They Grow Up So Fast

When Brian meets Amy after a night out on the town, things move a lot faster than he'd anticipated.

Anecoica

Ana, a poor woman, agrees to be locked in an anechoic chamber, the most silent place in the world.

TransTrans (TransformersTransformed)

A radical remix of the recent Transformers film, via synthetic collapse and critical revenge on its old & new fascist tropes > celebrating SPEED. NOISE. + DANGER. The fervent declarations & violent poetry of the Futurists are superimposed on the mythic morphology of the Autobot blockbuster’s machine mayhem. Images of death & destruction reign in a delirium of transformations as, to quote Marinetti: “We Decompose the Universe!”

Vore--A Horror Short

A young woman brings a friend over for family dinner...

Step into the Abyss

The main character of the picture - military scientist Major Kovpaev Sergey Alexandrovich is working on a secret government project codenamed "Cerebrum". He is so passionate about his research that he does not notice how from year to year he is moving more and more away from his family, bringing work to the fore. By a tragic coincidence, Sergei's family gets into a car accident, during which both of his sons are killed, and his wife is in critical condition in intensive care. Realizing the depth of his loss and blameing himself for what happened, the protagonist decides to take advantage of the ghostly opportunity to realize the results of his ten-year research.

Sundown Syndrome

A homeless eats a strange biscuit and begins to hallucinate; everything around him becomes an evil space.

Pute à clics

Root of Evil

A police couple's worst fears are realized when their baby is kidnapped and must fight to get her back.

Smash Cuts! Super Sci-Fi Shorts Fest

Host Scott Forrest presents a curated compilation of eight independent short films in this rapid-fire science-fiction feature. Genres collide, narratives twist, aesthetics clash, and even humor, both campy and dystopian, showcase the vast creative possibilities of each story's individual world, offering the viewer a brief glimpse into the lives of every character's attempt to survive the otherworldly chaos around them. Released in 2001, the selected shorts span original creation dates of 1997 to 2001; most of the featured filmmakers also appear as themselves in short video interviews to talk about their inspirations, creative process and motivations while working on their individual shorts.

Study Room

Four friends study in a crowded focus room. But, with a simple click of the pen, one person is prepared to throw the whole balance off.

The Man in the Black Suit

“The Man in the Black Suit” recounts the tale of Gary, a nine-year-old boy, whose brother died, not long ago, due to a bee sting. One day, Gary goes out fishing and encounters the devil.

Peace by Piece

Jeremy’s quiet day in the park is interrupted when he's approached Martin, a strange and enigmatic man claiming to be an actor from the future preparing to play Jeremy in a film. Martin hints at future events, leaving Jeremy to interpret how much is true. Clues are dropped, questions are raised, and Jeremy begins to realize that his own story may be more complicated than he ever expected. Shot in a single unbroken take, through the perspective of an autonomous drone, Peace by Piece follows one conversation that slowly reveals the consequences Jeremy will one day face. Like Jeremy, the audience discovers the truth, piece by piece, until the final revelation.

Touch

When a single mom, facing eviction, is offered a night’s work, she unsuccessfully seeks a babysitter for her two small children. Desperate, she reaches out to the last person she wants to ask for a favour.

South of Here

A U.S. Marshal travels abroad to confront a Texas fugitive hiding in England.

Sacrificial Lamb

In this allegory about paradise lost, Ildze yearns to find peace and fulfilment by moving from the city to the countryside. However, her thoughts are consumed by the illness of her child, her estrangement from her husband and his absence. In the meantime, Ildze’s grief is enveloped by nature’s promise of comfort, which never arrives. She tries to understand where to find the beginning of the cycle of sacrifice and where to find its end. And who is her victim, or is it herself?

Sága

Sága is a strange, withdrawn, androgynous young girl. She has no friends and spends most of her time locked away at home. But Sága wasn't always like this; her life and personality changed dramatically at puberty when a terrible curse took hold of her. For years, she has managed to hide her dark secret from the world... But for how much longer?

POV

An ideologically opposed couple attempt to survive a home invasion by a masked assailant on the single most dangerous night of the year...

Highway

A man suffers from the effects of a mysterious psychedelic in a seemingly endless forest.

Little Black Box

While exploring the local area Jill discovers a small Chinese box in an antique shop and takes it home to add to her collection. Over the next few days Jill's dreams become troubled, turning into disturbing nightmares that stay with her when she wakes. After being prescribed sleeping pills the nightmares seem to fade and Jill begins to relax. Then the waking dreams return, far more intense than before, blurring Jill's perception of reality.

El Camino del Diablo

Flowers and Trees

A jealous stump threatens two trees that are in love by starting a forest fire. When the rain comes and puts out the fire the forest revives and celebrates the wedding.

Suburbicon

In the quiet family town of Suburbicon during the 1950s, the best and worst of humanity is hilariously reflected through the deeds of seemingly ordinary people. When a home invasion turns deadly, a picture-perfect family turns to blackmail, revenge and murder.

Hostage

The Driver is hired by the FBI to help defuse a hostage situation. A disgruntled employee has kidnapped a CEO and has hidden her, demanding $5,088,042. The Driver delivers the money, writing the sum on his hand as instructed by the hostage taker. After he is told that he holds the life of a person in his hand, he is ordered to burn the money. As he complies, the federal agents break in and attempt to subdue the man, who shoots himself in the head before he reveals where the woman is hidden. The Driver then tries to find the hostage before she drowns in the trunk of a sinking car. As a twist, the kidnapped woman is revealed to be the hostage taker's lover. She coldly taunts the dying man in the hospital.

Accident Man

Mike Fallon, the Accident Man, is a stone cold killer. When a loved one is murdered by his own crew, Fallon is forced to avenge the one person who actually meant something to him.

Hider in the House

A deranged man hides in the attic of a new house and becomes obsessed with the unsuspecting family that moves in.

One Ranger

A Texas Ranger is recruited by British Intelligence to track down a dangerous terrorist and stop him from attacking London.

In the Blood

When her husband goes missing during their Caribbean vacation, a woman sets off on her own to take down the men she thinks are responsible.

Bad Sister

As a top student at St. Adeline's Catholic Boarding School, Zoe senses that something is not quite right about the school's new nun-- a sense proven to be true when it is revealed the "good' nun is an imposter with a fatal attraction to Zoe's brother.

Border Hunters

After his police officer brother is killed by a drug dealer who flees to the protection of his cartel-connected uncle in Mexico, an American man with a diverse law enforcement/military background goes south of the border to get revenge

Vicious

When Polly receives a mysterious box, it comes with one rule: place inside something she needs, something she hates, and something she loves. If she doesn’t obey, it will consume everything—and everyone—she’s ever known.

Werewolf: The Beast Among Us

Set in a 19th century village, a young man studying under a local doctor joins a team of hunters on the trail of a wolf-like creature.

Compulsion

Two women—Diana, a flamboyant and ruthless thief, and Evie, a seemingly innocent young woman with a troubled past—become embroiled in a series of horrific murders on the island of Malta.

Succubus

A new father going through a marital separation joins a dating app and matches with a beautiful but mysterious young woman... whose powers of seduction and manipulation entangle him in a mystery more horrifying than he could have ever imagined.

Point Blank

A nurse is forced to spring a wounded murder suspect from the hospital when the man’s brother kidnaps his pregnant wife and wants to make a trade.

Hunting Grounds

Desperate to find refuge for her children, Chloe Marvino runs away from her Mafia tied husband, and finds shelter in a cabin with a recluse drifter named Jake. But as her husband's henchmen draw closer to her, it turns out that Jake is the biggest enemy of them all.

The God Committee

Medicine, money and morality clash when a hospital's Heart Transplant Selection Committee has only minutes to decide which of three patients on the transplant list will receive a heart that has suddenly become available.

Rogue Agent

Conman Robert Freegard poses as an undercover MI5 agent and kidnaps countless victims amidst a high-stakes manhunt, until the woman who fell for him brings him to justice.

The Jester

A malevolent being known as The Jester terrorizes the inhabitants of a small town on Halloween night, including two estranged sisters who must come together to find a way to defeat this evil entity.

Sharp Corner

A dedicated family man becomes obsessed with saving the lives of the car accident victims on the sharp corner in front of his house – an obsession that could cost him everything.

The Hit List

A disgruntled man creates a hit list with a stranger during a drunken night out and must then race to try to save those he marked for extermination as the bodies begin to pile up and all fingers point to him.