August 2024 FANTASY Festival Winners

Proud to showcase amazing films to for the FREE Action/Fantasy/Thriller Film Festival. Over 600 films were submitted. This is an exclusive lineup of the best short films in the world today.

Audience Awards:

Best Feature Film: THE CRAB BASKET
Best Direction: SMALL RED LIGHTS
Best Fantasy Film: BLACK BOX
Best Sci-Fi Film: JANUARY 2nd
Best Micro-Short: HAMBRE

Best Experimental: LAZARUS’ RESURRECTION WON’T DO ANY GOOD

Best Performances: CUL-DE-SAC

Best Sound & Music: THIS IS ONLY A TEST

SEE FULL DETAILS OF EACH FILM:

THE CRAB BASKET, 76min., Chile
Directed by Paulo Lasala
Pascal has the dream of turning an abandoned house into a cultural center. In secret, Manuel, her boyfriend, begins to use the house for other purposes. Tomas arrives a traveler who falls in love with Pascal makes her aware of the manipulation of Manuel so they plan to leave together. Unexpectedly Thomas disappears, causing Pascal to go into deep paranoia and

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LINECAP, 7min. USA
Directed by Aidan Michael Kelley
A mother and father find themselves in a desperate race against an oppressive government, constantly evading capture. Their struggle for survival becomes even more challenging as they face the harsh reality of scarce resources—no access to food or water. Just when all hope seems lost, a compassionate old woman extends a helping hand, offering them a glimmer of hope. Little do they know, the authorities have traced their steps and are closing in on the woman’s location, setting the stage for a tense and heart-pounding climax.

Watch the Audience FEEDBACK Video:
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DWOLMA, 7min., USA
Directed by Ben Meade
EXPERIMENTAL, SHOWING WHAT FILM CAN BE

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STORM, 3min., USA
Directed by Jiayi Tang
The endless war has inflicted deep trauma, as soldiers silently observe the hallucinations before them, imagining times long gone.

https://www.artstation.com/jerrytang2831
https://www.instagram.com/darth_jt/

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WARRIORS OF THE WORLD, 10min., USA
Directed by Gary McMillan Jr.
In a war that will decide the galaxy’s future, the greatest warriors from across the globe join forces to take down the dark forces of Death-Is-Fun-Gary and restore peace to the cosmos.

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BLACK BOX, 11min., Russia
Directed by Nikolay Belyakov
«Items magically appear in the black box to help its owner to make dreams come true. When hero loses this box, he realizes that he can fulfill his dreams on his own.»

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HAMBRE, 2min., Venezuela
Directed by Roberto Villafane
In a macabre cycle of violence and perversion, Mr. Lugozi, a serial killer obsessed with the dark pleasures of cooking with human flesh, descends deeper and deeper into darkness as he searches for new prey in a square of seemingly calm souls.

LAZARUS’ RESURRECTION WON’T DO ANY GOOD, 30min., Brazil
Directed by Clodoaldo Lino
An experimental short film that adopts the narrative pattern of a dystopia. In an imprecise future, humanity faces many strange diseases that threaten to bring the entire species to extinction. To avoid this situation, the Queen and her scientists orchestrate an experiment that could completely change the course of events: the resurrection of a man whose body has not yet been attacked by lethal viruses. Soon they encounter Lazarus who meets all the requirements, but it seems that all attempts to defy the biological mechanism are useless. People have to face the inferno of their own existence, dreaming of illusory paradise spaces.

JANUARY 2nd, 15min., South Korea
Directed by Taehun An
In 2033, South Korea, a country with an extremely low birthrate, decides that an AI-determined man and woman must marry,

SMALL RED LIGHTS, 7min., Italy
Directed by NIKITA
In the near future, Luigi works by turning on and off small red lights, without understanding their meaning. But who controls whom?

CUL-DE-SAC, 11min., UK
Directed by Francesco Gabriele
A couple of city dwellers move to the suburbs and are bombarded by their hyperactive neighbours who aggressively try to get them to try a strange, new health product.

https://www.thespianfilms.co.uk/culdesac
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THIS IS ONLY A TEST, 9min., USA
Directed by Bill Sorice
The tale of a Girl’s surrealistic journey encountering varied tests during the different stages of her life. It’s Pink Floyd ‘The Wall’ meets a Calvin Klein AD.

http://www.coldginproductions.com/https://www.facebook.com/thetestmovie

THE SOURCE 1996, 7min., USA
Directed by Ivy Luxen
A saturation diver discovers an old sea chest at the bottom of the underwater oil rig in the southern Caribbean Sea and carries the chest away with her. To her surprise, the chest brings unforeseeable trouble for her manager on the ship.