INTO THE DARK • Dark Fantasy and Horror Short Films
Thursday, June 19 • 9pm
Looking for Death Director: Patricio Gabriel Salgado Trejo • USA • 2 minutes In this ode to the influential style of German Impressionism, a lone adventurer charts the dark woods, hoping to find a treasure that will allow him to control death itself.
Any Mummers 'Lowed In?? Directors: Sean Michael Alexander Jessome, Annalise Josefine Smith, Cullam James Bruce-Lockhart • NL • 5 minutes A Christmas party is visited by a group of mummers, who turn it into a night of singing, dancing, and drinking. But when Anna wakes the next morning, she finds an awful mess, a wicked hangover, and one unwelcome mummer that just keeps coming back.
Clem Director: John Barnard • Manitoba • 11 minutes Hannah is in trouble and takes to an ad from a stranger who offers help to people with nowhere else to turn.
*666 Director: Abby Elizabeth Falvo • Manitoba • 3 minutes Shot on 8mm film, this horror comedy follows two curious women as they perform a ritual, making a call beyond the veil and discovering that some calls are better unanswered.
NAP Director: Javier Chavanel • Spain • 14 minutes Four people are recruited to undergo a dangerous experiment. The rules are simple, if they sleep they receive a substantial reward, if they don’t they die.
Elapse Director: Ryan Patrick McDonald • NL • 8 minutes A young man is filled with dread while trying to identify his calling in life and seeks the advice of an older man, unaware that the two of them are connected by an insidious tragedy in the claustrophobic space they share.
Izzy Director: Yfke van Berckelaer • Netherlands • 5 minutes Izzy is constantly stuck in the same cycle: mocked, dismissed, ignored, forgotten. She’ll find a way to make herself heard, with that and a bit of red glitter, perhaps she can escape this loop.
Rodent Director: Joe Fereday • UK • 8 minutes A rat transports us through the last vestiges of humanity as it forages for food for its family while avoiding a colossal threat and revealing the true magnitude of recent global events.
Canniversary Director: Ross Ozarka • New Zealand • 4 minutes In this hilarious animation made in just 48 hours, a character's sobriety is tested when his office crush invites him to a Cannabis-themed party.
This Land Director: Nicholas Jones • UK • 18 minutes Roisin is a guardian of the mystical Irish land that has been in her family for generations. As a greedy relative seeks to exploit the earth beneath her feet, Roisin's deep-rooted connection to the land propel her to fight back and defend the magic that lies at the heart of the landscape.
Olga's Eyes Director: Sarah Carlot Jaber • Belgium • 22 minutes Olga, a music-loving octogenarian, is tired of killing humans. Could it be the vampire blues or is she just being picky? She’ll have to find out when she is placed in a care home, surrounded by those who have “one foot in the grave.”
Runtime: 1h40
