Close to the Bone (2017)
A man must confront the dark origins of his complex eating disorder to move his life forward.
A man must confront the dark origins of his complex eating disorder to move his life forward.
A 8mm short film.
Clark (Tanya Dempsey), a young Mathematics major at University, thinks she's found the best deal for student housing: a group of squatters who live in an abandoned hospital secretly. The quirky residents let her into their community provided she follow the rules, including not telling anyone about her living arrangements. All seems wonderful, until she discovers that the reason that the hospital was abandoned was a series of murders in the 1940s by a strange "shrieking killer" who was never captured - and the discovery that someone who's living in the hospital is using occult means to bring back the demonic "Shrieker".
A naive actor auditions for a film which could launch his career. The things he's asked to do make him more and more uncomfortable, until a choice remark from the director makes him see red.
Accepting the potentialities of the medium to manipulate both time and space, Broughton brings past and present head-on as he regards with adult feelings his childhood family and friends. Grown-ups romp like children, and by their magnified infantilism playfully underscore such basic traits as sadism, sensuality, arid egocentricity. (Melbourne International Film Festival)
The Jacobson Dogma
Ten years after the end of the dance music duo Verona, Elias come back to Brazil to meet his former partner, Walter, who is going to marry the young and talented Filipe. Walter lives in a countryside house, where he celebrates the end of his youth and the beginning of a new moment in his life.
The Kuwaiti short film العاصفة (The Storm) explores Kuwait's social and economic shifts before and after the discovery of oil. Through the perspectives of an older father and his modernized son, it delves into the challenges of tradition versus rapid modernization.
A female reporter researching underground sex films stumbles across a snuff film, and her further investigation causes the film makers to take action against her.
The story of Lieve, a young orphan who lives with her aunt in a house for elderly people. When she finds a wounded pigeon, she integrates it in her world of fantasies and is persuaded that the pigeon is Jesus.
A woman tells a story told in a poem about her life messing around with a lot of men.
A child is confronted to the first questions about procreation, in a world wanting to awaken him to sexuality.
Inspired by true events, Michael's friend Kenny reveals that he has a ghost living in his room who stops by every night at 3 A.M. Expecting to see nothing but a few tricks, Michael visits the room and experiences otherworldly phenomena that he can't explain. Soon after he seems to be followed by the number 3, appearing everywhere he goes. Intrigued by these events, Michael's younger sister tags along the next day to see the room for herself. Things take a turn for the worse however, as they both find themselves in a place of the dead, with mysterious spirits chasing after them. Michael learns the number 3 is a warning for a long lost love who faces certain doom on September 3rd. Forced to face his past, can he warn her before it's too late, or are there greater forces at work?
One by one, the children who play at a neighborhood park are abducted by a Witawit, a monstrous-looking creature who lives in the park’s trees. Little Nikkie and Yaya Tising try to get to the bottom of the mystery and rescue the abducted children.
A struggling screenwriter falls victim to an unscrupulous talent & literary agent while trying to break into the entertainment industry.
At the identification of a dead body, a couple and a morgue employee both claim to be related to the deceased, and therefore the rightful recipient of an indemnity of at least 520,000.
This horror machinima short by Alvin Soprano tells the story of little Lucy walking in on her recently deceased mother crossing over to the light.
Did you expect that evil had taken a vacation just because it's Christmas? Well, think again boys. Mr. Hyde appears at a prison in front of the inmates with a very different Christmas carol. And since he spends a lot of time on vaudeville, he sings and dance in this show as well.
That Night Changed You And Me tell the story of a group of youngs who engage with a psychopathic woman who holds them captive over torture.
In a boarding school, Raidel is witness to the abuse suffered by his schoolmate Randy.