Shorts Program 10: High Tension
Sunday 5th February / 22:45 / City Kino Wedding
Shorts Program 10: High Tension
The shorts in this program are sure to get your heart racing and adrenaline pumping because they mean business. The group of characters you‘re about to meet have no one they can trust and find themselves in impossibly terrifying circumstances…but don‘t worry, they‘re only movies…
(Content warning: spousal abuse)
You Will See (15:13)
Directed by Kathleen Bu, Singapore, 2022 | European Premiere | Available online
Gwyn is a young photographer grasping with the moral boundaries of her own art. When she is given a supernatural camera by her mentor, an obsession with an old man’s physique overwhelms her. She stalks him, desperate to take the perfect photograph.
Face Not Recognized. Try Again. (8:54)
Directed by The Also Sisters, Spain, 2022 | Available online
Alone in the wilderness, a woman must find a way to survive after discovering that her head has been encased in cement.
Nia Sol Nia Sombra (Neither Sun Nor Shade) (12:37)
Directed by Talia Hernando, Spain, 2022 | Available online
Nerea is disoriented in the middle of the forest when a man appears behind her and proposes to her. The real relationship that bonds them is then unveiled.
Kickstart My Heart (14:14)
Directed by Kelsey Bollig, US, 2022 | German Premiere
After a gruesome car accident, a young woman fights her mind's 3 levels of hell to survive.
Unes (Bond) (14:50)
Directed by Kam Duv, France, 2022 | World Premiere | Available online
Zola, a young woman in distress, arrives at the slaughterhouse where her ex-girlfriend works. But she did not come alone: in the trunk of her car is locked a man who's turning into an animal...
Phantasmagoria (15:00)
Directed by Alejandro Mathe, Co-written by Alejandro Mathe & Anna Weber, Produced by Anna Weber, Germany, 2022 | German Premiere | Available online
Two women living alone are visited by a young strange man whose identity and intentions they begin to question as the evening progresses.