Intimacy is brilliantly weaponized in this standout film from American rising star Kit Zauhar. Assembling a chamber drama with staggering performances and bruising humor, she twists space and sound into battle zones of emotion where closeness is at once bitter and erotic, touching and barbed.

A cinematic marriage of haunted orifices and sharp objects, Carlos A.F. Lopez’s unnerving short disrupts the rhythm of everyday life with a chilling dose of bloody horror. As the squirmy sound design taps into our most primal fears, Dream Creep transforms sweet slumber into a never-ending nightmare.