Official International Horror Short Film Selection - Macabro XX

The Mexico City International Horror Film Festival, Macabro, is pleased to announce the official international horror short film selection.

SHINNY NEW WORLD | Dir. Jan van Gorkum | Netherlands | 2021 | 8 min. Barry is a special kind of cleaner: he handles crime scenes where demons have caused chaos. While filming a corporate video about his job, an ordinary day gets bloodily out of hand for Barry.

THE KILLER IN CURSED WATER | Dir. Laurent Ardoint & Stephane Duprant | France | 2020 | 14 min. Cindy and Quentin spend a romantic weekend by a lake. But a killer is stalking them and may be hiding a greater threat.

EL CAMPO SANGRIENTO | Dir. Vicente Campos | Chile | 2020 | 15 min. On the outskirts of a small town lives Lidia, a naive, failed 40-year-old woman who, after a misunderstanding, accidentally kills her opportunistic husband Roberto. Now she must dispose of her husband's rotting corpse — and of her old, confined life.

LA ÚLTIMA NAVIDAD | Dir. David Muñoz & Adrián Cardona | Spain | 2020 | 15 min. Humanity has gone to hell, and only a few survive by devouring each other. Santa Claus arrives to bring toys, but in a world with no good children left, he'll have to use them as deadly weapons.

NIGHT CALL | Dir. Tim Sagl | Belgium | 2021 | 18 min. A phone-sex line operator is tormented by the spirit of her former lover, who confronts her with her past. To free herself from her claustrophobic nightmare, she must face her deepest fears.

HANNYA | Dir. Eva Muñoz | France | 28 min. Tonight, Ana will finally meet the friends of her lover, Mathieu. Everything goes well until Mathieu's childhood friend Marie arrives — someone Ana has never heard of, and who apparently is more than just a friend to her boyfriend.

NO PODRÁS VOLVER | Dir. Mónica Matero | Spain | 2020 | 13 min. Ana and David say goodbye like any other day. The young woman has plans, but won't be long. However, something extraordinary happens: something that alters her reality and changes everything completely.

EXPECTANCY | Dir. Juho Fossi | Finland | 2020 | 14 min. Alex is left alone for the weekend to remodel a room for his soon-to-be-born son. Soon, the baby monitor starts picking up terrifying sounds about his future failures as a father.

PETER THE PENGUIN | Dir. Andrew Rutter | England | 2020 | 9 min. Nigel is about to meet Emily, his partner's daughter. With high expectations, he hopes to make a great impression on her... though he wasn't counting on the girl's strange obsession with penguins.

LUCID | Dir. Deanna Milligan | Canada | 2021 | 16 min. A '90s art student searches within herself to find her true artistic voice, expressing it in a strange, bloody way — shocking and fascinating to those who underestimated her talent.

J'AI LE CAFARD | Dir. Maysaa Almumin | Qatar, Kuwait, Egypt | 2020 | 13 min. A dispirited woman struggles to keep showing up in front of her office coworkers. But an encounter with a dying cockroach becomes the start of an absurd friendship, turning into the comforting company she needs — until she realizes the destructive effect it's having on her life.

HANSEL | Dir. Vivian Papageorgiu | Greece | 2020 | 16 min. A boy becomes trapped in a gingerbread house that hides a dark world, while his mother desperately tries to find a way to get him out.

DYSTOPIA | Dir. Laura Ugolini | Norway | 2020 | 6 min. Forget reality shows and Instagram beauties: a girl's fantasy becomes the game of a gang of women who will create the perfect man, limb by limb.

ITCH | Dir. Susannah Farrugiah | Malta, England | 2020 | 8 min. A novice nun who develops a severe skin condition keeps getting worse, along with her mental state, as she struggles to control her feelings for another nun.

#MEOWTOO | Dir. Ryan Kruger | South Africa | 2021 | 5 min. In a near future wrapped in neon, our feline heroine Meow meets a vile producer, Alan, who tries to have her at any cost. But his plans go wrong when Meow launches a bloody counterattack against her abuser.

BODY OF LEVI | Dir. Freddy Cheung | United States | 15 min. Growing up in a cult in a small town in the United States, a boy witnesses his best friend's healing go horribly wrong. With his faith shaken, the boy is tormented by doubt and guilt in the face of his community's unshakeable faith.

STUCK | Dir. David Mikalson | United States | 2020 | 13 min. A gymnastics coach must deal with a man interested in the young girls she trains. Sneaking into one of the classes, he is discovered by the coach, who decides to teach him a sadistic lesson.

WHILE WE STAYED HOME | Dir. Gil Vesely | Israel | 2020 | 5 min. A boy meets a girl during the Coronavirus quarantine, each hiding a secret under their face mask.

EVA | Dir. Gonzo Llorente | Argentina | 2021 | 12 min. Eva lives in isolation due to a major pandemic. After discovering she's pregnant, she begins to feel that something bad will happen to the baby after birth. She sinks into despair, not knowing how to avoid that dark fate.

ISKIOMA | Dir. Kostas Gerampinis | Greece | 2021 | 15 min. A veterinarian is called to treat a mysterious illness on a remote farm. He examines his first victim, a ram, but can't pin down the exact cause of its affliction. Without hesitation, he advises the farm's owner to slaughter all his livestock as a preventive measure while he returns in a few days with the lab results. However, due to a storm, he is forced to spend the night at the farm.

ECDYSIS | Dir. Pavlos Sifakis | Greece | 2020 | 18 min. In a near future devastated by an environmental disaster and a deadly virus, Lina takes her infected teenage son, Aris, to a retired doctor in hopes of a cure. But Aris's infection is too aggressive, and Lina's love for her son is put to the test as she watches him turn into something else.

TRANSFERT | Dir. Jonathan Degrelle | France | 2020 | 13 min. The Nazis won the war. Isaac, a concentration camp survivor, is sent back in time by Max, a Nazi officer, to retrieve a strange artifact. But during his journey, he will face his worst nightmare...

BODY OF THE MINED | Dir. Eric Jungmann | United States | 2021 | 15 min. A mute woman arrives at a new building, where she meets a reclusive engineer on the verge of completing a rare, extraordinary machine.

THE TRAVELERS | Dir. Davi Mello | Brazil | 2020 | 11 min. One night, two actresses share their fears and insecurities as one of them starts experiencing regressions.

Sarah discovers a trail of polaroids on a nearby property tied to an infamous legend. Tempted, she follows the trail, which will lead her deep into the property.

VOYEUR(S) | Dir. Arthur Delaire | France | 2020 | 30 min. A man has decided to turn his hotel into the laboratory of his personal fantasies. Behind every door, in the intimacy of the night, scenes unfold before prying eyes.

MYOSOTIS | Dir. Felix Dobaire | France | 2020 One night, after a trivial argument, a beekeeper accidentally kills his wife. Terrified, he decides to bury the body under his garden. But just as he thinks he's gotten away with it, as the days go by his garden begins to deteriorate.

Something that will soon breach reality.WITHIN THE FRAME | Dir. Jay Kay | United States | 2020 | 5 min. While taking a morning walk to clear their mind,