The Ship of Fools

Consumed(de)

A young mother unexpectedly receives a package in the mail. When she tries on the mysterious baseball cap within, it unfolds supernatural powers and takes control of her actions. She becomes addicted to the cap's trance and the consumer binges it leads to, ultimately paying a heavy price.

The Lovers(en)

Troy has resorted to speed dating, where he meets Cassandra, who uses tarot cards to skip the awkward get-to-know-you phase, only Cassandra's flirting turns into an ominous prophecy.

Merenguito(es)

Merenguito, a little piñata boy, wakes up on a school table after being put together by a group of primary school children. Soon they discover his gift: dispensing candy at will. When the children become absorbed by their greed for candy, Merenguito finds comfort in his friendship with Bruno, a gentle child outcast from his peers due to his delicate health condition. Chaos soon erupts and Merenguito becomes a victim of merciless bullying that spirals him into a choice with terrible consequences.

Nest(en)

In early-colonial Australia, a timber feller, kept awake by his infant child’s cries of hunger, encounters something perturbing in the woods.

Oldboy's Apples(en)

Join a demon, a puppy and a rat in this stop-motion headtrip about a mysterious, magically summoned apple tree. With its innovative, intricate character design and intoxicatingly evocative, genuinely strange world, Oldboy’s Apples makes for tactile, ritualistic viewing – a rabbit hole of idolatry and the id.

Infection(en)

A group of friends decide to stay overnight in an abandoned theatre... only to find it overrun with zombies!

3-D(en)

3-D is a hand-painted experimental short film by Riley Hogan. Acrylic paint, ink and scratching were used to animate on clear Super 8mm film leader.

Dogs(en)

A young Polish partisan flees from the Warsaw Uprising. Whilst hiding in the yard of a countryside manor, he is chased up a tree by a large wolfhound. With his rifle out of reach, there seems to be no way to escape his predicament.

The Agonizer(en)

The legend surrounding Camp Greenlake had been told for decades, nobody really knew what had happened there. When two friends decide to look into the mystery, they get far more than they had hoped to uncover. Every town has a local urban legend. Some of those legends are best left alone!

Counterfeit Film(en)

Counterfeit Film captures the moment when a still image becomes a movie, and when an "inferior" medium such as the photocopy, ceases to be a copy and becomes the thing itself.

Headcleaner(en)

Mindblowing. Literally. Acclaimed Italian photographer Alessandro Bavari turns to filmmaking with this short, surreal tour in and around the cranial cavity.

The Demons Beneath(fr)

"Les Démons" tells a rather familiar story of a young French man named Franc, who finds an ancient relic in a box hidden away in a cellar. It is soon learned that anyone who touches this relic will become possessed by a demonic entity, and Franc spends the film attempting to fight off this deadly deity.

Apple Thieves(hu)

Two thieving gloves try to snatch an apple.

Sleepless Night with Bamboo Wife(ko)

BAMBOO WIFE-Korean traditional bedding to avoid the heat. One hot summer night, a sinking novelist picks up a dumped bamboo wife. But from this point, his sleepless night lasts forever.

Prom House(en)

In 2004, at a prom weekend beach house, Charley (Billy Kasper) plays a hypnotic tape from his late mother, unleashing an evil on him and his friends that threaten to take their minds and their lives.

Meat Puppet(en)

Oz, an irresponsible man baby, nearly misses his girlfriend’s Graduation because he’s too busy playing with toys. Before he can make amends, a mysterious package arrives containing a mangy old hand puppet. Despite the pressing need to be there for his girlfriend, Oz can’t resist trying on the puppet first and instantly has his soul imprisoned in its soft foam body. Oz is left to contemplate the sorry state of his life choices while his human body dies before his eyes. If he’s to have any hope of saving his relationship, and surviving, he’ll have to do the one thing he’s always avoided: grow up.

Kansas City Blender Massacre(en)

Lost Todd Sheets short about a killer using a blender.

The Remnant(en)

A team of con artists posing as paranormal investigators steal from the home of an affluent elderly woman, only to find themselves unleashing a dormant malevolent spirit.

A Mala(pt)

Memoria(es)

Vincent, a young, homeless drug addict, stumbles through a wet and dark street in a very awkward state. He walks inside an abandoned house to sleep for the night, as thunder rumbles and the skies promise a storm. Inside, everything is silent, and he throws himself on an old chair, falling asleep instantly. It is when he wakes up that madness falls on him. The house is not all it seems, and Vincent is forced to relive his past, a past he has tried desperately to suppress and deny with drugs and denial for most of his life.