Absolution, Parsin
A famously unsolved true-crime story describes a woman who’s skeleton was found in the hollow of a tree, with no clues as to how she got there except for an ominous graffiti nearby, reading “Who put Bella down the Wych Elm”. In this stop-motion animated short film, the imagined killer is confronted about his past by an unearthly Bison.
Directed by Jack Nop
United States, 5 minutes
Massachusetts Premiere
Demon Box
After festival rejections, a director revises his intensely personal short film about trauma, suicide, and the Holocaust, and transforms it into a painful, blunt and funny dissection of the film and his life. Ten years in the making.
Directed by Sean Wainsteim
Canada, 14 minutes
Northeast Premiere
Domestic Bliss
A woman with a surprise up her sleeve hopes to get a commitment-phobic man to propose.
Directed by Jennifer Scott & Nicole Townssend
United States, 10 minutes
New England Premiere
The Five Fingers of a Dog
In this gothic neo-giallo, a depraved killer, a deadly cycle, a possessed detective, and a perverse world merge to form the most disreputable piece of horror.
Directed by Charlie Compton and Justin Landsman
United States, 24 minutes
Salem Premiere
Honeymoon at Cold Hollow
In the winter of 1974, newlyweds are snowed into a remote cabin in the wilderness and learn that they never really knew each other at all.
Directed by Nat Rovit
United States, 14 minutes
East Coast Premiere
Kickstart My Heart
After a brutal car accident, a young woman fights her mind's 3 levels of hell to wake up again.
Directed by Kelsey Bollig
United States, 14 minutes
New England Premiere
Lethalogica
Relationships can be killer, but the best advice for a successful one, is patience and a short memory.
Directed by Tony Reames
United States, 6 minutes
New England Premiere
Pool Party
Outcast Freya attempts to make it through the night at her childhood best friend's seventeenth birthday party without revealing her most dangerous secret.
Directed by Ellie Stewart
Canada, 8 minutes
Salem Premiere
South
In the frozen expanse of the South, a weary scavenger discovers someone in need of aid.
Directed by Carl Shanahan
Norway, 6 minutes
East Coast Premiere
Violet Butterfield: Makeup Artist for the Dead
Anticipating a quiet night in her mortuary salon, Violet receives a visit from a new client and discovers that sometimes a person feels they cannot authentically live their best life until after they're dead.
Directed by Brooke H. Cellars
United States, 13 minutes
Northeast Premiere