
Here is a 94-minute collection of terrifying short films from outside the US and Canada.
DENALI - Marina hires the services of Soul Data -- a company that creates digital consciousness through data generated in life -- to contact her deceased father for the hidden location of his safe and its valuables. In Spanish with English subtitles
GOLEM - Cristina is desperate. Her co-star is gone, and she must perform for a very important agent in a matter of hours. Using her skills as an acting coach, Cristina resorts to the only available tool: her assistant, a clumsy and unimaginative robot named Golem. In Spanish with English subtitles
THE NEWCOMER (La Nueva) - Maria is the new teacher who arrives at an old religious school. On her first day, she will have to teach a group of rebellious kids who are part of a detention class. An unexpected event will turn the classroom into a real hell. In Spanish with English subtitles
RESPIRATIONS - In a burning world, wrecked by pollution, a survivor is heading toward his destination. In French with English subtitles
SHINY NEW WORLD - Fifty-year-old Barry is a special kind of cleaner: he cleans crime scenes where demons have wreaked havoc. While making a corporate film about his work, a normal working day for Barry gets out of hand in a bloody way. In Dutch with English subtitles
SUCKER - In a twisted story of co-dependence and body horror, two sisters are pitted against each other by a giant, abhorrent leech creature that uses its mind-controlling influence to puppeteer them from the inside out.
TABLE 8 - An anxiety-ridden man meets his friend for dinner in a shadowy restaurant to share a dark suspicion. At first, his friend doesn't believe him, tries to convince the man there's nothing going on. But the further they get into their midnight conversation, the more they both begin to fear something about this evening isn't quite right. In Dutch with English subtitles
TISTLEBU - As a young urban couple on a working holiday hope to connect with nature at Tistlebu farm, a primordial power comes into play, changing them both forever. In Norwegian with English subtitles
SHINY NEW WORLD
Fifty-year-old Barry is a special kind of cleaner: he cleans crime scenes where demons have wreaked havoc. While making a corporate film about his work, a normal working day for Barry gets out of hand in a bloody way.
In Dutch with English subtitles
Director Biography - Jan van Gorkum
Jan van Gorkum (1983) is a filmmaker and writer. In 2010 he graduated as a filmmaker from the Utrecht School of the Arts (HKU). Jan has written and directed several award-winning short films, which have been screened at a large number of festivals around the world. He finds it interesting to combine genres in his films, but has a soft spot for dark humor, horror, fantasy and thriller. His first book was published in 2019: a quirky fantasy book titled Winged Darkness.
- Year2021
- Runtime9 minutes
- LanguageDutch
- CountryNetherlands
- PremiereNorth Carolina Premiere
- Social Media
- DirectorJan van Gorkum
- ScreenwriterJan van Gorkum
- ProducerMonique van Kessel
- CastPatrick Stoof, Gijs Scholten van Aschat, Maarten Prins, Marije Loermans, Adelaide Kashari, Shirley Bak, Tum Bemelmans & Dean Gulikers
- CinematographerLuuk de Kok & Jan Veldhuizen
- EditorKees Riphagen
- Production DesignSanne Croonenberg
- ComposerThe Fast And The Curious
- Sound DesignBashel de Vries








Here is a 94-minute collection of terrifying short films from outside the US and Canada.
DENALI - Marina hires the services of Soul Data -- a company that creates digital consciousness through data generated in life -- to contact her deceased father for the hidden location of his safe and its valuables. In Spanish with English subtitles
GOLEM - Cristina is desperate. Her co-star is gone, and she must perform for a very important agent in a matter of hours. Using her skills as an acting coach, Cristina resorts to the only available tool: her assistant, a clumsy and unimaginative robot named Golem. In Spanish with English subtitles
THE NEWCOMER (La Nueva) - Maria is the new teacher who arrives at an old religious school. On her first day, she will have to teach a group of rebellious kids who are part of a detention class. An unexpected event will turn the classroom into a real hell. In Spanish with English subtitles
RESPIRATIONS - In a burning world, wrecked by pollution, a survivor is heading toward his destination. In French with English subtitles
SHINY NEW WORLD - Fifty-year-old Barry is a special kind of cleaner: he cleans crime scenes where demons have wreaked havoc. While making a corporate film about his work, a normal working day for Barry gets out of hand in a bloody way. In Dutch with English subtitles
SUCKER - In a twisted story of co-dependence and body horror, two sisters are pitted against each other by a giant, abhorrent leech creature that uses its mind-controlling influence to puppeteer them from the inside out.
TABLE 8 - An anxiety-ridden man meets his friend for dinner in a shadowy restaurant to share a dark suspicion. At first, his friend doesn't believe him, tries to convince the man there's nothing going on. But the further they get into their midnight conversation, the more they both begin to fear something about this evening isn't quite right. In Dutch with English subtitles
TISTLEBU - As a young urban couple on a working holiday hope to connect with nature at Tistlebu farm, a primordial power comes into play, changing them both forever. In Norwegian with English subtitles
SHINY NEW WORLD
Fifty-year-old Barry is a special kind of cleaner: he cleans crime scenes where demons have wreaked havoc. While making a corporate film about his work, a normal working day for Barry gets out of hand in a bloody way.
In Dutch with English subtitles
Director Biography - Jan van Gorkum
Jan van Gorkum (1983) is a filmmaker and writer. In 2010 he graduated as a filmmaker from the Utrecht School of the Arts (HKU). Jan has written and directed several award-winning short films, which have been screened at a large number of festivals around the world. He finds it interesting to combine genres in his films, but has a soft spot for dark humor, horror, fantasy and thriller. His first book was published in 2019: a quirky fantasy book titled Winged Darkness.
- Year2021
- Runtime9 minutes
- LanguageDutch
- CountryNetherlands
- PremiereNorth Carolina Premiere
- Social Media
- DirectorJan van Gorkum
- ScreenwriterJan van Gorkum
- ProducerMonique van Kessel
- CastPatrick Stoof, Gijs Scholten van Aschat, Maarten Prins, Marije Loermans, Adelaide Kashari, Shirley Bak, Tum Bemelmans & Dean Gulikers
- CinematographerLuuk de Kok & Jan Veldhuizen
- EditorKees Riphagen
- Production DesignSanne Croonenberg
- ComposerThe Fast And The Curious
- Sound DesignBashel de Vries