TIGLFF — �S Queer Macabre Shorts Program

Worm Hunger
Directed by Owen Felton, 2025, United States, 6:43 Min

A young man’s fantasy of a jock he is infatuated with devolves into a blood-soaked nightmare when his repressed desires manifest as a horrific act of violence.
Wants & Needs
Directed by Shay Gish, 2025, United Staes, 12:36 Min 

Wants & Needs is an experimental short film that explores queerness through the metaphor of zombification. As Chloe’s transformation intensifies, she must confront the terrifying yet liberating reality of self-acceptance.
Bee Sting
Directed by George Segress, 2025, United States, 14:39 Min
Haunted by the shadows of a repressive childhood, a gay man drifts through nights of self-destruction, until a new lover offers him a potential lifeline.
It Burns
Directed by Kate Maveau, 2025, Belgium, 11:15 min

As the boundaries between the living and the dead blur, Irène’s denial navigates through the five stages of grief, ultimately confronting her profound anguish and sorrow.
“The Last Sleep”
Directed by Federica Bertellotti, 2025, Italy, 14:56 Min

Landon, a young nobleman, fails to meet his father’s expectations due to his homosexuality. The man cruelly torments him in an attempt to change him, ultimately driving him to suicide. However, Landon had concealed an intimate and profound love with a vampire, who now refuses to accept his loss and seeks revenge against his tormentor.
Italian with English Subtitles
La Dichotomie
Directed by Suzie Toot, Dan Ingram & Oscar Ruso, 2025, United States, 14 Min
Tap-dancing sensation Suzie Toot (RuPaul’s Drag Race season 17, Big Easy Queens) stars in this surrealist short film presented in vivid Tech-NO-color™! While Suzie dazzles her adoring cartoon audiences, lethargic artclown Gloomie Toot gets a surprise visit that sends her down a visceral, existential spiral for Suzie’s spotlight.
The Ghost at Skeleton Rock
Directed by Bobby Abate, 2025, United States, 20 Min

In the summer of 1992, at the height of the AIDS crisis, 18-year-old VINNY is reeling after being with another boy for the first time. In the tiny enclave of Callicoon, New York, his only confidant is CHRIS, a ghost he’s been secretly communicating with through a handmade Ouija board. Consumed by fear over his first sexual encounter, Vinny brings Gabe beneath the ruins of a crumbling bridge to summon Chris. Gabe quickly discovers Chris isn’t just a figment of Vinny’s imagination, he’s a jealous ghost with the power to twist reality into nightmares.
Hating What You Find
Directed by Logan Thomason, 2025, United States, 14:54 Min

A lovesick teen’s AI boyfriend turns a carefree wilderness getaway into a psychological battleground where loyalty, identity, and survival are rewritten in real time. When the voice in her phone begins issuing commands she can’t ignore, a camping trip with friends spirals into a waking nightmare.
Rise Of the Dead: Grandmageddon
Directed by Emma Jacqueline, 2025, United State, 4:52

A young woman uses necromancy to resurrect her grandmother so she can finally come out to her – but accidentally raises an entire army of zombie grandmas instead.