After a tunnel collapses, trapped miners are haunted by strange knocks in the darkness. As one miner investigates, the knocks echo miles away to his family above ground.

Tin Hill No.9

After a tunnel collapses, trapped miners are haunted by strange knocks in the darkness. As one miner investigates, the knocks echo miles away to his family above ground.

A woman finds herself trapped in an abyss, taunted by a malevolent telephone.

they're taking my house

A woman finds herself trapped in an abyss, taunted by a malevolent telephone.

A collection of home movies gather dust on a shelf, longing to be watched again. When one is chosen and whisked away to the VCR, the others pretend not to be jealous. That tape returns with an unexpected message: there's a fate far worse than being forgotten. VHX is a stop motion animated short made with real vintage VHS tapes.

A collection of home movies languish on a shelf, longing to be watched again. Little do they know: there's a fate far worse than being forgotten.

Once assigned to a meaningless and mundane task on Earth by her species' regime, Joanie the alien abandoned her post when she discovered a profound connection to the alchemy of winemaking. As she prepares to debut a new vintage, her peaceful existence is threatened by a message from the stars. As Joanie wrestles with her past, she must decide what she's willing to sacrifice to protect the life -- and the land -- she's grown to love. Director Sarey Martin will be in attendance for a Q&amp;A for the <a href="https://2025.indyfilmfest.org/schedule/67fd71da9ad1309bdaf90df5" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Saturday screening</a>.

The Winemaker

An alien sets aside the mission that brought her to Earth in order to make wine. But when a menacing gadget delivers a message of impending danger, will she side with her home planet or Earth?

Le Cosmos is a surreal comedy that begins in suburbia and spirals into existential absurdity. A weather-beaten mailbox is haunted by the ticking clock of ecological collapse and the dead air of unread letters until a mysterious postman arrives and ignites a metaphysical metamorphosis.&nbsp;Made from an assemblage of found footage, scanner animations, and 16mm film, Le Cosmos fuses analog decay with poetic dread. It's an anti-pragmatic fable wrapped in cosmic irony -- part slapstick, part scream into the void.

Le Cosmos [The Cosmos]

In this mixed media experimental film, a suburban mailbox unravels under cosmic pressure.

While searching for her missing brother, a woman receives dubious hints and a business card with coordinates. When she visits the location on the card, she witnesses a disturbing rite.

Suche Nach [Looking For]

While searching for her missing brother, a woman receives dubious hints and a business card with coordinates. What she finds at the location on the card is not what she expects.

beyond the concepts of monstruous and devine a reverse creation explored

СЪЩЕСТВОТО [CREATURE]

Olivia's once strong relationship with her husband, Kevin, has deteriorated. She dreams of attending pastry school in New York City but lacks the confidence to make it happen.&nbsp;After an alien ship crashes, everyone starts getting possessed -- a mysterious force controls them until they discover their life's true purpose.Everyone, that is, except Olivia, who’s forced to take matters into her own hands and make damn sure she gets possessed, too.

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Knead

When an alien landing mysteriously drives people around the world to achieve their deepest dreams, an aspiring baker in an unhappy marriage wonders why she hasn't been affected.

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