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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
NIGHTFALL
(US, 17 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
Director Biography - Zac Villanueva
Zac Villanueva is a USC-trained director known for genre-bending psychological horror. A close collaborator of *Barbarian* filmmaker Zach Cregger, his latest film, Nightfall, stars Teri Hatcher and blends emotional intensity with visual precision. He’s currently developing independent and studio projects.
- Year2025
- Runtime18 minutes
- CountryUnited States
- PremiereNorth Carolina Premiere
- DirectorZac Villanueva
- ScreenwriterZac Villanueva
- ProducerAlessia Cruci, Zarye Wossene, Steve Ewer
- CastTeri Hatcher, Guy Hershler, Emma Malouff
- CinematographerJoseph Wise
- EditorSamuel Gill
- Production DesignTaylor Woods
- ComposerDaniel Greis
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
NIGHTFALL
(US, 17 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
Director Biography - Zac Villanueva
Zac Villanueva is a USC-trained director known for genre-bending psychological horror. A close collaborator of *Barbarian* filmmaker Zach Cregger, his latest film, Nightfall, stars Teri Hatcher and blends emotional intensity with visual precision. He’s currently developing independent and studio projects.
- Year2025
- Runtime18 minutes
- CountryUnited States
- PremiereNorth Carolina Premiere
- DirectorZac Villanueva
- ScreenwriterZac Villanueva
- ProducerAlessia Cruci, Zarye Wossene, Steve Ewer
- CastTeri Hatcher, Guy Hershler, Emma Malouff
- CinematographerJoseph Wise
- EditorSamuel Gill
- Production DesignTaylor Woods
- ComposerDaniel Greis