International Midnighters I

Don’t Go Where I Can’t Find You
Directed by Rioghnach Ni Ghrioghair
Ireland | 20 minutes | 2021

EAST COAST PREMIERE. An internationally renowned composer witnesses the violent accidental death of her partner – and becomes convinced her spirit is still within the house.

Hantu
Directed by Kim Kokosky Deforchaux
Netherlands | 19 minutes | 2022

NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE. An elderly widow from the Dutch East Indies has been living in the Netherlands ever since Indonesia became independent. She talks to her son on the phone on a daily basis but doesn’t want to burden him with the traumas of post-colonial turmoil that still haunt her every night.

Hunger
Directed by Carlos Meléndez
Mexico | 15 minutes | 2021

FLORIDA PREMIERE. A child tormented by a voracious demon drags himself to find another way of feeding it.

Meat Free
Directed by Ben Ogunbiyi
UK | 4 minutes | 2022

WORLD PREMIERE. A post-coitus dinner date goes wrong when one of them begins to have a strange reaction.

The Receder
Directed by Raymon Hilkman
Netherlands | 7 minutes | 2021

NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE. While prepping for a party, a balding student struggling to get his hair just right decides to say goodbye to his receding hairline, but soon comes to a strange discovery.

Smile
Directed by Joanna Tsanis
Canada | 6 minutes | 2022

FLORIDA PREMIERE. When a young woman struggles to smile, her depression becomes something truly monstrous.

Unheimlich
Directed by Fabio Colonna
Mexico | 15 minutes | 2021

EAST COAST PREMIERE. The eternal fight between the conscious and unconscious.

Yummy Mummy
Directed by Gabriela Staniszewska
UK | 14 minutes | 2022

WORLD PREMIERE. Ignored in the motherhood process, Lilith’s sense of her own identity begins to have physical manifestations. She begins to fall apart; literally.