FOUR MINUTES TIL MIDNIGHT

Long-Form Narrative Shorts

(Various Countries, 92 min)

THE BEAST

(France, 24 min, 2023)

On vacation on his family in the countryside, a young city boy is forced to participate in wild boar hunts in the cornfields. Naive and fearful, he lives in constant fear of a mysterious beast that adults say would live in the countryside.

In French with English subtitles

CUT ME IF YOU CAN

(US, 21 min, 2023)

Stuck in the loop of a horror B-movie and knowing they're always the first ones to die as per the cliché horror movie formula, two black characters decide to reject their fate and rebel against the script. They must outwit the serial killer and escape the theatre in order to survive...but the film has other plans.

DRAGON FRUIT

(Canada, 27 min, 2023)

In a violent, dystopian future, a single mother attempts to grow a dragon fruit sprout so she can one day sell it for cash.

I COULD JUST DIE, AND THAT WOULD BE ALL RIGHT

(US, 20 min, 2023)

Trying to end her life, a woman offers herself as a meal to the monster in the woods near her house. But her plan backfires when she wakes up with a thirst for blood and realizes she has joined the ranks of the immortal undead.