The Silence is Talking

With not much to show for in his life, Andre takes his health to extreme measures by attempting an eating challenge at his local diner.

A lone butcher patching a hole in a worn slaughterhouse closet is attacked by an amalgamated farm creature.

The Bomb Boy

Huw Stephens presents an exciting selection of short films from emerging artists and film-makers from across the UK. Topics are fresh, varied and thought-provoking, including a behind-the-scenes look at a zoo closing for the night, an honest account of farming the land, and a powerful love letter from a son to a mother who has cancer. Expect to be moved and challenged by these short dramas, observations and dance, made by a new generation of storytellers. Yew; Echdo; King of the Pit; Two B or Not Two B; Lucky House; Everything Is Fine; The Jacket; Cages; It's Always Been; Mary Lost Her Battle; Between the Dog and the Wolf; From His Perspective

"Red Flower" is an animated adaptation of Vsevolod Garshin’s haunting short story. This film follows a mentally ill patient consumed by an all-encompassing obsession. Convinced that three bright red flowers in the hospital garden embody the world’s evil, he believes that destroying them will free humanity. As his fixation deepens, he sacrifices his own health and sanity in a desperate battle against an invisible foe. Through evocative animation and psychological depth, the film explores themes of madness, sacrifice, and the fragile boundary between delusion and reality.

Part of the Wade on 8 collection 'Dreamland' is an arthouse, shot on video short film. Jack returns for university wanting to rekindle his secret romance with repressed Billy.

Joseph is mentally deviated. He is a prisoner of his own flat and always in permanent war with his own mind.

On a humid summer night in the middle of monsoon season, a drug-addicted woman sits alone in a dark room and injects herself with a syringe. A sudden crash of thunder startles her, and the syringe slips from her hand. As she reaches down to retrieve it, she happens to glance toward the apartment building across the way. There, a figure stands watching.

Luis Toñac (Carlos Arreaza), a renowned scientist and researcher, heads to a village with anthropologist Amelia (Ligia Petit) to investigate the appearance of dead animals without a drop of blood in their bodies. A creature called El Chupacabra is believed to be responsible for these strange deaths. The scientist downplays the possibility, considering it part of local mythology, similar to the legend of the death of a pre-Columbian princess who was reincarnated as his coworker.

A short film from Barbara Bialowąs.

In the darkness of a gothic night, two knights engage in a deadly duel, illuminated only by the mysterious light of a lantern. A noble lady, confined in a castle, has woven a mysterious connection with the contenders. Supernatural forces and inexplicable events will determine the fate of the duelists in a night of horror.

Haru returns home in denial after a tsunami, where he must learn to deal with his loss through an encounter with a magical see Spirit.

Three bailiffs draw lots to decide who to perform tomorrow's execution. Quei-wu gets the mission but his wife just gets pregnant. He asks Hsin-chuen to fill in for him to avoid bad luck. Hsin-chuen, however, struggles to say yes.

Six college co-eds get together for some booze, drugs and hopefully lots of casual sex. Just another weekend in the Summer – or so they thought. Someone, cold, calculating and out of control, is killing people in the small Florida town of Sarasota.

Darkness falls and beer after beer will be consumed by the brothers and pledges of the Alpha Sigma Beta Fraternity. An intruder, looking for bloodshed, has joined the ceremony on this, the last night of pledge period. Mysterious and hypnotic, the thrills come at you faster than ale through a loaded beer bong. See how it all began – the unfinished short that puts the HELL in Hell Night.

A story about a young man who has an argument with his friend so chooses to take a walk to clear his deteriorating mind.

When seventeen-year-old aspiring bowler Joey discovers she can't join the over-40s women's team, will oddball and lactose-intolerant Scooter’s friendship be enough to brave this backwater town?

In a robotic society moved by the consumption of colorful mechanic members, an insecure gray robot faces the pressure to find the perfect piece for himself.

A boy struggling with a newly discovered fetish meets a hooker reminiscing her past as an aspiring judoka.

In the small, rural town of Shadow Hill, South Dakota, Malin Vorona lives a life of fear as day by day she awaits the inevitable. Though her long-time psychiatrist attempts to find the key to healing her of a life of horrendous abuse, Malin finds herself caught between what is real and what is uninvited imagination. The signs of imminent evil grow increasingly stronger, adding to her seemingly insane notion that something horrific will soon occur. Her worst fears and intuitions finally come true as her beloved younger sister Patty and her troubled boyfriend investigate a familiar local legend and mistakenly get in deeper than they ever could have imagined. Along with a group of eclectic locals, the young couple quickly finds themselves trapped on an abandoned rural property with a disturbing history. It is there that their lives are threatened by a powerful supernatural force that has returned solely to destroy Malin, her sister, and anyone in its path. With few options, the group ...