Competition category: HORROR Films

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.