Good Boy
When dogs (or cats) fix their gaze on the void, they may perceive what remains hidden to human senses. Indy and his owner have just moved into their new countryside home when the canine starts noticing eerie activity. Dancing shadows, crawling silhouettes, and loud noises all point to some dark secret—and it’s on Indy to uncover it before he and his human are in mortal danger. Good Boy is an enormously effective, unique, and scary-cute horror gem told entirely from the dog’s perspective. (Markus Keuschnigg)
September 20, Admiral Kino | Dog Screening: Since seats with dogs are limited, please send us a brief email to tickets@slashfilmfestival.com if you want to bring your dog free of charge.
OPENING SHORT FILM
Atom & Void
Gonçalo Almeida, PT, 2024, 8′, no dialogue
Austrian Premiere
In Valya’s burrow, a repeated rumbling disrupts her life, pushing her into the unknown. unexplored.
Ben Leonberg is an American film and virtual-reality director. He earned his MFA in Directing from Columbia University, where he taught for over five years. His filmmaking pairs fantastical events with deeply relatable stories. Having made films like Bear Discovers Fire, Dead Head, a VR perspective of the zombie apocalypse, and The Fisherman’s Wife, he also applied his unique point of view to his feature directorial debut, Good Boy, which premiered at SXSW in 2025.
