NIX

In a fog-bound village in old Sweden, a young man follows the sound of a violin into the forest. At the foot of a waterfall he finds Nix, the water spirit who teaches mortals to play in exchange for something far more precious, and he comes home with a gift: when he plays, the village dances. The Awarehouse Studio made the three-minute folk-horror short with Dreamina as the pilot for an anthology series built on the Swedish folklore they grew up with. It took second place and $3,000 in the Curious Refuge AI Horror Film Competition 2026, where some of the judges compared it to The Witch and said they wanted to see it as a feature.