2020 Hobnobben Film Festival Friday Schedule

A barber at a highway barbershop is caught in a deadly situation when he realizes that his first customer of the day isn’t who he seems.

A wordless, Hitchcockian thriller short film.

After being assaulted while walking home the night before, Dolores (Kirby Schmieding) decides that she’d rather push on through her fears than be marked absent from class; to the chagrin of her roommate (Leah Harper). This isn’t the first time someone has tried to jump her, but Dolores refuses to live in fear. Abusing study drugs she steals from her cousin (Max Winer) to cope with the recent passing of her best friend (Jenny Boswell), Dolores finds herself increasingly paranoid that her assailant from the previous night might be following her around campus. She vents her worries to a classmate (Braeden Stauffer) but he just doesn’t quite understand what she’s going through. No one does. Whether it’s the stress getting to her or not; someone is following her, and she’s not about to go down without a fight.

A young morgue attendant working the night shift encounters an unwelcome visitor.

SXSW2020 World Premiere — Two sisters have been driving all night when they come across a dilapidated roadside park and bathroom. Horrific events follow when one of them stumbles upon a strange message and a mischievous resident that wants to play a terrifying game.

Scott is hoping for a relaxing weekend, but finds his friends exhibiting bizarre behavior that is either an endless prank or something more disturbing.

Someone is targeting the lost, the lonely and the curious. If you text 'deadme' to the special number it just might be the last thing you do.

Zein, a young man in his mid 20s, seems content with his job as a customer service representative for an internet service provider. During one of his shifts, way past midnight, he receives a call from a customer, Akram. Complaining about a malfunction, Akram’s frustration starts growing. His dissatisfaction with the process gradually becomes an abusive rant, during which he lashes out at Zein, exposing to him the drudgery of his work, his powerlessness, and the ugliness of his life.

Hunkered down in their beds, four kids take turns reading to each other from Stephen King's IT via walkie talkies, but one of them starts to suspect that he might not be alone in his room.

Cheryl once joked with her colleague Brian that their security jobs at the heritage museum would be the death of them. Just when she thought she couldn’t survive another graveyard shift…she didn’t.

She meets up with Brian who recently met his own fate of being 'buried' under paperwork.

Their friendship is taken to the literal next level as Cheryl comes to terms with her newfound existence. Brian has never had the courage to express his feelings for Cheryl but perhaps now may just be the right opportunity? Like true dilettantes, they join supernatural forces to rattle the chains of anyone who has ever crossed them.