Strange & Spooky Saturday Shorts
Bite-sized tales from storytellers near and far. Something for everyone… as long as you like strange and spooky short films of the genre persuasion, with a wide variety of styles, tones, and perspectives. Laugh, cower, feast your eyes - we’ve got it all.
(14 short films•1 hr 38 mins) More details & tickets
Film still from XOLO
Tasty Bones
Out at a campfire late at night, a man drunkenly stumbles to the edge of the woods to relieve himself. As he does, he starts to absentmindedly whistle. Something in the woods whistles back.
USA / 2025 / 6 mins
Content Warnings: N/A
All Eyes On Me
After meeting a strange man, Aya's world changes before her eyes. She follows a strange man in order to figure our what has happened to her and her world.
USA / 2023 / 3 mins
Content Warnings: N/A
The Feast of the Flies
During a dinner with her mother, a young fly girl moves away from her plate, unwilling to eat what has been served. As she distances herself from the plate and her mother, she encounters a new kind of food that, once tasted, will expose her to maternal rejection.
Colombia / 2025 / 5 mins
In Spanish with English subtitles
Content Warnings: violence, food noises, bug sounds
Before the Sun
Between night and dawn, a 200-year-old vampire’s confession unfolds. Through handcrafted performance, haunted production design, and shifting light, Before the Sun depicts a quiet reckoning with the past, and a choice to step into the light.
Canada / 2025 / 5 mins
Content Warnings: death
machina.
AI is here, and it is eating itself. Machina is not a technology movie. It is about the breakdown of a faith and power structure we are already living in.
USA / 2026 / 6 mins
Content Warnings: flashing lights, gore, body horror
Bootstrapped
Las Cosas Que Brillan
A curious trans mermaid defies her mother’s warnings to venture up to the surface, only to discover the world above is not what she dreamt.
USA / 2025 / 12 mins
Content Warnings: violence
Gobbledygook
A puppet girl encounters an other worldly entity through her Television set with every click of the remote.
USA / 2025 / 12 mins
Content Warnings: puppet vomit
Happy
During a boring visit to her grandmother's house, Cárol discovers a unique doll to kill time with. But she soon realizes that, in that house, she isn't the only one who knows how to have fun.
Spain / 2026 / 7 mins
In Spanish with English subtitles
Content Warnings: blood, child murder, taxidermy, gore
My Dinner with Victor
Jimmy still has a crush on his childhood best friend Victor. When the two finally meet after a long absence, a cultural mix-up leads to hilarious -- and deadly -- consequences.
Canada, Hong Kong / 2026 / 10 mins
Content Warnings: N/A
The Chosen
Reed is troubled by a vision forcing him to do bad things, but nobody believes him. Maybe this new therapist will understand?
USA / 2025 / 9 mins
Content Warnings: blood, self-harm, child harm, child death
Web
Lola has a very particular bedtime routine.
UK / 2026 / 10 mins
Content Warnings: blood, mutilation, gore
XOLO
Realizing that Xolotl—the Aztec god of death—has come to take his owner, a little dog named Skippy leads him on a heartfelt tour of the house, showing the small, loving moments that defined their life together.
USA / 2025 / 14 mins
Content Warnings: animal death
Book U Can Ask ???s
A stoner uses the internet to help a ghost find the correct address of its murderer's descendants.
USA / 2025 / 6 mins
Content Warnings: blood
