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This is an archive page. For the current year's festival, please visit our main page. The third annual Apocalypse Later International Fantastic Film Festival (ALIFFF 2018) was held in the 3rd Street Theater at the Phoenix Center for the Arts over the weekend of Saturday 13th and Sunday 14th October, 2018.
Postcard and logo by Marty Freetage. Poster by Jason Drotman. OverviewTickets were $50 in advance ($60 at the door) and parking, popcorn and lunch was free. Thank you to everyone who submitted a film for doing so! Thank you to the filmmakers who attended and took part in Q&As:
Brian Carmody (Aunt) Thank you to our panel of judges for 2018:
Shari K. Green, writer, producer and director and film critic for The Movie Club and The Reel Critic.
AwardsOur competition films fought it out for these awards, created and designed by the ever-fantastic Tom Deadstuff!
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Honorable mentions went to The Dark Room, Shiner and Marta. |
WinnersCongratulations to our 2018 winners! Best Horror Short Best Science Fiction Short Best Other Short Best Feature Festival Director's Award |
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Watch the video acceptances: Right: Jean-Raymond Garcia & Anne-Marie Puga (Just After Midnight). |
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ScheduleDoors opened at 10.00am on each day, with the first set beginning at 10.30am. |
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| Set | Start Time | End Time | Length | Set | Start Time | End Time | Length |
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| Horror Shorts A | 10.30am | 11.57am | 87:40 | Dinosaurs in a Mining Facility | 10.30am | 11.42am | 71:40 |
| Black Site | 12.10pm | 1.38pm | 87:22 | Science Fiction Shorts B | 12.00pm | 1.25pm | 85:59 |
| Other Shorts A | 1.55pm | 3.20pm | 85:21 | Purgatory Road | 1.40pm | 3.20pm | 99:37 |
| Lunch | 3.20pm | 3.50pm | 30:00 | Lunch | 3.20pm | 3.50pm | 30:00 |
| Lost in Apocalypse | 3.50pm | 5.20pm | 89:46 | Horror Shorts B | 3.50pm | 5.15pm | 84:20 |
| Science Fiction Shorts A | 5.35pm | 7.00pm | 85:50 | The Child Remains | 5.30pm | 7.18pm | 107:29 |
| Echoes of Fear | 7.15pm | 8.45pm | 89:30 | Other Shorts C | 7.35pm | 9.00pm | 84:23 |
| Other Shorts B | 9.00pm | 10.25pm | 86:07 | Awards | 9.10pm | 9.30pm | 20:00 |
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FeaturesALIFFF 2018 featured 6 feature films from 4 countries: |
| Title | Year | Director(s) | Country | Length | Première? |
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| Black Site | 2018 | Tom Paton | UK | 87:22 | no |
| Lost in Apocalypse | 2018 | Sky Wang | China | 89:46 | Arizona première |
| Echoes of Fear | 2018 | Brian & Laurence Avenet-Bradley | USA | 89:30 | Arizona première |
| Dinosaurs in a Mining Facility | 2018 | Jordin Goff | USA | 71:40 | Arizona première |
| Purgatory Road | 2017 | Mark Savage | USA | 99:37 | Arizona première |
| The Child Remains | 2018 | Michael Melski | Canada | 107:29 | Arizona première |
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Black Site87:22, UK, dir: Tom Paton '80s inspired John Carpenter-esque action. A young woman is forced to push past her worst fears and battle to deport an ancient entity back to where it came from. Set inside an underground military base known as The Artemis Black Site, the movie mixes an Escape from New York style survival story with Lovecraftian elements and large scale mythology building. Official trailer at YouTube.
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Lost in Apocalypse89:46, China, dir: Sky Wang A group of seemingly unrelated individuals fight their way out of a virus-infested hotel, only to find themselves at a worse place than before. Official trailer at Vimeo.
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Echoes of Fear89:30, USA, dirs: Brian & Laurence Avenet-Bradley After inheriting her grandfather's house, Alysa must confront the mystery of his sudden death and the evil that hides inside. Official trailer at YouTube.
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Dinosaurs in a Mining Facility71:40, USA, dir: Jordin Goff Dr. Stone's mysterious mining outpost just got a new employee. Ian is finally making something of himself, but will he become a hero or dinosaur food? Official trailer at YouTube.
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Purgatory Road99:37, USA, dir: Mark Savage Helpless to stop a thief from stealing his father's modest nest egg, a little boy grows up blaming himself for his parents' suicide. Becoming a priest who operates a highway confessional with his ambivalent brother, he offers sage advice to chosen sinners while raining death on unrepentant thieves. Into the world of this antagonistic duo comes a psychotic, resourceful woman whose first act of 'kindness' is to kill a thief whose actions threaten to expose the holy duo. Filled with gratitude for this act, the priest invites the woman into their sacred world and begins a chain of bloody events that dismantle the brothers' decades-long partnership. Official trailer at YouTube.
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The Child Remains107:29, Canada, dir: Michael Melski An expectant couple's intimate weekend turns to terror when they discover their secluded country inn is a haunted maternity home where unwanted infants and mothers were murdered. Inspired by the true story of the infamous 'Butterbox Babies'. The Child Remains is a twisting supernatural thriller that emphasizes story and suspense over shock and gore. From the producer of the acclaimed horror thriller The Corridor, starring Cannes Best Actress winner Suzanne Clement (Mommy), Allan Hawco (Frontier), Shelley Thompson (Labyrinth) and genre hero Geza Kovacs (Scanners, The Dead Zone), The Child Remains is about the evil that lurks behind the postcard. Official trailer at YouTube.
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ShortsALIFFF 2018 featured seven sets of short films. Horror Shorts AThe Horror Shorts A set ran 87:40 and included 6 films from 2 countries: |
| Title | Year | Director(s) | Country | Length | Première? |
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| Goodnight, Gracie | 2017 | Stellan Kendrick | USA | 3:54 | Arizona première |
| The Dark Skin of the Soul | 2017 | Allan J. Arcal | Spain | 9:55 | Arizona première |
| One Dark Night | 2018 | Michael Trainotti | USA | 18:36 | Arizona première |
| Aunt | 2017 | Brian Carmody | USA | 12:38 | Arizona première |
| Static Kinship | 2017 | Adolpho Navarro | USA | 12:20 | no |
| Lost in Buffalo City | 2017 | Raymond Wallace | USA | 30:00 | no |
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Goodnight, Gracie3:54, USA, dir: Stellan Kendrick After mom gets hacked to pieces by her latest lover, a devout child fights to escape the same fate. Official trailer at Vimeo.
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The Dark Skin of the Soul9:55, Spain, dir: Allan J. Arcal Buried in the deepest part of the forest, Carlos leaves behind those empty, dead eyes that have been tormenting him ceaselessly. What happens to him from that moment on, while he returns home in search of his daughter, nobody knows, nobody understands... not even God. Official trailer at YouTube.
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One Dark Night18:36, USA, dir: Michael Trainotti Dad spins a decades old tale during a family campout. Official trailer at Vimeo.
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Aunt12:38, USA, dir: Brian Carmody Ed Fairbanks visits his reclusive Aunt Laura, a physics professor forced onto sabbatical due to concerns about her mental stability and pseudoscientific endeavors into infernal Cosmicism. Ed becomes increasingly disturbed by Laura's paranoid delusions, the growing incestuous vibe between them, and the haunting suspicions that her darkest of theories may be true.
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Static Kinship12:20, USA, dir: Adolpho Navarro A team of paranormal investigators find themselves trapped in a house with a hostile entity. One man awakens on the floor with his back broken paralyzed as he's stalked by the presence. Official trailer at YouTube.
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Lost in Buffalo City30:00, USA, dir: Raymond Wallace Against better judgement and warnings from locals, eager reporter John Miller is investigating a series of strange apparitions and deadly encounters surrounding a long-forgotten ghost town in the dark coastal swamps of North Carolina. But his investigation uncovers something evil lurking in the ruins of Buffalo City, sinister forces that may wind up costing him his life. Official trailer at YouTube.
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Other Shorts AThe Other Shorts A set ran 85:21 and included 5 films from 3 countries: |
| Title | Year | Director(s) | Country | Length | Première? |
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| Meat Head | 2017 | Ben Ashby | USA | 8:37 | no |
| The Adventures of Tranh & Nowak | 2017 | Godefroy Ryckewaert | France | 22:04 | Arizona première |
| Mr. Memento | 2018 | Chris Heck | USA | 11:35 | no |
| N | 2018 | Iacopo Di Girolamo | UK | 13:41 | Arizona première |
| Kiss the Devil in the Dark | 2018 | Rebecca & Jonathan Martin | USA | 29:24 | Arizona première |
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Meat Head8:37, USA, dir: Ben Ashby One man's refusal to adapt.
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The Adventures of Tranh & Nowak22:04, France, dir: Godefroy Ryckewaert An action comedy film featuring two special agents skilled in close-up combat and specialized in undercover operations: Tranh, a young intelligent, down-to-earth woman, and Nowak, reckless, adventurous and somewhat racially biased—though not ill-intentioned. This time, their mission is to recover paintings which belong to the government, stolen by a German esthete, Otto Von Schnitzel, head of a neo-Nazi faction. Official trailer at Vimeo. |
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Mr. Memento11:35, USA, dir: Chris Heck An aging photography collector obsessed with death receives the final piece to his collection.
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N13:41, UK, dir: Iacopo Di Girolamo An expressionist nightmare in which an inventor and his colleague test the 'Automaton', a machine able to create things from nothing. The machine works perfectly as long as the items it's asked to create start with the letter N... in German. The results of the test will be predictably catastrophic. Official trailer at YouTube.
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Kiss the Devil in the Dark29:24, USA, dirs: Rebecca & Jonathan Martin Desperate to save his dying wife, the sorcerer Marcus (Dameon Clarke) makes a dark bargain with the demon Dagon (Doug Jones) to save her soul. Dagon, however, has more in store for Marcus than a mere exchanging of souls in this Faustian dark fantasy short film from the makers of the award-winning films An Evening with My Comatose Mother and Creatures of Whitechapel that explores the very meaning of betrayal. Official trailer at Vimeo.
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Science Fiction Shorts AThe Science Fiction Shorts A set ran 85:50 and included 7 films from 4 countries: |
| Title | Year | Director(s) | Country | Length | Première? |
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| Retimer | 2017 | Robin Tremblay | Canada | 7:42 | Arizona première |
| Star Wars: Dresca | 2018 | Jessica Champneys | USA | 7:13 | Arizona première |
| Near Kepler | 2017 | Laura Matt | Germany | 18:07 | Arizona première |
| Coping Mechanism | 2018 | Sean Roberts | Australia | 10:26 | Arizona première |
| The Assistant | 2018 | Andrew Dryden Mortimer | Canada | 11:46 | US première |
| Prenatal | 2017 | Bears Rebecca Fonté | USA | 10:37 | no |
| The Tolls | 2017 | Liz Anderson | USA | 19:59 | Arizona première |
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Retimer7:42, Canada, dir: Robin Tremblay We are in 3020 and war, poverty and diseases are no longer a part of our daily lives. A world order whose roots go back to antiquity have learned to control time and used its power to create a perfect Society. They do this by sending agents in the past, the RETIMER who are tasked to modify specific events and through ripple in times, create the perfect future they live in. One member of this elite team begins to question the ethics of his action through the canvas of time... Official trailer at Vimeo. |
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Star Wars: Dresca7:13, USA, dir: Jessica Champneys When Dresca—an injured imperial pilot—is rescued by rebels after the Battle of Endor, she must choose between her loyalty to the Empire and the kindness of strangers she once thought of as monsters. Official trailer at YouTube.
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Near Kepler18:07, Germany, dir: Laura Matt After a one year job on a far away planet, space traveller Jo experiences a bumpy incident during his flight back to Earth. His board computer Deborah claims she has everything under control. But is that true? Official trailer at YouTube.
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Coping Mechanism10:26, Australia, dir: Sean Roberts Ben finds himself on a date with Mikaela, a crush from a time long since passed. Unfortunately, Ben's misguided need to impress Mikaela is constantly threatened by the self-sabotage that comes with his crippling loneliness. But there's a secret to Ben's lonely existence that only exacerbates his desperation and threatens to forever prevent him from connecting with another human being. Official trailer at YouTube.
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The Assistant11:46, Canada, dir: Andrew Dryden Mortimer The future of doctor assisted suicide.
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Prenatal10:37, USA, dir: Bears Rebecca Fonté Mysteriously eight months pregnant overnight, Katie believes the Angels responsible, but her sister thinks differently. Official trailer at Vimeo.
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The Tolls19:59, USA, dir: Liz Anderson The final days of WWII. While mourning the loss of his wife at sea, U.S. army corporal Wes Morris confronts a mysterious stranger who has infiltrated his base. The intruder possesses a top secret S.S. technology, which transports them to an alternate, Nazi occupied San Francisco. Here, Wes will put the lives of millions at risk in order to reunite with his lost love. Official trailer at Vimeo.
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Other Shorts BThe Other Shorts B set ran 86:07 and included 6 films from 4 countries: |
| Title | Year | Director(s) | Country | Length | Première? |
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| Fanman's Basement | 2018 | Drew Lewis | USA | 6:55 | Arizona première |
| Freelancer | 2017 | Francisco Lacerda & Francisco A. Lopes | Portugal | 15:18 | no |
| Just After Midnight | 2018 | Jean-Raymond Garcia & Anne-Marie Puga | France | 22:18 | Arizona première |
| Safe | 2018 | Tim Earnheart | USA | 7:45 | Arizona première |
| Shiner | 2017 | Jimmy G. Pettigrew | Canada | 20:17 | US première |
| N.T.A. (Nuke Them All) | 2018 | Olivier Nelli | France | 13:34 | Arizona première |
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Fanman's Basement6:55, USA, dir: Drew Lewis Fanman's Basement is a stop-motion animated short film about the viral hits and epic fails of an aspiring YouTuber finding his voice on the internet for the first time. Wearing the iconic mask of a certain caped-crusader, 'The Fanman' vows an oath to never reveal his secret identity. Chasing online notoriety from a home-made studio in his mother's basement, he swears allegiance to reporting the truth in popular culture, the critique of movies, and all things fandom. Official trailer at Vimeo.
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Freelancer15:18, Portugal, dirs: Francisco Lacerda & Francisco A. Lopes Jorge, a freelancer camera-man, faces abusive clients and late payments for his gigs all too often. One day, what appears to be just another simple wedding ceremony to shoot, turns out to be a living nightmare. Official trailer at YouTube.
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Just After Midnight22:18, France, dirs: Jean-Raymond Garcia & Anne-Marie Puga Suzanne is a young blind primary school teacher. With a community of blind people, she keenly studies art history devoted to witches and to Satan's erotology. Transformed, Suzanne tries to steal a man's eyes to recover her eyesight. Her first attempt is a failure. Then, she chooses a more approachable and ingenue prey: her personal reader and bashful lover, Peter.
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Safe7:45, USA, dir: Tim Earnheart Three masked intruders break into a Woman's home to retrieve an item from her safe. But what they get is much more than they bargained for. Official trailer at Vimeo.
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Shiner20:17, Canada, dir: Jimmy G. Pettigrew A junk dealer is trapped inside a terribly unhealthy love triangle. He sinks into a fantasy world to avoid this horrible reality and he will try to finally show who he really is.
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N.T.A. (Nuke Them All)13:34, France, dir: Olivier Nelli After the apocalypse, within the confederacy "NEW-ROPE", the mutants worship an atom bomb. Three heroines are recruited to defuse it smoothly. Official trailer at YouTube.
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Science Fiction Shorts BThe Science Fiction Shorts B set ran 85:59 and included 6 films from 3 countries: |
| Title | Year | Director(s) | Country | Length | Première? |
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| Biomass | 2017 | Larry McKee | USA | 5:30 | Arizona première |
| Keymoment | 2016 | Martin Lukas | Germany | 20:00 | Arizona première |
| The Dollhouse | 2018 | Dimitri Pimenov | Finland | 9:59 | World première |
| Apogee | 2017 | Megan Gray | USA | 9:46 | no |
| Daisy Belle | 2018 | William Wall | USA | 11:14 | Arizona première |
| Aurora | 2017 | Thomas Negovan | USA | 29:30 | Arizona première |
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Biomass5:30, USA, dir: Larry McKee Zoey and Simon are two employees of a salvage and recycling company who become pressured to satisfy their clients' unique needs while awaiting the next delivery truck full of special product.
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Keymoment20:00, Germany, dir: Martin Lukas Anna, a young physics student who suddenly finds herself in an interrogation room, is saved by a strange man from the future. He tells her that she will invent a new form of energy and tries to convince her that this invention is bad for humanity. After that Anna is facing the biggest decision of her life. Note: this film was scheduled last year but didn't play because of technical difficulties. Official trailer at YouTube.
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The Dollhouse9:59, Finland, dir: Dimitri Pimenov After the death of the human race, the last survivor is losing his sanity to the loneliness. |
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Apogee9:46, USA, dir: Megan Gray Imagine a world in the not-too-distant future, where people have abandoned the toxic, drought-ravaged surface of the earth and moved upwards. It's in this world that our story finds a dedicated mother, at the lowest elevation, grappling with an impossible choice. Official trailer at Vimeo.
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Daisy Belle11:14, USA, dir: William Wall A robot named "Oono" cares for his owner while mysterious creatures lurk in the strange world outside. Official trailer at YouTube.
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Aurora29:30, USA, dir: Thomas Negovan The true story of the first UFO encounter in American history. Written and directed by Thomas Negovan & Aaron Shaps. Starring Jack Campbell and Robert Boulter with Genesis Breyer P-Orridge as the voice of the creature. Orchestrations by Troy Sterling Nies featuring Armen Ra and Brian Viglione. Official trailer at Vimeo.
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Horror Shorts BThe Horror Shorts B set ran 84:20 and included 6 films from 4 countries: |
| Title | Year | Director(s) | Country | Length | Première? |
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| Addict | 2017 | Nir Yaniv | Israel | 15:00 | Arizona première |
| Something in the Darkness | 2018 | Fran Casanova | Spain | 14:20 | no |
| Trespass | 2018 | Erik LeDrew | USA | 6:09 | Arizona première |
| Redemption | 2018 | Luis Utges Blesa | Spain | 13:25 | Arizona première |
| The Dark Room | 2018 | Morgane Segaert | France | 20:00 | Arizona première |
| Marta | 2018 | Lucía Forner | Spain | 15:26 | Arizona première |
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Addict15:00, Israel, dir: Nir Yaniv Gershon is an addict. He's being filmed for a documentary. Unfortunately, his vice isn't alcohol or drugs—it's blood. Official trailer at YouTube.
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Something in the Darkness14:20, Spain, dir: Fran Casanova Veronica is a 6 year old girl who is trying to overcome her fear of the dark. Every night, her mum gets her to sleep with the reading of her favorite story. However, this time something is different... this time there is something in the darkness.
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Trespass6:09, USA, dir: Erik LeDrew The actions of a trigger-happy cop come back to bite him in the ass. A P.O.V. fright flick. NOTE: all video artifacts and glitches are in the spirit of verisimilitude. In other words, it's on purpose. Official trailer at YouTube.
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Redemption13:25, Spain, dir: Luis Utges Blesa Mr. Ferre is interrupted from a pleasure trip to Capri to enter through a dark passage that will take him to a mysterious mansion, where he awaits an enigmatic butler who pampers him, fulfilling all his desires. Nothing seems to stop time except an hourglass that shortens the moment to revive the most distressing moments of his past, where Mr. Ferre was victim and executioner. The butler, invoking his childhood, will try to rescue the child who was once pure and innocent, so that Mr. Ferre can finally redeem himself and abandon the cruel revenge of guilt.
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The Dark Room20:00, France, dir: Morgane Segaert France, 1910. As her mother suffers from a mysterious illness that she intends to hide, the young Cassandre feels a growing presence in her home... What shadow hides in the silence of the dark room? Official trailer at YouTube.
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Marta15:26, Spain, dir: Lucía Forner Marta's dream profession is to be a serial killer, and she wants Carlos to be her first victim.
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Other Shorts CThe Other Shorts C set ran 84:23 and included 5 films from 3 countries: |
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| Gauntlet Run: Breach | 2017 | Jyo Carolino & Garrett Atkinson | USA | 9:16 | Arizona première |
| Mr. Sushi | 2018 | Joshua Sallach | USA | 13:37 | Arizona première |
| Invisible Cages | 2018 | Gilberto David Vázquez-Gómez | Puerto Rico | 23:30 | US première |
| Margaret and Gary | 2018 | Fredric Lehne | USA | 9:00 | Arizona première |
| Sound from the Deep | 2018 | Antti Laakso & Joonas Allonen | Finland | 29:00 | Arizona première |
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Gauntlet Run: Breach9:16, USA, dirs: Jyo Carolino & Garrett Atkinson Two atypical heroes-for-hire have finally found an ideal office space. Chaos erupts when they discover their new location is currently run by a dangerous gang. Violence, metahumor, and a few surprises are in store. Welcome to the Gauntlet Run. #welcometothegauntlet Official trailer at YouTube.
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Mr. Sushi13:37, USA, dir: Joshua Sallach In a post-apocalyptic world, a masterless samurai finds serenity in selling sushi from a food truck in the desert.
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Invisible Cages23:30, Puerto Rico, dir: Gilberto David Vázquez-Gómez A young woman enters her father's study and finds a mutilated person inside a bird cage surrounded by feathers.
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Margaret and Gary9:00, USA, dir: Fredric Lehne A man and his GPS, fleeing murder and madness, drive into the twilight zone.
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Sound from the Deep29:00, Finland, dirs: Antti Laakso & Joonas Allonen An international research group is searching natural resources from the Arctic Ocean. They pick up a strange underwater sound from far north, and start to follow it to the uncharted waters. Inspired by the works of H. P. Lovecraft. Official trailer at YouTube.
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