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SHORT FOCUS 2019: Cry [Guy Wilson, UK, 2018]
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The Underground Empire [Manuel del Negro, Italy, 2019]
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Screen Test: Part One [Emma Sywyj, UK, 2016]
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Sure! A Myth of Three Creations [Pacco Fanti, Brazil, 2018]
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Chemicals, Like God [Matthew Roe & Kat Parker, USA, 2017]
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The Wait of Stones [Dave Huber, USA, 2019]
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Hollow Pond [Rolfin Nyhus, UK, 2019]
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A Most Savage Beast [Theo Hogben, Norway/UK, 2018]
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Random Knowledge [Michael Charron, USA, 2018]
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A Light Before the Dark [Valentina Premoli, Italy, 2018]
The film is effectively a horror short story with the sort of twist horror short stories tend to have. Although A Light Before the Dark’s tw
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