Fantasy

In an alternate universe, the dinosaurs have roared one too many times before the asteroid hits Earth. The consequences that follow could be catastrophic.

In May 2022, a commercial fishing vessel sunk off the coast of southern New Zealand. NZSAR continued to search for Noah Higgs for a further two weeks until the search was called off.

An alien visits a coffee house by a multi-verse intersection, he and the other patrons soon discover that they are stuck in a time loop. Cautiously the aliens must follow a planetary protocol in order to discover and break the mechanism.

A young girl, Grace, loses her favourite toy while out playing in the woods, Boopie. A spirit in the woods, Seraph, gives life to Boopie in order to help bring the toy home. However, the only way in which Boopie can return to Grace's side is by enduring upon a perilous journey through three mystical realms.

Split between the safety of her 'happy place' and a hard to navigate reality, River tries to communicate the darker side of her mind.

Three pals go into the woods to play a game.

Florence’s lipstick trouble takes a dark turn when she encounters a sinister message.

A young artist gets stranded in an extensive, immaculate forest in western Ireland, where, after finding shelter, she becomes trapped alongside three strangers, stalked by mysterious creatures each night.

Mindy adopts Angel, a high-spirited pony that—according to legend—will lead its owner to gold hidden in the nearby mountains. When Angel is kidnapped by a mad treasure hunter, Mindy and her school friends head into the hills to rescue the pony and hunt for the lost gold. But Mindy meets a mountain man that warns her the treasure is part of an ancient curse—if they remove the gold, they'll destroy the beautiful forest.

Based on Niko Lortkipanidze’s novel "Georgia for Sale", the film portrays the painful and absurd reality of Georgia being treated as a commodity.

An all-star hockey player is critically injured during a game. With nothing to do, he seeks a week-long job at a decrepit hotel in Colorado. When he arrives, he must face past trauma from the strange employees and spirits in the building.

Two elves venture into the wilderness to explore the infamous ruins of Aldemore and the world of Aerindor. The road forces them to explore their friendship and ideologies, and how unsophisticated curiosity can argue with maturity. When met with danger, impulsive choices might lead them to endanger a prophesy of the end times at the hands of a heinous cult.

A girl is carelessly roaming around the woods, when suddenly she gets seduced by mystical figures. This experimental short film is inspired by an existing Nepalese folklore. The folklore is adapted to represent the indigenous Limbu people, and their marriage practices inside the community. This short film talks about the existing ritual that took away the youth, freedom and choices of Limbu women.

a kid spends the whole night watching tv and drinking overwhelming amounts of beer until he dies of alcohol poisoning

A stranger walks into a club, he encounters two other strangers and a dungeon master who invites them all to play a sinister Tabletop RPG game.

Leaf Man is a metaphysical monster movie following a man's odyssey through a world of perspective-shifting existential transformations. With momentum from a powerful shoegaze score, this wordless short film uses surreal and strange dual-roled characters to dance through the boundary between ourselves, our surroundings, and each other, in the search for a meaningful life.

In a magicians’ private stand-off, two practitioners must brave tricky challenges to demonstrate a hidden ability. They conjure animal illusions, consume light bulbs, and face the choice between antagonism and friendship.

One of the 25 best Straight 8 films for 2024.

One of the 25 best Straight 8 films for 2024.

Arjun falls in love with Divyavathi who turns out to be a ghost, and sets out on a journey to uncover the truth about Divyavathi's spectral existence, learning valuable lessons about love, acceptance, and empathy along the way.