GASP! Horror Festival 2024: World Cinema Short Film Showcase
Returning for its second year, GASP! are so proud to once again showcase
some of the best and most exciting new filmmakers from around the world.
Featuring fantastic shorts from Japan, France, Peru, Spain and Croatia to name
a few, this showcase provides animation, hard hitting and thought provoking
themes, horror comedy, disturbing body horror, a mind bending sci-fi epic, an
exploration into a fascinating part of Japanese cinema history, and so much
more with one thing in common; they’re all essential viewing!
Her Body European Premiere
Written and Directed by David Liang
Starring Chia Chi Chang, Jia Xian Shen
Taiwan, 2026, 3 minutes
A creepy night with a man and a dead body...
Birdies
Exclusive Manchester Screening
Directed by Franka Bogovic and
Oleksandr Saško Moskalov
Croatia, 2026, 2 minutes
Two child animators, motivated by their personal interest in horror, created a
short animated film inspired by watching famous clips from Hitchcock's The
Birds. The film was made using a very demanding chalk drawing technique on a
wooden board to make the frames as dark as possible, and additional tension
was created by sound effects of roars and thunder, and music that increases
the tension.
FreyaUK Premiere
Written and Directed by Fredrik Lindton
Starring Max
Nilén, Myra Mayers
Sweden, 2025, 14 minutes
A fathers first time being alone with his daughter" He notices that something
is horrible wrong, his daughter Freya is missing her face, where the eyes, nose
and mouth should be, is just skin... With an old folk lore book he desperately
tries to fix Freya, but is the book really helping him? Content Warning: Automatonophobia, animal death, and baby endangerment
Children at the Rooftop Cinema
European Premiere
Japan, 2026, 10
minutes
Children watching a movie on the roof. The film depicts moments of rebirth.
The children react differently to each unique portrayal of rebirth - some
applaud while others boo. Are these children angels? Fallen angels? Or
perhaps gods themselves?
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9Mk9HbFD4E
Content Warning: Flashing images
CAREFUL
Exclusive Manchester Screening
Written and Directed by Camille
Lagaisse
Starring Alba Guilera, Franz Liebig, Lia von Blarer
Germany, 2025,
13 minutes
When a secret feminist group assigns Lucie her first mission — to lure an
unpunished abuser into a trap — the lines between justice, healing, and
revenge begin to blur.
Content Warning: Sexual threat and references to sexual assault
Pishtaco
Written and Directed by Alvaro Hurtado
Starring Cesar
Marticorena, Erick Herrera, Ariana Beraun
Peru, 2026, 5 minutes
A man is followed home by a stranger.
The Beneath
Directed by Lisette Vlassak
Written by Lasse Feijen
Starring
Frieda Barnhard, Daniël Boissevain, Regina Ayarza
Netherlands, 2025, 8
minutes
When an underground evil terrorizes her garden, a troubled woman must face
her demons head-on to stop her fear.
SHIFT
Written and Directed by Mauro Romano
Starring Caroline Moser
Switzerland, 2025, 4 minute
"What's on television? Are we watching it… or is it watching us?"
Timid Intentions
World Premiere
Written and Directed by Léo Louvel, Co-
Written by Benoit Chaieb
Starring Victor Marqueste, Maewenne Declerieux,
Garance Mesnier
France, 2026, 16 minutes
February 2002. Sam, a young filmmaker, decides to attend the 20th
anniversary screening of his favorite film, Blow Out, but ends up meeting a
young woman who stirs unexpected questions within him.
Amira
Exclusive Manchester Screening
Directed by Javier Yañez Sanz,
Written by Sadrac González-Perellón
Starring Aroa Haren Varela, Ruth Díaz,
Alberto Sanchez Pisionero
Spain, 2025, 16 minutes
In the XVIII Century there’s a music school where it’s always dark.
Content Warning: Child death
All of our screenings are 18+ unless otherwise stated, the film starts at the advertised time above.
