Action, Horror, and Experimental on My Mind Shorts Block

127 East Congress Street,Tucson AZ 85701

25 September, 2021

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Its the final shorts block at the festival! Every Time We Meet for Ice Cream Your Whole Fucking Face Explodes 2021/ 7 min/ USA/ Comedy, Horror Directed by Anthony Cousins Cast: Arden Michalec The title says it all. Charity 2021/ 15 min/ USA/ Horror, Suspense, Thriller Directed by Celeste Luccitti Cast: Celeste Luccitti, Jay Lopez Mia finds a doll that looks just like one she had when she was little. After she brings it home, however, strange things begin to happen, and one suspicious night leaves Mia in a different place entirely. Acere 2021/ 5 min/ United Kingdom/ Action Directed by Ross Peacock Cast: Jean-Paul Ly, Laurent Plancel Following a man on the run hiding from a gang of trained killers, he comes to increasingly-bloody blows against the Terminator-like antagonist. We follow this dramatic fight to the death, witnessing the carnage they wreak upon each other, toward a bloody climax. Familiar 2021/ 10 min/ United Kingdom/ Horror, Thriller Directed by David J. Ellison Cast: Hugo Nicolau It is 1942, in the dark woods of Pennsylvania, Richard Mason is the Familiar to a hideous ancient vampiric creature living in the bowels of an isolated mansion. Every day he must bring a new victim for it to feed on and tolerate its physical and mental abuse. Rejects 2021/ 13 min/ USA/ Action, Thriller Directed by Austin Buchanan Cast: Randall Walter McDonald, Honda King, Austin Buchanan, Mathew David Torres Guns, cash and four friends who have the wrong idea at the wrong time. Brick Wall 2020/ 4 min/ USA/ Sci-Fi, Horror Directed by Sara Crow Cast: Emmy Wheeler In a dystopian world Anya, a smart, working-class woman, struggles to survive against both magical and human forces. The Man Who Loved Flowers 2021/ 8 min/ USA/ Horror, Romance Directed by Jacob Ewing Cast: Luke Heinemann, Brianna Temple, Austin Buchanan, Brianna Roberts An idealistic young man plans the perfect marriage proposal for the love of his life. Based upon a short story by Stephen King. A Valley Without Trees 2021/ 6 min/ USA/ Animation, Experimental Directed by Janelle VanderKelen In "A Valley Without Trees," the lowly onion that burrows into the soil and spends most of its life underground is cast as an interpreter or potential sensory prosthetic that offers a different way of understanding (and perhaps communicating with) the land, planet, and cosmos in which it grows. Bulltes of Baptism 2020/ 10 min/ Iran/ Experimental Directed by Zivar Hojati Cast: Akbar Kholghi Trying to eliminate the effect of sins in his life, the fat man kills himself several times so that he changed in to another individual… Volage 2021/ 10 min/ France/ Experimental, Comedy, Fantastic Directed by Ceyda Yagiz Cast: Marie Wauquier, Kamilya Kuspanova Volage is a fantastic short film of approximately ten minutes. The film takes place in a small party where the party-goers experience something unusual within the forest. Vodník Many Years After the Rainstorm 2021/ 6 min/ USA/ Animation, Experimental Directed by Emma Penaz Eisner Cast: Leo Jergovic, Zdenek Penaz, Emma Penaz Eisner In San Francisco, many years after his hideous crimes, the fiendish water creature Vodník emerges from Czech folklore to recount his beguiling tale.