Block: Utterly Macabre
Screening Date: Saturday, February 5, 2022 at 6:45pm - san marco theatre - Theatre 2
The Popping
USA – Director: Shelby Pogue
Rating: Violence
“Let’s all go to the lobby!” The classic movie jingle takes a turn for the worst when the popcorn finds itself in a horror film.
Catarina
France – Director: Pierre Amstutz Roch
Rating: Adult Language & Violence
Ruined and abandoned by his wife, Francis is desperate. With the help of his friend Simon, he decides to kidnap Catarina, the wife of the man who scammed him, to blackmail him and recover his savings. They somehow manage to kidnap the alleged Catarina. At least that's what they think ...
Shadow at the Door
USA – Director: Roshni Bhatia
Rating: Adult Content
Wendy, a young woman with a difficult past, is taking a bath trying to drown out bittersweet memories echoing in her mind when she hears a sound coming from outside the bathroom and sees a shadow at the door. She grabs a pair of scissors to defend herself and looks for an intruder. Her search reveals something else, something she refuses to accept.
Tech Savvy
Florida, USA – Director: Scott Vasey
Rating: Adult Language & Violence
A single mom’s excitement in discovering the changes from her photoshop program becoming permanent in real life comes to a deadly halt when she inadvertently makes a change in desperate need of an “undo” button.
Guts
USA – Director: Chris McInroy
Rating: Adult Content & Language & Violence
A guy with his guts on the outside of his body really was a promotion.
Drip by Drip
Brazil – Director: Renata Jesion
Rating: Adult Language & Content
The constant dripping of a faucet, the never-ending quotidian of a long day, the forced coexistence with the different. Two siblings stuck in their universes. He’s an artist. She has autism. Drip by Drip, a secret revealed or a story that completes itself?
Beans
(Not in Competition)
Jacksonville, Florida, USA – Director: Justen Mann
Rating: Violence
After the collapse of civilization, a man tries to open a can of beans.
Smiley Death Face
USA – Director: Andrew Patrick Torrez
Rating: Not suitable for younger children
A young girl stumbles into a text message conversation with an anonymous person that communicates entirely in Emojis.
Broken Wing
USA – Director: Oliver Pearce
Rating: Adult Language & Mild Violence
A hiker helps a delivery drone that's been mysteriously shot down by an arrow.
What the Heck is Going On?
Florida, USA – Director: Alexander Bale
Rating: Adult Language
When the main character of a sitcom realizes he's literally in a sitcom, he has to find a way out, and save his family.
Shelter
USA – Director: Noah Harald
Rating: Adult Language & Violence
A widow trapped alone in her home under lockdown orders may not be alone.
Human Trash
Spain – Director: Aitor Almuedo Esteban
Rating: Adult Language & Violence
A boy is thrown into a trash container from the future. In his frantic search for the exit, he runs into a mysterious man, who will make him doubt the origin of his own existence.
Oscar
Italy – Director: Riccardo Copreni
Rating: Adult Content – Nudity
Thirty-year-old Oscar has made a path of transspecies. Now he feels like a dog in the body of a human being. Angela, his mother, is now determined to introduce him to her partner.