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Etheria Film Festival Announces Their 2025 Lineup
The world’s most respected film festival showcase of new horror, science fiction, and fantasy films directed by women, Etheria Film Festival, announces its 2025 Official Showcase Lineup. The annual festivities will kick off with a live event in Kansas City, Missouri, on Saturday, August 16, 2025, at the Screenland Armour Theater with filmmakers and special guests in person for an onstage Q&A, followed by an official afterparty.
Filmmaker Guinevere Turner will receive the 2025 Etheria Inspiration Award from special guest presenter/filmmaker Jane Clark (Crazy Bitches) in person at the event. Turner is a writer, director, and actor who has been working in film and TV since her 1994 debut film Go Fish, which she wrote, produced, and starred in. She teamed up with director Mary Harron to write the films American Psycho, The Notorious Bettie Page, and the 2019 film Charlie Says. She was a writer and story editor on Showtime’s The L Word, and she played a recurring character on that show. She has written and directed seven short films, two of which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival. She is currently in pre-production on her 4th collaboration with Mary Harron, a film called The Highway that Eats People.
The official festival lineup will stream exclusively on Shudder from October 15 through November 15, 2025.
The 2025 Etheria Film Festival Short Film Lineup includes:
DADDA
Directed by Aimee Hoffman (20 min) (Fantasy/Comedy) (USA)
Amidst his wife’s flourishing career, a once hotshot director turned stay-at-home dad, becomes convinced his hands are inexplicably shrinking.
SPEAK WITH THE DEAD
Directed by Stephanie Paris (12 min) (Horror) (USA)
In 1850, the Fox sisters hold a seance for a wealthy couple who want to call on their deceased son’s spirit to give them closure.
A GREEN AFFAIR
Directed by Rebecca Thomson (18 min) (Fantasy/Horror) (Australia)
A woman in a lonely marriage begins an affair with her favourite house plant, “Boston,” but soon becomes unsure whether he is friend or foe.
LOLA
Directed by Grace Hanna (11 min) (Science Fiction/Fantasy) (USA)
Logline: A thirteen-year-old science prodigy journeys into her grandma’s deteriorating mind to save one precious memory they have together.
GASLIGHTER
Directed by Virginia Powers Hendry (8 min) (Horror/Thriller) (USA)
On a dark and stormy night, Anne arrives home to find the power out and her front door left unlocked.
ÜREI
Directed by Yerkezhan Baizhan (6 min) (Horror) (Kazakhstan)
When a frail grandmother is left to babysit a toddler, the worst-case scenario unfolds—a creepy tale from Kazakhstan, based on a chilling true story.
PRAYING MANTIS
Directed by Mack Breeden (14 min) (Horror) (USA)
On the run after abandoning his post, a Confederate soldier takes shelter in the isolated cabin of two women who now find themselves at his mercy.
The 2025 Etheria Film Festival will also have live screenings in theaters in the following cities:
Los Angeles (The Los Feliz Theater on August 30 with the American Cinematheque)
Pittsburgh (The Row House Cinema in Lawrenceville on August 30)
New York City (Nitehawk Williamsburg on September 10 with the Brooklyn Horror Film Festival)