Toast(2024)

Photographic Valarie(en)

Valarie sets up a photo shoot.

Dinosaur Farm(en)

A political assassination leads to division and chaos.

La terrible bestia sangrienta(es)

A gorilla escapes from a Mexican zoo and goes on a bloody rampage through a small town.

Demons of Bars and Tone(en)

A man is tortured both mentally and physically by his television. As the man is suffering, the television plays commercials representing his life, both past and present.

Road Head(en)

Stuck on the side of the road on their way to a social distance party, two contact-starved millennials try not to connect on an intimate level in this Reform Jewish absurd comedy about grief, changing plans, and the lengths we'll go to avoid direct communication with the people we love.

From the Drain(en)

The film is centered on two men in a bathtub; it is implied that they are veterans of some past conflict. The first man is paranoid about the drain of the tub, the second indifferent to it. As the conversation between the two men progresses, a vine-like tendril emerges from the drain…

Molly and Her Week of Wonders(en)

A short film to accompany Molly Santana's second studio album.

Palm Sunday(bg)

In a room with two doors, one wooden and the other glass, Rosa realises that roses die when she touches them and confronts Grandma Rosa.

Doll(en)

On Halloween night, an unexpected guest arrives, to reclaim the doll.

A Catalyst(en)

A teenage boy is forced into making a decision within 60 seconds between a possible death, or being pulled into an unknown reality.

The House(en)

Across different eras, a poor family, an anxious developer and a fed-up landlady become tied to the same mysterious house in this animated dark comedy.

I am Perfectly Normal: Part III(en)

Compulsively embracing his brooding homosexuality, the Smiling Man walks the final circle.

Crepuscus(en)

At dusk, an observer captures an absurd phenomenon.

Wodo(it)

"A vampiric Elf awakens in his eerie dwelling, where the arrival of disturbing figures through a mysterious portal unsettles the atmosphere. An enigmatic and mystical journey into the unknown."

METANOIA(es)

Obsessed with dreams, he embarks on a long, long dream that banishes his deepest darkness from his soul, reaching a life-changing conclusion.

Purgatorium(en)

An average company employee is thrust into a delirious night after a mugging and faces a world of lost souls that he had not considered before.

Smash Cuts! Super Sci-Fi Shorts Fest(en)

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.

The Passengers(es)

The Pink Hotel(en)

A portrait of the moment in which a previously grand, luxurious lifestyle is revealed to be woefully unstable. Following the parallel experiences of several tenants of a luxury hotel, we witness the ways in which different personalities react when faced with the realization that something very fundamental to their lifestyle is utterly wrong. A man finds himself inexplicably unable to leave his room due to an overwhelming dread that something dire has been neglected. An obliviously decadent movie star spirals into stardom and terrible consequence. A devoted Concierge embarks on a mission to dispatch his beloved hotel with dignity. And the faded ghost of a woman, all too aware of the trajectory of her opulent home, slowly and quietly relinquishes control.

Return to the Pleasure Dome(en)

A dancer encounters an unnatural menacing force to the beat of a rockabilly tune. Madness ensues as the surreal and nightmarish event unfolds setting the stage for the question of whats real and whats not. Is it a dream or hallucination?