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2016 Austin Film Festival and Conference Schedule has ended
Sunday, October 16 • 11:15pm - Monday, October 17 • 1:15am
Shorts Program 9: Are You Afraid Of The Shorts?

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(100 min)

Son
(LUXEMBOURG, 14 min)
Writers: Guillaume Levil, Cyrus Neshvad
Director: Cyrus Neshvad
Stricken with guilt after a tragic accident leaves his son in a coma, Sebastian’s nightshift at a children’s psychiatric hospital is plagued by visions of his child.

Trunk Space
(USA, 14 min)
Writer/Director: Max Silver
When Anna and Priss pick up a hitchhiker in the middle of the desert, their road trip takes a turn for the worse.

Leonarda
(ITALY/USA, 11 min)
Writer: Rosaria Cianciulli
Director: Luca Brinciotti
Based on the true story of the serial killer, Leonarda Cianciulli sacrifices three women in order to save her children’s lives, and makes soap and cookies out of their bodies to dispose of the evidence.

Menina
(PORTUGAL, 15 min)
Writer/Director: Simão Cayatte
Set in Lisbon in 1971, a young housewife has the courage to find out if there is more to her world than her husband, her baby, and her home. What she discovers is a reality that will change her forever.

Thresher
(CANADA, 14 min)
Writer/Director: Alex Clark
A lone man is terrorized by a masked burglar late one night, but the intruder soon realizes that the man's house is not what it seems.

The Cleansing Hour
(USA, 18 min)
Writer: Aaron Horwitz
Director: Damien LeVeck
Two filmmakers have found success running a webcast that streams live exorcisms, each an elaborate hoax to dupe their global audience. This time their latest subject might actually be demon-possessed.

Antarctica
(USA, 14 min)
Writer/Director: Iesh Thapar
A happily married woman encounters a charming stranger and indulges in an adulterous fling.



Sunday October 16, 2016 11:15pm - Monday October 17, 2016 1:15am CDT
Alamo Drafthouse Village presented by Sprint