A frazzled writer becomes unmoored from reality as a deadline draws near.
2021, Republic of Korea, 4 minutes
Directed by HyeJeong Lee
Category: Shorts
FUDLIAKS! Tear the Sexes Apart! (FUDLIAKS! Zerfetzt die Geschlechter!)
Neo-conservative researchers find their rigid conceptions of gender upheaved when they begin studying a bizarre new substance.
2021, Austria, 13 minutes
Directed by Jasmin Hagendorfer
Fluids (Fluides)
A germaphobe finds his anxiety escalating while he cares for his sick girlfriend.
2022, France, 15 minutes
Directed by Simon Birman
Winner: Cacophony Award
Five Star
A desperate thief hunts for a fragment of her past.
2022, USA, 6 minutes
Directed by Drew Lorenz
Dysmorphic
A lonely young man, angry at his own body, pursues dark means to address his issues.
2022, USA, 27 minutes
Directed by Grant Swanson
Winner: Mink Stole Award
Daddy Knows Best
A woman on the run accepts an offer of help from a suspicious stranger.
2022, USA, 21 minutes
Directed by Peter Hartsock
Chicks
A girly, cotton-candy colored slumber party unravels when a shy teen becomes the center of a bizarre nighttime ritual.
2022, USA, 12 minutes
Directed by Geena Marie Hernandez
Bullets of Baptism (گلوله های تعمید)
Over and over, a monstrous brute kills himself in a ceaseless struggle to escape his torturous cycle.
2020, Islamic Republic of Iran, 10 minutes
Directed by Zivar Hojati
Boy Monster
A disconsolate incel encounters a sentient pool of mud.
2021, USA, 30 minutes
Directed by WL Freeman and John Harrison
Bobby Drowns
Haunted by her recently dead ex, a woman seeks help from an eccentric expert.
2022, USA, 12 minutes
Directed by Christopher Krider
Bailey’s Beads
A TV magician opens a viewer’s third eye, giving him a chance to confront his own consciousness.
2022, USA, 5 minutes
Directed by Johnny Clyde
Winner: The Cyber Sickie
Alchemy
A seemingly benign job interview launches a candidate into a transcendent journey of transformation.
2015, USA, 14 minutes
Directed by Brandon Polanco