Her House (11:46)
IMDb; Will Lee; YouTube

This 2024 short film was presented by Alter in 2025.

One dark and stormy night, a young woman enters the house of her late grandmother, who her mother had never let her meet. She begins rummaging around in her grandmother's belongings, hoping to find something good before the estate sale the next day. She's soon joined by her mother, who had been abused by her own mother, though the details of that abuse are unclear. Despite this, her daughter resents the fact that she never let her have a relationship with her grandmother, so the two of them don't exactly get along. Then, as the young woman is about to leave, she suddenly hears mysterious humming coming from the fireplace, though her mother doesn't hear it. She goes to investigate, and is then whisked up the chimney by an unseen force. She then finds herself in a brightly sunlit room with her grandmother, who appears as a young woman. And things get progressively creepier from there. The young woman's mother then goes to search for her daughter, to save her from her grandmother, who she's not surprised to learn has power beyond the grave....

I don't want to spoil any more details of the short, but I thought it was very well made, with good atmosphere and acting, and a solid premise. I liked the mother and daughter, and their relationship was interesting. In particular, I liked the eventual confrontation between the mother and grandmother. (The grandmother appeared in a much different, horrifying form than the one the young woman met.) The mother's attitude toward her own mother was one of calm defiance, when anyone else would have been terrified. It speaks to their past together, and it's rare to see such a well-established (even if vague) backstory in such a short film. It made everything seem more real, to me. I couldn't manage to love the short, I'm afraid, but I feel like I might have loved a feature length version of the story, if it were more fleshed out. Still, the short itself was really good.