The Closet

It's a hot day, and Dave hates his wife. He should be out doing exercise, spending money, meeting people. Instead, he's playing word games with her. At this point, Dave is a prisoner of marriage until the day he dies. He's losing hope and losing his marbles. But, as the game continues, a series of ironic events lead him to realize that what seems like just a stupid, old board game might be the key to his escape or, for that matter, his downfall.

While exploring the local area Jill discovers a small Chinese box in an antique shop and takes it home to add to her collection. Over the next few days Jill's dreams become troubled, turning into disturbing nightmares that stay with her when she wakes. After being prescribed sleeping pills the nightmares seem to fade and Jill begins to relax. Then the waking dreams return, far more intense than before, blurring Jill's perception of reality.

When a poisonous snake slithers onto an Englishman's stomach in India, his associate and a doctor race to save him.

Nadia despises the woman her father is going to marry, convinced that she is after the money left by her late mother, but... Who is telling the truth? Who is deceiving who?

Emily, a once vibrant and beautiful young woman, confronts her ex-boyfriend for the first time since he sold her into sex trafficking years prior. As their conversation unfolds, we peel back their layers as they wrestle with their fragmented past and the emotional pain Emily has endured. This intense confrontation blurs the line between reality and imagination as Emily grapples with how Tristan has stripped her of her youth, innocence and identity. Will Emily get the revenge and closure that she has longed for?

13-years-old Javid and his friends come across a sack of rice on the side of the road while wandering around. After arguing and fighting over ownership of the bag of rice, they finally agree on a risky bet.

The Giallo film reinvented as an experimental S&M-tinged fever dream, told through a combination of color-gelled cinematography and jump-cut photographs, infused with dark sensuality and perverse cruelty. The short films of the directors of Amer are technically rawer than that film, but they show what was to come in terms of themes based on giallo films and an abstract style, from the use of still frames like in Chris Marker's La Jetée to harsh coloured lighting. They are worth seeing by themselves as a refining of their ideas into a fantastic debut feature film.

El Círculo del Pánico

On a cold Ozark night, a roadhouse Waitress thinks her last customer of the night is the Devil.

What appears to be a typical mother-son day in the park proves to be anything but typical.

A young filmmaker trying to navigate the world of film finds himself caught in the grip of a Maelstrom that brings out the worst impulses in whomever it is passed to.

Inspector Zaf is investigating a brutal ritualistic murder that has a connection with an unsolved similar case from years ago. His investigation led him to Tana, who has special abilities to connect humans with the spirit world. Together they try to find the mystery killer to stop any future killings.

A doctor on her last day before maternity leave is thrown into a world of chaos when a hidden threat emerges.

CARNIVALE

Lamenti Siderali

A manager is closing up the cinema for the night, and slowly realises that he's not alone. He's never been.

A psychiatrist is compelled by his patient, an obsessive mathematician, to consider the existence of a secret integer between three and four.

A 13-year-old Nepali girl leaves her Himalayan village seeking employment in the city with trusted friend Krishna, but becomes increasingly suspicious of his intentions when he asks her to cross the border with him to India. At a life-changing crossroads, she is forced to choose what she's willing to sacrifice for the good of both her family, and his.

When a struggling father discovers he unknowingly received a Bitcoin bonus back in 2014--now worth millions--his desperate attempt to reclaim the lost fortune sends him spiraling into a high-stakes world of encrypted wallets, forgotten passwords, and dark web danger. With time running out and his family on the line, he must outsmart hackers, trace digital breadcrumbs, and confront secrets buried in his past.

As two brothers watch a news cast about extra terrestrial beings, the older brother uses the opportunity to make an analogy about their world being invaded by unwelcome visitors.