Bob Moricz’s Krimi is a stripped down Hollywood action thriller about a hit man returning to Portland and becoming embroiled in the city’s seedy underbelly.

The Chicago Underground Film Festival is a great place to go see mysterious cinema, such as Echoes by Jaimz Asmundson and Bite Radius by Spencer Parsons.

In Robert Putka’s comedy short film Mouthful a young couple navigate the complex emotional realities of learning a little too much about your lover.

The Quay Brothers Through the Weeping Glass is a documentary about Philadelphia’s Mutter Museum. It’s also a horror movie.

Film writer Phil Hall puts in an exceptional performance as an anachronistic drunk ranting on a park bench in the short film Uncorked.

Jewel Staite stars as a mother haunted, quite literally, by her own childhood in Nicholas McCarthy’s spooky short film The Pact.

Chris Werner’s short film The Neighbors is a nicely paced little thriller that should keep patient audiences puzzled and eventually rewarded.

Matthew Garrett’s Beating Hearts is a horror movie in reverse, starting with an act of monstrous evil, then delving into the meaning of it.

In Jef Taylor’s melancholy short film After You Left, a despondent dude tries to get his life together after being dumped by his girlfriend.

Jaimz Asmundson’s short, ritualistic film The Magus is an extraordinary vision of a mad artist, the filmmaker’s father, C. Graham Asmundson.