Mental America

Mental America personifies The United States of America. It takes place in a mental hospital for a mentally ill America, who addresses the history of gun violence within itself and why. Written and performed by Dominique Fishback.

Writer's Block

An egotistical failing author must face reality to save himself and those around him.

They Grow Up So Fast

When Brian meets Amy after a night out on the town, things move a lot faster than he'd anticipated.

Jag tror jag är lite kär i dig

13-year-old Nadja has met her soulmate, William, online. Even though she hasn't met him in real life it feels like love. But when talking evolves into a sharing of nude images William doesn't seem as cute and sensitive anymore.

Other Side of the Box

A couple receives a mysterious package from an old friend.

The Zodiac

The history of the infamous serial killer known as the ‘zodiac’ in the late 1960s. It takes you through his kill rampage and to the case that still to this day has not been cracked.

Feeding Time

When a young woman fills in for her friend on a babysitting job, she begins to suspect things are not as they seem. She's right.

#eyewitness

Shot in continuous takes with no VFX, #eyewitness follows a man who accidentally captures a crime (and its aftermath) with his phone camera.

Carne

After a dreadful incident coupled with an ungovernable paroxysm of violence, a butcher will fall into a downward spiral that will burn to the ground whatever dignity still remained in him.

Pig

A young man journeys through a desert, where he is kidnapped by a sadistic stranger clad in a pig mask. The stranger proceeds to brutally torture the young man, who then finds himself escaping into his imagination, with fantasy and reality intersecting.

In The Tall Grass

Joseph is mentally deviated. He is a prisoner of his own flat and always in permanent war with his own mind.

The Conversation

The conversation between two mobsters

Lumang Tugtugin

Set in the 1970s, Angela, a college student, returns to her ancestral home to care for her ailing grandmother. She argues with her eccentric mother within the old house’s walls, slowly uncovering hidden truths about her family’s tumultuous past and drawing her into a personal and political labyrinth from which she must find her path out.

Violent

A vicious high school girl hides her true sociopathic self from her classmates as she navigates her love life.

All That You Love Will Be Carried Away

Based on the Stephen King short story: A middle-aged traveling salesman contemplates his life choices at a shitty motel in Nebraska.

Wanderer

A conversation over dinner, between a married couple and a weary traveller, leads to unexpected revelations

Su Rider

April arrives home and asks for food for dinner. The delivery man who arrives is not the one she expected and neither is the situation she’s about to live.

Dull Blows

Two bored housemates turn to killing as a means of entertainment.

Smash Cuts! Super Sci-Fi Shorts Fest

Host Scott Forrest presents a curated compilation of eight independent short films in this rapid-fire science-fiction feature. Genres collide, narratives twist, aesthetics clash, and even humor, both campy and dystopian, showcase the vast creative possibilities of each story's individual world, offering the viewer a brief glimpse into the lives of every character's attempt to survive the otherworldly chaos around them. Released in 2001, the selected shorts span original creation dates of 1997 to 2001; most of the featured filmmakers also appear as themselves in short video interviews to talk about their inspirations, creative process and motivations while working on their individual shorts.

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