CHRISTMAS DARKNESS #1

Light all the candles you want, the darkness will still swallow you whole with this collection of seasonal shorts!In "What Child Is This," a simple carpenter becomes witness to a great becoming as the virgin girl in his charge gives birth to an occurrence beyond all reason, by Benito Cereno and Miklós Felvidéki.Then in Joni Hägg and Sami Kivelä's "Nuutipukki," a Nordic folkish tradition turns into a perennial nightmare when the annual visitor isn't a cheery old elf, but his twisted counterpart instead...And get a taste of Hanukkah Horror with "Each Light Brings More Shayd" from Elie Lichtschein, an unsettling exploration of the ties that bind us, and shapeshifting chicken-footed demons.