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Written and Directed by Beth 'Boss_Berb' Hughes and Sam 'FimbulGhost' Lamont – UK, 2023, 38 seconds

Content Warning: Body horror

An answer phone message.

Uncontrollable

UK Premiere

Written and Directed by Mia Geere – Starring Saint Ranson, Anne Arreguin, Skylar Okerstrom-Lang, Mia Geere – USA, 2023, 7 minutes

When a novelist steps away from writing his latest story, strange things unfold.

Lifeboat

UK Premiere

Written and Directed by Vanessa-Tatjana Beerli – Starring Carmen Ferlan, Karim Bourara, Christine Bellerose, Ariane Gélinas – Canada, 2024, 15 minutes

In an oppressive setting in the middle of the ocean, three women, accused of witchcraft by the sailor guiding their life boat, seize control of their destiny. Their quest for justice and freedom transforms into a mystical journey, unleashing powerful occult forces. Based on the short story "Dans la barque" by Geneviève Blouin.

Linda the Stepmother

UK Premiere

Written and Directed by Hugo Loiseleux and Elisa Hazbrouck, Co-Written by Marion Limosin – Starring Marion Limosin, Alban Fevre– France, 2024, 2 minutes

In an 80s commercial, a teenager pushes open the door to a dusty attic and comes face to face with an automaton fortune-teller. Once underway, she asks him to slide his hand into a notch. He finds himself captured...

Wet Ingredients

European Premiere

Written and Directed by Kendy Paxia, Co-Directed by Matthew Ragsdale – Starring Satta, Antonio Vaca, Trevor Hooper – USA, 2024, 9 minutes

A young woman can't decide between two lovers, so she puts a love spell into a cake. The spell makes their love so intense that they'll do anything for it, including murder!

Lavenza

UK Premiere

Written and Directed by Lauren Eden – Starring Giulia Pittiglio, Celina Liu, Roberto Ercoli, Aaron Macpherson – Canada, 2024, 10 minutes

Content Warning: Body horror

When Lavenza, a 19th-century noblewoman, overhears her husband complaining about her looks, she turns herself into his ideal wife by thrifting the body parts from all the women he desires.

Ürei

Written and Directed by Yerkezhan Baizhan – Starring Aina Aidarkyzy, Shamshakul Mendiyarova, Nargyz Aidarova – Kazakhstan, 2024, 5 minutes

Content Warning: Child endangerment

When a frail grandmother is left to babysit a toddler, the worst-case scenario unfolds. A creepy tale from Kazakhstan, based on a chilling true story.

The Pretty

Written and Directed by Miguel Córcoles, Co-Written by Alba Fontecha – Starring Alba Fontecha, Alejandro Tous - Spain, 2024, 16 minutes

Content Warning: Sexual harassment, brief flashing images

An representative of actors arrives at the cocktail bar “The Pretty” whose waitress demands payment of a coin from all the clients who go too far with her.

Dolls

Written and Directed by Robyn Egan – Starring Leila Lockley, Niamh Drumgoole, David Egan, Claire Calverley – UK, 2024, 14 minutes

A coming of age comedy, set in the early 00s, Dolls tells the story of Cherry and her unsolicited collection of judgemental porcelain dolls as she explores her transition into sexual maturity and faces the anguish of leaving her childhood behind.

Tasty Tongue

Exclusive Manchester Screening

Written and Directed by Pearl Zheng, Co-Written by Keng-Cheng Lin – Starring Shang-Ting Chung, Wen-Ling Cheng – Taiwan, 2024, 21 minutes

Content Warning: Fatphobia, loud chewing, body horror

A-Zhe, who constantly cursed others, encountered a mysterious and beautiful woman, Mia, bringing the roasting tongue for him to enjoy, until A-Zhe discovered that those he had cursed had become the tasty tongues on the dining table...