After long eons beneath the sea, the time has come for the Old Gods to rise from the depths and to reclaim the Earth once more. The cities of men will fall beneath their titan tread, and their ravenous tentacles will devour all who try to flee before them.

The Old Gods

A girl visits her grandmother, whom she hasn't seen in years. But what she finds will not be exactly what she expected.

The Last Word

Set in 1960s Port Edward, "WAT’SA" is a haunting, all-Sm’algya̱x horror based on a powerful Tsimshian legend. As Jeremy works a late shift in the North Pacific Cannery, a shape-shifting sea otter spirit begins to stalk him, blurring the line between reality and the supernatural in the first-ever cinematic portrayal of the ‘Wat’sa. Recorded in Sm’algya̱x and Japanese with English subtitles.

Wa̱ts'a

In 1920s Providence, a disoriented Helen wakes up after a wild party. Her roommate, Elizabeth, is looking for a missing occult grimoire they read the night before, unaware that the book has unleashed something that makes reality and the supernatural blur into one.

Helen

Possession(s) is a claustrophobic psychological horror set in an apartment in the dead of night. Eloïse finds herself confronting demonic entities seeking to possess her through the eerie sounds of a phonograph. Music and occultism intertwine in a macabre ritual—doomed to repeat itself endlessly...

Possession(s)

Amid the wide fields and narrow roads of the countryside, a father and daughter find solace in each other’s company and the quiet rhythm of farm life. Yet the stillness conceals whispers of something unseen in the shadows of an old barn, testing their bond against forces they cannot name.

Bucolic

A cleaner in a library becomes aware of a book – or two – that promise a gateway to the The Old Ones. This film was made for the Film Intensive as part of the Bachelor of Screen Arts at Massey University in Wellington, New Zealand

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