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Mysteryshort films

A puzzle worth solving before the final frame. Mystery told in short form.

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The Lost Camp
Horror
The Lost Campby Connor Etter

Three campers discover an abandoned town haunted by a vengeful spirit

16 min·scary · suspenseful
Vrag
Thriller
Vragby Ivantiy Novak

A loyal Soviet propagandist gets a night visit that rewrites every truth

18 min·dark · intense
Off the Face of the Earth
Mystery
Off the Face of the Earthby Michael Pantozzi

A photographer captures a vanished woman on camera

18 min·atmospheric · mysterious
Perspective
Drama
Perspectiveby Montesa Monte Bdawi

Two timelines reveal one story, as perception distorts truth

15 min·cerebral · controversial
Vessel
Thriller
Vesselby Leila Garrison

A young disabled girl tries to escape the control of her religious mother

18 min·atmospheric · intense
Get Milk
Experimental
Get Milkby Andrew Day

A dad's quick milk run hides darker secrets from his suspicious daughters

3 min·intense · mysterious
Domestic Help
Drama
Domestic Helpby Raveesh Jaiswal

A clown who wasn't funny enough, gets placed in a domestic help position

19 min·atmospheric · mysterious
Tudescends
Thriller
Tudescendsby Fabio Stecher

A woman is offered a choice that could make her rich

5 min·cerebral · cinematic
Wired
Sci-fi
Wiredby Will Jewell

A woman is gaslit by her AI wellbeing smart hub

17 min·dark · futuristic
Wendy & Vee
Dark Comedy
Wendy & Veeby Jean-Baptiste Canac

A daughter decides to do something about her mother's abusive boyfriend

20 min·dark · hilarious
Shame On You
Horror
Shame On Youby Philippa Ghosh

A troubled young outcast is haunted by a tormenting doppelgänger

12 min·dark · intense
Little Games
Thriller
Little Gamesby Stéfane Houssier

A little girl reveals her sinister plan to a stranger

13 min·atmospheric · dark
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Curator’s note

Mystery shorts: one question, no wasted minutes

A mystery lives or dies on the gap between what you know and what you don't, and the short film keeps that gap taut. There's no subplot to wander into, no fifth red herring to wade through. Just a question planted early and an answer withheld exactly as long as it should be. The form is essentially a delivery system for the turn, and these films know precisely when to make it.

The puzzles here come in every flavour. Tudescends offers a woman a choice that could make her rich, and dares you to guess the cost. Wired watches a woman get gaslit by her own AI wellbeing hub, and What's in the Forest blurs reality with psychedelics as friends are hunted by something unseen. Vessel follows a young disabled girl trying to escape her religious mother's control, Touch sends a psychic to a homicide scene, and The Relic leads its adventurers to the worst discovery imaginable.

Twenty-two ways to be kept guessing, and not one of them costs you anything but your attention.