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Is curiosity a virtue or a curse? Rose's curiosity sends her upon a quest to summon a monster.
Submitted 13 November 2026 by Amelie Mahoney. Rights and music declared.
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46 festivals, funds and schemes worth this film.
- Competitioncloses today · 13 November 2026
Young Scottish Filmmaker Prize (Glasgow Short Film Festival)
checked 28 Oct 2026 · source - Festivalcloses in 11 days · 24 November 2026
Manchester Film Festival
checked 27 Sept 2026 · source - Festivalcloses in 14 days · 27 November 2026
Open City Documentary Festival
checked 27 Sept 2026 · source - CompetitionFree to entercloses in 32 days · 15 December 2026
Sony Future Filmmaker Awards
checked 27 Sept 2026 · source
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The scorecard
A girl's bookish curiosity leads her from a red phone box to a candlelit well and a monster she may have summoned.
- Storygetting there
Synopsis gives only a one-line premise, quest and question; frames suggest a clear turn from curiosity to consequence, but no ending is confirmed.
- Pictureworks
Three distinct, well-lit setups: red phone box against brick, candlelit stone well, woodland with mask; low angles and practical lighting show some care.
- Wordsnot read
Not read: no transcript, so the words were not seen.
- Worldworks
Props and costume (book, braids, cardigan, candles, devil mask with horns and claws) build a believable low-budget fairy-tale world across three locations.
- Voicegetting there
The devil-mask reveal in the woods is a specific, committed choice, but without the words or full story it is hard to see what makes this filmmaker's take distinct.
I read the title, synopsis and three published frames; there was no caption transcript, so dialogue, narration and any on-screen text were not seen. Read 13 November 2026. How the scorecard works
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