INHERENT
Gothic horror meets small town teenage romance as we follow a girl roaming the streets, gazing at a boy. Soon it becomes clear that she is bound to something. In the attic of her house resides a sinister presence who she serves. As the infatuation grows, she is torn between her desires and her ties.
Director: Nicolai G.h. Johansen
Denmark, 2021
16:12 min
nominiert für Best Short Film 20MINMAX 2022
Nicolai G.H. Johansen is a Danish director born in 1994. Johansen graduated from the Danish independent film school, Super8, in 2021. He is interested in character-driven narratives, usually centering on lonely people struggling to connect to the world. Fascinated by the inner life and rhythms of these characters, he likes to subvert genre expectations in order to find the relatable in the irregular. He is a firm believer in mood and atmosphere being the driving force of cinema.
LOVE, FEAR AND DESIRE
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NIGHT TRAIN
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INHERENT
Gothic horror meets small town teenage romance as we follow a girl roaming the streets, gazing at a boy. Soon it becomes clear that she is bound to something. In the attic of her house resides a sinister presence who she serves. As the infatuation grows, she is torn between her desires and her ties....
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Louis and Jeanne are two brother and sister with a fusional relationship but their bond is damaged when he discovers that she has a boyfriend. From then on, ambiguous feelings are emerging and revealing in the teeanager’s mind…...