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FOUR MINUTES TIL MIDNIGHT
Long-Form Narrative Shorts
(Various Countries, 80 min)
FOREVER, LIAM
(Canada/Venezuela, 22 min, 2025)
Alejandro and Paula’s young relationship takes a dark turn when her parents reveal a family secret: they live with the preserved corpse of Paula’s grandfather, caring for it as if he were still alive.
In Spanish with English subtitles
Director: Guillermo de la Rosa
M.A.T. (Extra High Voltage)
(Spain, 20 min, 2025)
Magda returns to the family farmhouse where her father claims to receive signals from his deceased wife. Surrounded by new Extra High Voltage Towers, they will try to decipher the unsettling paranormal phenomena.
In Spanish with English subtitles
Director: Joan Alamar
NIGHTFALL
(US, 18 min, 2025)
On a stormy night a guilt-ridden teen visits a grieving mother, looking for some kind of connection. As buried grief resurfaces he's drawn into a psychological reckoning that blurs reality - a final act of shocking vengeance completes the cycle.
Director: Zac Villanueva
THE QUACKENING
(UK, 20 min, 2025)
A grumpy Welshman reluctantly visits his grandmother, only to discover she has only gone and got herself cursed! So now he needs to bloody save her (and the world) from a demon duck...before midnight.
Director: James Button
FOREVER, LIAM
(Canada/Venezuela, 22 min, 2025)
Alejandro and Paula’s young relationship takes a dark turn when her parents reveal a family secret: they live with the preserved corpse of Paula’s grandfather, caring for it as if he were still alive.
In Spanish with English subtitles
Director: Guillermo de la Rosa
Director Biography - Guillermo de la Rosa
Guillermo de la Rosa is a Venezuelan writer-director based in Toronto. His award-winning films blend folklore, naturalism, and magical realism. Supported by Canada’s arts councils, he co-wrote Venezuela’s 2024 Oscar entry and is developing a feature about spectres and death in South America
- Year2025
- Runtime22 minutes
- LanguageSpanish
- CountryCanada, Venezuela
- PremiereNorth Carolina Premiere
- DirectorGuillermo de la Rosa
- ScreenwriterGuillermo de la Rosa
- ProducerPavlo Castillo, Rodrigo Michelangeli, Álvar Carretero de la Fuente, Guillermo de la Rosa
- CastAlbi De Abreu, Paula Márquez, Andrés García
- CinematographerCamilo Paparoni
- EditorShane R. Preston
- Sound DesignGino Visconti, Charles St André




FOUR MINUTES TIL MIDNIGHT
Long-Form Narrative Shorts
(Various Countries, 80 min)
FOREVER, LIAM
(Canada/Venezuela, 22 min, 2025)
Alejandro and Paula’s young relationship takes a dark turn when her parents reveal a family secret: they live with the preserved corpse of Paula’s grandfather, caring for it as if he were still alive.
In Spanish with English subtitles
Director: Guillermo de la Rosa
M.A.T. (Extra High Voltage)
(Spain, 20 min, 2025)
Magda returns to the family farmhouse where her father claims to receive signals from his deceased wife. Surrounded by new Extra High Voltage Towers, they will try to decipher the unsettling paranormal phenomena.
In Spanish with English subtitles
Director: Joan Alamar
NIGHTFALL
(US, 18 min, 2025)
On a stormy night a guilt-ridden teen visits a grieving mother, looking for some kind of connection. As buried grief resurfaces he's drawn into a psychological reckoning that blurs reality - a final act of shocking vengeance completes the cycle.
Director: Zac Villanueva
THE QUACKENING
(UK, 20 min, 2025)
A grumpy Welshman reluctantly visits his grandmother, only to discover she has only gone and got herself cursed! So now he needs to bloody save her (and the world) from a demon duck...before midnight.
Director: James Button
FOREVER, LIAM
(Canada/Venezuela, 22 min, 2025)
Alejandro and Paula’s young relationship takes a dark turn when her parents reveal a family secret: they live with the preserved corpse of Paula’s grandfather, caring for it as if he were still alive.
In Spanish with English subtitles
Director: Guillermo de la Rosa
Director Biography - Guillermo de la Rosa
Guillermo de la Rosa is a Venezuelan writer-director based in Toronto. His award-winning films blend folklore, naturalism, and magical realism. Supported by Canada’s arts councils, he co-wrote Venezuela’s 2024 Oscar entry and is developing a feature about spectres and death in South America
- Year2025
- Runtime22 minutes
- LanguageSpanish
- CountryCanada, Venezuela
- PremiereNorth Carolina Premiere
- DirectorGuillermo de la Rosa
- ScreenwriterGuillermo de la Rosa
- ProducerPavlo Castillo, Rodrigo Michelangeli, Álvar Carretero de la Fuente, Guillermo de la Rosa
- CastAlbi De Abreu, Paula Márquez, Andrés García
- CinematographerCamilo Paparoni
- EditorShane R. Preston
- Sound DesignGino Visconti, Charles St André