We decided to go easy on you this year. A lot of these shorts were just too fucked up to put in the regular comedy block. But what is lacking in disturbia is abundant in despair. Things will only get bleaker. Super dark times are afoot, dear audience. The only way out is through.

– Kevin Monahan

Programmers: George Luke, Melinda Green, Kevin Monahan

F#CKéR
Amir Baikatov, Kazakhstan, 4 min.
The enemies of independent cinema kidnap F#сkér’s love. To get her back, he is forced to do their evil bidding by sabotaging the filming of amateur movies

Rejected
Rene R. Rivas, USA, 15 min.
Three twisted tales of macabre horror intertwine, all linked by an antiquated digital camera from 1997.

The Night Has 1000 Desires!
Vance Osteen, USA, 14 min.
After the death of his mother, an emotionally stunted young man goes on a bizarre odyssey into the depths of his own perversion.

Burn Out
Russell Goldman, USA, 13 min.
An assistant will do anything to get a presentation in front of his boss… even set himself on fire.

Mopsorden
Julien Jauniaux, Belgium, 20 min.
Mélanie, a filmmaker with wasted potential, has taken refuge in corporate jobs. When a weirdo comes up on a silver lining, she won’t resist the call of the buzz.

Brothers Beastly
Peter J. Hartsock, USA, 16 min.
In the bleak isolated tundra, identical twin brothers are trapped in a sinister cannibalistic family dynamic and face psychological descent that fractures their decaying identity.

Terminal Emulator
Benjamin Capps, USA, 15 min.
When a sexually abusive tryst in outer space ends by bloodshed, a distraught corporate executive faces demons after her lover provides a psychedelic, designer drug.

Brattle Passes Not Accepted