NYC HORROR FILM FESTIVAL 2023

Virtual Program 6 short2

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9 films in package
Lost in the Sky
In a strange galaxy, a small rescue robot is searching for survivors when he makes a dark discovery, leaving him with a devastating choice. A live-action space adventure made entirely with practical effects using a water tank, a real robot and miniature models. Six years in the making, this is Simon Öster’s directorial debut. Winner of Méliès d'argent for Best European Fantastic Short Film 2023.
A Cotton Moon
A feckless loner uncovers cryptic TV broadcasts of a mysterious deity (Academy Award-nominee Eric Roberts) whose teachings inspire a strange and radical holy awakening.
Queen of the Night
A timid young woman meets a stranger with a dark secret.
Khoby Forever
A Gen Z cautionary tale.....When Khoby gets dumped on her birthday, her friend Erica stages a relationship intervention. Little do they know a real CREEP is about to crash their “party”.
Three Baths
A spiritualist instructs a woman to give her distraught, younger sister three baths to get rid of a malevolent spirit that appears to be moving closer and closer to her.
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At the Window
A young girl wakes at night and looks out over the snow-covered garden where everything lies eerily still. Behind her, her mother lies sick in bed. Suddenly the mother’s dark dream starts to take form in the garden. A hybrid of animation and live action brings to life Helen Adam’s mysterious horror poem.
Closed captions available
Sleep Tight
A young boy struggles to navigate everyday life as his parents battle through their divorce and he faces the trauma caused by his sleep paralysis demon.
No 8 Reporting
Citizens from the well-fed, fenced off city can only venture beyond the walls on a train that distributes humanitarian aid. One reporter is determined to find out what really happens outside the city.
Annihilator
A nihilistic young man develops an obsession with snuff films on the internet. With few prospects in his increasingly bleak life, his obsession begins to take on a new dimension: a desire to star in his own.


Citizens from the well-fed, fenced off city can only venture beyond the “safety” wall on the government’s official train system. It distributes humanitarian aid and offers high ticket tourists a rare chance to see what life is like in the impoverished villages beyond the wall.

A team of investigative reporters set out to expose the corruption behind the program, but instead discover a horrifying secret no one thought possible.

Adapted from the 2007 short story “Mozharovo” by Dmitry Bykov.

  • Year
    2023
  • Runtime
    18:15
  • Language
    English
  • Country
    Canada
  • Premiere
    New York Premiere
  • Note
    ALJOSHA KLIMOV, a Russian creative based in Germany, Co-Created this series Red Iron Road and selected and adapted the original short stories into English for episodic production. Aljosha was a Co-Producer and a Co-Director of the award-winning animated feature film, FIRST SQUAD: The Moment of Truth (2009), a co-production between Canadian studio Molot Entertainment and Tokyo-based Studio 4°C. Matthew Lyon is an Canadian animation industry veteran of 25 years working as everything from designer/animator to writer/director and producer. He created and developed the 2019 feature Arctic Dogs and has since focused on developing original content for international audiences as Chief Creative Officer of Lakeside Animation Studios. For 18 years, he has taught character design, animation, and storytelling at Centennial College’s Digital Animation program in Toronto.
  • Director
    Aljosha Kilmov,Matthew Lyon
  • Screenwriter
    Aljosha Kilmov,Matthew Lyon
  • Producer
    Iouri Stepanov, Courtney Wolfson,
  • Cast
    Teddy Moynihan,Tara Yelland,Daniel Kash
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