Housewife

European Premiere

Written and directed by Greta Guthrie and Jacob Lazarow – Starring Shannon Collis, Colleen Grate, Miranda Parkin, Andrei Dolezal – 2025, United States, 4 minutes.

When a woman accidentally cuts herself on her forgotten dollhouse, she’ll unwittingly awaken Housewife, a primordial monster with strange ideas about how to care for her children. Based on the character created by Miranda Parkin.

The Disgruntled Teaspoon

Northern UK Premiere

Written and directed by William Quail – Starring William Quail – 2024, United Kingdom, 10 minutes.

Brad has an irrational fear of tea. When house sitting for his parents someone or some thing begins to taunt him, he is given the sense that it is a foreboding teaspoon!

A Wave from the Ocean Crashing Into the Shore

Northern UK Premiere

Written and directed by Jacob Nicholson – Starring Jacob Nicholson – 2024, United Kingdom, 10 minutes.

Trailer - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JoSqu36NzgQ

Content Warning: flashing images

This experimental film explores the relationship between what we perceive as natural and what we perceive as unnatural and how this relationship changes over time due to natural and unnatural decay.

Stiff Drinks

UK Premiere

Written and directed by Hugo Coelho and Tommy Le – Starring Eddie Register, Ricarda Clay, Steven King, Tommy Le – 2025, United Kingdom, 7 minutes.

Last orders take a deadly turn when a zombie crashes a late-night bar, forcing a drunken regular and the weary bartender into an unlikely alliance to survive the night.

The Garden of Klingsor

UK Premiere

Written and directed by Pietro Floris – Starring Caterina Cancelli, Francesca Botta, Gabriele Umidon – 2024, France/Italy, 13 minutes.

Lilith, a wood nymph, is lured through magic to Klingsor’s castle, where she is held spellbound. Klingsor, a disgraced knight who has turned to witchcraft after being castrated, is after young women to take as ornaments for his enchanted garden. After she gradually regains awareness of her nature and her powers, Lilith turns on Klingsor. With the aid of the other captive women, who have now become her disciples, she brings a new order to the castle.

Revenge

European Premiere

Directed by Omar Beretta, Written by Dani Zárate – Starring Facundo Nahuel Giménez, Luciano Riccio, Dani Zárate – 2024, Argentina, 11 minutes

Trailer - https://youtu.be/sy_lEgn7d0w

Content Warning: discriminatory language

Lucho and Dani, a couple in crisis, decide to spend a weekend in Lucho's family's abandoned cabin. At night, they both take hallucinogenic mushrooms and what seemed to be a night of sex and fun turns into a nightmare: the ghost of a supposed lover of Lucho's grandfather, would be willing to take revenge.

SEE

World Premiere

Written and directed by Rachel Christopherson – Starring Emily Winegarden, Ben Christopherson, Abigail Davis – 2024, United States, 9 minutes

Content Warning: self harm.

A 70’s inspired psychedelic horror film about how body dysmorphia makes people see features about themselves that aren’t reality, and the consequences of those delusions.

Friend Shaped

International Premiere

Written and directed by Juniper Crawford, co-directed by Lo Norman – Starring Royale Davis, Gabrielle Steele, Juniper Crawford – 2024, United States, 15 minutes

Trailer - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ph0v2XOPEGw

Stella Anyways

UK Premiere

Written and directed by Yan Berthemy – Starring Bérangère Bardot, Célia Berby Maillot, Eloïse le Baud, Arthur Toupet – 2025, France, 17 minutes

Trailer - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPI6ibPdq3Q

In a Parisian square, three high school girls, Stella, Mila, and Elsa, share their experiences and desires. When Stella speaks up, her confession is intriguing: she is in a secret relationship with someone who has neither a phone nor a real identity, only a pseudonym. A revelation that casts doubt and unsettles the conversation.