TerrorMolins 2025 will screen the most anticipated short films from the Official Section, with outstanding titles such as 'Stomach Bug', 'Confession', 'Corps étranger (Foreign Body)' and 'Dream Creep', which promise to make the Molins de Rei audience tremble.
The programming of the 44th edition incorporates the parallel sections Ç-Trencada, TerrorKids and TerrorJove, reaffirming the festival's commitment to Catalan talent, innovation and family and youth audiences.
The jury of the Official Feature Films Section, made up of journalist Marta Ferrer, visual effects artist Pablo Otero and screenwriter and director Daniel Padró, heads a list of juries that will decide the awards for the different sections.
Stomach Bug
The Molins de Rei Horror Film Festival arrives this year with a 44th edition full of new features. The event introduces the Official Short Film Section, as well as some of the highlights of the programming, such as the sections C-Broken, TerrorKids i TerrorYoung. This new batch of titles, which oscillates between psychological horror, body horror, black humor and the most disturbing animation, reaffirms TerrorMolins' vocation to give voice to bold, diverse and risky proposals within the genre. In addition, new names belonging to the festival are revealed, with the different jurors that will accompany this edition.
The new crop of shorts from TerrorMolins 2025. The edition will open with Stomach Bug (out of competition), a British short that will accompany Dysphoria, the movie inaugural of the festival. Nominated for BAFTAs and widely awarded at international festivals, the short film by Matty Crawford combines drama and body horror in one of the horror shorts of the year, to tell the story of Manny, a fifty-year-old Chinese father who feels invisible in British society. As he talks to his daughter, to find out when he will be able to see her again, an unknown presence begins to beat inside him.
The conclusion will be marked by Confession (also out of competition), an intense psychological horror tale in which a priest is interrupted by a mysterious woman who sits behind him and tells him not to turn around. As the woman tells her story, the priest uncovers terrifying secrets that will shake his faith.
At the Official Short Film Section there stands out Corps étranger (Foreign Body), one thriller atmospheric film set in an isolated monastery where a researcher discovers that the body of a crime may not be human. The film has a tour of international festivals, such as the Fantastic Film Fest in Brussels, where it won the Grand Jury Prize. Also Dream Creep, which has been screened at Sundance and Palm Springs ShortFest, among others, has established itself as one of the most talked about titles on the circuit. This piece proposes a domestic nightmare experience in which a voice from the afterlife tempts a couple to commit unimaginable acts.
The ghost of the fifth revisit from the animation Goya's last days at La Quinta del Sordo, surrounded by the spirits of his past, and is revealed as an artistic piece of extraordinary visual and emotional strength. In this same vein, the festival is strongly committed to animation as a language of horror with titles such as Judy1964, My game i Underground Invaders, which explore fear through visual experimentation and dark fantasy. We also find Good Luck, a short film of Taiwanese origin that combines technology and curses with the spirit of the purest style J-Horror, in agreement with leitmotif of the festival.
Among the proposals of’local authorship, highlights Smoke bomb, a Catalan short that can be seen in the Official Section: a work of growing tension and psychological background that plays with the codes of black comedy and rural terror. The selection is completed with a wide variety of pieces that reflect the eclecticism of the genre. A Matter of Minutes transports us to a party that turns into a deadly nightmare; Pimple turns a simple grain into a grotesque explosion of collective chaos; and Impure recovers a broken love in an abandoned boarding school where faith and guilt turn against its protagonists. In and Out of the Hornbeam Maze plays with childhood and fear in a labyrinth with no exit, while Kukeri explores the ancient rituals of folklore Bulgarian and its unexpected consequences.
They are also part of the selection Meat Crayon, where a girl's art drifts towards something much darker and more disturbing; Midnight Movie Club, which turns a film screening into a lethal experience; Night Shift, where a night watchman confronts a supernatural presence that evokes memories of her lost mother; Out of the Peat, an archaeological excavation that unearths horrors from the past; Teetan, a story from Iran of survival and tradition set in a snowy forest; The Woman in the Bed, an intimate and chilling piece about sleep paralysis; What's In Your Bag?, a fierce critique of image culture; and Whitch, a domestic horror where witchcraft breaks out in the middle of the night.
Ç-Trencada: Catalan short, without limits. The section C-Broken, created in 2019, offers a prominent space within the festival for short films spoken in Catalan or produced in Catalonia, as well as for innovative local proposals. This year's titles include Mother Benefacta, an animated short directed by Marc Riba i Anna Solanas, which had its world premiere at the 69th edition of the Seminci. In just 12 minutes and without dialogue, the production combines the technique of stop motion with a shocking story about a convent during the Franco dictatorship, where the nuns offer refuge to pregnant young women but hide a manipulative and dark structure.
The section also includes titles such as Witch hunters, which revisits the persecutions of witches in the Vall d'Àneu in 1424; Until it stops beating, where a young man falls in love with the ghost of a boy who hides an evil presence; Instructions for being a wise child, a game of tension between two children with seemingly innocent intentions; Killergotchi, about a virtual toy that becomes a nightmare; Palpitate, with tarot reader Marcela trying to avoid an accident after having a premonition; Chocolate cake, a sinister initiation rite in a pastry shop; Good enough, which explores the extent to which two young women are willing to sacrifice themselves to get a job; and The Nest, a story of sex and domination that will take an unexpected turn.
Horror for all audiences. The TerrorMolins 2025 programming dedicates a special space to younger audiences with the sections TerrorKids, competitive section of short films for children aged 6 to 9 and over 10, and TerrorYoung, activities and screenings aimed at teenagers and young people.
A TerrorKids Titles selected for their quality and suitability for family audiences will be screened, including Burkāns separasteis (The Odd Carrot), Durvju burvis (Wizard of the Door), Kanopos ir pačiūžos (Hoofs on Skates), Konko, Manai mammai nav bail (My Mommy Isn't Afraid), Defect, The Night Boots, Luna and the Brain Tuna i Cry here. The solidarity session in favor of the Association of Families and Friends of Oncological Children of Catalonia (AFANOC) will be divided by age group, from 6 to 9 years old, and from 10 years old, and will be held in a relaxed atmosphere, with dim lighting, adjusted sound and mobility within the room, to promote inclusion and accessibility. The winners will compete for the Jury Prize (chosen by a Jury made up of children) and the Audience Prize “Caca a la Butaca”. This year the offer is expanded with a family screening of the film Sketch, out of competition.
TerrorYoung has activities programmed entirely by a team of young programmers. All of them have viewed, discussed and selected the most attractive shorts for the teenage audience. The session includes the film Clown in a Cornfield (Bloody Harvest) and is complemented by activities that introduce young people to film creation and criticism.
In addition to the screenings, the festival offers other activities for all audiences, such as film, craft, writing workshops and a scary reading space for children aged 2 and over, all designed to enrich their experience, in collaboration with the El Molí Library.
The 2025 juries, soul and criterion of TerrorMolins. The festival has, once again, a group of exceptional juries from various areas of the audiovisual and cultural sector.
At the Official Feature Film Section, we find journalist and critic Marta Ferrer (Catalunya Ràdio, Nació Digital), filmmaker and special effects artist Pablo Otero (Alien: Covenant, Avengers: Endgame) and the screenwriter and director Daniel Padró (Psychopath, Molaphone). The Official Short Film Section is formed by Loles Fanlo, deputy director of the D'A Barcelona Film Festival; Sébastien Roignant, filmmaker and photographer awarded at TerrorMolins 2024 for the short film Puzzle; and Águeda Sfer, emerging director with short films such as Dahlia i Miserable me.
The jury of the sections Being Different and Bloody Madness brings together director and screenwriter Lucía Forner Segarra, filmmaker and programmer of the horror audiovisual platform Shadowz Eric González, and actor Víctor Palmero, known for his presence in the television series The one that is coming or for the play Johnny Boy, among others.
The section C-Broken is in the hands of comedian and screenwriter Magí Garcia “Modgi”, one of the members of the podcast The Cathedra; director Daniel Noblom, who returns to the section after being awarded for his short film Parasomnia, and Míriam Sánchez, audiovisual manager of La Bonne (Francesca Bonnemaison Women's Culture Center).
The Critics' Jury it is formed by Francisco Javier Gutiérrez (from the media Patio Cinema, Blogos de Oro), Roberto Martín (Entrefocos.es) and David Sanmartí (Cinedania).
The Industry Jury it has the director of the Catalan Film Academy, Laia Aubia de Higes; the producer of the 3CAT series Nudes, Judit Navarro Lozano; and Diana Santamaria Varas, distribution director at Atalante Cinema.
Finally, the Jury of the Horror Microstory Competition has as a guest jury the narrator, poet and rhapsode Joan Vigó (Lives maybe, The beaches of the nape).