Tales of the Black Freighter

To be attacked by a knife-wielding masked stranger in the dead of night could be a woman's worst nightmare or her darkest fantasy. But which is it? Both perception and reality are challenged in this taut contemporary thriller.

A woman finds a beautiful seashell on the beach, and then something unexpected happens...

Shannon Amen unearths the passionate and pained expressions of a young woman overwhelmed by guilt and anxiety as she struggles to reconcile her sexual identity with her religious faith. A loving elegy to a friend lost to suicide.

A parable about the nature of good and evil, in which a prince goes on a quest to learn true wisdom before he claims the throne.

Moo mourns her deceased friend, so Yuu decides to create a new companion for her. Their adventure fails, but they discover they have built a new friendship during the journey.

After losing control of his engines, bumbling spaceman Fripp finds himself at the mercy of his spaceship. A thrilling descent through an asteroid belt ensues, after which he finds himself marooned on a post-apocalyptic Earth. Without a working spacecraft, the interstellar time-traveler must dip into the dead planet’s history in order to find a way home.

Heart set on becoming a princess, Lisa Simpson is surprised to learn being bad might be more fun.

Night. A man drowns in a rough sea. A lighthouse guard risks his life to save a drowned man. He gives him food, gives him his bed. When the lighthouse guard falls asleep, the rescued man steals his boat. As the next lighthouse approaches, he submerges the boat and starts shouting for help.

'You want to put her in a home; you tell her; tell her now!' hisses one brother to the other. But Mother won't go, and their own lives quickly unravel as she clings to life. Director Daisy Jacobs uses two-metre-high painted characters in full-size sets to tell the stark and darkly humorous tale of caring for an elderly relative. The Bigger Picture is quite simply the most innovative animated short you will see this year.

A lost soul stumbles drunken through the city. In a park, Death finds him and shows him many things.

A routine exorcism performed by a novice priest takes a terrifying turn where he must deal with evil in person.

Two athletic spider women quarrel over one tasty man. Can he escape?

An isolated man, suffering from obsessive-compulsive disorder, finds himself trapped inside his home, when a shadowy creature materializes at his doorstep.

A woman's car stops in the middle of the woods. She and her son must return before nightfall, or they will find themselves in big trouble.

Mad Max Renegade follows the further adventures of Max Rockatansky after his desertion from Main Force Patrol in his famed Pursuit Special, more commonly known as the Interceptor.

Two room mates finally get a new fridge from their landlord but it is old, broke, and haunted.

While preparing for a show in an old theatre, a couple of actors find the dress rehearsal is not going to go according to plan.

Kyra Gardner's loving tribute to growing up in the world of the psycho killer doll, Chucky.

Somewhere between a music-video, a documentary and a fantasy - created with and around a Toronto-based acting-collective called LUSTR.

Two high school girls invite a new friend to join their secret game of summoning spirits for the thrill of being possessed.