Shocking Shorts

We love having the creeps. Doesn’t matter if it’s about monsters under the bed, murderers outside our windows or just the unknown evil lurking in the shadows and behind our backs - horror just gives us this pleasurable creepy feeling that haunts us and hopefully stays with us even when the film is over. If you share our sadomasochistic tendencies you should definitely check out the Shocking Shorts!
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Volksbad Jena

Who's That at the Back of the Bus

Who's That at the Back of the Bus

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Fiction Great Britain
direction: Philip Hardy

Alone on the top deck of the night-bus, an old lady is haunted by an unlikely apparition.

The Last Cruise

The Last Cruise

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Animation Uzbekistan
direction: Hristina Belousova

Everyone has got a ticket for this ship…. but it always sails at different times.

Sports Day

Sports Day

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Fiction China
direction: Lin Tu

Bai and Zhao decide to escape their high school's Sports Day to spend some time in private. But she soon realises they're being observed.

Stigma

Estigma

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Fiction Spain
direction: David Velduque

It’s Friday night. The bell rings and Alex opens the door to one of his worst fears.

Flut

Flood

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Animation Germany
direction: Malte Stein

A lake bursts its banks and begins to flood the town - a good reason to keep the son at home. But in isolation, nightmares start to mix with reality.

Ende Eden

Ende Eden

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Experimental Austria
direction: Valentin Stejskal

Gabriel is struggling to get along in the outside world. He tries to run from his past. Yet, something is constantly keeping hold of him.

La Chute

The Fall

Animation France
direction: Boris Labbé

As celestial beings descend to Earth to vitiate its population, the world’s order gets out of balance. A fall leads to the parturition of crucial opposites.

Jane Dog

Jane Dog

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Fiction Belgium
direction: Koen Blauwblomme, Pieter de Ridder

Two young women, Joan of Arc, and a series of mysterious audio cassettes lie at the heart of this psychological thriller.