Mystery

The Answer It Is, a short film that delves into the search for meaning and the depths of human perception. Experience this journey brought to life by a passionate team of creators.

Three strangers find money scattered on the streets. How they use it reveals their true character, deciding their fate in the afterlife—redemption, ruin, or something far worse. How far will choices take them?

When a string of cryptic murders shatters the quiet town of Cascadillo, a team of newly recruited detectives is thrust into a chilling investigation. Tasked with unraveling cryptic riddles left at each crime scene, they are drawn deeper into a web of corruption and violence that reaches far beyond the surface. As the case turns personal, the detectives must navigate their own fractured loyalties and moral dilemmas, knowing that uncovering the truth could cost them everything.

A scruffy man in his mid-forties finds in his mailbox a mysterious envelope with an audio cassette in it. His son's voice can be heard on the tape, telling a terrifying story of his life in the cursed Volynka neighborhood. This is how the father learns that the son has gathered a group to fight against the "possessed".

Nothing is more frightening, as the narrator points out, than a ‘time-rich nosy person’. Exhibit A is Ahn Geo-ul, who commits herself to social justice causes with terrifying tenacity. After temporarily renting a unit in the Baek-sae Apartment building, she discovers that a loud, hard to locate banging noise occurs from 4am every night, making the residents’ lives an insomniac hell – and so she determines to engage in her own disruption and to find the culprit of this acoustic assault, simultaneously eliminating her eccentric neighbours as suspects, and recruiting them to her cause.

Buddy, a private investigator, visits the home of a suspect in a kidnapping case as he grapples with the notions of justice and the allure of revenge.

The tangled tale of a young family's struggles with a malevolent force that affects each family member differently. Rendered through police evidence, Mark, Marcela and Mia are tormented by a primal Greek mythological demon called Mormo.

A comedic whodunit based on the theft of a valuable painting worth in Northern Finland.

Sometimes the ends justify the means. Sometimes you need to get your hands dirty to do what's right. However, at times right and wrong isn't so black and white. A story of corruption, loss, guilt, betrayal and forgiveness.

A young woman wakes up on a train going to an unknown destination. She has no recollection of how she got there or where she is. She finds herself in a vast city; a forest of steel and iron and concrete, wandering the dark streets.

When Sarah follows a mysterious sound deep into the forest, she enters the world of The Wild Woman.

A girl is possessed by a dark and mysterious entity. She will fight with all the elements at her disposal to get rid of it. Neither her mother, nor traditional medicine, nor a supposed expert in exorcisms, will be able to make the demon disappear, until a nun gets involved in the case and sows a doubt more terrible than the possession itself.

An unsolved mystery. A haunting discovery. Shadows that hide more than darkness. Whispering Shadows—where curiosity could be your undoing. A Short Film by Paradigm Club