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SHORTS 2019

 

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WARSAW: SECTION I
DIVERSION thriller, comedy, survival / France / 2018 / 20 min / Polish premiere   Joël, a small town journalist, goes to cover a case in the French countryside. When he stops after running over a dog on the road, he finds himself trapped in the stories he usually writes....
HONOUR THY MOTHER   horror, drama / USA / 2019 / 17 min / European premiere   Liz is homeless, living life adrift. In a moment of despair and loneliness, she returns home after many years to her God-fearing mother and discovers time has changed more than she ever could...
PHANTOM   thriller, horror, drama / Poland / 2019 / 10 min   Ten-year-old Tommy stays alone at home. The boy decides to use the house to play with his toys. His imagination has no limits. Suddenly the light goes out and there is no electricity in the house. Now...
CONSPIRACY CRUISE   comedy horror / USA, Canada / 2019 / 12:20 min / European premiere   The (partly) real story of a cruise ship vacation for conspiracy theorists that takes a turn for the surreal when their most outlandish theories come true on board.   WORLD PREMIERE: Borscht 0...
LUNA   horror / Poland / 2019 / 23:24 min / World premiere   Two sisters live together in a cabin at the edge of the woods. The older sister, Gaia, is a local herbalist, and the younger one, Luna, spends her days reading the book “The Romance of Tristan...
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WARSAW: SECTION II
THE HOST   thriller, sci-fi / Poland / 2018 / 15 min   Two women conducting a meteorite research and rent a room from a lonely man living in a remote area. With each day their behavior and relations between them become more and more strange. Is it the influence...
RUFUS   black comedy / Poland / 2019 / 18:39 min / Polish and world premiere   A black comedy telling the story of Janek who wants something more from life. More money, more glory, more respect. Unfortunately, he does not know how to achieve this. He works in a...
ATTACHMENT   horror / Poland / 2019 / 16:28 min    A man leaves his wife for a young, beautiful lover. When he lives with his new lover, he quickly discovers that she is not what he expected. His life turns into a nightmare.   PREMIERE: Lubuskie Film Summer 2019...
RAIN CATCHER   neo-noir, psychological thriller / United Kingdom / 2018 / 15:55 min / Polish premiere   Rain Catcher is a neo-noir about a young photographer haunted by a mysterious man appearing in his pictures. We follow a young photographer, an outcast simply known as Rain Catcher. New in...
KISHONIA   experimental / Poland / 2019 / 22 min   HM channel presents the most pickled film of this year!   There was an apocalypse caused by polish pickles. Two scientists are trying to solve the mystery disease which changes people into giant pickles. Japanese expert of polish food...
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WARSAW: MÉLIÈS D'ARGENT
CHANGELING horror / United Kingdom / 2019 / 9 min / Polish premiere   A new mother becomes increasingly mesmerised and appalled by the strange transformations happening around her baby. She instinctively hides them, unaware they are building towards a final metamorphosis - hers. World Premiere: Horrible Imaginings (in California,...
FERINE horror, drama / Italy / 2019 / 17 min / Polish premiere   Ferine is a contemporary horror drama about borders of human nature which reflects how willing we are to compromise and to accept our inner monster. Starring Anna Della Rosa (The Great Beauty) it tells the story...
MADNESS   psychological drama, horror / Poland / 2019 / 24 min   An uncle comes for Kuba He's supposed to be home by Christmas. Something strange starts happening to him along the way. Is he really going back to his family home?   Premier REDLINE FESTIVAL TORONTO CANADA 2019...
RUNNING MAN   horror / United Kingdom / 2019 / 15 min / Polish premiere   1991: In an attempt to escape the ghosts of his past, Fred Love convinces his mates take part in a clinical drug trial for cash. But events take a turn as the trial spirals...
THE BURDEN   horror / The Netherlands / 2019 / 16:49 min / Polish premiere   A young woman visits her boyfriend’s family home and learns about a sinister history with his creepy neighbor. Soon, all kinds of skeletons come out of the closet.   WORLD PREMIERE: Fantasia Festival 2019,...
THE DARK DAWN   horror / Italy / 20 min / Polish premiere   A house in the woods, a priest, a weird family, a frantic girl. Wherever omen Signs. It's up to you.   In an isolated house in the Alps, a woman is left to herself. Her daughter,...
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LUBLIN: SECTION I
RETCH horror / United Kingdom / 2018 / 4 min / Polish premiere   A visceral horror rollercoaster in which a young woman's illness takes a disturbing turn. A young woman desperately tries to help her friend, Sonia, who is having an unusual seizure. Eventually she finds the medicine she...
TOGETHER   dark comedy, horror / USA / 2019 / 19:16 min / Polish premiere   A biohazard remediation cleaner finds the integrity of her business threatened after hiring a technician with an insatiable appetite for his work. WORLD PREMIERE: Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival (BIFAN) 2019   Age restrictions:...
PREFIGURED   sci-fi, horror / United States / 2019 / 10:30 / Polish premiere   If "Prefigured" was a house instead of a short film, its building materials would be fatalism, dread, and the acceptance of humanity’s cosmic insignificance. Its basement would be The Mariana Trench; teaming with unknown lifeforms that...
JABBARA   horror, psychological, thriller / Lebanon / 2019 / 13 min / Polish premiere     The monsters don’t live under your bed, but they rot inside your head. This story revolves around a teenage girl, Lina, whose envious mother, Salma, seeks revenge on her. Lina struggles to withstand...
DIBBUK   horror, drama / France / 2019 / 30 min   Dan, a pious man who lives on the fringe of his community (the Jewish community of the nineteenth district of Paris) is summoned by Sarah to check on her husband Eli, who is obviously not in his normal...
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LUBLIN: SECTION II
THE ORIGINAL science-fiction, drama / United Kingdom / 2018 / 13 min / Polish premiere   Alana is a woman struggling to keep her relationship alive as her partner suffers with a debilitating illness. A new medical procedure offers the answer to their prayers, but not without forcing her to...
FIVE COURSE MEAL   horror / Canada / 2018 / 7 min/ Polish premiere   Mark and Jenny agree to take part in a mysterious experiment for money. Things get exceptionally messy. Based on the short story by Josh Saltzman.   PREMIERE: Edmonton Short Film Festival in Edmonton, Canada 2018...
LIMBO   drama, horror / Spain / 2019 / 15 min / Polish premiere   A small family in an isolated farm. A terrible crime and then, the echoes that remain. Nothing is over nothing will ever end. It is a disturbing story of domestic violence mixing physical and psychological...
STRAY   psychological horror / Australia / 2018 / 14 min / Polish premiere   After three long years away, Thomas Elliot, a crippled war-hero, returns home expecting a heartfelt reunion with his beloved wife, Bonnie. However, their reunion takes an unexpected turn when Bonnie fails to recognise him, treating...
LA PERSISTENTE   dramat, horror / France / 2018 / 22 min   A ski resort, somewhere in the French Pyrenees. Ivan only lives for his motorcycle - the sentient, loving, breathing La Persistente. When a local rival tears her away from him, Ivan's obsession becomes to win her back....