Shorts Program 5: Creatures
Thursday 2nd February / 22:30 / City Kino Wedding & Online
Shorts Program 5: Creatures
This time we’ve got creature shorts instead of the creature features made infamous at drive-in cinemas or double disc DVD pairings in the discount bins of your childhood. Creatures crawl in to the sites of emotional morasses and accompany our protagonists through all manners of sticky situations, often embodying fears and wishes, self and other in grisly form.
Hell Gig (9:05)
Directed by Ella Gale, US, 2022 | German Premiere | Available online
A woman trying to rescue her best friend from a bad road trip finds their friendship threatened by a jealousy demon.
Sucker (8:00)
Directed by Alix Austin, UK, 2022
In a twisted story of co-dependence, two sisters are pitted against each other by a giant, abhorrent leech creature that uses its mind-controlling influence to puppeteer them from the inside out.
You’re My Best Friend (10:45)
Directed by Chell Stephen, US, 2022, World Premiere
A newly-single woman tests the viability of potential suitors by how well they deal with a giant unexpected guest in her home.
Appendage (5:46)
Written and directed by Anna Zlokovic, US, 2022 | German Premiere | Available online
A young fashion designer must make the best of it when her anxiety and self-doubt physically manifest into something horrific.
Kid Free Weekend (13:18)
Written and directed by Rozalyn Mattocks, US, 2022 | European Premiere | Available online
Vivian, a young mom in the 70's, finally gets a weekend away from her husband and small children and she won't let anything eat up her free time.
Mantra (17:03)
Directed by Stef Meyer & Pascal Bourelier, France, 2022 | German Premiere | Available online
Emma and Paul just moved into an old suburban mansion, when Paul is forced to leave on a working trip. Isolated and clueless, Emma discovers a praying mantis and develops a strange bond with the insect. Until Paul comes home again.
Fishwife (17:14)
Directed by Beth Park, UK, 2022 | German Premiere | Available online
In wild 18th century Britain a lonely woman discovers that her menstrual cycle is of interest to a stranger.