Co-Presented by Brooklyn Horror Film Festival and The Future of Film is Female

The world’s most loved and respected film festival showcase of new horror, science fiction, and fantasy films directed by women, The Etheria Film Festival is back at Nitehawk Cinema Williamsburg for its 2026 Official Showcase Lineup! In it’s 12th year of making cinematic history, Etheria has discovered and launched the careers of masters of horror such as Axelle Carolyn (STAR TREK: STRANGE NEW WORLDS),  Gigi Saul Guerrero (V/H/S/85), Chloe Okuno (WATCHER), Mariama Diallo (MASTER), Roseanne Liang (MURDERBOT), Natalie Erika James (SACCHARINE), Prano Bailey-Bond (CENSOR), and more.

The screening will be preceded by trailers for the new feature films NOXTURNE, directed by Kristina Klebe, and LAST CHANCE MOTEL, directed by Danielle Harris and Scout Taylor-Compton.

WALL UDDER
Directed by Alexandra Hayden (8:30 min) (Horror/Comedy) (USA)
A dissatisfied woman confronts repressed feelings of malaise after her partner comes home smelling like milk.DEO VOLANTE
Directed by Sophie Lupine (13 min) (Horror/Fantasy) (Austria)
On the day of the harvest festival, young Harle takes part in the sacred rite of Harar en Hoendar.

VISITORS
Directed by Minnie Schedeen (14:30 min) (Science Fiction/Thriller) (USA)
A young woman is in the throes of early pregnancy when strange things begin to happen to the people closest to her and she starts to question her own reality.CONFESSION
Directed by Mai Nakanishi (14:30 min) (Thriller) (Japan)
A woman seeks confession from a priest, but as her story unfolds, the priest discovers she harbors terrifying secrets .

SUPERCONSCIOUS
Directed by Christianne Hedtke (20 min) (Horror/Science Fiction) (USA)
Set in 1973, against the height of the energy crisis, a simmering Cold War, and the dawn of the Age of Aquarius, a woman journeys to a far-flung human potential center to join the REMOTE VIEWING PROGRAM, a scientific study on so-called “psi energy.”

GOG
Directed by Kara Grace Miller (14 min) (Horror/Comedy) (USA)
Five Flatlanders set out for a perfect day on the lake. The lake’s oldest resident welcomes them kindly.

THE BONES EXIST
Directed by Kelsey Bollig, Matthew DuVall (14 min) (Horror) (USA)
In the unforgiving wilderness of 1850s Alta California, a dwindling group of gold prospectors encounters a feral boy who forces the men to confront the horrors lurking in the woods and the sins of their past.