her only friend, Crow, who wonders how much longer she can live in these fragmented realities.
A young woman awakes to a mysterious purple light and finds a portal that transports her to a woodland filled with fairies and magical creatures.
Sa-gang, a feminist clothing designer who pursues feminism, and her younger sister Yeon-bi, a shaman who advocates masculinism, are sisters who live in the same house. It begins with a ritual for Sa-gang's husband, but strange things begin to happen to the mannequin erected in her house.
20 years after the death of his wife and childhood sweetheart Lea, the death of Ulrich's father confronts him with deeply buried feelings of grief and leads him down an unexpected path of self-reflection.
Rocco, a high-strung shift leader at a restaurant, faces an existential crisis when her demonic double shows up and orders a spicy Chinese dish. As the night unfolds, she is forced to confront kitchen chaos, her inner darkness and her mom.
After holding back tears for a long time, Elizabeth's eyes became dry and filled with marbles. At home, she tells the odd little girl who lives with her what happened. The child then invents a machine to save her.
A boy invites his friend to embark on an adventure to hunt gnomes, which he assures exist after watching a suspicious video. However, they encounter a peculiar figure in the middle of their journey.
A mysterious child turns up at school. It is not even certain whether the child is a boy or a girl, and the child who only ever drinks water is ostracized. Now the child tries to make everyone else just like the child, and now all the flowers in the world are in full bloom.
Two mischievous siblings, Klotylda and Barnabáš, fail their final exams at the wizardly lyceum. In their father Zachariáš’s absence, they break the strict rule and open the forbidden thirteenth chamber, accidentally freeing the evil sorcerer Vzdoroděj. He enchants all the adults and sets off to find a powerful gemstone that will destroy their father and conquer the realm. Hiding with their stern Aunt Berta, the children must manage the household while improving their magical skills and learning to cooperate. When Berta’s rescue plan falters and Vzdoroděj approaches, Klotylda and Barnabáš face him alone.
An actor goes to the cinema to watch his movie, but nobody likes the movie. Suddenly a magician appears to help him...
Four friends reel in a strange, otherworldly creature while fishing. One sees profit, another devotion, a third seeks answers, and their clashing intentions set off a chain of unforeseen consequences
A young Chinese documentarian visits a small English village in which she encounters the friendly ghosts of its former residents and inadvertently uncovers long-held secrets.
A teen girl, trapped by the normalised pressures of academia, decides to rebel in order to pursue her passion through artistic expression and escape the wrath of her overbearing maths teacher.
While Cú Chulann defends the attacks from his brother Ferdiad, he must understand why he fights him in the first place.
For eons, light and dark have fought ceaselessly for dominion over the world. Whispers echo of a Dark Lord whose insidious grip on the realm is marked by insatiable lust, twisted jealousy, ravenous greed, unrelenting vanity, and possessive manipulation. A group of adventurers rose to face this threat with hidden wishes of secrets and shadows untold.
Liu Ping-hui, gifted with the ability to absorb others' negative thoughts, believes he can bring peace to the world with his power. But instead of becoming a hero, he’s spent 38 years single—until he finally finds a girlfriend. His happiness is short-lived, however, as she abruptly breaks up with him via a cryptic message saying, “Your smile seems fake.” During his search for her, he meets Hsin-chieh, a fearless and passionate woman. As he tries to use his ability to help her, he only ends up creating more chaos in her life.
An artist-turned-witch uses the lost art of rune magic to steal a spell from a famous actor.
In this whimsical historical fresco, a counterpoint to today’s urgent political issues, the figure of the Filipino revolutionary Rizal is revisited in the light of early silent films.
Leaf Man is a metaphysical monster movie following a man's odyssey through a world of perspective-shifting existential transformations. With momentum from a powerful shoegaze score, this wordless short film uses surreal and strange dual-roled characters to dance through the boundary between ourselves, our surroundings, and each other, in the search for a meaningful life.
Jordy, a 12 years old dreamer, has locked himself into the imaginary universe of his favorite movie, “Stand by me”. His elder brother Chris never leaves his bedroom. One day, Jordy adventurously uses vouchers he’s been given to explore the haunt of the local adolescents, “Fun Panini”, convinced it will bring him closer to his brother. The magical sauce he discovers there will transform his world...
A gang of bank robbers take shelter in a motel after a Christmas Eve bank heist. Unbeknownst to them, they are not the most dangerous thing seeking refuge on this cold Christmas night.
In the charming small town of Buckhannon, WV, Hank the Christmas Elf returns to bring the holiday spirit to life by organizing a community production of The Nutcracker. With the help of a lively dance studio owner and the town's enthusiastic mayor, Hank aims to create a festive event that will unite everyone and rekindle the joy of the season.
A four-year-old is laughed at by two older girls. Fueled by thoughts of revenge, his imagination suddenly becomes tangible, turning his childish game into bitter reality.
In what could be considered a follow up to Al Qasimi’s 2020 work Mother of Fire, she once again invokes the figure of the jinn (spirits in Islamic mythology) to explore the ghosts of British imperialism in the UAE. As its spectre lingers on the horizon, two teenage girls seek to liberate a pirate damned to spend purgatory on a site now being developed into a hotel. Originally commissioned for Sharjah Biennial 15: Thinking Historically in the Present, Al Qasimi entangles historical narratives with contemporary notions of piracy. In examining how it has been historically and culturally represented, new perspectives of old mythographies come into focus. (Myriam Mouflih)
The Freak Family follows Diego, an aspiring pop-punk singer who makes a risky pact with the Devil to achieve fame. This deal throws him into a chaotic world where his dysfunctional family must contend with the bizarre, darkly funny consequences of his ambition. Balancing supernatural hijinks with heartfelt family moments, The Freak Family is a dramedy about dreams, deals, and the people who keep us grounded—even when things get freaky.
As Liz struggles with nyctophobia (fear of the dark), a form of anxiety disorder that causes sleeping issues, she desperately tries to fall asleep by entering her “inner world” where she can access her happy childhood memories. However, she ultimately becomes trapped in a time loop of sorts in her “lucid dream” world and encounters her nightmare, Dark Figure, who appears in various forms and shapes as a clown. The time loop pushes her deeper into her lucid dream world, forcing her to reach her subconscious world where she meets her worst nightmare, the original form of Dark Figure.
A 100-year-long curse must be overcome by the 16-year-old Prince Parvus to wake up the sleeping Princess Rosabella. But he doubts that he is the right person for this mission. However, plant lover Parvus does not have much left time. Together with Feerich Amon and Rosabellas thoughts that they can feel with the help of a magical mist, he has to get into the castle before he the death curse of the dark fairy Rubia has been fulfilled.
Lost in the woods, party boy Nathan encounters a troll under a bridge and embarks on a quest for a magical elixir that will forever change his life.