Alien crashes on an inhospitable planet and tries to contact his*her home planet. While searching, Alien experiences a world in which Alien is simultaneously trapped and repelled. When discovering someone who returns Alien’s gaze, they create themselves a sanctuary. The film reflects identity issues and themes of otherness. In doing so, he creates a surreal…
That wipes the smile off his face! When a world-famous film star is accused of eating his female co-stars, his career goes down the drain. However, this actor happens to be a crocodile by the name of Smiley. Crocodiles are much loved characters in horror movies and the audience expects them to eat people. Smiley…
A mysterious drifter returns home to investigate his family’s whereabouts. This film was heavily inspired by the weird horror fiction of writers like Edgar Allen Poe and H.P. Lovecraft and is my attempt to capture the atmosphere of those tales in cinematic form. WW0711 statement: In the right hands, all you need is one guy…
A teenage girl goes through a bizarre transformation after she gets her first period. Olivia Loccisano is a storyteller from Toronto, Canada. Her work centers around transformations of the female body, specifically through dark fantasy, body horror and magical realism. Through storytelling, she explores how young women and children navigate strange realms of life through…
Three people serve a giantess in a huge palace. They wear long blue scarves around their necks which they never take off, not even during sleep. Once in a while the giantess chooses one of her servants, drags that servant into her chambers and takes their scarf off. WW0711 statement: Artful animation that opens up…
On the trail of a serial killer, a police investigator with formidable instincts is close to the goal when his superior interferes in his case. Simon Heymans lives in Brussels with his wife and two sons. He likes to write dark contemporary stories. Before directing films and commercials he worked in the corporate sector, a…
Three teenagers have an unexpected encounter when they sneak into a cemetery at night to summon an exceptionally terrible ghost.. Vanessa Stachel likes to move thematically somewhere between horror and colourful glitter fairies. She studied communication design, worked freelance in the field of film/advertising/motion design and began studying directing at the Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg in Germany…
Marc, a young city dweller, goes into the countryside where he stays on his own in a lonely house. He is expecting his girlfriend Louise who is supposed to come and join him soon, but she is late showing up. Marc is keen on keeping fit and becomes obsessed with the healthy daily routine he…
« Suffering from Alzheimer’s, a pensioner is facing his caregiver going mysteriously missing. Confused, he looks for her in his nursing home’s hallways but he is prey to disturbing apparitions… » Coming from the directing course at 3IS PARIS, the lost of her grandfather to Alzheimer’s inspired Elise Huyssen to create « DECLIN ». Immersed…
Flor and Guido’s quiet life in their cabin in the woods will change forever with the arrival of a strange creature. Álvaro Laguna (Sevilla, 1986) cantautor, productor musical y cineasta. Después de más de 10 años trabajando de manera profesional en el mundo de la música, comienza a desarrollar su carrera cinematográfica en 2015 con…