Los Angeles County Premieres at Screamfest
The first public screening of the film in Los Angeles County.
Film Category
On Time Off Time
Meet the Filmmaker
Synopsis
In a dystopian world, Mother Time controls all time. Her daughter, Junji, is frequently off-time. When Junji gets into a heated fight with Mother Time, she is pulled into a portal, taking her to the Off-Time world, a land of timelessness. She wakes in a surreal circus town full of timeless creatures engaging in uncanny activities. Junji must navigate the balance between control and chaos.
Film Category
Arachnobody
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Synopsis
Arachnobody is a symbolically colored short film about a character who suddenly falls ill and isolates himself. Seeking to return to normal life, he turns to a doctor whose help comes at a cost, reflecting a society where kindness is often given only when there's something to gain.
Film Category
Shedding
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Synopsis
In a dark, isolated home, a Chinese American teenage girl lives under the strict control of her mother, who treats punishment as care and obedience as survival. As the girl’s compulsive hair-pulling turns into a secret obsession, the tension between them builds toward a violent confrontation.
Film Category
CopyPaste!
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Synopsis
When a glitch overtakes the dress-up game, “Copy Paste”, its main character, Dolly, disappears. Molly, her sidekick, must survive the destabilized world as it forces her to take Dolly’s role. Pressured by her warping reality and the game’s player, Molly must decide who she is; or who she must become.
Film Category
Jealous People Are Ugly People
Meet the Filmmaker
Synopsis
Vasilly has become painfully jealous of his best friend, Luke. They both interviewed for the same career-making graphic design role, but Luke got the offer whilst Vasilly returned to his dead-end labouring job, drained of hope and creativity. However, things aren’t going so well for Luke. Every time he shares good news about his new role he suffers strange and violent repercussions. Disturbed by the uncanny timing, Vasilly recalls his Yiayia’s warnings about the Greek superstition of the evil eye - a 5,000-year-old belief that jealousy can manifest harm through a malevolent glare - and starts to believe his own envy might be to blame for Luke’s bad luck. As events escalate, Vasilly spirals into paranoia and guilt, confronting the possibility that the true danger lies not in superstition, but in himself. JEALOUS PEOPLE ARE UGLY PEOPLE is a darkly comic psychological thriller about male jealousy, inherited superstition, and the corrosive power of repressed ambition.
Film Category
You must see it
Meet the Filmmaker
Synopsis
Luis and Ana visit another couple who have just had a baby. What should be a quick visit to meet the newborn turns into a strange experience that reveals that neither the parents are as fine as they claim, nor is the baby as normal as it seems...
Film Category
The Woman is Perfected
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Synopsis
As she waits in her plastic surgeon’s office, Cassie drifts through the private logic of her own unraveling. Young, striking, and consumed by a need to perfect herself, she moves through a world shaped by impossible beauty standards and the corrosive pull of an abusive partner.
What begins as a search for control through cosmetic intervention becomes something darker: a ritual of self-correction that mirrors the emotional dependencies she cannot escape. Trapped between the fantasy of reinvention and the reality of her life, Cassie mistakes transformation for liberation, even as both her relationship and her sense of self begin to fracture. The deeper she disappears into the pursuit of an unattainable ideal, the harder it becomes to recognize the forces consuming her.
TWIP is a psychological character study about beauty, coercion, and the seductive violence of wanting to become someone else.
What begins as a search for control through cosmetic intervention becomes something darker: a ritual of self-correction that mirrors the emotional dependencies she cannot escape. Trapped between the fantasy of reinvention and the reality of her life, Cassie mistakes transformation for liberation, even as both her relationship and her sense of self begin to fracture. The deeper she disappears into the pursuit of an unattainable ideal, the harder it becomes to recognize the forces consuming her.
TWIP is a psychological character study about beauty, coercion, and the seductive violence of wanting to become someone else.