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Martyr

In the year 1622, the young Badria is held responsible for the death of the princess after the birth of the royal child and accused of witchcraft. Imprisoned and on trial, she desperately fights to prove her innocence and save her life.

Good Business Sense

"Good Business Sense" is a short comedy film about how business sometimes gets in the way of romance.

Arthur: Malediction

Longtime Minimoys fan Alex is taken by his friends to the filming location for his 18th birthday, unaware that they're all in for a horrific time.

All is good

With less than 20 hours before an asteroid destroys Earth, Zoé is ready to end her life early, until Paco, a stranger with a birthday cake and nowhere else to be, stops her. Together the two strangers spend their last day together.

LIMINAL

Two urban-explorers discover an abandoned storage unit, unaware of the anomalies that plague the complex.

Dig Me No Grave

A hunter finds himself trapped under a bear for seven days only to be rescued by a sociopath who refuses to let him go.

Dave vs. Hollywood

Dave is an actor who moves to Los Angeles, completely devoid of connections and contacts. The humiliations and indignities soon pile up. After a fruitless struggle, Dave decides to make his mark by taking a non-traditional, unorthodox, 'anything goes' approach — he joins AA for connections; joins Scientology to network; considers donating a kidney to an aging movie star in exchange for a role in said aging star’s film; leaves his headshot and reel on the windshields of vehicles outside the Brentwood church where a funeral for a studio executive is taking place, etc.

Lady Sakura

Smash Cuts! Super Sci-Fi Shorts Fest

Host Scott Forrest presents a curated compilation of eight independent short films in this rapid-fire science-fiction feature. Genres collide, narratives twist, aesthetics clash, and even humor, both campy and dystopian, showcase the vast creative possibilities of each story's individual world, offering the viewer a brief glimpse into the lives of every character's attempt to survive the otherworldly chaos around them. Released in 2001, the selected shorts span original creation dates of 1997 to 2001; most of the featured filmmakers also appear as themselves in short video interviews to talk about their inspirations, creative process and motivations while working on their individual shorts.

El Hijo de las Estrellas

A Really Bad Place

A one-shot horror thriller about a kidnapped man who has ended up in a bad place in many ways.

Goblin Creek

A former Marine, Chuck, copes with PTSD by living alone in the woods. He's a work-for-hire contractor taking care of peoples' problems. When a teenage girl mysteriously disappears, her desperate parents hire Chuck to find her. They tell him she was last seen in Shadow Creek, and he realizes this might be a suicide mission.

American Muscle

A desperate mechanic's plan to escape his past unravels when his sister returns home and two violent debt collectors close in.

Why My Grandpa Went To Hell

Sam & Razz try to unload an invaluable treasure that Sam inherits after his grandpa's death. With the aid of their friends, Uru, a comic book connoisseur that oozed with machismo, and gullible One-Eyed Joe, Sam & Razz embark on a journey that takes them from nobodies to, well, nobodies. Comic Book Shop rivalries, bikers, Satan Worshippers, fat girlfriends, zombies, bad employees, and professional wrestlers all stand in the way of Sam & Razz cashing in on their newly inherited riches.

Dracula

In modern-day Transylvania, vampire hunts and labor strikes collide with sci-fi twists, romance, and AI-crafted tales, as multiple storylines blend folklore, classic horror, and contemporary elements into a fresh take on Dracula's legend.

Ketchup on Waffles

On an ordinary Friday night, three masked gunmen take control of a 24-hour diner in a college town. The gunmen, led by a man in a white mask, sadistically torture and murder the customers over a few hours for their entertainment. Each killing is more violent than the last.

Wrong Answer

A young man is tested when being asked an unknown question. What will happen if he answers wrong?

The Process

Two people attempt to create a film for a local film festival, but the clock is running because they have 52 hours to write, direct and release a film.

Drinking Buddies

Weekend trips, office parties, late night conversations, drinking on the job, marriage pressure, biological clocks, holding eye contact a second too long… you know what makes the line between “friends” and “more than friends” really blurry? Beer.