Directed by Lorcan Finnegan
Ireland, 2016, 93 mins.

Eric, a surveyor by trade, is hired by a corporate developer to assess a large plot of ancient forest. Superstitious warnings from the locals about the area, the discovery of a handwritten book filled with hallucinogenic recipes and half-mad ravings about trees, and a shadowy figure have Eric on edge. First time director Lorcan Finnegan's eco-horror tale not only offers up the most vivid dose of paranoia tied to location since Polanski's The Tenant, it also throws down the gauntlet for the creepiest trees captured on film this decade. "Without Name is the truest, and perhaps finest, example of the Lovecraftian sensibility ever put on film." - Peter Gutierrez, Screen Anarchy

Preceded by:

Strangers in the Night
Directed by Conor McMahon
Ireland, 2016, 12 mins.

While protecting his grandmother from a banshee, Damien is overcome by unexpected feelings for the creature.

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