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- 24 to 25 Oct 2026 Dark Scream Film Festival Official Selection, Asian Premiere, Mumbai, India
- 15 to 17 Oct 2026 Melbourne Independent Filmmakers Festival Official Selection, Melbourne, Florida, USA
- 22 Aug 2026 Short Way International Short Film Festival Horror Short Film Finalist, São Paulo, Brazil
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Duplicem.
A Malayalam psychological horror short film.
- Title
- Duplicem
- Year
- 2026
- Runtime
- 15 min
- Language
- Malayalam
- Subtitles
- English
- Genre
- Psychological horror
- Country of production
- India
- Director
- Shijin Melvin Hutton
- Producers
- Subin Hutton, Abhishek Nair, Shijin Melvin Hutton
- Production
- H2N Pictures in association with South Side Studios
- Premiere
- Asian Premiere, Dark Scream Film Festival 2026, Mumbai
- Screener
- On request
Press release, for immediate use
Kochi, October 2026. Duplicem, the first short film from H2N Pictures, is on the international festival circuit in 2026. Directed by Shijin Melvin Hutton and produced by Subin Hutton, Abhishek Nair and Shijin Melvin Hutton in association with South Side Studios, the 15-minute Malayalam-language psychological horror film follows a paranormal investigator caught in a loop he cannot explain.
The film's Asian premiere is at the Dark Scream Film Festival in Mumbai on 24 and 25 October, after an official selection at the Melbourne Independent Filmmakers Festival in Florida, held 15 to 17 October, and a horror short film finalist nod at the Short Way International Short Film Festival in São Paulo on 22 August.
For screeners, interviews or commercial licensing, write to hello@h2npictures.com.
The short version.
A weary paranormal investigator retreats into an isolated forest cottage, chasing a case he no longer believes in, while silently running from a fractured past.
Long synopsis
Deep in the forest, a paranormal investigator arrives at a cottage to close a case he has stopped believing in. The house is quiet. The woods are not. As night settles, sounds arrive from the wrong direction, time begins to fold back on itself, and a second version of the investigator starts to move through the trees.
Trapped in a loop he cannot explain, he is forced to confront a presence that feels deeply personal, one that feeds on guilt, isolation and emotional decay. Duplicem is a psychological horror film that uses the supernatural as a metaphor for depression: an inescapable loop in which the mind becomes both the prison and the predator.
About
H2N Pictures.
Duplicem is the first film from H2N Pictures, an independent film practice in Kochi, Kerala. Full studio boilerplate, founder bios and headshots are on the studio press page.
Usage: Press and festival use of the supplied images is permitted with credit to H2N Pictures. For interviews, commercial licensing or screeners, write to hello@h2npictures.com.
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