REVFF26: Dark Tales

Ready for a walk on the darker side of life? This selection leans more on the twisted end of the scale and we’ll definitely be keeping a list of names of those who attend to pass on to the authorities but until they come knocking, feel free to revel in these cool pieces of work. They’re mostly from Australia too!

Appetite of a Nobody
Dir. Amanda Kaye
Australia
2025
15:36

Gerald is a raw meat eating socially inept guy who wants nothing more than to make friends but when he follows the steps of an 80's self help video things take a bloodcurdling turn.

Dilemma
Dir. Nick Kozakis
Australia
2026
5:40

A mysterious Stranger offers a grief-stricken father a supernatural bargain: resurrect his murdered daughter by killing her killer. But when the Stranger’s deal transports him into the past and presents the killer as a sleeping child, the moral dilemma takes an absurd turn. As the father’s shockingly pragmatic solution upends the Stranger’s plans, a cycle of vengeance is set in motion that spins out of control, the story slyly poking fun at the very idea of “impossible choices,” blending dark suspense with a devilish sense of humour.

Rotting Hill
Dir. Anastasia Sidorova
Australia
2025
15:00

Girl meets boy, and chases the fantasy romance she’s always dreamed of… despite the zombie apocalypse. Sera is finding it hard to make friends as an adult. Let alone, meet the person of her dreams. Everyone is busy spending their days ‘staying alive’ and ‘fighting zombies’, and it’s impossible to meet new people. Until she meets the mysterious Hari, and unbelievably, Sera may have found what she’s really been fighting for the whole time.

ShoeBox
Dir. James Haddad, Ruby Rawlings
Australia
2026
21:27

Amid a housing crisis, two friends facing homelessness resort to sabotage at a rental inspection, forcing them to confront the price of survival.

Pleasure-seeking
Dir. Michaela Holmes
Australia
2025
14:20

Suffering a pervasive sense of loneliness, Sasha spends her days chasing a constant stream of dopamine—until a bizarre physical malady and a persistent neighbour unearth her unravelling mental state.

Dual
Dir. Nitasha Bhambree, Declan Mulvey
USA
2025
19:59

When an expecting couple retreats to their cabin in the woods during a global crisis, they discover the real threat to their security is more familiar than foreign.