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Unravelling

Director(s)

Aimie Willemse

Director/Writer
Synopsis
FIONA tries to care for her chronically ill grandmother MAEVE as she struggles to retain her autonomy. As her invisible illness begins to physically manifest into a malignant entity, Fiona is forced to confront her worse fears.
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The Underground

Director(s)

Rachel Talalay

Director
Synopsis
Trying to get home from a late-night business event, a career woman finds herself alone and menaced on a New York City subway platform.
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Umbra

Director(s)

Enzo Hui

Writer/Director
Synopsis
In a workplace plagued by harassment, an oppressed office worker’s life takes a chilling turn when a blood-red umbrella releases a vengeful spirit, transforming her into a merciless killer.
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The Trip

Director(s)

Arabella Anderson

Writer/Director
Synopsis
Luna, Max and Zoe are on a girls getaway in the desert to do some much needed unwinding and unplugging from the world. After hanging poolside all day, Zoe and Max convince Luna to take psychedelic mushrooms with them to help expand their minds. But when the shrooms begin to take greater effect, Luna's anxieties about climate change and human nature are unearthed, shifting the tide of the trip. As they spiral deeper into a bad trip, each woman finds herself having to confront her inner darkness and anxieties in corporeal forms of hallucinated horrors.
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TRAGEDIUM

Director(s)

Gaston Haag

Writer/Director
Synopsis
An unresolved debt and three thugs who are going to take care of the matter, but what is going to happen is not going to go at all as planned.
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Tinkerhell

Director(s)

Noah Sterling

Writer/Director
Synopsis
A young girl learns the consequences, after she incites the wrath of a very small and very deadly entity.
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THE THINGS WE KEEP

Director(s)

Joanna Fernandez

Director
Synopsis
When Kate receives word her estranged mother is unable to take care of herself, she reluctantly returns to pack up her mom's house and send her to a nursing home. Unfortunately, it's a big task: her mother has been a hoarder for as long as Kate can remember. As she cleans, her mother warns: bad things will happen if you take away my things. Kate battles her mother's dementia-driven hostility and uncovers disturbing items underneath the detritus. Specifically: a sinister-looking mold-like mark underneath the wallpaper. As Kate unravels the mystery of her mother's obsession and illness, she discovers that the hoarding was actually self-preservation. There is evil in the house's walls, and they must be covered at all costs. An allegorical tale of intergenerational trauma between mothers and daughters.
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Theda

Director(s)

Callum Moore

Writer/Director
Synopsis
When Maya is dragged out to a desolate country home by her fiancé Lucas, she begins to realise the pitfalls of her relationship through strange manifestations of their older selves.
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TEST SCREENING

Director(s)

Clark Baker

Writer/Director
Synopsis
Summer, 1982: four lifelong best friends find their lives upended when a Hollywood film decides to hold a secret test screening in their small. declining Oregon town.
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Subject 7

Director(s)

Aaron Hall

Writer/Director
Synopsis
In 1983, an MK-Ultra test subject works to prove his psychic abilities in a CIA facility deep underground, however the dire possibility exists that he could still be a brainwashed spy.
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Strings

Director(s)

Ava Pearson, Eleanor Smith, Nina Zandvliet

Director/Writer
Synopsis
Sally joins a dream summer trip to Sicily with her childhood bestie Poppy, hoping to re-connect before they start university. Confronted with Poppy's volatile new friend Alex, Sally is strangely drawn to the traditional puppets decorating their villa, and the strings that bind the two friends threaten to rip them apart.

'Strings' is produced by students aged 16-20 as part of Project Paradiso, a cross-cultural UK-Italy educational filmmaking initiative from Young Film Academy (YFA). Full details of Project Paradiso can be found at https://www.youngfilmacademy.co.uk/project-paradiso
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Strangers Like Us

Director(s)

Pipi Frostl Felix Krisai

Director
Synopsis
In their early 30s, Laura and Elias settle into a new suburban life by inviting another couple over for dinner. When the night gradually turns into an evening full of mysteriously surreal events, Laura feels like a stranger in her own life…
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