Big Stack

With not much to show for in his life, Andre takes his health to extreme measures by attempting an eating challenge at his local diner.

Patch

A lone butcher patching a hole in a worn slaughterhouse closet is attacked by an amalgamated farm creature.

The Bomb Boy

Strand

Allen O'Clery works for the Time Investigation Corporation. He finds himself in a problematic situation.

Screengrabbed Too: BBC Introducing Arts

Huw Stephens presents an exciting selection of short films from emerging artists and film-makers from across the UK. Topics are fresh, varied and thought-provoking, including a behind-the-scenes look at a zoo closing for the night, an honest account of farming the land, and a powerful love letter from a son to a mother who has cancer. Expect to be moved and challenged by these short dramas, observations and dance, made by a new generation of storytellers. Yew; Echdo; King of the Pit; Two B or Not Two B; Lucky House; Everything Is Fine; The Jacket; Cages; It's Always Been; Mary Lost Her Battle; Between the Dog and the Wolf; From His Perspective

Red Flower

"Red Flower" is an animated adaptation of Vsevolod Garshin’s haunting short story. This film follows a mentally ill patient consumed by an all-encompassing obsession. Convinced that three bright red flowers in the hospital garden embody the world’s evil, he believes that destroying them will free humanity. As his fixation deepens, he sacrifices his own health and sanity in a desperate battle against an invisible foe. Through evocative animation and psychological depth, the film explores themes of madness, sacrifice, and the fragile boundary between delusion and reality.

Dreamland

Part of the Wade on 8 collection 'Dreamland' is an arthouse, shot on video short film. Jack returns for university wanting to rekindle his secret romance with repressed Billy.

In The Tall Grass

Joseph is mentally deviated. He is a prisoner of his own flat and always in permanent war with his own mind.

Rainy Season

On a humid summer night in the middle of monsoon season, a drug-addicted woman sits alone in a dark room and injects herself with a syringe. A sudden crash of thunder startles her, and the syringe slips from her hand. As she reaches down to retrieve it, she happens to glance toward the apartment building across the way. There, a figure stands watching.

Chupacabra

Luis Toñac (Carlos Arreaza), a renowned scientist and researcher, heads to a village with anthropologist Amelia (Ligia Petit) to investigate the appearance of dead animals without a drop of blood in their bodies. A creature called El Chupacabra is believed to be responsible for these strange deaths. The scientist downplays the possibility, considering it part of local mythology, similar to the legend of the death of a pre-Columbian princess who was reincarnated as his coworker.

Nurse

A short film from Barbara Bialowąs.

The Christ of the Skull

In the darkness of a gothic night, two knights engage in a deadly duel, illuminated only by the mysterious light of a lantern. A noble lady, confined in a castle, has woven a mysterious connection with the contenders. Supernatural forces and inexplicable events will determine the fate of the duelists in a night of horror.

Tsunami

Haru returns home in denial after a tsunami, where he must learn to deal with his loss through an encounter with a magical see Spirit.

Lucky Draw

Three bailiffs draw lots to decide who to perform tomorrow's execution. Quei-wu gets the mission but his wife just gets pregnant. He asks Hsin-chuen to fill in for him to avoid bad luck. Hsin-chuen, however, struggles to say yes.

Twisted Weekend 2: Coed Slaughter

Six college co-eds get together for some booze, drugs and hopefully lots of casual sex. Just another weekend in the Summer – or so they thought. Someone, cold, calculating and out of control, is killing people in the small Florida town of Sarasota.

Twisted Weekend: Pledges Must Die

Darkness falls and beer after beer will be consumed by the brothers and pledges of the Alpha Sigma Beta Fraternity. An intruder, looking for bloodshed, has joined the ceremony on this, the last night of pledge period. Mysterious and hypnotic, the thrills come at you faster than ale through a loaded beer bong. See how it all began – the unfinished short that puts the HELL in Hell Night.

Amma Ammamma Ammu

Three generations of women share a home — cooking, waiting, and persisting—until a pregnancy quietly shifts the balance, exposing the deep-seated traditions that still shape their lives. Even in a household led by women, patriarchy lingers in the unspoken.

The Shadow of Chikara

Two former Confederate captains try to remove diamonds hidden in the Arkansas mountains, but a native spirit guards the sacred site against intruders.

Ambula

A story about a young man who has an argument with his friend so chooses to take a walk to clear his deteriorating mind.

Split Me

When seventeen-year-old aspiring bowler Joey discovers she can't join the over-40s women's team, will oddball and lactose-intolerant Scooter’s friendship be enough to brave this backwater town?

The Craft: Legacy

An eclectic foursome of aspiring teenage witches get more than they bargained for as they lean into their newfound powers.

Southbound

The film contains five stories set on desolate stretches of a desert highway. Two men on the run from their past, a band on its way to a gig, a man struggling to get home, a brother in search of his long-lost sister and a family on vacation are forced to confront their worst fears and darkest secrets in these interwoven tales.

The Transfiguration

When troubled teen Milo, who has a fascination with vampire lore, meets the equally alienated Sophie, the two form a bond that begins to blur Milo's fantasy into reality.

Fear Street: 1978

In 1978, two rival groups at Camp Nightwing must band together to solve a terrifying mystery when horrors from their towns' history come alive.

Fear Street: 1994

After a series of brutal slayings, a teen and her friends take on an evil force that's plagued their notorious town for centuries.

The Surrender

A fraught mother-daughter relationship is put to a terrifying test when the family patriarch dies, and the grieving mother hires a mysterious stranger to bring her husband back from the dead.

Blood Punch

Milton, a college dropout, was only supposed to cook meth for one day. Broken out of rehab by a brash young woman and her trigger-happy ("ex") boyfriend and driven to a remote cabin the woods, Milton finds himself drawn into a dangerous love triangle gone haywire. The couple's deadpan half-truths spin around Milton like a song on repeat. They seem to read him like an open book, until a mysterious message opens his eyes to his cursed existence. With unlimited ammunition, any hunting tool they could desire, and an ever-growing body count, for what did Milton really sign up?

The Craft

A Catholic school newcomer falls in with a clique of teen witches who wield their powers against all who dare to cross them -- be they teachers, rivals or meddlesome parents.

Starve Acre

When their son starts acting strangely, a couple unwittingly allow dark and sinister forces into their home, awakening a long-dormant ancient evil rooted deep in the countryside.

The Dogs

After fleeing his psychotic father, a young teen and his mom seek refuge in a remote farmhouse, only to face a pack of ferocious dogs and the sinister spirits that haunt the property.

Strange Darling

Nothing is what it seems when a twisted one-night stand spirals into a serial killer’s vicious murder spree.

Baby Blues

On a secluded family farm, a mother suffers a psychotic break due to postpartum depression, forcing the eldest son to protect his sibling from the mother they have always known and loved.

The Sisterhood of Night

When a teenage girl says she's the victim of a secret network called The Sisterhood of Night, a quiet suburban town becomes the backdrop for a modern-day Salem witch trial.

Straw Dogs

A young couple moves to a quaint southern town. Soon their perfect getaway turns out to become a living hell when dark secrets and lethal passions spiral out of control.

Caged

An African American male is imprisoned and placed in solitary confinement after being found guilty of murdering his wife, as he's haunted by internal demons and his dead wife, and pushed to the breaking point by an abusive female guard.

Bird Box

Five years after an ominous unseen presence drives most of society to suicide, a survivor and her two children make a desperate bid to reach safety.

Wrong Turn

Jen and a group of friends set out to hike the Appalachian Trail. Despite warnings to stick to the trail, the hikers stray off course—and cross into land inhabited by The Foundation, a hidden community of mountain dwellers who use deadly means to protect their way of life.

Soft & Quiet

Taking place in real time, elementary school teacher Emily organizes a mixer of like-minded women, but an altercation between a woman from Emily’s past and the group leads to a volatile chain of events.

Dark Harvest

In a small Midwestern town, a deadly annual ritual unfolds when the mythical nightmare, Sawtooth Jack, rises from the cornfields and challenges the town’s teenage boys in a bloody battle of survival.

The Good Neighbor

A nightmarish evening unfolds for neighbors David and Robert when they accidentally hit a woman on her bike and flee the scene. While David is increasingly plagued by feelings of guilt, Robert shows no remorse and becomes overbearing and possessive.