A special selection with the best short films from Phenomena Festival 2K19.

Leaving for his dream job, a satellite technician keeps solitude at bay by constantly texting with his old friends. After neglecting his duties a satellite leaves its orbit which causes the worlds network to collapse.

A lonely white flower grows surrounded by other plants and every day he struggles to survive.

Slugs have a hard time keeping up with the pace of life in the city of insects. When a financial crisis hits, the industrious bees only see one solution.

On his way home from work, Sam dies. He wakes and meets Death who takes him on a walk to self-discovery.

The early 20th century London. Famous detective Gloria Scott and her faithful companion Mary Lambert are spending a quiet evening in their office. Then, an unknown murderer kills professor Jansen at their doorstep. A new adventure awaits them.

In a version of Kolkata, India rendered unliveable by sea level rise, things take a dark turn when a family of climate change refugees are ambushed by a tiger on the flooded streets.

Who wouldn't give their all for a child? A mother sees an opportunity to escape the hardships of a life of poverty by selling her organs to a sick, very rich, elderly neighbor. And she hands over her own flesh in exchange for gold. Little by little, necessity gives way to a craving for more gold.

After losing a well paid engineering job, Toomas, a young hot wolf, gets cornered into working as a gigolo to support his family. He is keeping it as a secret from his pregnant wife Viivi. Viivi also has a secret: she is attending a female empowerment seminar involving male slaves. When Toomas gets a role in a sexploitation movie, it becomes harder to keep his new profession a secret.

Ahau, the higher priest, ruler of Chichen Itza, faces a social crisis at hand. Determined to invoke his old God Kukulkan, he will face his own shadow through a ritual that will change his life forever.

A woman alone in a small flat is carrying out her daily housework when she starts hearing sounds from the other side of the wall. The neighbour’s undecipherable doings are slowly invading her enclosed space, increasingly merging with her mundane chores. She picks up the type writer and starts writing, equally triggered and distracted by the strange noises. In her struggle to map out the features and actions of the elusive character next door her own reality gradually starts to disintegrate.

“Panic Attack!” is a 3-minute, hand-drawn animation from the point of view of a woman having a panic attack. The transitions between reality and her imagined fears are seamless, so there are no edits - it is one continually transforming drawing.

Rose grows up with her snails in the park. Their park. One day she is attacked by intruders. Or is it the other way around? A film about dehumanization.

A dead body became stuck by a river bank. Its decaying insides still hide a human soul - a miniature of the deceased. Rotting organs part and a tiny creature gets out. Standing on the river bank, it says goodbye to the corpse and sets off on a journey through the post-mortem land.

Haunted every night by monsters of unknown origin, an isolated woman finds a stranger in the woods and struggles between her safety and her sexual desires.

Leo visits his grandfather who no longer speaks and finds a way to connect with him…

The self that lies in the other is the creation of a possible existence that seeks to humanize dehumanization. What possibilities of existence regurgitate in a given space? How does a bone scream? And why? Does a vein think? Can the skin talk? Deaununization reacts to a sick and utilitarian society creating another possibility of being in the world, that of creating fury. That of the trembling flesh, the one that invades spaces only through the flow of existence, and an absolute need to be and be as it is.

“In Hope of the highest pedestal Thy castle crumbled Into infernal dust.”

Based the classic weird fiction anthology "The King in Yellow" by Robert W. Chambers, CORPSE uses a fractured narrative of surreal flashbacks and dream sequences to tell the story of a C-list reality TV star, her best friend and a group of young entrepreneurs who encounter a forbidden book which induces madness in those who read it.

Bayta is a famous social media influencer. Once the most popular of all, she's falling from grace as opposed to Eva, the first humanoid influencer robot and against herself. Her germophobia is out of control, her body is breaking down, and she’s unable to find sexual pleasure. After touching Eva for the first time, a strange liquid starts oozing from her pores. To her, there’s no doubt: Eva is responsible.

In this horror-fantasy fairy tale, an orphanage spirals into mayhem when a boy discovers a shadowy creature who comes to collect more than just the children's teeth…

A young man confronts accidental addiction in an inescapable journey through a magical realist 1960s dreamscape. A hand-built film that recalls an era of fantasy not reliant on digital effects.

Judah is a young man with a condition - he dreams while he's still awake. His imagination makes it difficult for him to process the loss of his most important person, so when his cousin contacts him with a ridiculous scheme to get at that the riches of their eccentric Uncle Airmid who has disappeared, Judah agrees to go along with it.

A man undertakes a dangerous ritual in an attempt to save his ailing wife.

When a young girl discovers a mysterious antique mirror in the basement of her ailing grandmother’s house, she accidentally opens a window between time that allows her to cross over into war-torn Nazi-occupied Poland.

Chile, 2038. Revival is the most popular technology, a virtual reality device that allows people to relive moments from their past, as if they were there again. Émile (24), a young Haitian raising money to bring his mother from Haiti, discovers that someone is interfering with his memories in his Revival. Searching for answers, he unveils the truth behind his life.

Alien Addiction follows Riko (Jimi Jackson) who lives in a small town in the middle of nowhere (Waikato, New Zealand). Life was pretty normal until two aliens crash landed near Riko’s house. He welcomes the aliens and together they develop an intergalactic relationship of epic proportions. Alientologist Peter Mackintosh (Thomas Sainsbury) has tracked the aliens and Riko, and plans to capture them and reveal them to the world. Alien Addiction has been tearing up theatres with laughter along the Film Festival Circuit. It has featured in the London Sci Fi Film Festival, Austin Other Worlds Film Festival, and the Boston Sci-Fi Film Festival.

The year is 1994 - For centuries, a demonic cult has been plotting the destruction of mankind. When a small Colorado town is overrun by a legion of mutating demons, three non-demon hunter friends must use every skill their minds can fathom to stave off the demon apocalypse.

Pitch: Anne Hutchinson's troubled relationship with her missing sister is under alien tribunal. Meanwhile, her new roommate's mysterious illness causes her to go on a cannibalistic killing spree.

Recurring nightmares and the aftermath of a violent break-up have put Leni on edge. As she desperately seeks to regain her sanity she must confront her monsters in order to unravel the trauma of a past she doesn't seem to fully remember.