The Lake Merritt Monster(2023)

Augmented(en)

A short film set in the near future, where augmented reality has become so ubiquitous that the line between the real and virtual worlds have become blurred. When a new, dangerous technology is created that can manipulate the perception of this brave new world, who will exploit it? Who will monetise it? Who will become twisted by it?

The Statement(en)

A man wakes up in the middle of a forest and faces his proverbial tale.

Sonic Drone Home(en)

Sonic, Tails, and Knuckles encounter an abandoned Badnik drone which upgraded itself using parts from a junkyard, with the intention of conquering the world.

Can I Be Your Bratwurst, Please?(de)

A newly arrived guest of a Hollywood hotel charms and amazes the regulars, and they decide to invite him to their Christmas dinner.

Phantom Requiem(en)

“Phantom Requiem" unfolds in the desolate expanse of an abandoned factory, where shadows and silence are the only remnants of a once-thrumming industrial heartbeat. In this spectral setting, a coterie of puppets emerges—ethereal figures, each step and gesture echoing the dissonant unraveling of a viewer ensnared in a psychotic fugue. Rendered in austere black-and-white, this stop-motion film marries the macabre grace of desolation with the intimate terror of mental dissolution, crafting a visual poem that is both stark and sublime

La piedad(es)

Eight year old Federico lives with his father in a meagre apartment in Mexico City. His father devotes his days to sleep and work, keeping young Federico away from a carefully-guarded, locked door, behind which lies his mother.

Life on Juniper(en)

Following reports of a mysterious crash, an aging farmer encounters a visitor determined on disrupting his quiet way of life.

Un Chien Andalou(fr)

Un Chien Andalou is an European avant-garde surrealist film, a collaboration between director Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dali.

Tales from the Void: Plastic Smile(en)

Growing up with addicts for parents, Abigail's only solace is an odd porcelain doll named Betsy. Only Betsy isn't like other dolls. She moves, speaks, cries - and Betsy wants Abigail to bring her to a dark tunnel in middle of the woods.

Count to 10(en)

Toby is afraid of the dark. His mom tells him to close his eyes and count to ten, what happens next isn't exactly what she had in mind.

A Trip to the Moon(fr)

Professor Barbenfouillis and five of his colleagues from the Academy of Astronomy travel to the Moon aboard a rocket propelled by a giant cannon. Once on the lunar surface, the bold explorers face the many perils hidden in the caves of the mysterious planet.

Don't Talk to Strangers(es)

Set in a bespoke toy shop, Imanol Ortiz López’s new short film is skin-crawling nightmare fuel bathed in vintage Kodachrome transfixion, calculated to the microsecond, honed to haunt and mortify.

Dead Cat(fr)

What were Catherine and Louis thinking when they chose a cat with distinctive white spots? It would have been much easier to replace if they had picked the all-back one. Now, they will have to tell their daughter Sophie that Nugget's dead. Unless..

Chains(en)

Chain, starved for beauty in her desolate underground community of scavengers, appears to commit the crime of growing a flower by using scarce water. As Munk, who oversees the roulette type death punishment breathes in this world’s only flower she pauses in awe of the miracle, but the gun is loaded and the trigger is squeezed…

Camila Decide Matar(pt)

The Monkey(en)

After a near-fatal accident, soon-to-be father Pete Shelburn begins to suspect that his past has come back to haunt him. With his own father at death's door and his brother refusing to make amends with him, he's forced to save his family by confronting a nightmare from his childhood: a cursed cymbal-clapping toy monkey.

Beta(en)

A young man builds an artificially intelligent woman to be his perfect companion only to find out she doesn't have feelings for him in return

Lies Inside(en)

Following his mother's absence, a young boy stalks his alcoholic father stunned by what lies inside the woods.

Nefarious(en)

In order to bring her sister back to life, Aggie recruits the help of her friend Lillith to perform a human sacrifice.

Roger is a Serial Killer(en)

A podcaster implicates her step-father in a series of unsolved murders, which makes for a compelling show but an awkward family reunion.