Tracy just wants a moment of pleasure in her bathroom, but a flood of old memories emerge as a relentless distraction. The pipes burst and spew forth vile, murky water. To her horror, she begins oozing mysterious black goo.
This film screens as part of the Shorts 3: After Dark – Twisted Tales & Shadows of Innocence program.
A group of friends embark on a weekend getaway to a secluded vacation rental in the desert. With minimal entertainment options, they decide to dust off an old horror film on VHS tape. Their seemingly innocent choice soon morphs into a nightmare as they encounter a series of eerie and inexplicable coincidences, blurring the lines between the on-screen terror and the chilling reality surrounding them.
This film screens as part of the Shorts 3: After Dark – Twisted Tales & Shadows of Innocence program.
Displaced by war, Ukrainian children explore their new home, a former Wehrmacht military barrack now serving as a refugee camp. Making the surrounding fields and parking lots their playgrounds, the children find ways to inhabit the space as their own existing between the historical resonances of two wars almost a century apart.
This film screens as part of the Shorts 4: Documentary – In Motion program.
A triptych of sisters sing about their suffering after the eruption of a volcano in Cape Verde. Separated from each other and surrounded by darkness and fire, their voices overlap as we hear their moving words of pain and resistance: “There will come a time when we’ll know why we suffer, and the mystery will end.” The musical ends with silence and archival footage of Cape Verdean people and landscapes after a volcanic eruption in 1951.
Directed by Pedro Costa, The Daughters of Fire represents a radical step forward in form and ambition for the singular Portuguese maestro.
This short film screens along with in water.
At once a heist film, a hilariously plotted workplace comedy, and a wistful ode to the human desire for freedom, The Delinquents, like its main characters, is playfully elusive and difficult to pin down. Morán works a dead-end job at a bank in Buenos Aires. Tired of the grind, he dreams up a scheme to get himself and his coworker, Román, out of there for good. The plan is simple. The fallout is not.
Crafted with impeccable wit and surreal flourishes, director Rodrigo Moreno mischievously ponders the pitfalls of modern working culture, the rigors of urban living, and the seductive allure of an unburdened life in the wide open countryside.
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