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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
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
Director Biography - James Button
James Button is a BAFTA Cymru Nominated Writer and BBC Comedy Collective director who’s had a LOT of fun making fun films for fun. An excitable indie filmmaker always seeking to spread silliness (as we’ll all be dead soon anyway). The latest 3 (of his 20) short films The Foul (dog poo), RoButler (naughty AI) and Road Rage! (inconvenient time-travel) have amassed awards and 80+ official selections, including at AcademyBAFTA/BIFA-recognised festivals. In 2024 he made 3 new comedy shorts: The Quackening (a duck curse), 1 In 5 Sheep (why do sheep baa?) and Time’s Up, I’m Afraid (multiverse-hopping therapist). James is also developing his debut feature script and a comedy series based in a fantastical Welsh town of crazy characters (Screbs).
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
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
Director Biography - James Button
James Button is a BAFTA Cymru Nominated Writer and BBC Comedy Collective director who’s had a LOT of fun making fun films for fun. An excitable indie filmmaker always seeking to spread silliness (as we’ll all be dead soon anyway). The latest 3 (of his 20) short films The Foul (dog poo), RoButler (naughty AI) and Road Rage! (inconvenient time-travel) have amassed awards and 80+ official selections, including at AcademyBAFTA/BIFA-recognised festivals. In 2024 he made 3 new comedy shorts: The Quackening (a duck curse), 1 In 5 Sheep (why do sheep baa?) and Time’s Up, I’m Afraid (multiverse-hopping therapist). James is also developing his debut feature script and a comedy series based in a fantastical Welsh town of crazy characters (Screbs).