Curry Barker short
This Bryan Adams UIL film submission was shot, directed, and edited by Malaki Young in about 8 hours It is a tale about a boy who try's to summon a god but it backfires and he loses everything.
Hee Joon gets possessed by an evil spirit. Sister Junia takes it upon herself to save the boy aided along the way by Sister Michaela who decides to help her even though chaos surrounds them. Father Paolo, a psychiatrist, believes that he can cure Hee Joon with medical intervention meanwhile Father Andrea performs exorcisms on the boy.
After her mother’s death, Sarah lives isolated with her aunt. One night, she confesses experiencing the feeling of a presence, something malicious and relentless.
Walking in her home, Evelia experiences the past, the present and the future at the same time. In the symbolic life she leads, governed by the god Janus, everything around her seems to speak to her, until random visions are born poetic. Through the trance state that awakens the inner gaze, Evelia's anima connects with the anima mundi. Simonetta's eyes is about the memory that a person will leave behind; Evelia tells the viewer, with the language of the gaze: "one day, we will only be memory".
When a recent widow moves to New Zealand from India, she's forced to confront her grief by completing an ordinary ritual in an extraordinary circumstance: quarantine.
Salvia Divinorum is an often misunderstood and powerful psychedelic plant used by the Mazatec shamans in southern Mexico for centuries. This entheogen's mysteries are thoroughly explored, by Director Erin Wyche, from an American view point.
Thirteen years after her seemingly normal father goes on a killing spree, a college senior and friends return to her hometown to uncover the secret of a macabre satanic cult and what her role is in their grand scheme.
Juno encounters different characters in his dreams as he seeks to make sense of his past with Clarissa. Confusing and distorted memories haunt him and prevent him from moving forward in the writing of his novel. Juno asks his best friend Dyno for help to solve the enigma that haunts him so much and that dwells in the deepest part of his being. Dyno will perform a ritual in order to clarify to Juno all his thoughts and the final meaning that is inside him, in his innermost, darkest depths.
An older sister takes her fearless runaway sibling on a road trip, to share the most chilling tales surrounding their hometown.
A young woman guides a man through a mysterious forest. In his eyes, everything seems normal, until he comes across two women waiting for him in a macabre ritual.
A young boy inadvertently stumbles upon a questionably familiar house.
A testimony to the performance of ritual dances. Although they were performed only during the so-called “unbaptized days”, the 12 days between Christmas and Epiphany in the Orthodox Christianity, these dances are associated by some researchers with the Roman rosaries, the cult of the dead. Ritual clothing and the use of wooden swords to disperse the demons are important props in the dances that are believed to protect the folks from temptations and demons until they are baptized.
A teenage girl is prepared for a mysterious ritual.
Tuuli and Kaspar needed a break from the city so they escaped for some alone time to a cabin in the wilderness. Or so they thought.
Two children, a nun, and the horror of religious beliefs.