Mouth of Madness Marathon — IndieLisboa

29 APRIL — 09 MAY 2027

29 APRIL — 09 MAY 2027

Mouth of Madness Marathon

May 08 2026, Friday, 23:30 (391')

Cinema Ideal • C.666

Index

Radu Muntean, one of the most distinctive voices of the Romanian New Wave, returns with his latest short film. In a remote forest, an ornithologist gathers material for his research. While reviewing the footage from his cameras, he comes across a feral child. What now? Shall we play hide-and-seek?

2025, 28'

Camp

The past haunts Emily, who carries the guilt of tragedies that struck early in her life. A youth camp, her father suggests, might offer a fresh start—looking after children and finding redemption in the midst of nature. She is warmly welcomed by a group of counsellors she quickly grows close to, but a voice from the bushes urges her to leave.

2025, 111'

Interface

Fallen, seemingly unconscious, a man goes unnoticed on a busy street. An insect crawls into his head, and drowsiness quickly disappears. He is now a man seized by terror, turned inside out by his own fears. After Howling (Best Short Fiction Film Award at IndieLisboa 2023), Japanese filmmaker Aya Kawozoe returns to the festival.

2025, 13'

Life of the Organoid

On a dimly lit plain, where life is scarce, the Organoid spends its days in a simple existence. At a certain moment, it begins to sense a threatening presence around it. It decides to flee and the confrontation happens.

2025, 4'

Weird To Be Human

We already knew it would come to this: in 2194, bodies bearing a human likeness are cultivated to host artificial intelligences. Transfers between the digital and physical realms have become daily routine. An immigration officer from the Department of Embodiments arrives to interrogate a being on the verge of transformation.

Poland / France

2025, 16'

Fucktoys

A fortune teller lays out the cards and AP’s fate is sealed: a curse that is here to stay. What do you do in circumstances like these? You run. You search further ahead. You ride a motorcycle. One thousand dollars and the body of a little lamb — no more, no less — that’s all AP needs to break free. Along the way, the misadventures pile up, becoming ever stranger, more excessive, provocative and, above all, trashy. After all, the city where it all leads is called Trashtown

Annapurna Sriram

2025, 106'

Thanks To Meet You!

In a performance hall, five businessmen attempt to close a deal. Yet whether it’s the increasingly disturbing turn of the conversation or the sinister manners that begin to surface, something feels off — an absurd comedy by Richard Hunter.

2025, 13'

Um

In this fantastical and sinister universe, the bird-people — human bodies crowned with avian heads — struggle to confront an imminent threat: their eggs are haunted. A violent, surreal, and fiercely imaginative animated film.

2025, 8'

Homemade Gatorade

In the middle of the night, she grabs her car and hits the road. A desperate woman is determined to sell her own version of an energy drink to a mysterious online buyer, at any cost. Strange, decadent and darkly funny, the film offers a possible portrait of contemporary America.

Carter Amelia Davis

2025, 9'

We Put the World to Sleep

The mission is secret and the ambition utopian: a film to truly bring the world to an end. We Put the World to Sleep is a work about borders — a nine-year production that offers anything but certainty: performer or character, improvisation or script, death or persistence, the real or its satellite. This is the second chapter of the “spiritual trilogy” by Romanian filmmaker Adrian Țofei and his artistic partner Duru Yücel.

Romania / Turkey

2025, 83'

Mouth of Madness

GUESTS

DIRECTOR

Adrian Țofei

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