Short films playing in front of feature films
We are very happy to announce our short film line up of world genre films. The short films screen individually in front of a featrure film and also as a group in our shorts block – Drawn from Around the World 3 on Wednesday November 22, 2023 6:00 pm.
DEFILE – Screens with THE CARPENTER’S SON
Director Brian Sepanzyk
12 minutes, Canada
A couple’s secluded getaway is interrupted by a visit from a strange family who exposes them to the horrors that lie beyond the tree line.
FOR SALE – Screens with THE WEED EATERS
Directors Barney Pell Scholes, Thomas Harnett O’Meara
5 minutes, United Kingdom
Lucy and David are a young couple trying to get a foot on the first slippery rung of the London housing ladder. Lucy is six-months pregnant, making the whole situation even more stressful.
Visiting a potential flat one evening, they are disturbed by the unsettling behaviour of the Estate Agent. He seems determined not to let them leave. Soon they realise why. Someone…or something…else is already living there.
GRANDMA IS THIRSTY – Screens with DON’T LEAVE THE KIDS ALONE
Director Kris Carr
15 minutes, United Kingdom
All George wants is to stop getting pushed around by the local bullies. So, when a pair of weird twins offer to introduce him to their grandma — who can “make him big & strong” — he jumps at the chance.
One problem: she’s 600 years old and keeps herself young the unnatural way… by sucking the youth out of kids. Grandma is Thirsty is a creepy, cautionary tale wrapped in dark fairy-tale charm.
IN THE LIGHT OF A MIRACLE – Screens with BODY BLOW
Director OJ Parker
14 minutes, USA
Andre, a pretty boy with dreams of sainthood is swept away and embarks on a killing spree with Clint, a hot older voyeur, while trying to cross the Texas border to evacuate from a hurricane.
LOUD – Screens with DEATHGASM 2: GORMEGEDDON
Director Adam Azimov
7 minutes, Canada
When an aspiring music producer records a violent event, she becomes haunted by its sound.
MEAT CRAYON – Screens with BAD HAIRCUT
Director Richard Rotter
6 minutes, Canada
Kimberly’s favorite teacher always brings her the best crayons. He just won’t say where he gets them.
NO WIND TO HOLD – Screens with A RARE GRAND ALIGNMENT
Directors Mickael Abbate, Chris Conti
15 minutes, France
A fading summer, an old dock, two childhood friends by the shimmering lake. But beneath the warmth of their reunion, an unsettling truth emerges, where time unravels and the past resurfaces.
THE OCCUPANT IN THE ROOM – Screens with MĀRAMA
Director Kier-La Janisse
30 minutes, Canada
A schoolteacher whose late-night arrival at a hotel in the Alps without a reservation leaves him with no option but to accept the room of a missing hotel guest – leading to a sleepless night full of strange and uncanny occurrences.
PUMPKIN GUTS – Screens with DEAD LOVER
Director Bryan M. Ferguson
13 minutes, United Kingdom
It happens to someone every Halloween. Follow the rules. Don’t get pinched.
THE OLD ROCKING CHAIR – Screens with INCOMPLETE CHAIRS
Director Noah Fallis
11 minutes, Canada
A reluctant father-daughter weekend at an isolated cabin turns into a chilling battle for survival when a mysterious rocking chair becomes a doorway to a vengeful spirit, threatening to consume them both.
SCAM – Screens with PORTAL TO HELL
Director Dave Thorpe
9 minutes, Canada
While burying a body in the woods, a murderer is called by a phone scammer.
STRIP MALL – Screens with BUFFET INFINITY
Director Andrew Appelle
9 minutes, Canada
Nate gets caught shoplifting.
TECHNOPHOBIC – Screens with $POSITIONS
Directors Michael Peers, Yasmine Majchrzak
8 minutes, Canada
A lavish dinner party turns uncomfortable for Jacob when he learns of the hosts unusual and archaic approach for settling debates.
VOWELS – Screens with SWEETNESS
Director Rafael De Leon
5 minutes, USA
Ava needs to record a self-tape, but her speech impediment keeps getting in the way.
WHY DO THE PETS ALWAYS HAVE TO DIE? – Screens with THE SILVER SCREAM
Director Rollyn Stafford
11 minutes, USA
A group therapy session for all the animals who have survived horror films.
Drawn from Around the World 3 - Short Film Block
Thursday November 27, 2024 7:00 pm
Content Warning: Some content may not be appropriate for those under 18.
Tickets available at the door.
Six new animated short films that explore characters facing unsettling forces—whether supernatural, psychological, or cosmic—as they confront manipulation, loneliness, death, and the unknown. Across surreal forests, cursed worlds, and shifting inner landscapes, each story follows a protagonist pushed to the edge of their reality in a struggle for agency, identity, or escape.
The Lost Echo
Director Andrew Cyr-Marcoux
8 minutes, Canada
In a liminal universe where logic fades, a narcissistic narrator manipulates a lonely young woman trapped in a disturbing cycle of hatred and confusion. A poignant exploration of the inner struggle between power and powerlessness in a world devoid of meaning.
The Night Boots
Director Pierre-Luc Granjon
12 minutes, France
While his parents are welcoming friends, a child leaves home in the middle of the night and enters the undergrowth, wearing rubber boots. There, a strange beast, curious and solitary, will lead him into the heart of the forest to meet the nocturnal creatures that live there, and so as not to be alone again, will try to delay the child’s departure as long as possible.
MIRA
Director Eva Louise Hall
12 minutes, USA
Ready to quit her dreams of becoming a celebrated accordionist after busking day after day for an isolating swamp metropolis that isn’t listening, young Mira finally gets a taste of recognition one evening when she meets Lore; a charismatic and successful performer who takes an interest in Mira’s talents.
Giving into her charm and status, Mira finds herself playing hostess to the mysterious and talented singer as Lore’s self-serving behaviors make her increasingly more uncomfortable in her own home. Mira’s desire for recognition from this elevated musician leaves her blinded to Lore’s hidden intentions until her apartment begins changing around her and her anxieties start to spiral out of her control. Her inability to confront and remove the ever-dangerous Lore proves to have monstrous consequences once Lore shows her true sinister nature; that she is not the musical ally that she initially presents to Mira but a water demon who needs to scavenge and carve out a place for herself by taking advantage of others.
After Mira tries to escape, Lore cruelly adheres her to her beloved accordion, encasing her arms to the instrument’s keys and sewing her lungs into to the accordion bellows. She must keep playing the instrument in order to breathe. Mira, entrapped by this demonic entity, is left with her home and sense of self forever changed.
Crow Man
Director Yohann Abdelnour
8 minutes, Lebanon
A young girl lives with her grandfather in a small wooden house by a lake in the forest. She knows death, a weird creature, is coming to take her grandfather, and she wants to fight it.
Atom & Void
Director Gonçalo Almeida
9 minutes, Portugal
In Valya’s burrow, a repeated rumbling disrupts her life, pushing her into the unknown. unexplored.
Shrine of Abominations
Directors Ross Kennedy, Skinner
40 minutes, USA
On the cursed world of Orbus Kaal, Gar-Gnargorath, the malevolent leader of the council of wizards, tries to invoke the cosmic horror forms of Demotep to begin his universal plans of revenge and domination. Gar Gnargorath’s plans to gain power may not be so easy as the horrible being known as Morgogg also exists in this realm. Perhaps they should meet.