Midnighters III

American Cheese
Directed by Kate Thulin
USA | 10 minutes | 2025

SOUTH FLORIDA PREMIERE. Two mommies fight over the last American Cheese packet; it’s their babies’ favorite food!

Blossom Needs a Ride Home
Directed by Tim Schwagel
USA | 9 minutes | 2025

FLORIDA PREMIERE. After defeating a bloodthirsty maniac, Blossom needs a ride home. What a hassle.

Carousel
Directed by Christopher Kosakowski
USA | 8 minutes | 2025

SOUTH FLORIDA PREMIERE. Charlie is a circus clown celebrating his birthday alone when he receives a mysterious gift box harboring an antique zoetrope. The toy, at first amusing, quickly brings about supernatural terrors that spin Charlie’s world into mayhem.

CHÄIR
Directed by Chris McInroy
USA | 6 minutes | 2025

SOUTH FLORIDA PREMIERE. Carl just wanted to sit down. The chair had other plans.

Drones
Directed by Steve Acevedo
USA | 22 minutes | 2026

FLORIDA PREMIERE. When a tech enthusiast subscribes to a groundbreaking Drone Butler service, he’s enamored by the technology’s intuition and uncanny attentiveness to his needs—until it begins to cross disturbing lines.

Four Itchy Boys
Directed by Andrew Hebert
USA | 13 minutes | 2025

EAST COAST PREMIERE. Four young men quarantined for an unexplainable, unrelenting itch prepare for a live-stream press event to prove they’re not the monsters the world believes them to be. But behind the scenes, a ruthless producer is plotting a more grotesque spectacle.

Gimme
Directed by Steven Schloss
USA | 14 minutes | 2025

FLORIDA PREMIERE. On the first night of Hanukkah, a grandfather and his estranged granddaughter are pulled into a sinister game of dreidel.

Monstrous Me
Directed by Ariel Baska
USA | 16 minutes | 2026

WORLD PREMIERE. At age 3, a bad babysitter came over with a bag of weed, her boyfriend, and a Nightmare on Elm Street. As a disabled and disfigured child, I was entranced by Freddy and his face. There was agency in being monstrous. My story asks why disabled people, the most underrepresented demographic onscreen, often identify with the monster, and what happens when monsters get to tell their own stories?

MurderBird
Directed by Barrett Lesly Shuler
USA | 16 minutes | 2025

FLORIDA PREMIERE. In an attempt to save his relationship, a man buys his girlfriend a rare exotic bird for her birthday. After the couple develops a deep emotional bond with the bird, its true colors begin to emerge.

Plain Folks
Directed by Fatima Liaqat
USA | 13 minutes | 2025

EAST COAST PREMIERE. A Pakistani immigrant college freshman is excited to attend her first real college party, despite her fish-out-of-water status on the white, conservative, mostly Mormon campus, but a supernatural force with ties to the school has other plans for her.

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