MARATHON OF MADNESS!
Who will survive and what will be left of them? A special screening of 20+ short films with prizes!
Price Standard: $12
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Night Gaunts
A traveller is snatched away on a monstrous voyage in this handmade puppet horror film based on the poem by H.P. Lovecraft.
Director: Monstark
Producer: Monstark
Running Time: 3 mins
United States
English
The 13th HourAnna is in a toxic relationship. She wanders the streets of Rouen in search of a solution to free herself from it. But is she even capable of it?
Director: Xavier Tessen
Writer:
Producer: Joko fait des films
Running Time: 2 mins
France
French
In CorpusA man is surprised by the arrival of a meteorite in his room.
Director: Ignacio Rodó
Writer: Sergei Belbel
Producer: Ignacio Rodó
Running Time: 3 mins
Spain
DiasporaIn a Black suburb, a couple begins to notice that their neighbours are disappearing and white people are moving in, they soon discover something much darker is happening.
Director: Tyler Mckenzie Evans
Writer: Tyler Mckenzie Evans
Producer: Malachi Ellis, Lindsay Blair Goeldner, Eric Bizzarri
Running Time: 16 mins
Canada
English
Where It HidesAs Saige struggles with her depression, she hides away in her house surrounded by a mess of plastic wrappers and leftover food. After finding insectile eggs growing out of her dog’s ear, she takes matters into her own hands by trying to create a healthy lifestyle.
Director: Brandon Lewis
Writer: Brandon Lewis
Producer: Brandon Lewis
Running Time: 4 mins
Canada
English
Pool Party
Outcast Freya attempts to make it through the night at her childhood best friend’s seventeenth birthday party without revealing her most dangerous secret.
Director: Ellie Stewart
Writer: Ellie Stewart
Producer: Ellie Stewart, Matt Prazak, Rino Mioc, Tyler Whelan
Running Time: 8 mins
Canada
English
Taste
When Jane marries and moves into her new home, she will discover her husband is keeping more than a few skeletons in his closet. From her food, she pulls clusters of hair, silence haunts the lonely corridors of the home and, while Jane is abused by her husband, she untangles the house and its harrowing history.
Director: Lucy Rose
Writer: Lucy Rose
Producer: Mariana Caruana Galizia
Running Time: 13 mins
United Kingdom
English
Cereal
Chelsea is a difficult child with a wild imagination. One day, she receives an ominous message from her bowl of cereal. Four letters: K.I.L.L. Chelsea wants her cereal – and she won’t stop until she gets it.
Director: Shane R. Preston
Writer: Shane R. Preston
Producer: Roman Gubin
Running Time: 9 mins
Canada
English
Vale
An investigator nearing the end of a life-long pursuit, begins to feel the weight of everything he left behind.
Director: Kyle Brewis, Josh Klaassen
Writer: Kyle Brewis, Josh Klaassen, Jesse Mrau, Nic Baxter
Producer: Kyle Brewis, Josh Klaassen, Jesse Mrau, Nic Baxter
Running Time: 9 mins
Canada
English
Static
Charlotte, a sleep-deprived new mother grappling with postpartum depression, begins to hear unsettling interference noises emanating from her baby monitor.
Director: Anna Hammill
Writer: Anna Hammill
Producer: Anna Hammill, Megan Farley
Running Time: 12 mins
United States
English
Luna
A girl is kidnapped in an amusement park on a full moon night. Nothing will turn out as it seems when the kidnapper watches as the girl turns into something else.
Director: Daniel Caneiro
Writer: Daniel Caneiro
Producer: Daniel Caneiro, Pedro Palacios, Ricard Sales
Running Time: 15 mins
Spain
Greed & Gore
Five criminals pick the wrong safe house to lay low after robbing a bank.
Director: Adam Kirkey
Writer: Adam Kirkey, Mathieu Lamarche
Producer: Travis Laidlaw, Adam Kirkey, James Carmichael, Mathew Lamarche
Running Time: 15 mins
Canada
English
Colin Carvey’s Long Halloween
When Colin Carvey (Taylor Beatty) is glued into his Halloween costume by a duo of Young Toughs (Chase & Eli Kloosterhof), his desperate search for help turns into a long night of mix-ups, murders, and mayhem!
Director: Aaron Peacock
Writer: Aaron Peacock, Aidan Kennedy
Producer: Aidan Kennedy
Running Time: 11 mins
Canada
English
Every Time We Meet For Ice Cream Your Whole Fucking Face Explodes
The title says it all!
Director: Anthony Cousins
Writer: Anthony Cousins
Producer: Peter West, Brianna Rose Lee
Running Time: 11 mins
United States
English
Interdimensional Pizza Portal
After conjuring a slice of pizza through an interdimensional portal, Grover and his best friend Aliee learn a hard lesson about the unintended consequences of manifestation.
Director: Aron Kantor
Writer: Aron Kantor
Producer: Aron Kantor
Running Time: 4 mins
United States
English
Deadline
Deadline is a black comedy Stop-motion short that explores the power balance between bureaucracy, death and feline devotion of the elderly.
At its center is a story of a brave friendship and solidarity between two senior ladies sickened by society’s disregard and disrespect.
Director: Idan Gilboa
Writer: Idan Gilboa, Shahar Fux
Producer: Idan Gilboa
Running Time: 13 mins
Israel
Three Houses Down
Ah… the Holidays. Filled with joy, laughter, and cheer. And this year, murderous, knife-wielding elves. On Christmas Eve, Tiffany learns that being on the naughty list means more than a lump of coal in your stocking when she encounters a malevolent Imp among the presents under the Christmas tree. Now she must fight for her family’s lives against the elven intruder if they are going to have a Merry Christmas.
Director: Ty Huffer
Writer: Ty Huffer
Producer: Jenn George Hunter
Running Time: 7 mins
United States
English
Smiley Face
Three young women experience the nightmare of being devoured by a humanoid creature.
Director: François Ricard-Sheard
Writer: François Ricard-Sheard
Producer: François Ricard-Sheard
Running Time: 9 mins
Canada
English
The Weaver
A nurse goes to visit an old lady at her home. He soon realizes she has a few screws loose. And maybe she is not an old lady at all?
Director: Øyvind Willumsen
Writer: Øyvind Willumsen
Producer: Eivind Bergset
Running Time: 13 mins
Norway
Gnomes
Unknowingly, a girl enters the habitat of a tribe of killer gnomes during her daily run. Lured by mysterious glowing mushrooms, she’ll soon wish she’d stayed on her usual tracks…
Director: Ruwan Heggelman
Writer:
Producer: Richard Raaphorst
Running Time: 6 mins
Netherlands
The Detachment
In a world overrun by zombies, Ha-young struggles with his love for his daughter Ye-eun, who has become one of the undead. As he grapples with the morality of his actions, he encounters an old childhood friend, Suck-kil, which leads to a series of events that force Ha-young to confront the true horror of his situation.
Director: Lee Daehan
Writer: Lee Daehan
Producer: Lee Daehan
Running Time: 39 mins
Republic of Korea
Price Standard: $12
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