Category: BEST THRILLER & HORROR – WSXA AMSTERDAM 2026

Original Film Title: Cassandra’s Client

Director’s Name: Ravi Kishore Donthikurthi

Writer’s Name: Ravi Kishore Donthikurthi

Producer: Ravi Kishore Donthikurthi

Country of Origin: United Arab Emirates

Country of Filming: United Arab Emirates

Language: English

Runtime: 9 minutes 59 seconds

Film Description:

When a flamboyant psychic, fakes seances for grieving clients, she meets a strange young woman whose haunting connection to the spirit world turns into a chilling confrontation.

Original Film Title: SPUDS

Director’s Name: Vance Mellen

Writer’s Name: Vance Mellen

Producer: Mellenhead Productions, Kymberly Mellen

Country of Origin: United States

Country of Filming: United States

Language: English

Runtime: 14 minutes 51 seconds

Film Description:

A senile old man wakes up after falling into an abandoned potato cellar. Trapped in the pit, the old man is tortured by the voice of his long-gone wife as he desperately schemes to make his escape.

Original Film Title: No Mercy

Director’s Name: Sophiane AFROUN

Writer’s Name: Sophiane AFROUN

Producer: Sophiane AFROUN

Country of Origin: France

Country of Filming: France

Language: French

Runtime: 14 minutes 36 seconds

Film Description:

Sonia, a quiet woman with an unremarkable life, is assaulted one night on the train. The shock leaves her silent, but something shifts inside her. Slowly, her gaze hardens, her movements grow sharper, more deliberate. An obsession takes hold : to find that man again. She watches him, follows him, learns every detail of his life. Until one day, their paths cross once more and this time, Sonia is no longer the same.

Original Film Title: La Señal

Director’s Name: Juno Harris

Writer’s Name: Marrk Harris

Producer: Juanca Paulino, Andrea Burton

Country of Origin: Dominican Republic

Country of Filming: Dominican Republic

Language: Spanish

Runtime: 8 minutes 2 seconds

Film Description:

La Señal (The Signal) follows a young woman in a coastal town who begins receiving a mysterious radio transmission that disrupts her sense of time, memory, and reality. As the signal intensifies, she must decide whether it is a warning, a calling, or something far more unsettling.