A selection of short films from all over the world which were part of this year's Short Film Competition at Abertoir 2024. These films represent all sorts of fantastic genres, from horror to sci-fi to thriller to fantasy.

A possessive doctor prepares an ostensibly romantic bath for his narcissistic boyfriend, but after an accusation of infidelity, things take a deeply disturbing turn.

Bath Bomb

Nye has dragged his estranged best mate Daf, to collect a free arm chair from a fearsome old house. A chain of sinister events follow, as Daf and Nye grapple with their fractured friendship, while trying to make it out alive…with the chair.

references to long-term illness; grief theme

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In the San Francisco of 1919, a man is standing on the ledge of a building ready to jump. Desperate, he relives in his memories the absurd and shocking episode that brought him to the brink of suicide: his encounter with the monstrous and mythological Great Ancient One, DAGON.

Dagon

A Sikh delivery driver is asked for help by a customer, a Priest.

Deliverance

Stalked by grief for his husband and a nightmarish creature from Welsh folklore, Ioan must do his best to survive Christmas Eve.

Fisitor

Every night, an angel awaits her divine orders alone. When a list of departed souls appears in the sky, she journeys to meet them, guiding them toward their heavenly destination.

Moon Alone

An overwhelmed woman listens to a sleep ambience app to unwind before bed, but when the sounds eerily begin to blend with reality, she suspects it has conjured something frightening into her room.

Outside Noise

During a night shift in an empty office building, a young cleaning lady receives an unpleasant visitor.

Paspocalypse

After causing a tragic accident on Halloween night, Brad is haunted by his guilty conscience as he takes the elevator down to the scene of the crime. Is he heading to the lobby… or straight to hell?

The Gourd, The Brad and The Ghostly

With a hurricane raging outside their hospital, two nurses have one last job before evacuating: stow the “dead-on-arrival” corpse of a young girl in the downstairs morgue before the building floods. But the corpse quickly reveals itself to be more than it seems.

Wake

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Jersey

Guernsey

Isle of Man

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