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Long-Form Narrative Shorts

(Various Countries, 69 min)

DOG PEOPLE

(US, 2024, 20 min)

Two unsuspecting men show up at a sweet old lady’s door pretending to offer their services for free, but as strange events occur, and bizarre discoveries are made they quickly learn it might be her who is pulling a fast one on them. Genre vet Dee Wallace (E.T., Cujo) stars in this genre-bending horror-comedy aims to examine just how far people are willing to go to protect those they love most. Their dogs, of course.

Director: Bradley Stryker

HUNT (“Ehiza”)

(Spain, 2024, 30 min)

Basque Country, end of the 19th century. In a small village, the parish priest Mateo disappears without a trace. In response to the gossip of the villagers, the Archbishopric sends two priests to investigate the truth of the facts.

In Spanish with English subtitles

Director: Aitzol Saratxaga

LAB RATS

(US, 2024, 19 min)

From the creator of “Tim Travers and the Time Travelers Paradox”! A man finds himself in cage, like a lab rat. The most recent abductee of a prolonged alien invasion. There he joins a woman, a day-one abductee, long consigned to the mind altering drugs given to her by their alien overlords. Together, they must decide whether or not to succumb to being pets or face the absurd horror of their reality and find a way to escape the lab.

Director: Stimson Snead