BAFF: Folk Horrors and Old Sins

Name: BAFF: Folk Horrors and Old Sins
Genre: Horror, Shorts Program
Released: 2026-11-08
Duration: 2 h

<div><div>Old gods, older grudges, and family secrets that refuse to stay buried. Six short films about the sins of the past coming home to roost, masked figures in the light, witches in the woods, and deities that were never meant to be woken. Turns out the scariest inheritance isn't money, it's whatever your ancestors made a deal for. Don't apologize to the land. It won't help. </div></div><div><br></div><div><div><b>1. Masked Away From The Light</b> [12:54] - Raised on stories of monsters that lurk beyond the home, a young girl's reality fractures when she witnesses her mother's secret, forcing her to confront where true horror lives. </div><div><br></div><div><b>2. The Witchening</b> [7:45] - A babysitter dismisses a child's bedtime story about a vengeful witch, but soon learns it's all true... </div><div><br></div><div><b>3. Thin Air</b> [15:00] - A true crime journalist books a stay in the house where an unsolved double murder took place in 1891 — and learns that the truth is darker than she could have imagined. </div><div><br></div><div><b>4. STYXIɅ</b> [12:23] - A young woman is lost in an immense, macabre forest. She must wander through the woods with utmost care in search of the river Styx, her only chance to escape eternal torment. When a savage beast begins to hunt her, she is forced to confront not only the creature stalking her, but also the deepest horrors of her own mind, and the terrible guilt that dragged her into this hell. </div><div><br></div><div><b>5. ABSOLUTION</b> [11:37] - A minister visits a grieving family in the midst of a missing mother, and finds evil lurking in their home.</div><div><br></div><div><b>6. Dreams of a Dead God</b> [36:46] - October 1936: in the swamps outside of New Orleans, sanity and reality itself are tested during the filmed interrogation of a kidnapper with ties to an ancient cult. </div><div><br></div><div>Q&A 15 mins </div></div><div><br></div>Horror, Shorts ProgramPT2HNot Rated2026-11-08

Jeni Bezuidenhout

MK Kopp

Brooke Becker

Joshua Torresvalle

Dylan Cole Black

Jim Weter

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Showtimes

November 8, 11:30 am