SHORTS PROGRAMME – TENSIONS (VARIOUS, 2024, 103 mins)
EMBRACE (France 2.5 mins) NORTHWEST PREMIERE
Dir: Axel Zeltser
Cast: Natte You, Grégoire Mazars
Mélanie walks past the same alley every day without noticing the strange metal bucket there.
DEAD OF NIGHT (UK, 2 mins) NORTHWEST PREMIERE
Dir: Mikel Iriarte
Cast: Eryn Tett
A young woman moves into a new house and is awoken to something going bump in the night.
SAFE ( UK, 1.5 mins) REGIONAL PREMIERE
Dir: David Yorke
Cast: Sharon Sibyl Gatt, Joshua Whincup
A young woman battles for her life against a relentless masked killer.
PASCOPALYPSE (Netherlands 6.5 mins) WORLD PREMIERE
Dir: Jasper ten Hoor, Ivan Hidayat
Cast: Wendy Ruijfrok
During an evening shift in an empty office building, a young cleaning lady experiences the fright of her life.
PARASOMNIA (Spain, 10 mins) WORLD PREMIERE
Dir: Daniel Noblom
Cast: Xavier Batista
As the traffic light turns green, a young man is paralyzed when he’s about to cross the street.
THE INFINITE BREAK ROOM (Germany, 5 mins) WORLD PREMIERE
Dir: Sebastian Ganschow
Cast: Klara Pfieffer
An overworked office worker fights her way through the endless hallways of a surreal office building.
OUTSIDE NOISE (UK, 7.5 mins) GREATER MANCHESTER PREMIERE
Dir: Ethan Evans
Cast: Bobby Rainsbury, Rowan Polonski
An overwhelmed woman listens to a sleep ambience app to unwind before bed but something goes wrong!
IZZY (Netherlands, 5mins) UK PREMIERE
Dir: Yfke van Berckelaer
Cast: Nahéma Ricci
Izzy is constantly stuck in the same cycle: mocked, dismissed, ignored, forgotten. But a touch of red glitter? Now that’s a game-changer!
THE FEAST (Chile 8.5 mins) REGIONAL PREMIERE
Dir: Simón Bucher, Claudia Saldivia, Amanda Rivera
Cast: Raimundo Bucher
In a dystopian world, a creature attends a feast hosted by a magical fridge. Thus begins his downfall in a spiral of unbridled food consumption.
THE NEIGHBOURHOOD AT THE END OF THE WORLD (Canada, 23 mins) INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE
Dir: Shane Day
Cast: MJ Kehler, Matthew Graham, Azriel Dalman
Abby Aimes is convinced that her husband has been abducted and replaced by a doppelgänger.
AMBROSIA (Germany, 18 mins) WORLD PREMIERE
Dir: Robert Franz
Cast: Mehmet Daloglu, Jaela Probst, Daniela Grubert
A father-to-be is trying to protect his young family from a strange entity and three dubious midwives.
DARK ROADS (USA, 5 mins) EUROPEAN PREMIERE
Dir: Jeremiah Kipp
Cast: Jessie Pettit
When a couple gets stranded on the side of a vacant, country road, tension begins to build.
STRANGE CREATURES (USA, 6 mins) UK PREMIERE
Dir: Nicolas Santos
Cast: Quinn Jackson, Sean-Michael Wilkinson
Desperate to see her brother again, a young woman visits the site of his death.