Out of the Reach of Light

A directionless young man contemplates his aspirations whilst on a dirty job.

Jennifer listens to a podcast by the famous serial killer by Jimmy TwoFingers.

Through a personal video diary we are witness of the last days of humanity when a horrible zombie virus is spreading.

John Carradine narrates the Washington Irving story of Ichabod Crane and the Headless Horseman.

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.

In Tijuana, Mexico, Gabriel is a man who once had a normal and happy life alongside his family. He now seeks revenge for the murder of his son at the hands of a group of vampires that roam the city at night, stalking its inhabitants. Gabriel's days blur into one another as he tries to track down the murderers he calls "leeches", without knowing that his revenge will bring serious consequences for his wife and himself.

After a cycling accident leaves her injured, Em is haunted by an eerie presence that forces her to confront reality.

After the mysterious death of his father, Aaron O'Donnell, a ruthless capitalist, decides to take the reins as the leader of Borealis. However, his brother Andrew sets out to hijack his dictatorship and warn not only the residents of Borealis, but all future visitors of the danger Aaron poses.

The freely adapted short story, written by the famous author HP Lovecraft, will reveal dreadfully poetic images to the viewer and give insight into a man's struggle for survival and his fight against the loss of memory. His spectacular escape from human creatures that live in the woods,who have lost all humanity and turned into animals, leads him directly to a mysterious house whose owner will very soon confront him with his mad rage. The subtle dialogues between the two of them, will end in a carnage. At full tilt, the kinkiness of H.P Lovecraft's short story transforms into the transparent struggle of survival of a man who has lost everything in this post-apocalyptic world, a world that slowly wipes him out.

A dark musical about Iara, an ordinary girl who starts to work in a mental institution for women.

An adaptation of Kafka's "A Country Doctor". A doctor is to make out a death certificate to a little boy, but the disorder is different from what he assumed.

Three tales of monsters, killers, and things that go bump in the night.

Johnny awakens as his teacher talks about liberty, only to find that everything has turned to clay. A giant hand plucks Johnny from his seat. Liberty herself has stepped down from her pedestal to teach a youngster the meaning of liberty.

An astronomer has a terrifying dream.

Dylan's nightmares are becoming more real. He's got to get away or he might not wake up. Jenny is all he lives for and he'll do anything for them to escape. In an isolated part of Wales, Dylan leads a humble life working the family farm. His only company is his father with whom he shares a fractious relationship. He's started making some extra money through some local low level drug dealers and plans to use the money to start his new dream life, away from the farm, his dad, and his visions of death.

A surreal depiction of anxiety.

Lester goes to a psychologist in hopes of recreating the details of his horrific past. Based on Stephen King's short story "The Boogeyman".

Daffy taunts a hunter in Tex Avery's classic, meta short.

A ghost story about a modern English farm haunted by the ghost of its former owner. It's rumoured that he murdered four children, but it is slowly revealed that they were child labourers who died in various accidents exacerbated by his carelessness.

A study of human anxieties about beauty, youth and objectification.