Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Los Feliz Theatre, Los Angeles
### **ABOUT THE EVENT:** From the office to the kitchen to the lab to the late-night streets of Dhaka, things go downhill fast in this collection of workplace nightmares. Doppelgängers, system crashes, sinister deliveries, and monsters real or imagined: consider this a resignation letter to reality. ### **ABOUT THE FILMS:** **“The Coder,” Dir. Will Crouse, 15 Min, USA** In the midst of a catastrophic system crash, Mary, the Chief Technology Officer of a crypto startup, must race against time to save her company – and her sanity. FORMAT: DCP **“Kandie,” Dir. Jasmine Osean Thomas, 15 Min, USA** Getting ready for the launch party of her jewelry collection, an agitated Chloe conjures up her grotesque doppelgänger. As the party progresses, Chloe begins to unravel. But is this a disturbing alternate version of herself or a parasitic nemesis eating away at her mind? FORMAT: DCP **“Shadow You,” Dir. Mike Bernstein, 20 Min, USA** A former child prodigy artist stuck designing thumbnails for a streaming service begins experiencing cryptic visions that could reignite her creative spark—or unravel her completely. FORMAT: DCP **“SCP: Containment Breach,” Dir. Zach Lona, 12 Min, USA** A routine day inside a top-secret research facility turns catastrophic when multiple anomalies escape their arcane captivity. (Adapted from the video game & the SCP Foundation wiki) FORMAT: DCP **“Foreign Body,” Dir. Mathieu Mortelmans, 16 Min, Belgium/Italy** In the middle of the night, a police detective is called to a crime scene in a monastery on a remote island. Left alone to examine the body, she realizes that it may not be human… FORMAT: DCP **“And They Shall Handle Serpents,” Dir. Stuart Valberg, 6 Min, USA** A peculiar takeout delivery driver, hoping to lead the wayward home to the Father, makes a sinister adjustment to their orders. FORMAT: DCP **“Dhet!,” Dir. Ummid Ashraf, 9 Min, Bangladesh** The night takes a strange turn in Dhaka as a ride-sharing motorcyclist tries to reach his next passenger in time. FORMAT: DCP **“No Trouble,” Jonathan Chan, 17 Min, USA** After a group of racist punks threaten a Chinese restaurant, a cook on parole grapples with whether to take matters into his own hands to defend the community. FORMAT: DCP