Requiem (24:11)
Em J. Gilbertson; IMDb; Wikipedia; YouTube

Caution: spoilers.

This 2021 short film was presented by Alter in 2023.

For most of the film, I was thinking it felt more like a drama than horror. If I had a category for "period" short films I might put my review there. I was also considering "dystopian", because in many ways Puritanical society was dystopian. But ultimately I think of this as folk horror, so I'm putting it in my horror shorts section. (It reminded me of The Sermon, which is also folk horror with a similar story.)

It's set in England in 1605, during the witch trials. A young woman named Evelyn (Bella Ramsey) is the daughter of Minister Gilbert, who puts a woman named Agnes to death as a witch. Meanwhile, Evelyn is in love with a woman named Mary, which they have to keep secret from everyone. Evelyn is forced to marry a man named Matthew, but sneaks off to be with Mary. The next morning, they are discovered, and Evelyn's father insists that Mary had bewitched her, so Mary must be put to death. I can't really say how the film ends, because I didn't entirely understand what happened. But the whole film is very well made, with good acting, lots of drama and suspense. And of course, it induces both sympathy for all the women like Evelyn and Mary who were either unjustly killed or forced to live without the ones they love, and rage at the society that did this to them. (And at segments of our own society even now.)