Anomaly: The Rochester Genre Film Festival

The sixth annual Anomaly - The Rochester Genre Film Festival is here! Join us for 13 programs that promise a thrilling ride through 12 feature films and 24 short films for all 5 days! Try your luck, and experience the best genre cinema from around the world

Schedule Of Events:

11:00am  - Sinister & Spooky Saturday Shorts

The Little Theater 1

Strange, unsettling — and sometimes even touching — bite-sized tales. From students to professionals, these filmmakers showcase a variety of styles and tones, celebrating some of the best short-form genre-filmmaking this year.

Naualli
A grieving man seeks revenge, unwittingly awakening a mystical creature known as the Nagual.

Dummy!
An aspiring singer struggles to free herself from her controlling mother - a ventriloquist doll who experienced stardom in her youth.

All Kinds of Animals
Experienced hiker Hannah has an unexpected encounter after reaching the summit.

Hado
Javi, an unfaithful, powerful man, drives down a poorly lit, infrequently traveled road by night. He's returning home from a supposed work trip. In the blink of an eye, one mistake will change Javi's life forever.

Washed Up
A tired model decides to take back control of her life from her sleazy modeling agent.

Never Let You Go
A young woman's traumatic past resurfaces when a mysterious box arrives on her doorstep, setting forth a horrifying reality.

Izzy
Izzy slowly realizes that she doesn't want to admit to societal expectations anymore.

Pound for Pound
While an amateur MMA fighter struggles to make rent, he receives a mysterious offer that leads him to the dark and cult-like world of the super-rich.

Whittled Down
Carlisle has been trapped in this cabin for a long, long time. There are no doors, and the windows only open to an endless black void. With nothing to do but whittle and wait, a single thought lingers at the forefront of his mind: there's something wrong with that clock.

Inked
After Dylan's father passes away in prison, her attempts to honor his memory become eerily dark when she decides to tattoo her father's ashes into her skin. But the sentimental tribute quickly turns sinister...

We Joined a Cult
Two friends on their way to a game of kickball find themselves incessantly pressured to join an incompetent satanic cult.

The Chain
A family's life is thrown into chaos when the father doesn't return home one night.

2:00pm  -  Flow

The Little Theater 1

A wondrous journey, through realms natural and mystical, Flow follows a courageous cat after its home is devastated by a great flood. Teaming up with a capybara, a lemur, a bird, and a dog to navigate a boat in search of dry land, they must rely on trust, courage, and wits to survive the perils of a newly aquatic planet. Steeped in the soaring possibilities of visual storytelling, Flow is a feast for the senses.

4:30pm  -  Sound of Love

The Little Theater 1

Cleaning worker Moriya seeks solace from his isolated existence listening to the ASMR streams of a mysterious online creator who goes by the name Akiha. Moriya's fixation on Akiha's videos threatens to destroy his personal and professional lives, but he still can't help pursuing some deeper connection. He reaches out to Akiha, and the two unexpectedly develop a relationship, first entirely online and soon IRL. But Moriya's obsession only grows, and their strange bond soon sends them down a dangerous path that just may consume them both.

8:00pm  -  Dead Talents Society

The Little Theater 1

Dying is just the beginning of one young woman's problems when she learns that the afterlife is a competitive world of celebrity scarers and desperate wannabes. Ghosts can linger in the mortal realm by competing to haunt humans, and so our rookie ghost embarks on a journey to find her own uniqueness under the tutelage of a passionate ghost talent agent and a washed-up diva, in an attempt to avoid failure — a fate in the underworld that is even worse than death.

10:30pm  -  Saturday Party
at Red White & Brew

Join Anomaly for a Saturday-night gathering at one of our favorite bars! Come chat about the day's movies! Snacks provided; drinks and additional food available for sale. Open to all Dead Talents Society ticket-holders and Anomaly Festival Passholders.

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