Event

Ascension

Ascension
Directed by: Ross Wachsman | 87 min. | USA, 2018.
When a troubled teen notices a sudden shift in her older sister's personality, she fears that the same dark and terrifying force that caused her mother's suicide is now inspiring her older sister to do something unspeakable.

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Beast
Directed by: Leonora Lonsdale | 18 min. | United Kingdom, 2017.
A gothic fairytale about three generations of women struggling to come to terms with a divorce.

7 year old ALICE gets told her Daddy has transformed into a monster, a Beast, (when he's actually run away with another woman). Her mothers cautionary tale sets her imagination alight - forcing her to question who or what she really is. If her fathers a monster - then what does that make her?

This gothic fairytale is a cinematic exploration of identity; blending family drama with magical realism.