September 13th, 10:00 P.M.
Duration 55’37’’
THE OTHER SIDE
Argentina, 2023, 3’, 3D animation
director José Antonio Mauro
Emi is resting in her bed when it absorbs her, taking her to a dark place where a strange witch lives. She takes over the little girl who stays on the other side forever.
LE BISTRO DE BELZEBUTH
Canada, 2024, 1’02’’, 3D animation
director Billie Rose Calmeau
Late at night, a cook is bringing the main course to a hungry demon.
DAGON
Italy, 2024, 6’07’’, stop-motion animation
director Paolo Gaudio
In 1919 San Francisco, a man is standing on the ledge of a building ready to jump. Desperate, he relives in his memories the absurd and shocking episode that led him to the brink of suicide: the encounter with the monstrous and mythological Great Old One, DAGON.
THE BOY AND THE CROW
Romania, 2023, 2’46’’, 2D animation
director Tudor Om
The crow swallows the boy’s blood from its beak. Now, the boy has only one choice left: run or stand his ground and face his fears.
CRAB
Poland, 2022, 8’42’’, 2D animation
director Piotr Chielewski
The Crab lives in captivity and fear, he’s surrounded by glass walls of an aquarium in a restaurant’s kitchen and can only watch the things that happen around him. Although he has a plan and who has plans, lives. Will he manage to escape and be free?
DE IMPERIO
Portugal, 2023, 13’, mixed media
director Alessandro Novelli
During a peaceful night, a group of fugitives tries to find its way to the centre of the building, where the entire resistance is gathering. Evading the surveillance they go through the rooms of the Giants and witness their macabre routines.
CURACANGA
Brazil, 2023,18”, 2D animation
director Mateus Di Mambro
Agustinho, a young rural worker, meets Jaciara, a beautiful 25-year-old woman, and immediately falls in love with her. Agustinho discovers that she has just suffered a great family loss, due to an attack by the popular figure Curacanga: a flying flaming head, which scares and kills people at night.