The Trace We Leave Behind

Unknown Number

June 2016 •English

A young woman is studying when suddenly she receives anonymous phone calls in the middle of the night.

Indiscretion

June 2016 •English

A married woman's affair comes back to haunt her when her obsessed lover infiltrates every part of her life.

Thlípsi

December 2018 •English

A man who is paranoid and deluded by his own conspiracies that someone out there is after him must come to terms with the root of his suffering.

Eye for an Eye

August 2019 •Spanish

Mario, an exemplary man, lives in a village on the Galician coast. In the old people’s home, where he works as a nurse, everyone appreciates him. When the best known narco in the area, Antonio Padín, recently released from prison, enters the residence, Mario tries to make Antonio feel at home. Now, Padín's two sons, Kike and Toño, are in charge of the family business. The failure of an operation will put Kike in jail and cause them to owe a large debt to a Colombian supplier. Toño will turn to the nurse to try to convince his father to assume the debt. But Mario has his own plans.

The Long Shadow

January 2023 •English

A blissfully unaware podcast listener's evening stroll for toilet roll takes a nightmarish turn in this one-take comedy horror short.

Straw Dogs

November 1971 •English

David Sumner, a mild-mannered academic from the United States, marries Amy, an Englishwoman. In order to escape a hectic stateside lifestyle, David and his wife relocate to the small town in rural Cornwall where Amy was raised. There, David is ostracized by the brutish men of the village, including Amy's old flame, Charlie. Eventually the taunts escalate, and two of the locals rape Amy. This sexual assault awakes a shockingly violent side of David.

Revestriction

March 1990 •French

A woman sees the ceiling of her apartment begin to inexorably close in. She tries to escape, but her front door locks and her window is too high to jump. Panic ensues.

The Elephant Graveyard

March 1991 •French

A man's car somehow becomes completely autonomous and takes the powerless driver, to a scrap yard, or a 'cemetery for cars', where several more vehicles are waiting to be crushed by powerful reducing machines, their passengers still inside.

Melonmorphosis

January 2019 •English

A lonely cantaloupe wants to turn a reluctant human into a fellow cantaloupe.

Reality Free

October 2022 •English

A young man undergoes the dilemma of either letting the medication he takes for his bipolar disorder suppress his entire personality or be himself with all that comes with it.

Mukhosh

March 2022 •Bengali

The story revolves around a writer's writing and psychology. How would the writer feel if his own character came in front of him? Is it possible to measure someone's worth in money? What is the present? What is the truth? Is death the end?

Checkmate

September 2021 •Dutch

OsWorld

Invalid date •Danish

Oswald earns his living by making videos, for his channel 'OsWorld', on the video sharing platform, 'MeTube'. The constant demand from his growing audience and insatiable ambition drives him forward. He must constantly plunge new depths to keep his subscribers, the 'OsWorldians', entertained. Despite him doing so, he feels that he is underachieving and wants more. An opportunity presents itself in the form of a suicidal fan, offering his life for one of Oswald's videos. He knows the 'bad' publicity would perpetuate him to super stardom but do the ends justify the means?

Murder Van

Invalid date •English

Two women are abducted by a serial killer in a van and must work together to escape before it's too late.

The Basement

Invalid date •English

Chá da Tarde

November 2019 •Portuguese

The Poison Cook

May 2022 •English

A mysterious poison cook/dealer crafts the perfect poison

Smile As You Kill

May 2023 •English

With only a few months to live, a desperate man kidnaps a successful advertising director and makes one demand: Create an online campaign to pay for treatment - or share his fate.

Killer Coach

June 2016 •English

After a one-night stand with her coach, a pressured swimming phenom finds the lives of herself and her loved ones in danger.

Karen

September 2021 •English

A racist woman makes it her personal mission to displace the new black family that has just moved in next door to her, but they won't back down without a fight.