Best Actor Short Film
Logline: A rock star bound by a devil’s pact drifts toward oblivion, haunted by forever regrets. Across the veil, a fallen angel mourns lost grace. Each seeks redemption—and in that search, confronts what they truly are, and what they might yet become.
Synopsis: Melodies of the Abyss unfolds as a brooding, supernatural psycho-thriller that dares to imagine an intimate confrontation between Kurt Cobain and Lucifer Morningstar. Inspired by the final, chaotic week of Kurt’s life, the narrative threads together two figures gripped by existential despair—one mortal, one divine.
Kurt wants to escape the weight of a desperate pact that splintered more than just himself. What he truly needs is the courage to confront its lingering shadows and seek what may still be redeemed. Lucifer, cast in defiance, wants to rage against the heavens—but what he truly craves is the love of the God who cast him out.
With fractured memory as its canvas and spiritual unrest as its undercurrent, the film explores suffering not only as a consequence, but as communion between abandonment and yearning, rebellion and redemption.