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Roqia

By Main Programme 2025

After a car crash in 1993, amnesiac Ahmed returns home in bandages. His kid is afraid of him, and nightly visitors speak in strange tongues. Ahmed’s neighbour also makes him uncomfortable, leaving him questioning everything. In the present day, an ageing exorcist is battling Alzheimer’s, while his assistant fears this may unleash an ancient evil. 

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Horror in the Andes

By Reversing the Gaze

A behind-the-scenes documentary about the making of a Peruvian horror film. In the aftermaths of the armed conflict in Peru (1980-2000), a group of film enthusiasts from the Andean highland town of Ayacucho began using cameras to tell stories of violence in the region. 

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鉄男

By Ben Wheatley

After hitting a metal fetishist with his car, a Japanese salaryman begins a horrific, involuntary transformation into a man-machine hybrid, sprouting metal from various parts of his body and becoming haunted by visions of metal-oriented sexual fantasies. He develops a strange, telepathic connection with the metal fetishist as he keeps changing shape. 

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The Occupant of the Room

By Shorts

A schoolteacher arrives at a hotel in the Alps in the middle of the night. But instead of a good sleep, hours of uncanny occurrences await. An eerie and beautifully controlled adaptation of Algernon Blackwood’s ghost story.  

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Fačuk

By Shorts

In a God-fearing rural village, a young woman is about to give birth. But in these narrow-minded and harsh surroundings, fear grows inside of her. A folktale animated by hand, blending the mundane with the psychedelic.  

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Dissent

By Shorts

On a flight to a peace summit, a priest, a rabbi, and an imam must set aside their differences to perform an exorcism together. Highly original, bloody, fast-paced and totally bonkers. 

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Radix

By Shorts

Two creatures meet on a tree. Their encounter goes deep down to the roots and beyond. This poetic and metaphorical stop-motion short is a real gem.  

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Zar

By Shorts

A schoolgirl becomes the target of her sinister music teacher, who wields a mystical kobyz that allows him to assault his victims from afar. This horrifying shamanic folk horror is creepy from start to finish. 

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El Vocho del Averno

By Shorts

On a rainy night, a gloomy guy boards a very peculiar taxi. A few hours and beers later, he’ll end up signing his fate. Colourful urban legend propelled by a pulsating score. 

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