Annual Awards 2025-2026 | Program 3: Shadows & Secrets

2:50 – 4:10 PM | Cinema #8 | Horror and Mystery | 🔴 18+

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Dans

Maria Garcia (Mexico)
USA Premiere

Azul is a young woman who, in search of new experiences in her life, decides to go out to explore the city’s nightlife, meeting people and shady experiences that she has never had before but that make her feel a little more alive.

07:43

The Sequence

Joe Bandelli (USA)

After a terrifying and deeply disturbing nightmare, stay-at-home mom Taylor wakes in a panic, convinced that the horrific events she dreamed about must never come to pass. As she prepares for moving day, tension with her husband and son only fuels her growing fear. But when eerie details from her nightmare start manifesting in reality, Taylor becomes desperate to alter the course of events, doing everything in her power to prevent her worst fears from coming true.

14:55

Where The Shadows Wait

On a freezing winter night, Officers Ryan and Mike respond to a welfare check at a decaying, snow-covered home. What starts as routine turns sinister when they meet Jonathan—an eerily calm man with dark secrets. Inside, they uncover a corpse staged for a long-forgotten prom. As the power fails and shadows close in, the officers are trapped in a deadly game, forced to face both the terror around them and their own inner demons.

16:30

Come and Find Me

Carmine Carpenito (Switzerland)

A 14-year-old boy receives an unexpected and surreal call from the afterlife in the middle of the night, leading him to a shocking truth…

20:00

The Pearl Comb

Ali Cook (UK)

In 1893, a fisherman’s wife becomes the first person to cure someone of tuberculosis. A doctor, intent on proving a woman’s place is in the home and not practising medicine, investigates – only to discover the source of her unearthly power.

20:34

Total runtime: 1h 20m

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