Lauren L. Owen

Inspired by the Japanese yokai Noppera-bo, this psychological horror short follows Avery, an ambitious photographer who stumbles upon a cabin deep within the woods. As reality begins to unravel around him, Avery is forced to confront the guilt, trauma, and consequences of his past actions revealing a dark hisotry.

Clinging to the reputation of his one hit novel, writer Guy Laury accepts a winter residency on a reclusive island whose residents seem friendly at first. The discovery of a lost manuscript and its possible ties to a longstanding local murder case, however, throw into question the intentions of everyone around him.

This visually ravishing and thought-provoking work portrays one of the USA’s great shames—the 1955 murder of 14-year-old Emmett Till by two white men in Mississippi—and movingly reminds us of this dark episode’s enduring relevance.

Living out of a motel, 15-year-old Tommy makes a drastic decision in order for her siblings to escape the heat before the summer’s over.