Short Films: International Midnighters

International Midnighters

DATE: Sunday, August 9
TIME: Video On Demand
VENUE: Digital Screening Room

A celebration of some of the year’s most fantastic international short films from new emerging voices and established filmmakers:

Appetite of a Nobody
Directed by Amanda Kaye
Australia | 15 minutes | 2025
FLORIDA PREMIERE. Gerald is a raw meat eating socially inept guy who wants nothing more than to make friends but when he follows the steps of an 80’s self help video things take a bloodcurdling turn.

 

Banshee
Directed by Peter Vass
Ireland | 16 minutes | 2025
NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE. In 1880s Ireland, Róise’s family is haunted by a banshee after she discovers a mysterious comb, leading to a series of deaths in her village.

 

The Beneath
Directed by Lisette Vlassak
Netherlands | 7 minutes | 2025
FLORIDA PREMIERE. Haunted by pressure and self-doubt, young model Lone retreats to her garden, her only refuge from a world that consumes her. But when a mysterious underground creature begins destroying her sanctuary, Lone’s battle to save it forces her to confront something far darker than what lurks beneath the soil: herself.

 

Come In
Directed by Peter Ricq
Canada | 8 minutes | 2025
FLORIDA PREMIERE. Curiosity piqued, Agana accepts an unexpected invitation to “hang out” from Tess, the bully next door. But what she uncovers is something far beyond anything she could have imagined.

 

Freya
Directed by Fredrik Lindton
Sweden | 13 minutes | 2025
FLORIDA PREMIERE. Sam is left alone with his baby daughter, Freya, for the first time, but something is wrong. Where Freya’s eyes, mouth, and nose should be is just skin; her face is gone. In his desperate attempts to help her daughter, Sam follows the instructions of a mysterious Icelandic folklore book.

 

Gulp
Directed by Conor McMahon
Ireland | 7 minutes | 2026
WORLD PREMIERE. Young couple Mary and Jason are drawn into the marshes by the sounds of a baby crying – but is it really a baby, or a lure?

 

Halfway Haunted
Directed by Sam Rudykoff
Canada | 16 minutes | 2025
FLORIDA PREMIERE. A tenant in a haunted house teams up with a ghost to stop a real estate developer from demolishing the home they share.

 

Headphones
Directed by Steven Arriagada
Australia | 9 minutes | 2025
FLORIDA PREMIERE. A lovelorn young man working the late shift at a dead-end fast-food joint alongside his crush listens to his uncle’s old Walkman, when a mysterious voice crackles through the headphones whispering exactly what he must do to keep her alive.

 

Heirlooms
Directed by Dan Abramovici
Canada-USA | 12 minutes | 2025
FLORIDA PREMIERE. After the passing of her mother, Jamie inherits an old family heirloom. It isn’t until it’s too late that she realizes heirlooms are better left alone.

 

The Humbug
Directed by Cole Paviour
UK | 9 minutes | 2026
EAST COAST PREMIERE. Two elderly women in a care home grapple with magical mint humbugs, setting off an absurd journey through pleasure and peril.

 

My Mother, The Zombie
Directed by Samantha Pineda Sierra
Canada | 17 minutes | 2026
WORLD PREMIERE. In the aftermath of her father’s death, a teenage girl struggles to care for her unraveling mother as grief takes on a haunting, physical presence within their home.
Sweetie
Directed by Taylor Olson
Canada | 3 minutes | 2026
SOUTHEAST US PREMIERE. A young girl needs her father’s help. There’s a monster in her room.

 

Wax
Directed by Alexandre Forgues
Canada | 15 minutes | 2025
EAST COAST PREMIERE. As exam season consumes her, a perfectionist university student ignores a growing ear infection to focus on her studies. But the infection worsens. Pus oozes constantly, sleep becomes impossible, and her grip on reality begins to unravel. One night, driven by a haunting nightmare, exhaustion, and mounting anxiety, she becomes convinced something is alive inside her ear.
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July 28, 2026