Dark I Am Yet Lovely Shorts Block 2

Filter

Director Qianhang Shao - China - 11 min. - horror

Xiaomei is a heavy user of the beautyCam/filter and cannot extricate herself from the world dressed by the BeautyCam/filter. However, the unexpected visit of her mother forces her to face reality. But what is the reality? Who are we without the filter? What is our real appearance? The anxiety and confusion of contemporary young people fermented in the digital space. Will it quietly reform who we are in real life?

Bigger/Better/Harder

Director Maximilian Schmidt - USA - 10 min. - psychological horror

Returning to the gym after being out of commission due to an injury, Recardo “Flex” Reverte, a glory hungry bodybuilder, decides to pick up his training again to attain his ultimate physique with his trainer, Beef Cake, a hulking mass of muscle. Flex soon finds out that Beef Cake enforces an abusive training regime which pushes him to his absolute limits. 

I'm Ready

Director Andres Felipe Bernal Farias - USA - 7 min. -horror

A young insecure woman is getting ready to go out on a date , suddenly her body starts having alarming changes that take her to the brink of insanity and make every inch of her skin feel rotten.