We have an amazing selection of no less than seventeen short films to show at this year’s event, from here in Arizona, elsewhere in the United States and all over the world. Countries represented include Austria, Brazil, Canada, Germany, Greece, India, Ireland, Sweden, the UK and the Ukraine. There are two programs dedicated solely to these, while a pair will also be shown before Friday night’s screening of I Drink Your Blood. Below, you can find details of them all, along with information about them and when you can see each short.
- I Drink Your Blood: Friday, 7 pm
- Shorts: Saturday, 1 pm
- Local shorts: Saturday, 5 pm – followed by panel discussion with the film-makers
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Altera Pars | Greece | Sotiris Georgantas | 10:56 | I Drink Your Blood | |
| It’s a tale as old as time. A remote cabin, a lone woman, and an increasing sense that someone – or something – is stalking her. “Have you locked the door?” | ||||||
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Altitude | Austria | Nicole Scheer | 10:58 | Shorts | |
| On their way up to a mountain cabin, Sarah and Thomas run into a dense mist and seem to go astray. Lost at those heights, eventually a life-threatening battle between reality and illusion begins. | ||||||
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Athena | Germany/Ukraine | Christian Stahl | 22:10 | Shorts | |
| What if all your digital information, thoughts, fears, doubts and secrets were used against you? Two women fight in a closed room against each other. One, Sia is a human. The other, Athena, is a new intelligent operating system for smartphones. Only one can survive. | ||||||
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Bagheera | India/UK | Christopher R. Watson | 18:33 | Shorts | |
| Bagheera is the determined young leader of an Indian Girl Scout troop. She teaches her girls everything from snake handling to short-wave radio communication, equipping them with courage and determination. Little does she know that she is about to be pushed to her limits, in a fight for her life. | ||||||
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Claws | USA | Tony Noyes | 38:40 | Local shorts | |
| Kristopher Kane and his family are put on the naughty list by a creepy psycho Santa with a candy cane blade and a taste for holiday scares. Now. the kids, friends and neighbors aren’t tucked away safe in their beds as visions of terror from Mr. CLAWS slash through their heads! | ||||||
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Cocoons of Outer Space | Brazil | Joel Caetano | 13:00 | Shorts | |
| She just wanted to relax. But something coming from far away destroys her plans. | ||||||
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Finally Alone | Sweden | Carl Sundström | 1:25 | Shorts | |
| A man moves away from his house, where an unsettling feeling has been following him. | ||||||
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Five Course Meal | Canada | James Cadden | 7:00 | I Drink Your Blood | |
| Mark and Jenny, a financially struggling couple, take part in a mysterious paid experiment that sees them locked in a room together for one month. They’re provided meals through a dispenser, which they ravenously devour because they’re overcome with an insatiable hunger. But what happens if the food stops coming? | ||||||
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Hear Hear | Ireland | Emmet O’Brien | 5:19 | Shorts | |
| A woman is startled to hear a voice from upstairs when she expected to be alone. | ||||||
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Her Lips are Mine | USA | Ken Cohen | 6:35 | Shorts | |
| Sandy thought escaping deformed from her captor was bad enough, but after she meets the women whose body parts she now has attached to her, she realizes that her nightmare is just beginning. | ||||||
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Jacindu | USA | Adolpho Navarro | 7:32 | Local shorts | |
| A classroom full of college kids unleash an ancient evil that hunts them one by one. | ||||||
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Lion | UK | Davide Melini | 11:49 | Shorts | |
| An isolated chalet in a snowy forest… A man blinded by alcohol… A woman unable to rebel… And an 8-year-old child troubled and dark… The silent night is broken with cries… the start of a terrible nightmare. | ||||||
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Plastic Hip | USA | Bradford Uyeda | 2:38 | Local shorts | |
| A music video for a song by the band 66Samus, the best way to describe this is with a YouTube comment: “When 5 year olds listen to metal while they play with Play-Doh” Stop-motion splatter: if you’re familiar with the work of Lee Hardcastle, you’ll be in the right area. | ||||||
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Possessed | UK | Oliver Jackson | 2:52 | Shorts | |
| Another usual job for the local exorcist: one possessed daughter, a worried mother and all the might of the Christian faith. | ||||||
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Spot | USA | Dineta Williams-Trigg | 5:21 | Local shorts | |
| A rash of animal attacks. A child and her father, searching for her lost pet. What could possibly go wrong? | ||||||
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Static Kinship | USA | Adolpho Navarro | 12:22 | Local shorts | |
| A team of paranormal investigators find themselves trapped in a house with a hostile entity. One man awakens on the floor paralyzed,with his back broken as he’s stalked by the presence. | ||||||
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Stay Quiet | USA | Chloe Carroll | 6:11 | Shorts | |
| It’s a natural reaction to scream when you are terrified for your life. But what if that reaction could cost your life? | ||||||
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Undead in the West | USA | Tony Noyes | 15:07 | Local shorts | |
| In a unlawful time of unruly people and unrest, there are tall tales of undead in the west. Risen from the grave from a cursed piece of pottery, the zombie hunter Levi Cooper must team up with the newly appointed Sheriff to stop the curse from spreading further. | ||||||