Join CFF as we take a journey into the longer side of short cinema. One of the many joys of presenting our festival in a hybrid format is that it allows us to include so many amazing films that our time limitations during our in-person days wouldn't allow, and it also gives us the freedom to program more short work with running times 15 minutes and above. It can be challenging for festivals to make longer short films work when space in blocks is limited, and we're grateful that our two-volume Fun Size Epics block gives us a chance to share an exceptional group of films that pack more world-building and storytelling in their run times than some features can manage.

Ben is the only night shift 911 operator in a small town. His bubble of self-isolation is only ever punctured by drunks or prank calling kids, but tonight Dark Mommy has her own intentions for Ben...and the rest of the town.

Dark Mommy

Madame Hattori's Izakaya is a thriller short film about a renowned chef and the twisted evening of her coveted private dinner. ABOUT THE FILM Shot locally in Arizona, Madame Hattori's Izakaya was an electric collaboration with the restaurant, small business, creative, and Asian communities in Arizona. The short film features:✅ An all-female Asian cast ✅ Dishes created by Asian chefs in the Valley, including: 	-Chef Nobuo Fukuda, James Beard award winner and former owner of Nobuo at Teeter House 	-Chef Paulo Im, chef at Chula Seafood and former culinary director of Obon and Bisutoro 	-Chef Justin Park from Drunken Tiger -Chef Kevin Rosales from Disco Dragon 	-Chef Tyka Chheng from Baby Boy and Khla ✅ Collaborations with Asian-owned small businesses including Nanaya Japanese Kitchen (film location) and Slain Studios (custom nails by Jimmy Nguyen) ✅ Sponsorship from Sapporo and Crescent Crown Distributing

Madame Hattori's Izakaya

Eternally cursed to kill for her flesh-eating garden, Edette, an elderly Creole woman, forms an unlikely friendship with a young girl in town named Perri. When the garden chooses Perri as its next victim, Edette must decide to let go of Perri or sacrifice herself to end the curse.

The Garden of Edette

Tortured by childhood memories, a hospice nurse spirals into a terrifying obsession with her patient’s eyes, which resemble those of her dead mother.

Eyes Like Yours

After getting kidnapped and taken to a sex trafficking house on the outskirts of a southern town, Emma enlists the other victims to dive head first into a volatile escape plan where every girl must fight for her life.

Volition

After Dylan’s father passes away in prison, her attempts to honor his memory become eerily dark when, with the help of her close friend Bruno, she decides to tattoo her father’s ashes into her skin. However, what was supposed to be a sentimental tribute quickly turns sinister as Dylan learns the truth of her tattoo and the malevolent secret it holds.

INKED

After his abusive father's death, a troubled man builds a mausoleum to the relationship they never had… in his parents' bathroom, while his grief-stricken family attempts to rescue him from his madness.

Floater

A slime-ball mortician and his timid new assistant scramble to distract a repugnant small-town family after their loved one's corpse turns into a zombie and wanders off minutes before the funeral.

Mort

Four siblings reunite at Christmas after the sudden death of their parents. But after accidentally killing Santa on Christmas Eve, they must survive the night against his killer flying reindeer.

Up on the Housetop

A young girl’s brother returns from war with a most disturbing souvenir.

Robbie Ain’t Right No More

When three captive women are forced into twisted challenges to earn food, they work together to find an escape, not realizing a new darkness has awakened in their midst.

Good Girls Get Fed

Once upon a Halloween night, two theater kids had such a fright, for right before their unsuspecting eyes is Dracula, not so in disguise. And utilizing the power of dance they put Dracula under a trance and just in the knick of time, they send Dracula where the sun don't shine.

Lost Boys Pizza

Two girlfriends pick up a traumatized woman near the scene of an accident. But something isn't right about their passenger and soon the good Samaritans are trapped in a nightmare ride they'll never forget.

The Kindness of Strangers

When Luiza arrives at her estranged mother, Celia's, new home, she quickly senses something ominous lurking beneath the skin of Celia's new domestic facade. Soon, Luiza meets V, Celia's new caretaker. According to V, Celia is under the illusion that V is her daughter. Celia loves tending to her "newborn" and the home they share - something that irks Luiza, who has never seen this nurturing side of her mother before. A strange, sweaty descent into a fever dream ensues, paralleling the reproduction cycle of the parasitic, Glyptapanteles wasp. Before long, Luiza learns precisely what is under her mother's skin and must escape before it makes its way under hers, too - but some cycles pierce too deep to be broken.

Vespa

An AirBnB guest stumbles upon a hidden piece of art that, once hung up, has an unexpected and unsettling effect on the home.

The Lonely Portrait

When Ana (24) returns home for a holiday weekend, she’s forced to help her sister Maribel (28) care for their creepy, catatonic grandmother, Yaya (90s). After an argument over whether Ana is selfish for leaving home or Mari is a martyr for staying, Mari decides she can no longer dedicate her life to caring for Yaya... That’s when Yaya awakens and eats Mari whole. Realizing that Mari lives on inside Yaya—along with a string of their ancestors—Ana makes the ultimate sacrifice to become Yaya’s new caretaker to keep her—and everyone else inside her—alive.

Carnivora

When their mother vanishes, two estranged sisters are forced to caretake for their catatonic grandma… only to realize that grandma isn’t grandma at all. Starring Gigi Zumbado (Bridge and Tunnel, Hightown) Carmela Zumbado (You, Power Book IV:Force) and Julia Vera (This Fool, The Old Ways)

"Up high. Down low. Too slow." When an insecure man falls victim to a classic childhood prank, he spirals into a full-blown identity crisis and seeks vengeance against his debonair aggressor.

Too Slow

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