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Midnight

Buddy

A brave girl and her friends must escape a kids television show.

Park City Legacy

Cronos

A mysterious device designed to provide its owner with eternal life resurfaces after 400 years, leaving a trail of destruction in its path.

Premieres

The Gallerist

A desperate gallerist conspires to sell a dead body at Art Basel Miami.

World Cinema Documentary Competition

Hanging by a Wire

A routine school commute turns terrifying when a cable cars wire snaps, leaving eight passengers — including six schoolboys — dangling 900 feet above a ravine in the remote Himalayan foothills. With 10 hours before the remaining cable is expected to fail, a group of rescuers races to save them.

Premieres

I Want Your Sex

When fresh-faced Elliot lands a job with artist and provocateur Erika Tracy, his fantasies come true as she taps him to become her sexual muse. But Elliot finds himself out of his depth as Erika takes him on a journey into a world of sex, obsession, power, betrayal, and murder.

World Cinema Dramatic Competition

Levitating (Para Perasuk)

In a town where pleasure equals being possessed by spiritual beings, Bayu aspires to be the shaman of a trance party so he can fundraise enough money to prevent an impending eviction.

Midnight

Leviticus

Two star-crossed teenage boys must escape a violent entity that takes the form of the person they desire most — each other.

Short Program

Midnight Short Film Program

Midnight Short Film Program

Midnight

Mum, I’m Alien Pregnant

When a messy millennial underachiever accidentally gets alien-pregnant, she must overcome skeptical doctors, a useless baby daddy, and her oversharing mum in order to survive and reclaim her life.

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Night Nurse

As a series of perverse scam calls unsettles an idyllic retirement community, a starry-eyed nurse becomes entangled with her mysterious patient.

Short Film Program

Prime

A trauma victim joins a utopian farming community only to find she’s bitten off more than she can chew.

Midnight

Rock Springs

After the death of her father, a grieving young girl moves to an isolated house in a new town with her mother and grandmother, only to discover there is something monstrous hidden in the town’s history and the woods behind their new home.

Midnight

Saccharine

Hana, a lovelorn medical student, becomes terrorized by a hungry ghost after taking part in an obscure weight loss craze: eating human ashes.

Park City Legacy

Saw

Two men awaken to find themselves on the opposite sides of a dead body, each with specific instructions to kill the other, escape or face the consequences. These two are the latest contestants in Jigsaw’s games.

Short Film Program

Taga

Vivi, a third-culture Filipina American, travels to the Philippines to reconnect with her roots but falls in with a group of Western eco-volunteers. When they scorn the customs of a remote mountain village, an ancient evil comes knocking.

Midnight

undertone

The host of a popular paranormal podcast becomes haunted by terrifying recordings mysteriously sent her way.

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