COMPETITION SHOW

Thrills and Chills : Eight Scary Shorts

SHOWTIME
Saturday, April 24, 9:30 pm, Athena Cinema

Films shown in this competition show:

Nobody Wants to Be Afraid

Director: Alex Moeller 10 min. U.S.A.
Our blurred vision finds lost children and seemingly familiar places, while an impending sense of terror waits on the edges.

Tyle wody kolo domu

Director: Dominika Dlugokecka 23 min. Poland
Rysiek returns from a fishing trip in the mountains with his buddies. His wife Anna learns that they found the body of a young girl in the river. She does not trust his version of the events and tries to get to the truth which lies hidden between words.

Bus 8

Director: Thomas Zinsli 5 min. Switzerland
Rahim lives in a western society that treats him with skepticism and prejudice, but when he is recruited to commit a terrorist attack, he realizes that he hasn’t come to terms with his fate just yet.

Give Me a Dram

Director: Jeremy Moss 14 min. U.S.A.
A young sharecropper boy and a backwoods doctor journey through a swamp and are haunted by an elusive supernatural force.

Herbert White

Director: James Franco 13 min. U.S.A.
Based on the poem by the same name, a man, trying to live a normal family life, struggles with acting on his secret most inner demons.

Blaze

Director: Deola Folarin 18 min. United Kingdom
All seems innocent as Jazz and Sadie; two young teenage girls prepare for Guy Fawkes Night. They get drunk, high and dress up a guy to burn on their private bonfire. As the guy burns the horror of their crime is revealed. Inside the fabric Guy Fawkes is a gruesome secret the girls have being keeping all day. Loosely based on a true story.

Copelia

Director: Nic Benns 14 min. United Kingdom
Morton Strobel converts sound into living structures to protect an orchid garden. In the state of paranoia, the Authority copies his invention to shield a town from perceived terrorism. The result is a city entombed in a bizarre organism.

Rita

Director: Antonio Piazza, Fabio Grassadonia 18 min. Italy
Rita, a blind child, shelters a boy on the run who suddenly breaks into her home. It’s a mysterious, enigmatic meeting that lets Rita experience a brief moment of freedom.