Festival of the Sacrifice

Sunday Sauce

A repressed father. A buried secret. A chaotic family dinner. As tensions rise, Catholic guilt warps reality—and his hidden desires erupt into something surreal.

The Party

When a charming stranger invites her to a party, a shy woman's fear of socializing turns into real terror.

White Girl

Beth, a thirteen-year-old white girl, is seemingly lost. She wanders around east London, seeking out help from strangers. But over the course of an evening, her interactions with the city's dwellers take darker turns. Terror appears to lie around every corner.

Moving Matter I

Moving Matter is the culmination of a material-led process with artists from dance, costume design and film that began with a study of old kitchen flooring about to be discarded. This flax-based material enters our orbit in the 1950s, where a measured homelife and prescribed domesticity offered a reassuring antidote to bomb scares, political turmoil, and paranormativity. Stability topples as the flooring becomes entangled in the lives of those who don the material as garments and shelters. This film was made through Moving Matter, a long-term research-creation project that offers a methodology for rethinking the dynamism between raw materials, garments, and the body. Moving Matter steers the locus of choreography and wearable design away from human hierarchy to instead support truer collaboration amongst all moving materials, both human and non-human, in this case… linoleum.

Don’t Take the Name of God in Vain

In the year 2046, a powerful gang lord assembles a group of religious leaders, demanding to know what it takes to be a true messiah. Meanwhile, lying imprisoned in a garage somewhere nearby is a man who claims to be the son of God.

Frayed

Relentless ambition drives an obsessive young actress to the brink, under the influence of a brilliant yet controversial director

Dead Human Collection

Inspired by 70s Horror movies and real crimes, Dead Human Collection is a bloodbath that follows a deranged Serial Killer and his sadistic habits.

The Stranger

In cargo handling areas where a lot of foreign employees work, the managers are always Korean. The class imbalance between Koreans and foreign workers causes inevitable conflicts.

Countersick

An upcoming film. A tradie visits an old friend after an argument with his partner. Surely he will have a solution...

Live Undead

Two misfits are resurrected by the spawn of Satan! Teenage undead embark on a Satanic killing spree!

Asteroid

A group of strangers take the risk of a lifetime to travel to a nearby asteroid for the opportunity to mine for wealth beyond their wildest dreams.

Skinwalker

Two cowboy brothers investigate the disappearances of their townsfolk in the cold woods of Northern Arizona, only to find that they are the ones being hunted, by something not quite animal or human.

Gummy

A masochistic dentistry student grapples with unrequited love and her manipulative father by pulling out her own teeth for addictive pleasure.

Safe

A woman working as a cashier at an illegal gambling parlor pushes her luck by stealing money from gamblers as a way to pay off her own debts. When one gambler realizes he’s been cheated, he returns with murderous intent and the already dismal situation spirals out of control.

The Caves of the Air

Three friends talk about the legend of ´the caves of the air´, an ancestral site near a village where many people have disappeared mysteriously.

Level Four

A filmmaker chases the essence of cinema, pushing beyond the limits of creation. But the closer he gets to his truth, the more reality blurs.

According to Mateo

Mateo and his boyfriend, Marc, arrive home after a night out with Luke, a guy they've just met. After an argument, Mateo leaves the flat and bumps into Jon, a drug dealer they have called. Mateo convinces Jon to take him to his house where he discovers he can't feel anything if it's not through pain.

Vinnie's House

Having fallen on hard times, a college student takes refuge at their rich friend’s mansion but soon finds themselves tormented by the presence of the friend’s prized stuffed bear.

Cabra Cega