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Dead Drop

Posted by Ben Nicholson | Sep 18, 2026 | Festivals, Oldenburg 2026 |

Eight strangers find themselves trapped in a freight elevator and subjected to increasing danger in Dead Drop, Ned Crowley’s inventive and frequently amusing horror-thriller.

Brute

Posted by Ben Nicholson | Sep 16, 2026 | Festivals, Oldenburg 2026, Verdict Shorts |

An artist wrestles with the pressure of sculpting from a hulking wooden monolith in Brute, a beguiling existential horror about our impact on the world.

Aicha

Posted by Ben Nicholson | Aug 3, 2026 | Amman 2026, Verdict Shorts |

A mother goes to extreme and mystical lengths to reconnect with her daughter in Aicha, a disquieting, fragmentary and politically pointed folk horror-inflected short.