A hauntological exploration of Northern Ireland’s landscapes and the remnants of its occupied past, blending together eerie archive footage and voyeuristic location shooting as a ghostly figure lingers through the shadows of a long-abandoned military fort.
When novelist Ohm Bauman retreats to a remote inn to scatter his parents' ashes, he is consumed by tales of a witch haunting the honeymoon suite. Disturbing visions and a shocking disappearance forces him to confront dark corners of his past.
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Three friends discover a mysterious machine that takes pictures 24 hours into the future and conspire to use it for personal gain, until disturbing and dangerous images begin to develop.
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After her father’s suicide, a young mother investigates what led to his death. But when she is haunted by spirits and unearths an unsolved mystery from 30 years ago, she discovers a dark family history that could prove deadly for her child.
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An aging Hollywood star, Joe Scott, lives a life of narcissistic hedonism, observed by his laconic personal assistant, Ophelia. The death of his childhood best friend, Boots, takes our protagonist, and the movie, into an extended flashback to a sea-side town in 1970s Britain.
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After the discovery of a mysterious VHS tape, a brutish police SWAT team launches a high-intensity raid on a remote warehouse, only to discover a sinister cult compound whose collection of pre-recorded material uncovers a nightmarish conspiracy.
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In 1990s Belfast, a woman is forced to betray all she believes in for the sake of her son.
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A teenager is stuck in a time loop that is not quite the same each time. She must uncover the truth but her actions have consequences for herself and others.
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Two doctors find their graveyard shift inundated with townspeople ravaged by sores. Among the wounded is Cherry Darling, a dancer whose leg was ripped from her body. As the invalids quickly become enraged aggressors, Cherry and her ex-boyfriend El Wray lead a team of accidental warriors into the night.
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In 1979, a young girl stumbles upon a possessed tape player. She unknowingly unleashes a demonic entity that haunts her family while slowly dragging the small town of Clarkston to Hell.
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After fleeing his psychotic father, a young teen and his mom seek refuge in a remote farmhouse, only to face a pack of ferocious dogs and the sinister spirits that haunt the property.
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Told in two semi-fictional acts, this 16mm film serves as an elegy for Europe’s last wallabies — a marsupial animal from Australia, introduced in Scotland in the 1940s. Reflecting on humanity’s enduring urge to record animals, from prehistoric cave art to early cinema, Alasdair Asmussen Doyle links the extinction of species with the evolution of image-making.
Amidst an icy dreamscape, a woman takes refuge in a black metal karaoke bar. Outside, she finds a lone penguin stranded in a tree, cut off from its colony.
Since 2008 the recession has been the biggest story in Ireland. Nobody has gone untouched by the catastrophic collapse of house prices, the banking system and the Celtic Tiger feelgood factor. The Break is a story about how Tim, a father of two, tried to cope for the first few months after everything went wrong.
Three men, surrounded by sleeping passengers, wake up on a stationary train. When it leaves them behind in a desolate area, a journey through a graphic snowy landscape commences.
Eve and her father are tasked with removing a dead sheep from a neighbouring farmer's land.
A man wakes up with a strange tune in his head. But what is it? And how did it get there?
Ireland 2112, climate change has drastically changed the Earth, and Ireland, now an archipelago, is a lifeboat nation to many; an uncertain future where social structures have disappeared. Helen, one of the only two adults in a community of young people and children, wakes one morning to discover an invasive species has infected their wheat crop. She must do everything she can for the children to survive.
From the music of American composer Daniel Hart, Belgian filmmakers Wannes Vanspauwen and Pol De Plecker craft a story of a man struggles with his umbrella during a heavy rain storm.. This short film is part of the 2x25 Project of Film Fest Gent and the World Soundtrack Awards. The project commissioned 25 composers to compose a short piece of music, after which 25 filmmakers made short films that are the ultimate symbioses of music and cinematography, fitting completely within the DNA of the festival. The result: 25 exceptional films where the music inspired the form, narrative and texture.
A Turkish man travels West. In search for his recently deceased sister. She looks at him through cracks in her wooden coffin, while he searches her to say farewell.
Wandering through the mechanisms of peasantry in the Cantal region, this film attempts to create a free space where the filmmaker and the peasant women engage in some kind of collaboration; the daily work of cheesemaking, the temporary labour of filmmaking and the love for both tend to form a poetic triangular relationship.
