A young squire is accused of regicide and is given two choices: face execution, or find and kill his master, the true killer. A tale of sacrifice and honor, a young squire named Joseph witnesses his master, The Anchor, murder the king of Osprey. He now faces execution while the Anchor escapes, but is given a chance at redemption by Lord Dulken. Joseph now must travel through Osprey to find and kill his former master, all while being followed by a mysterious assassin.

It was the early 1990s. Two broken teenage boys crashed into each other’s worlds just in time to save each other. They try to build something permanent in a world that was never kind. Shot with the texture of MiniDV and film and told through fractured memory, Addicted explores first love amidst early trauma. It’s a story about the lines between care and dependency, about queer history that never made the headlines, and about what’s left when the camera stops rolling. Addicted isn’t just about two boys — it’s about every queer kid who ever had to build their own shelter out of another person.

This piece is a slow apparition; body is born of wood. From stillness life takes form. A concealed body materializes in fragments, fragments of noise from the soundtrack attend the birth. With every movement consciousness emerges from matter. The flesh tries to separate from the surface that restrains it. There is no instant reveal, but a gradual birth, incomplete, fragile. Finally, the body rests. No longer fighting. No longer emerging. Matter and life coexist once more

In a shady warehouse, two men play cards for their lives. Who manages to come on top as the bigger bullshitter?

Quiet, withdrawn, a shadow in the halls of his college campus—Isaac, first year student, begins to unravel when a haunting voice from the past pierces his solitude. The voice pleads for help, whispering a cryptic promise: ”help me, and you help yourself.” As the boundary between reality and imagination blurs, Isaac is pulled into a psychological reckoning that forces him to confront the voice’s origin and his own suffering.

”Frost Heroes: From Ink to Earth. I once believed the pen was the only weapon for justice, but I found myself standing before the defeat of my own words. When my stories could no longer change reality or feed the hungry, I chose silence. In my exile in Latvia, amidst the ruthless winter, I learned my greatest lesson from the earth… the story I never wrote.”

Can a person emigrate from an entire era? At seventy, the protagonist discovers that exile is not a place, but a unified virtual world where humanity has become equal in coldness. ’Gentle Escape’ is a cinematic elegy for a generation that refuses to be imprisoned by a screen, choosing to face destiny alone under a real sky.”

In a cardboard hotel, a puppet President is caught in an act of gross indecency by Guy O. Tine, a punk anarchist armed with Molotov cocktails. As The Trammps once sang: “Burn, baby, burn.”

OFFICIAL SELECTION: Ethereal Horror Fest 2026 (Austin, Texas) Screening at Violet Crown Cinema, Austin Texas Logline: Abducted from her idyllic paradise and drugged, Ranger Jane Winter must escape her bonds or risk being caught in a predator’s unforgiving web forever. Synopsis: Jane Winter, a former high-powered executive turned Park Ranger, seeks solace in nature after escaping the coercive control of her corporate job. However, her newfound tranquility is shattered when she’s mysteriously kidnapped while kayaking. Awakening in a cluttered, surreal environment, Jane finds herself tied to a chair. As Jane grapples mentally with her captor, who remains unseen, she confronts her deepest fears, desires, and past traumas. Flashbacks reveal her struggle to break free from societal expectations and the toxic influences of her controlling family and friends. Throughout her ordeal, Jane is forced to reckon with her own biases and insecurities, realizing that true freedom comes from embracing her authentic self. Drugged and disoriented, Jane navigates a maze of hallucinations and distorted memories, struggling to distinguish reality from illusion. Each dose of the unknown substance plunges her deeper into her subconscious, where buried secrets and suppressed emotions surface with terrifying clarity. Driven by themes of redemption, escape, and the struggle for self-acceptance, ”iHostage” explores the universal journey of confronting inner demons and reclaiming one’s identity. Jane’s harrowing experience serves as a metaphor for the inner conflicts we all face, urging viewers to confront their own biases and embrace personal growth.

Into is a one-man musical about the horror of creating, dressed up in the form of a short-film. It’s about a frustrated musician who retreats to a cabin, trying to find new chords and directions, but it seems there is something already there, waiting for his arrival. Into was shot in october 2023 within 24 hours without a script, and was subsequently screened and released at Outsider Art Festival 2024. The Absolute Cut took its time, but is justified now as the first part of our so-called Rockstone-trilogy. Vivid. Strange. DIY.

MAKE OR BREAK is about the legacy of art, and the underappreciated artists that the world leaves behind. I wanted to explore the trials of a short lived local band and those lucky enough to have discovered them. Some of my favourite artists have stopped making music, and I find it wonderful that even though these songs have been in the world for ages, they will still find a way to touch the lives of so many people everyday. My connection to the live music scene runs deep. My father was in a band throughout the 80s and 90s so I understand intimately why the scene and communities that spring from it are so special. I also know how tough it can be to make a living. The pay is sometimes only enough to scrape by, and booking shows can be a very competitive task. But the love for being able to spread their art is the one thing that pushes them forward. The ideals of punk informs Tatum’s interaction with her fans and the music scene. Her inner struggle revolves around her conviction and dedication to anti-establishment ideals, which clashes with the real world stresses put on her and the band. This struggle is why I made MAKE OR BREAK. I want to call for a conversation about the workings of the music industry, the legacy of art, and the struggles of a working artist.

In the Basque Country, a gigolo flirting with very old women has no idea what kind of evil forces he will deal with…

In Kokko, I was interested in exploring the world of a child struggling with loss – a world where imagination and reality drift through one another like a breeze on a summer night. I wanted to look at a dark world through the eyes of a child’s hopefulness and find rays of light amidst the grief. Kokko is a testament to the Finnish Midsummer, childhood memories, and shared silent sorrow.

After the death of their parents, older brother Roope and younger brother Vili return to their remote family cabin to decide whether to sell it. While Roope wants to move on, Vili struggles to let go of the past. Haunted by visions from the frozen lake, Vili becomes drawn toward the Näkki, an ancient water spirit from Finnish folklore. As grief blurs the line between reality and myth, he must confront the darkness beneath the ice before it consumes him completely.

Phil’s Day Off – Phil’s Off Day is a short, symbolic character study told in two movements that contrast. What begins as a fast silent comedy slows into color and dramatic stillness, revealing the weight behind the laughter. The tone is playful on the surface, inspired by silent-era physical comedy, but the rhythm of the movement is relentless. Phil is always moving, always reacting, always recovering — yet never arriving anywhere meaningful. The speed exaggerates how life can feel when it becomes a series of uncontrollable mishaps. The humor masks exhaustion. The end of the film slows to real time and shifts into color. The chaos has ended. For the first time, he is still. He sits quietly on the edge of the dock revealing a major storyline shift. The mood then turns serious.

Although pensioner and amateur actor Hans, who gets around with the aid of two prosthetic legs, sometimes meets resistance, he’s not one to shy away from a confrontation.

Waking up in police custody is not very nice when you should be elsewhere. Time is ticking, but you have to find out the truth. ”I just can’t believe you’ve snapped again. You promised to just swing by. Now it’s 4 o´clock and there’s no sign of you anywhere. I’m flying to Tokyo now. Enjoy your party.”

Five dealers are forced to commit a murder.

Sohel is a person who somehow survives and manages his daily needs by earning a minimum amount of money. He has become indebted day by day. Babu vai is a local leader of the area is looking for him every day. He used to drink tea in the tea shop in the area suddenly shopkeeper screams and tell him to run cause babu vai is trying to catch him. So sohel started running, Babu vai is also running behind him, after some time babu vai grabbed him and tried to beat him badly.On that situation babu vai was killed by Sohel accidentally. Almost the full day he is denied by everyone and entered a neighbourhood after drinking alcohol and had sex with a prostitute in a brothel. Suddenly a man entered the room and shoots the woman. He spared sohel’s life and told him to leave the area within two hours. Sohel started running naked and never stopped…

Part 1 of an independent queer drama series following three boys through friendship, first love, trauma, and survival as they build a chosen family in an abandoned Vermont farmhouse. With their own families failing them—or becoming the danger themselves—they try to make a home, protect one another, and figure out what it means to survive long enough to have a future.

Turdy tutu 3022 by Mette Nyman is a video work about image, self-reflection and digging deeper into criticizing ourself and others, the downsides of different lifestyles and how easily we judge them, what we do and don’t do in the fear of criticism and judgement. About finding a golden middle route between belonging and existentialism. In this piece we address topics with ballet like dignity and grace, as well as with a freedom and defiance known from punk culture. We progress through dance steps towards a life that looks like our own, trying to break free from the shackles created by ourselves and others.

Too Far . Low is a short fiction film about a group of young refugees crossing a border while carrying their sick friend. Through this story, I wanted to explore the human cost of forced migration and the difficult choices people face when survival becomes uncertain. I was interested in the fragile balance between physical exhaustion, fear, and the responsibility we feel toward others, even when our own strength is running out. For me, the journey in this film is not only about reaching a destination. It is also about solidarity, vulnerability, and how far people are willing to go for one another in desperate circumstances. Rather than offering easy answers, I wanted to bring the audience closer to the characters’ experience and leave them with a simple question: when survival becomes a struggle, what does it mean to refuse to leave someone behind?

While getting ready for a date with the girl of his dreams, Marco is visited by a man in the TV who starts talking to him. And he has a request to make… Hallucination or reality? That’s what Marco will have to figure out in this absurd and slapstick comedy.

A visit to their son’s grave spirals young couple’s anniversary into an absurd ordeal.

Coursemates Alma and Matilda are driving home from a biological station for the weekend. But soon it becomes clear to Alma that Matilda isn’t actually who she seems to be.